NEWS.md

In idcnrba: Interactive Application for Analyzing Representativeness and Nonresponse Bias

idcnrba 1.1.0

• Added links to the IDC website and user guide.

• For an attempted census, when the app creates replicate weights, it uses the random-groups jackknife method. This should drastically increase speed.

• For the analysis type comparing estimates to external benchmark data, user-entered percentages must sum to 100.

• The progress bar now appears for every analysis type in the app.

• Informative error messages are shown for most analysis types when the user supplies a dataset with only respondents in it.

idcnrba 1.0.0

• The minimum required version of the 'nrba' package is now 0.2.0.

• The Setup module of the app now checks for bad inputs and displays informative error messages.

• Whenever an error message appears for a specific analysis type, a modal dialog appears with suggestions for how to resolve common errors for that analysis type.

• The Excel output file is formatted using Excel table styles. Important columns in the output table now have bolded entries to help guide users in interpreting the content.

• The analysis types based on regression analysis now clearly indicate in the footnotes which category is used as the reference level for each categorical predictor variable.

• In the weighting analysis type, the output table footnote clearly documents which variables were used to conduct the weighting adjustment.

• Now using the survey package options options(survey.lonely.psu = 'adjust') and options(survey.adjust.domain.lonely = TRUE), so that domains with only a single PSU will have nonzero variance estimates.

• If the user specifies strata population sizes but doesn't specify any weights, then the weights are assumed to all be equal (i.e., equal to 1).

• Minor updates:

• Tooltips now appear throughout the app, even before loading a data file.

• Aside from p-values, the default number of decimals for statistics is now 3 instead of 5.

• Minor layout improvements for some analysis types.

idcnrba 0.2.0

• Minor cosmetic improvements and typo fixes.

• Simplified user interface for analyzing an attempted census.

• Simplified user interface for the analysis comparing respondents to the full sample.

• Removed ability to specify replicate weights to use for analysis.

• Improved formatting so that percentages in output tables are consistently formatted as such.

• Bug fixes:

• Secondary Sampling Units (SSUs) are now correctly incorporated into variance estimation, if specified.

• For regression analysis type, missing values could sometimes be treated as a valid non-missing category when the user is asked which category of the outcome variable they want to predict.

idcnrba 0.1.0

• Initial release of the package.

idcnrba documentation built on Nov. 21, 2023, 9:07 a.m.