MBESS

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The MBESS R Package

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ken KelleyFirst published 2006-05-0656 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implements methods that are useful in designing research studies and analyzing data, with particular emphasis on methods that are developed for or used within the behavioral, educational, and social sciences (broadly defined). That being said, many of the methods implemented within MBESS are applicable to a wide variety of disciplines. MBESS has a suite of functions for a variety of related topics, such as effect sizes, confidence intervals for effect sizes (including standardized effect sizes and noncentral effect sizes), sample size planning (from the accuracy in parameter estimation [AIPE], power analytic, equivalence, and minimum-risk point estimation perspectives), mediation analysis, various properties of distributions, and a variety of utility functions. MBESS (pronounced 'em-bes') was originally an acronym for 'Methods for the Behavioral, Educational, and Social Sciences,' but MBESS became more general and now contains methods applicable and used in a wide variety of fields and is an orphan acronym, in the sense that what was an acronym is now literally its name. MBESS has greatly benefited from the contributions of many people over the years, who are acknowledged in the package documentation.

Install

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

install.packages("MBESS", 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-mbess

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-MBESS

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0stats

Imports (10)

bootlavaanMASSmethodsmnormtnlmeOpenMxparallelsem semTools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

gsl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

23direct

2indirect

iGasso CoTiMA FAfA Surrogate apa apaTables auRoc cvcqv fungible iMediate multiModTest negligible predictionInterval pwr2ppl quest sprtt tidycomm ModStatR effectcheck miceadds pplot ufs yhat

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ken Kelley

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Ken Kelley

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Keke Lai

no longer listed · 2.11.0 to 3.3.3

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-05-06
Total releases: 56 / 20 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 218 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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