# -------------------------------------------- # CITATION file created with {cffr} R package # See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/ # -------------------------------------------- cff-version: 1.2.0 message: 'To cite package "binest" in publications use:' type: software license: GPL-2.0-or-later title: 'binest: Estimation of Group Means and SDs from Binned Count Data' version: 0.2-1 abstract: 'Estimates group-level means and standard deviations from binned (coarsened) count data, where the within-bin scores are unobserved. The package implements three methods that share a common output structure: bin_means() (a fast estimator that assumes within-district normality and uses pooled bin proportions to derive bin-conditional truncated-normal expectations), mle_hetop() (maximum likelihood for the heteroskedastic ordered probit model of Reardon, Shear, Castellano and Ho 2017 ), and fh_hetop() (the Bayesian Fay-Herriot variant of Lockwood, Castellano and Shear 2018 ). The mle_hetop() and fh_hetop() functions are forked from the ''HETOP'' package by J. R. Lockwood (''CRAN'', last released 2019). mle_hetop() has been modified to speed up the runtime via a vectorized inner loop and to remove two user-facing arguments (fixedcuts and svals) that some users found confusing; cutpoints and starting values are now derived internally from the data.' authors: - family-names: Hippel given-names: Paul T. name-particle: von email: ph3828@eid.utexas.edu - family-names: Hunter given-names: David J. - family-names: Lockwood given-names: J.R. repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev commit: b1ddee8fa564b6f09bbc0f88ce52394b073b2685 date-released: '2026-05-27' contact: - family-names: Hippel given-names: Paul T. name-particle: von email: ph3828@eid.utexas.edu