Changes in laeken version 0.5.0

    + order of factors changed in function 'prop'

    + bugfixes in computation of weighted quantiles and quintile share ratio
      to strictly follow Eurostat definitions

    + Package title now in title case

    + packages 'boot' and 'MASS' are now only Imports instead of Depends


Changes in laeken version 0.4.6

    + Estimation of a proportion and its variance (class "prop", function
      'prop' and related changes).


Changes in laeken version 0.4.5

    + Added references to JSS paper.


Changes in laeken version 0.4.4

    + Updated vignette 'laeken-intro'.

    + Updated some help files.


Changes in laeken version 0.4.3

    + Bugfix in 'bootVar' when resampling clusters of observations rather than
      individuals.


Changes in laeken version 0.4.2

    + Bootstrap variance estimation now contains an argument 'cluster', which
      allows for resampling clusters of observations rather than individuals.

    + Bugfix in 'gpg': arguments 'gender' and 'method' are now passed to
      'variance'.

    + Updated vignette 'laeken-intro'.


Changes in laeken version 0.4.1

    + Reduced run times of examples for 'bootVar' and 'variance'.

    + Functions 'arpt' and 'arpr' can now take a vector of percentages of the
      weighted median to be used for the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.

    + Updated vignette 'laeken-intro'.


Changes in laeken version 0.4.0

    + Added example data 'ses' for the Structure of Earnings Survey.

    + Added vignette 'laeken-intro'.

    + Minimal changes in 'print' method for indicators.

    + Minimal changes in help files and vignettes.

    + Removed attributes from variable 'eqIncome' in example data 'eusilc'.

    + The level names of argument 'gender' in function 'gpg' can now be any
      character string. Note: the first level of gender should always
      correspond to females.



Changes in laeken version 0.3.3

    + New plot method for objects of class "paretoTail".

    + Package roxygen2 is now used for documentation.

    + Bugfixes in 'paretoQPlot' and 'meanExcessPlot': order of graphical
      parameters 'pch', 'cex', 'col' and 'bg' for the data points is now
      preserved.

    + Bugfix in 'meanExcessPlot': computation of weighted quantiles no longer
      throws error.


Changes in laeken version 0.3.2

    + Package is built with flag --resave-data to avoid warning with R 2.15.0.


Changes in laeken version 0.3.1

    + New arguments in function 'paretoScale' for generalizations of Van Kerm's
      formula.

    + Updated author affiliation.


Changes in laeken version 0.3

    + New function 'gpg' for estimating the gender pay (wage) gap.

    + Fixed function 'bootVar' for package 'boot' >= 1.3-1.



Changes in laeken version 0.2.3

    + Corrected mistake in formula for weighted Hill estimator in vignette
      'laeken-pareto'.


Changes in laeken version 0.2.2

    + New function 'shrinkOut' for Pareto tail modeling to shrink outliers to
      the theoretical quantile used for outlier detection.


Changes in laeken version 0.2.1

    + Fixed help files for 'meanExcessPlot' and 'paretoQPlot' on Microsoft
      Windows systems.

    + Fixed package reference in vignette 'laeken-variance'.


Changes in laeken version 0.2

    + Functions for fitting a Pareto distribution now have an additional
      argument 'x0' to specify threshold directly instead of using number of
      observations 'k' in the tail.

    + In the graphical exploration of the data using 'meanExcessPlot' or
      'paretoQPlot', sample weights can now be considered and the threshold
      (scale parameter) can be selected interactively.

    + Function 'paretoQPlot' now simply uses logarithmic y-axis to show the
      labels in the scale of the original values.

    + Changed default axis labels in 'paretoQPlot'.

    + Sample weights can now be considered when fitting a Pareto distribution
      using 'thetaHill', 'thetaISE' or 'thetaPDC'.

    + New function 'calibVars' for convenient construction of binary variables
      for calibration.

    + New functions 'paretoTail', 'replaceTail', 'replaceOut' and 'reweightOut'
      for improved methodology for Pareto tail modeling with a common interface.

    + Row names of the example data 'eusilc' are now given by 1 to the number
      of rows.

    + New wrapper function 'weightedMean' for the (weighted) mean.

    + New function 'paretoScale' for estimating the threshold for Pareto tail
      modeling.

    + Totals for calibrated bootstrap variance are now by default computed from
      the original data using the Horvitz-Thompson estimator.

    + Added package vignettes 'laeken-standard', 'laeken-pareto' and
      'laeken-variance'.



Changes in laeken version 0.1.3

    + Minimal changes in help file for 'calibWeights'.


Changes in laeken version 0.1.2

    + Bugfix in 'thetaWML' for bias correction term with weight function based
      on standardized residuals.


Changes in laeken version 0.1.1

    + Bugfix in 'bootVar' in case of breakdown by year and domain.
