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
... graphical 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, Lc.plot

Examples

# generate income vector
x <- c(541, 1463, 2445, 3438, 4437, 5401, 6392, 8304, 11904, 22261)
# plot Pen's Parade of x
Pen(x)