NEWS

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BIFIEsurvey 1.12

FIXED * fixed a problem in 'BIFIE.data.select' with side effects

• on 'BIFIE.mva' if there is only one missing case of a variable

ADDED * added option for fixed entries in random effects

• covariance matrix in 'BIFIE.twolevelreg', see Example 1, Models 2d und 2e for specification (suggested by Andrea Cantieni)

DATA *

EXAMP * BIFIE.twolevelreg (1.2d, 1.2e

BIFIEsurvey 1.11

NOTE * added an example of B-spline regression and nonparametric

• regression in 'BIFIE.linreg' (Example 2) (question raised by Lena Keller)

NOTE * included more details about calculation method of quantiles

• in 'BIFIE.ecdf'

DATA *

EXAMP * BIFIE.linreg (2

BIFIEsurvey 1.9.4

NOTE * added S3 method 'print' for 'BIFIEdata' objects

FIXED * fixed a bug in 'BIFIE.twolevelreg' in handling cases

• with zero sample weights (thanks to Nicole Haag)

FIXED * fixed a bug in 'BIFIE.univar.test' for nested multiply

• imputed datasets. This update also needs miceadds package version >= 1.8 (thanks to Nicole Haag and Anja Schiepe-Tiska)

NOTE * added note to descriptive functions in the miceadds

• package (which can now handle objects of class BIFIEdata) in the help site of 'BIFIE.univar'

FIXED * The function 'BIFIE.twolevelreg' needs ordered cluster

• identifiers which is now checked in advance of model fitting. If this condition is not fulfilled, then the estimation will not run (thanks to Mihaela Stiglic).

NOTE * included a simplified example for including cluster

• means in BIFIEdata object

DATA *

EXAMP * BIFIE.data.transform (1.7

BIFIEsurvey 1.8

FIXED * fixed a bug in calculation of D2 statistic

FIXED * corrected a wrong output of 'VarMI' for several

• models for nested multiply imputed datasets

NOTE * cleaned namespace file and defined imported functions

• in a more explicit way

DATA *

EXAMP *

BIFIEsurvey 1.7

NOTE * corrected output of 'BIFIE.univar.test' in case of

• no replicate weights

DATA *

EXAMP *

BIFIEsurvey 1.6

FIXED * fixed a bug in 'BIFIE.univar.test' with multiple grouping

• variables (thanks to Thilo Siegle)

FIXED * fixed a recently included bug (in BIFIEsurvey >= 1.3)

• in creating 'BIFIEdata' objects for PISA designs: an incorrect value of 'fayfac' was generated by default (thanks to Thilo Siegle)

FIXED * fixed a bug in 'BIFIE.univar.test' for designs with no replication

• weights which caused noncalculation of the Wald test. Now, the Wald test is disabled (thanks to Thilo Siegle)

DATA *

EXAMP * BIFIE.univar.test (2

BIFIEsurvey 1.5

NOTE * added citation information

DATA *

EXAMP *

BIFIEsurvey 1.4

FIXED * fixed a bug in 'BIFIE.pathmodel' in data preprocessing

• phase (thanks to Michael Bruneforth)

NOTE * added statistical inference in 'BIFIE.univar' and

• created separate output for means and standard deviations (suggested by Hong Giang Pham)

NOTE * fixed a bug in 'BIFIE.freq' with more than two variables

• when all variables have the same number of categories (thanks to Thilo Siegle)

ADDED * added multiple grouping variables in the argument

• 'group' in all functions of BIFIEsurvey

DATA *

EXAMP * BIFIE.freq (1

BIFIEsurvey 1.3

FIXED * fixed a bug in creating 'cdata=TRUE' objects in

• 'BIFIE.data.boot' (thanks to Hong Giang Pham)

FIXED * fixed incorrect p values for D1 statistic in case of

• only one imputed dataset (thanks to Frank Goldhammer)

NOTE * creation of sav files 'write.BIFIEdata' now does not

• longer depend on PSPP, but on sjmisc package using the updated 'save.data' function from the miceadds package

FIXED * allowed overwriting of variables in 'BIFIE.data.transform

• (thanks to Thilo Siegle)

FIXED * fixed a bug in 'BIFIE.mva' when only one variable is analyzed

• A change has also been made if no covariates were provided.

NOTE * changed defaults for argument 'fayfac' in 'BIFIE.data.jack

NOTE * large sample approximation of degrees of freedom is now

• used for statistical inference

ADDED * added statistical inference for nested multiply imputed

• datasets. Use 'NMI=TRUE' for creating appropriate 'BIFIE.data' objects.

ADDED * included inference for nested multiply imputed datasets

• for all implemented methods

NOTE * included pure R implementation of user defined function in

• 'BIFIE.by'. Now, the user can choose via the 'use_Rcpp' argument whether Rcpp or pure R should be employed for function evaluation.

