Working with Index Numbers

A set of utilities for manipulating index numbers series including chain-linking, re-referencing, and computing growth rates.

Income Polarization Index

Extremely fast and memory efficient computation of the DER (or PaF) income polarization index as proposed by Duclos J. Y., Esteban, J. and Ray D. (2004). "Polarization: concepts, measurement, estimation". Econometrica, 72(6): 1737--1772. . The index may be computed for a single or for a range of values of the alpha-parameter and bootstrapping is also available.

Calculation of the Standardized Temperature Index

A set of functions for computing the Standardized Temperature Index (STI).

Binary and Categorical Image Similarity Index

Computes a structural similarity metric (after the style of MS-SSIM for images) for binary and categorical 2D and 3D images. Can be based on accuracy (simple matching), Cohen's kappa, Rand index, adjusted Rand index, Jaccard index, Dice index, normalized mutual information, or adjusted mutual information. In addition, has fast computation of Cohen's kappa, the Rand indices, and the two mutual informations. Implements the methods of Thompson and Maitra (2020) .

Index Construction for Time Series Data

Derivation of indexes for benchmarking purposes. A methodology with flexible number of constituents is implemented. Also functions for market capitalization and volume weighted indexes with fixed number of constituents are available. The main function of the package, indexComp(), provides the derived index, suitable for analysis purposes. The functions indexUpdate(), indexMemberSelection() and indexMembersUpdate() are components of indexComp() and enable one to construct and continuously update an index, e.g. for display on a website. The methodology behind the functions provided gets introduced in Trimborn and Haerdle (2018) .

Proactive Conservation Index

Calculates the Proactive Conservation Index, a new tool to prioritize species for conservation, which can incorporate information about future threats.

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

A set of easy-to-use functions for computing the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).

An Implementation of the Stratification Index

An implementation of the stratification index proposed by Zhou (2012) . The package provides two functions, srank, which returns stratum-specific information, including population share and average percentile rank; and strat, which returns the stratification index and its approximate standard error. When a grouping factor is specified, strat also provides a detailed decomposition of the overall stratification into between-group and within-group components.

Repertoire Dissimilarity Index

Methods for calculation and visualization of the Repertoire Dissimilarity Index. Citation: Bolen and Rubelt, et al (2017) .

Constrained Single Index Model Estimation

Estimation of function and index vector in single index model ('sim') with (and w/o) shape constraints including different smoothness conditions. See, e.g., Kuchibhotla and Patra (2020) .