fuzzyScaleItem {FuzzyPovertyR}R Documentation

Fuzzy supplementary poverty estimation

Description

Step 2. It calculates deprivation score

Usage

fuzzyScaleItem(item, weight, ID, ...)

Arguments

item

A factor or numeric vector representing answers to an item (a column of data) that has to be rescaled. it will be converted to an ordered factor.

weight

A vector of sampling weights. If it is NULL (the default) weights are assigned assuming simple random sampling of units.

ID

A vector of length nrow(data) containing individuals IDs. if NULL (the default) row numbers will be used.

...

other parameters

Value

The item rescaled according to Betti et. al 2018.

References

#' Betti, G., Gagliardi, F., & Verma, V. (2018). Simplified Jackknife variance estimates for fuzzy measures of multidimensional poverty. International Statistical Review, 86(1), 68-86.


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