Section: New Software and Platforms

Socio-economic index

Participants: J.-M. Monnez

A R package called SesIndexCreatoR has been written by B. Lalloué and J.-M. Monnez in order to implement our socio-economic index for health inequalities. The version 1.0 of this package is currently freely available on the website of the Equit'Area project: http://www.equitarea.org/documents/packages_1.0-0/ . It contains the functions needed to run the procedure (either integrally or partially) and obtain the corresponding SES index. The user may also create categories of this index with different methods (hierarchical clustering with or without $k$-nearest neighbors, quantiles, or intervals) and generate automatic reports of the results. Visualization and plotting functions are provided in the package.