A data transformation method which takes into account the special property of scale non-invariance with a breakpoint at 1 of the Euclidean distance.

Provides convenience functions and pre-programmed Stan models
    related to item response theory. Its purpose is to make fitting
    common item response theory models using Stan easy.

Read in and analyze functions for education survey and assessment data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) <https://nces.ed.gov/>, including National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data <https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/> and data from the International Assessment Database: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) <https://www.oecd.org/>, including Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), and International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) <https://www.iea.nl/>, including Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), TIMSS Advanced, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS), International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), and Civic Education Study (CivEd).

Allows R users to retrieve and parse data from the Urban 
    Institute's Education Data API <https://educationdata.urban.org/> into a 
    'data.frame' for analysis.

Easily compute education inequality measures and the distribution 
  of educational attainments for any group of countries, using the data set 
  developed in Jorda, V. and Alonso, JM. (2017) <DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.10.005>. 
  The package offers the possibility to compute not only the Gini index, but 
  also generalized entropy measures for different values of the sensitivity 
  parameter. In particular, the package includes functions to compute the 
  mean log deviation, which is more sensitive to the bottom part of the 
  distribution; the Theil’s entropy measure, equally sensitive to all parts 
  of the distribution; and finally, the GE measure when the sensitivity 
  parameter is set equal to 2, which gives more weight to differences in 
  higher education. The decomposition of these measures in the components 
  between-country and within-country inequality is also provided. Two 
  graphical tools are also provided, to analyse the evolution of the
  distribution of educational attainments: The cumulative distribution 
  function and the Lorenz curve.