R Observatory: Metrics for MiCT version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MiCT

2.0.0Package record

Minimal Important Change and Threshold Estimation

0packages depend

618downloads / year

10.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yong-Hao PuaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides methods for estimating minimal important change (MIC) and interpretation thresholds for multi-item questionnaires and single-item continuous or ordinal measures. Methods include predictive modelling, adjusted predictive modelling, improved adjusted predictive modelling using anchor reliability, confirmatory factor analysis for anchor reliability, longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis for MIC estimation, longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis-based MIC estimation for single-item measures, and confirmatory factor analysis-based threshold estimation for single-item and multi-item measures. Implemented methods include those developed by Terluin et al. (2015) doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.03.015, Terluin et al. (2017) doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.12.015, Terluin et al. (2022) doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.04.018, Terluin et al. (2023) doi:10.1007/s11136-023-03355-8, Terluin et al. (2024) doi:10.1007/s11136-023-03577-w, Terluin et al. (2024) doi:10.1007/s11136-024-03763-4, and Terluin et al. (2026) doi:10.1007/s11136-025-04134-3.

Changes in 2.0.0

Package history

MiCT is the renamed and substantially extended successor to the original

MIC package created by Iris Eekhout. Version 2.0.0 reflects the package rename and major

methodological updates.

Major changes

Added sim_threshold() for LCFA-based threshold estimation for single-item measures.
Added mim_threshold() for LCFA-based threshold estimation for multi-item questionnaires.
Added sim_mic_lcfa() for LCFA-based MIC estimation for single-item measures.
Updated mic_lcfa() with CFA/probit expected-score mapping
Added equalize_levels(), var_discretize() and lcfa_model()
Renamed simdat() output empirical_rel_trt to observed_rel_trt.
Updated documentation, examples, and tests.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("yhpua/MiCT")

Development version from yhpua/MiCT. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-mict

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-MiCT

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-MiCT

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-22
ERROR3 OK, 4 ERROR2026-08-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 32 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 87%13 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 35%

How these are measured

Downloads

618

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,676 · ~2/day · ~52/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20030 days

61890 days

6181 year

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Also on14 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

yhpua/mict ↗Account: yhpua

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-08-04

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yhpua/mict on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-04 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-04, before release 2.0.0 (2026-08-09)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MiCT adds 70 packages (35 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: SimDesign 2.4 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, GPArotation 1.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

lavaanMASSmirt pROC

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Yong-Hao Pua

Author, Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2026)

Iris Eekhout

Author

Original package author

Berend Terluin

Author

Releases (1)

2.0.0Latest
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2026-08-09 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-09
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 11 KB / 1 file
Download size: 625 KB

Cite

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citation("MiCT")

Format

Pua, Y., Eekhout, I., & Terluin, B. (2026). MiCT: Minimal Important Change and Threshold Estimation (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MiCT

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MiCT version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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