Pen {ineq} | R Documentation |
plots Pen's Parade of a vector x
Pen(x, main="Pen's Parade", ylab=expression(x[(i)]/bar(x)), xlab=expression(i/n), col=4, lwd=2, las=1)
x |
a vector containing non-negative elements |
... |
graphical parameters |
Pen's Parade is basically the inverse distribution function (standardized by
mean(x)
.
Achim Zeileis zeileis@ci.tuwien.ac.at
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.
# generate income vector x <- c(541, 1463, 2445, 3438, 4437, 5401, 6392, 8304, 11904, 22261) # plot Pen's Parade of x Pen(x)