DATA * data.timss4

EXAMP * BIFIE.data.transform (1), BIFIE.data (1), data.timss (2

BIFIEsurvey 1.2

FIXED * fixed a bug in creation of jackknife zones when jackknife

• zone identifier is provided (thanks to Hong Giang Pham)

NOTE * added lavaan.survey and lme4 to Suggests, mitools is

• now imported

ADDED * included initial version of two-level regression

ADDED * included initial version of path model estimation

• with measurement errors in predictors

FIXED * enabled summary.BIFIE.logistreg which was not yet working

NOTE * extended DESCRIPTION

ADDED * included option for finite sampling correction by allowing

• vector input of 'fayfac' argument in 'BIFIE.data' (see Example 3 in 'BIFIE.data')

DATA * data.bifie01

EXAMP * data.timss (1,2,3), BIFIE.twolevelreg (1,2

• BIFIE.pathmodel (1), BIFIE.data (3)

BIFIEsurvey 1.1 (2014-11-22)

FIXED * fixed a bug in frequency tabulation for constant variables

DATA *

EXAMP *

BIFIEsurvey 1.0 (2014-10-12)

NOTE * changed output for non-imputed datasets

FIXED * fixed a bug in data handling for linear and logistic

• regression

ADDED * included function 'BIFIE.BIFIEdata2datalist' for conversion

• from BIFIEdata objects into a list of imputed datasets

FIXED * fixed a bug when converting datasets containing a one

• into BIFIEdata objects

EXAMP * added example for extracting number of unique values using

• the BIFIE.by function (Example 1, Model 3)

EXAMP * added an example for inclusing fitted values from lm and

• a scores from principal component analysis in BIFIE.data.transformat

FIXED * fixed a bug in calculating the variance between imputations

ADDED * included function 'BIFIE.derivedParameters' for statistical

• inference of derived parameters

ADDED * included coef and vcov S3 methods for all descriptive functions

• and statistical models

NOTE * fixed a bug in extracting values of grouping variables

ADDED * included an Rcpp based equivalent to the table function in R

• 'bifietable'

DATA *

EXAMP * BIFIE.BIFIEdata2datalist (2), BIFIE.by (1),

• BIFIE.data.transform (8,9), BIFIE.derivedParameters (1), BIFIE.by (1)

BIFIEsurvey 0.3

NOTE * changed handling of factors in conversion into a BIFIEdata object

ADDED * included generation of bootstrap designs ('BIFIE.data.boot

ADDED * included logistic regression 'BIFIE.logistreg

ADDED * included function 'save.BIFIEdata' and 'load.BIFIEdata' for

• saving and loading BIFIEdata objects

ADDED * included option for saving, loading and holding BIFIE datasets

• in a compact format ('cdata') which avoids memory overflow in some applications

NOTE * enabled all methods to work for BIFIEdata obejcts which are saved

• as 'cdata'

ADDED * included BIFIEdata conversion and selection functions 'BIFIE.dataselect

• 'BIFIE.BIFIEdata2BIFIEcdata', 'BIFIE.BIFIEcdata2BIFIEdata'

FIXED * fixed a bug in linear regression with formula specification and

• some missing values

FIXED * fixed a bug in BIFIE.data.transform

ADDED * included a function 'write.BIFIEdata' for writing separate imputed

• datasets from BIFIEdata objects permitting the formats csv, csv2, table and Rdata

FIXED * corrected output of standard errors in cases in which no replicate

• weights were specified

NOTE * included an option for conversion of PISA data in 'BIFIE.data.jack

ADDED * included function 'load.BIFIEdata' for efficient loading of files

• and creation of BIFIEdata objects

FIXED * applied data transformation separately for every imputed dataset

ADDED * included function 'BIFIE.mva' for conducting missing value analyses

DATA * included/modified datasets: data.timss1.ind

EXAMP * included/modified examples: BIFIE.data.boot (1), BIFIE.logistreg (1,2

• save.BIFIEdata (1,2)

BIFIEsurvey 0.2

ADDED * included histogram 'BIFIE.hist

ADDED * included empirical distribution function 'BIFIE.ecdf

ADDED * included data transformation function 'BIFIE.data.transform

NOTE * extended creation of jackknife grouping designs in 'BIFIE.data.jack

DATA * included/modified datasets: data.test1, data.pisaNLD

EXAMP * included/modified examples: BIFIE.ecdf (1), BIFIE.data.transform (1

• BIFIE.data.jack (2), data.pisa (1)

BIFIEsurvey 0.1

ADDED * included functions: BIFIE.data, BIFIE.univar, BIFIE.freq

• BIFIE.correl, BIFIE.linreg, BIFIE.waldtest, BIFIE.univar.test, BIFIE.data.jack, BIFIE.crosstab, BIFIE.by

DATA * included/modified datasets:

EXAMP * included/modified examples:

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