Pen {ineq}R Documentation

Pen's Parade

Description

plots Pen's Parade of a vector x

Usage

Pen(x, main="Pen's Parade", ylab=expression(x[(i)]/bar(x)),
    xlab=expression(i/n), col=4, lwd=2, las=1, ...)

Arguments

x a vector containing non-negative elements.
main, ylab, xlab, col, lwd, las, ... high-level plot function parameters.

Details

Pen's Parade is basically the inverse distribution function (standardized by mean(x)).

Author(s)

Achim Zeileis zeileis@ci.tuwien.ac.at

References

F A Cowell: Measurement of Inequality, 2000, in A B Atkinson / F Bourguignon (Eds): Handbook of Income Distribution, Amsterdam,

F A Cowell: Measuring Inequality, 1995 Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatshef,

J Pen: Income Distribution, 1971, Harmondsworth: Allen Lane.

See Also

Lc, plot.Lc

Examples

# load and attach Philippine income data
data(Ilocos)
attach(Ilocos)
# plot Pen's Parade of income
Pen(income)

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