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Development of the Austrian School System (BIFIE)
Salzburg (Austria)
URL: 
https://www.bifie.at/

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CHANGELOG BIFIEsurvey
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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)

---
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)

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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)

---
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: ---



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