R Observatory: Metrics for minb version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

minb

0.1.0Package record

Multiple-Inflated Negative Binomial Model

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mingcong WuCRAN page ↗

Count data is prevalent and informative, with widespread application in many fields such as social psychology, personality, and public health. Classical statistical methods for the analysis of count outcomes are commonly variants of the log-linear model, including Poisson regression and Negative Binomial regression. However, a typical problem with count data modeling is inflation, in the sense that the counts are evidently accumulated on some integers. Such an inflation problem could distort the distribution of the observed counts, further bias estimation and increase error, making the classic methods infeasible. Traditional inflated value selection methods based on histogram inspection are easy to neglect true points and computationally expensive in addition. Therefore, we propose a multiple-inflated negative binomial model to handle count data modeling with multiple inflated values, achieving data-driven inflated value selection. The proposed approach provides simultaneous identification of important regression predictors on the target count response as well. More details about the proposed method are described in Li, Y., Wu, M., Wu, M., & Ma, S. (2023) arXiv:2309.15585.

Install

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

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

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

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-minb

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-minb

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-minb

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Mingcong Wu <wumingcong@ruc.edu.cn>’

The Description field contains
  <arXiv:2309.15585>.
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 57 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,173 · ~6/day · ~169/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23630 days

56290 days

2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing minb adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 2.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pscl 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

MASSpsclstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Mingcong Wu

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Yang Li

Author

Shuangge Ma

Author

Mengyun Wu

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.0Latest
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2023-10-01 · current release
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-01
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 7.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("minb")

Format

Wu, M., Li, Y., Ma, S., & Wu, M. (2023). minb: Multiple-Inflated Negative Binomial Model (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.minb

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for minb version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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