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  <dc:title>R Package for Ecological Inference in 2x2 Tables</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Environmetrics (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Environmetrics)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>eco is a publicly available R package that implements the
Bayesian and likelihood methods proposed in Imai, Lu, and
Strauss (2008) for ecological inference in $2 \times 2$ tables
as well as the method of bounds introduced by Duncan and Davis
(1953). The package fits both parametric and nonparametric
models using either the Expectation-Maximization algorithms
(for likelihood models) or the Markov chain Monte Carlo
algorithms (for Bayesian models).  For all models, the
individual-level data can be directly incorporated into the
estimation whenever such data are available. Along with
in-sample and out-of-sample predictions, the package also
provides a functionality which allows one to quantify the
effect of data aggregation on parameter estimation and
hypothesis testing under the parametric likelihood models.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 2.0), MASS</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Ying Lu &lt;yl46@nyu.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:contributor>Kosuke Imai &lt;kimai@princeton.edu&gt;, Ying Lu &lt;yl46@nyu.edu&gt;,
Aaron Strauss &lt;abstraus@Princeton.EDU&gt;.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2011-04-26</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=eco</dc:identifier>
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