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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@ipn.uni-kiel.de


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CHANGELOG BIFIEsurvey
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VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.3  |  2017-10-26  |  Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.3-18
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NOTE  * included variable names, groups and grouping values in output
        value 'stat' in 'BIFIE.ecdf' function

DATA  * ---
EXAMP * ---

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VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.2  |  2017-08-10  |  Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.2-22
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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 * ---

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VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.1  |  2017-05-17  |  Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.1-6
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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 * ---

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VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 2.0  |  2017-04-27  |  Last: BIFIEsurvey 2.0-7
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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)

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VERSIONS BIFIEsurvey 1.13  |  2017-03-02  |  Last: BIFIEsurvey 1.13-24
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NOTE  * restructured Rcpp functions
NOTE  * small addition in manual of 'BIFIE.data.jack'

DATA  * ---
EXAMP * ---

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Versions 1.12 -- 2017-01-16  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.12-0
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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)

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Versions 1.11 -- 2016-10-18  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.11-0
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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)

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Versions 1.9.4 -- 2016-06-01  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.9.4-0
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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)

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Versions 1.8 -- 2016-01-30  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.8-0
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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 * ---

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Versions 1.7 -- 2015-11-04  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.7-0
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NOTE  * corrected output of 'BIFIE.univar.test' in case of
        no replicate weights

DATA  * ---
EXAMP * ---

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Versions 1.6 -- 2015-10-15  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.6-0
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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)

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Versions 1.5 -- 2015-10-08  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.5-0
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NOTE  * added citation information

DATA  * ---
EXAMP * ---

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Versions 1.4 -- 2015-09-08  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.4-0
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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)

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Versions 1.3 -- 2015-07-10  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.3-0
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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)

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Versions 1.2 -- 2015-02-22  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.2-6
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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) 

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Versions 1.1 -- 2014-11-22  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.1
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FIXED * fixed a bug in frequency tabulation for constant variables

DATA  * ---
EXAMP * ---

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Versions 1.0 -- 2014-10-12  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 1.0
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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)

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Versions 0.3 -- 2014-07-31  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 0.3-47
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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)

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Versions 0.2 -- 2014-07-12  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 0.2-37
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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)

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Versions 0.1 -- 2014-07-01  --  CRAN BIFIEsurvey 0.1-61
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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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