Multiple Imputation Using the General Location Model with the EMB Algorithm
Overview
Provides multiple imputation for mixed continuous and categorical data using the General Location Model (Olkin and Tate (1961) doi:10.1214/aoms/1177705052; Little and Schluchter (1985) doi:10.1093/biomet/72.3.497) combined with the Expectation-Maximization with Bootstrapping (EMB) algorithm of Honaker, King and Blackwell (2011) doi:10.18637/jss.v045.i07. Categorical variables are specified via the noms option; all other variables are treated as continuous. The package wraps the EM implementation in the 'mix' package and extends it with a bootstrap wrapper to produce proper multiple imputations in the sense of Rubin (1987, ISBN:978-0-471-08705-2).
- Added the
nlsymissdataset (581 children from the NLSY with missing values on five variables), used in all examples. - Examples now run as-is on
nlsymissinstead of being wrapped in\dontrun{}. - Corrected the Little & Schluchter citation to 1985 and added DOI/ISBN links to the references in DESCRIPTION and the help pages.
From NEWS.md in the release
Install
Health
- OK13 OKNow
- OK6 OK2026-10-16
Documentation
- Help pages
- 5
- Examples that run
- 100%5 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 40%
Downloads
Repository
1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/pauldallison/glemb on 2026-10-22.
This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.
- Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-25Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message
- Claude Sonnet 4.51 commit · May 2026
Dependencies
Installing glemb adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 23 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mix 23 KB.
Code & Tests
Datasets
People & History
- 0.1.4Latest2026-10-15 · current release ·
10 days in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-05 20:05 to 2026-10-15 12:21 UTC, in 43 readings. - RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
Package metadata
- First published
- 2026-10-15
- Total releases
- 1 / 1 yrs
- License
- GPL-3 OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 4.0.0
- Bundled data
- 3.0 KB / 1 file
- Download size
- 40 KB
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:
citation("glemb")This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.
Cite the R Observatory
For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.
From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.