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Bug#483661: ITP: r-cran-amelia -- R package for handling missing data



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>

* Package name    : r-cran-amelia
  Version         : 1.1-29
  Upstream Author : James Honaker, Gary King, Matthew Blackwell
* URL             : http://gking.harvard.edu/amelia/
* License         : GPLv2 or later
  Programming Lang: R
  Description     : R package for handling missing data

Amelia II "multiply imputes" missing data in a single cross-section
(such as a survey), from a time series (like variables collected for
each year in a country), or from a time-series-cross-sectional data
set (such as collected by years for each of several countries). Amelia
II implements our bootstrapping-based algorithm that gives essentially
the same answers as the standard IP or EMis approaches, is usually
considerably faster than existing approaches and can handle many more
variables. Unlike Amelia I and other statistically rigorous imputation
software, it virtually never crashes (but please let us know if you
find to the contrary!). The program also generalizes existing
approaches by allowing for trends in time series across observations
within a cross-sectional unit, as well as priors that allow experts to
incorporate beliefs they have about the values of missing cells in
their data. Amelia II also includes useful diagnostics of the fit of
multiple imputation models. The program works from the R command line
or via a graphical user interface that does not require users to know
R.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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