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Package TAM updated to version 1.2 with previous version 1.1 dated 2014-10-19

Title: Test Analysis Modules
Description: The package includes marginal and joint maximum likelihood estimation of uni- and multidimensional item response models (Rasch, 2PL, 3PL, Generalized Partial Credit, Multi Facets, Nominal Item Response, Structured Latent Class Analysis, Mixture Distribution IRT Models, Located Latent Class Models, Cognitive Diagnostic Models), fit statistics and person parameter estimation.
Author: Thomas Kiefer [aut], Alexander Robitzsch [aut, cre], Margaret Wu [aut]
Maintainer: Alexander Robitzsch

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Package robustbase updated to version 0.92-2 with previous version 0.92-1 dated 2014-11-18

Title: Basic Robust Statistics
Description: "Essential" Robust Statistics. Tools allowing to analyze data with robust methods. This includes regression methodology including model selections and multivariate statistics where we strive to cover the book "Robust Statistics, Theory and Methods" by Maronna, Martin and Yohai; Wiley 2006.
Author: Original code by many authors, notably Peter Rousseeuw and Christophe Croux, see file 'Copyrights'; Valentin Todorov , Andreas Ruckstuhl , Matias Salibian-Barrera , Tobias Verbeke , Manuel Koller , Martin Maechler
Maintainer: Martin Maechler

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New package MAVIS with initial version 0.2
Package: MAVIS
Type: Package
Title: Meta Analysis via Shiny
Version: 0.2
Date: 2014-11-21
Author: William Kyle Hamilton , Atsushi Mizumoto
Maintainer: William Kyle Hamilton
Description: Interactive shiny application for running a meta-analysis, provides support for both random effects and fixed effects models.
License: GPL-3
Imports: shiny, shinyAce, metafor, MAd, MAc, quantreg, ggplot2
LazyData: true
Packaged: 2014-11-22 13:29:53 UTC; Kyle
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-11-22 19:06:45

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Package magrittr updated to version 1.5 with previous version 1.0.1 dated 2014-05-15

Title: A Forward-Pipe Operator for R
Description: Provides a mechanism for chaining commands with a new forward-pipe operator, %>%. This operator will forward a value, or the result of an expression, into the next function call/expression. There is flexible support for the type of right-hand side expressions. For more information, see package vignette. To quote Rene Magritte, "Ceci n'est pas un pipe."
Author: Stefan Milton Bache and Hadley Wickham
Maintainer: Stefan Milton Bache

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Package classyfire updated to version 0.1-1 with previous version 0.1-0 dated 2014-09-04

Title: Robust multivariate classification using highly optimised SVM ensembles
Description: A collection of functions for the creation and application of highly optimised, robustly evaluated ensembles of support vector machines (SVMs). The package takes care of training individual SVM classifiers using a fast parallel heuristic algorithm, and combines individual classifiers into ensembles. Robust metrics of classification performance are offered by bootstrap resampling and permutation testing.
Author: Eleni Chatzimichali and Conrad Bessant
Maintainer: Eleni Chatzimichali

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Package BIFIEsurvey updated to version 1.1 with previous version 1.0 dated 2014-10-12

Title: Some Tools for Survey Statistics in Educational Assessment, Developed by BIFIE
Description: Some Tools for Survey Statistics in Educational Assessment, Developed by BIFIE. Bundesinstitut fuer Bildungsforschung, Entwicklung und Innovation im oesterreichischen Schulwesen; Federal Institute for Educational Research, Innovation and Development of the Austrian School System; Salzburg, Austria.
Author: BIFIE [aut], Alexander Robitzsch [ctb,cre], Konrad Oberwimmer [ctb]
Maintainer: Alexander Robitzsch

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Package EGRET (with last version 2.0.0) was removed from CRAN

Previous versions (as known to CRANberries) which should be available via the Archive link are:

2014-11-20 2.0.0

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New package MATA with initial version 0.1
Package: MATA
Title: Model-Averaged Tail Area Wald (MATA-Wald) Confidence Interval
Version: 0.1
Authors@R: person('Daniel', 'Turek', email='dturek@maths.otago.ac.nz', role=c('aut','cre'))
Description: Provides a function for calculating the Model-Averaged Tail Area Wald (MATA-Wald) confidence interval, which is generated from single-model estimators and AIC model weights
Depends: R (>= 3.1.1)
License: GPL-2
LazyData: true
Packaged: 2014-11-22 01:27:25 UTC; dturek
Author: Daniel Turek [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Daniel Turek
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-11-22 08:23:28

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New package EnsembleBase with initial version 0.7
Package: EnsembleBase
Type: Package
Title: Extensible Package for Parallel, Batch Training of Base Learners for Ensemble Modeling
Version: 0.7
Date: 2014-11-17
Author: Alireza S. Mahani, Mansour T.A. Sharabiani
Maintainer: Alireza S. Mahani
Description: Extensible S4 classes and methods for batch training of regression and classification algorithms such as Random Forest, Gradient Boosting Machine, Neural Network, Support Vector Machines, and K-Nearest Neighbors. These algorithms constitute a set of 'base learners', which can subsequently be combined together to form ensemble predictions. This package provides cross-validation wrappers to allow for downstream application of ensemble integration techniques, including best-error selection. All base learner estimation objects are retained, allowing for repeated prediction calls without the need for re-training. For large problems, an option is provided to save estimation objects to disk, along with prediction methods that utilize these objects. This allows users to train and predict with large ensembles of base learners without being constrained by system RAM.
License: GPL (>= 2)
Depends: kknn,methods
Imports: gbm,nnet,e1071,randomForest,doParallel,foreach
Packaged: 2014-11-22 01:26:03 UTC; amahani
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-11-22 08:23:23

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