Kernelheaping

2.3.0

Kernel Density Estimation for Heaped and Rounded Data

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Overview

About

Maintained by Marcus GrossFirst published 2015-01-2713 releasesCRAN page ↗

In self-reported or anonymised data the user often encounters heaped data, i.e. data which are rounded (to a possibly different degree of coarseness). While this is mostly a minor problem in parametric density estimation the bias can be very large for non-parametric methods such as kernel density estimation. This package implements a partly Bayesian algorithm treating the true unknown values as additional parameters and estimates the rounding parameters to give a corrected kernel density estimate. It supports various standard bandwidth selection methods. Varying rounding probabilities (depending on the true value) and asymmetric rounding is estimable as well: Gross, M. and Rendtel, U. (2016) (doi:10.1093/jssam/smw011). Additionally, bivariate non-parametric density estimation for rounded data, Gross, M. et al. (2016) (doi:10.1111/rssa.12179), as well as data aggregated on areas is supported.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("Kernelheaping", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-kernelheaping

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-Kernelheaping

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.15.0MASSks sparr

Imports (8)

sp plyr dplyr fastmatch fitdistrplus GB2 magrittr mvtnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

adheaping smicd

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Marcus Gross

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Marcus Gross

Author, Maintainer

Lukas Fuchs

Author · added in 2.3.0

Contributors (1)

Kerstin Erfurth

Contributor · added in 2.1.8

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-01-27
Total releases: 13 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 29 KB
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