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Federal Institute for Educational Research, Innovation and Development of the Austrian School System (BIFIE) Salzburg (Austria) https://www.bifie.at/ Questions or suggestions about BIFIEsurvey should be sent to robitzsch@leibniz-ipn.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CHANGELOG BIFIEsurvey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 3.6 | 2024-04-25 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 3.6-6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXED * fixed a bug in pseudo-R^2 computation in BIFIE.logistreg() DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 3.5 | 2024-02-18 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 3.5-19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXED * removed links to lavaan.survey package in the manual due to a CRAN request. The lavaan.survey has been removed from CRAN. DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 3.4 | 2022-04-04 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 3.4-15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXED * fixed numerical instabilities in BIFIE.logistreg() (thanks to Franck Petrucci) DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 3.3 | 2019-06-12 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 3.3-12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * changed behavior of BIFIE_create_pseudogroup() for many group values (thanks to Thomas Kiefer) FIXED * fixed bug in BIFIE.lavaan.survey() and BIFIE.survey() (objects were not found) DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 3.2 | 2019-04-16 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 3.2-25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXED * fixed a bug in BIFIE.lavaan.survey() NOTE * leading zeros in formulas in BIFIE.data.transform() or BIFIE.derivedParameters() (e.g., ~ 0 + as.factor(books)) are no longer needed ADDED * included pseudo-R^2 of McKelvey and Zavoina in BIFIE.logistreg() ADDED * extended BIFIE.lavaan.survey() and BIFIE.survey() to nested multiply imputed datasets DATA * --- EXAMP * BIFIE.derivedParameters (1), BIFIE.data.transform (1), BIFIE.lavaan.survey (3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 3.1 | 2019-03-20 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 3.1-33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * included argument 'varnames' in BIFIEdata2svrepdesign() ADDED * included function BIFIE.lavaan.survey() for fitting models using lavaan and lavaan.survey packages FIXED * corrected a bug in computing D1 and D2 statistic NOTE * included argument 'as_data_frame' in BIFIE.BIFIEdata2datalist() ADDED * included function svrepdesign2BIFIEdata() for converting survey objects into BIFIEdata objects NOTE * included standard error function() ADDED * included function BIFIE.survey() for fitting models in survey package FIXED * fixed a bug in BIFIE.pathmodel() when no latent variables (all variables with perfect reliability) were involved DATA * --- EXAMP * BIFIE.lavaan.survey (1,2), se (1), BIFIEdata2svrepdesign (1,2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 3.0 | 2018-12-11 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 3.0-14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * removed value 'chisq.test' in BIFIE.crosstab() DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.191 | 2018-10-17 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.191-12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * exported Rcpp functions for linking from other R packages NOTE * included more references and internet links NOTE * included example of how to estimate lavaan models with a BIFIEdata object using the BIFIE.by() function (thanks to Boris Girnat) DATA * --- EXAMP * BIFIE.by (1.4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.18 | 2018-07-06 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.18-6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * maintenance upload to CRAN DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.5 | 2018-05-22 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.5-44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * internal restructure of Rcpp files NOTE * renamed functions bifiesurvey_rcpp_rubin_rules() and bifiesurvey_rcpp_replication_variance() (substituted bifie_foo() by bifiesurvey_rcpp_foo()) DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.4 | 2018-04-09 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.4-9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * maintenance release DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.3 | 2017-10-26 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.3-18 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * included variable names, groups and grouping values in output value 'stat' in BIFIE.ecdf() function DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.2 | 2017-08-10 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.2-22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDED * included arguments 'pvpre' and 'pv_vars' in BIFIE.data() function NOTE * reformatted summary output for all analyses in BIFIEsurvey to digits in scientific notation NOTE * exported utility functions bifie_rubin_rules(), bifie_replication_variance() and BIFIE_NMI_inference_parameters() DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.1 | 2017-05-17 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.1-6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXED * fixed a bug in BIFIE.data.jack() for replication designs in PISA which was not able to handle more than 9 plausible values (for example, 10 plausible values as in PISA 2015) DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.0 | 2017-04-27 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.0-7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * changed degrees of freedom ('df') for model estimation to df=Inf in case of only one (imputed) dataset ADDED * included argument jktype="JK_TIMSS2" in BIFIE.data.jack() for TIMSS 2015 replication method NOTE * included argument 'mse=TRUE' in examples with survey::svrepdesign() which now provides equivalent results of the BIFIEsurvey package and survey package ADDED * included function BIFIEdata2svrepdesign() which converts objects of class 'BIFIEdata' to objects in the survey package DATA * --- EXAMP * data.timss1 (1), data.pisaNLD (1), BIFIEdata2svrepdesign (1,2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 1.13 | 2017-03-02 | Last: BIFIEsurvey 1.13-24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * restructured Rcpp functions NOTE * small addition in manual of 'BIFIE.data.jack' DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.12 -- 2017-01-16 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.12-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.11 -- 2016-10-18 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.11-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.9.4 -- 2016-06-01 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.9.4-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.8 -- 2016-01-30 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.8-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 * --- -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.7 -- 2015-11-04 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.7-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * corrected output of 'BIFIE.univar.test' in case of no replicate weights DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.6 -- 2015-10-15 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.6-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.5 -- 2015-10-08 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.5-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE * added citation information DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.4 -- 2015-09-08 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.4-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.3 -- 2015-07-10 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.3-0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.2 -- 2015-02-22 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.2-6 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.1 -- 2014-11-22 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.1 -------------------------------------------------------------- FIXED * fixed a bug in frequency tabulation for constant variables DATA * --- EXAMP * --- -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 1.0 -- 2014-10-12 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.0 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 0.3 -- 2014-07-31 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 0.3-47 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 0.2 -- 2014-07-12 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 0.2-37 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Versions 0.1 -- 2014-07-01 -- CRAN BIFIEsurvey 0.1-61 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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: --- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx