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  <dc:title>Bayesian Analysis of Finite Mixtures of Plackett-Luce Models for
Partial Rankings/Orderings</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package PLMIX version 2.2.1</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Psychometrics (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Psychometrics)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Fit finite mixtures of Plackett-Luce models for partial top rankings/orderings within the Bayesian framework. It provides MAP point estimates via EM algorithm and posterior MCMC simulations via Gibbs Sampling. It also fits MLE as a special case of the noninformative Bayesian analysis with vague priors. In addition to inferential techniques, the package assists other fundamental phases of a model-based analysis for partial rankings/orderings, by including functions for data manipulation, simulation, descriptive summary, model selection and goodness-of-fit evaluation. Main references on the methods are Mollica and Tardella (2017) &lt;doi:10.1007/s11336-016-9530-0&gt; and Mollica and Tardella (2014) &lt;doi:10.1002/sim.6224&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: Rcpp (&gt;= 1.0.5), abind (&gt;= 1.4-5), foreach (&gt;= 1.4.4), ggplot2
(&gt;= 2.2.1), ggmcmc (&gt;= 1.2), coda (&gt;= 0.19-1), reshape2 (&gt;=
1.4.3), rcdd (&gt;= 1.2), gridExtra (&gt;= 2.3), MCMCpack (&gt;= 1.4-2),
gtools (&gt;= 3.8.1), label.switching (&gt;= 1.6), stats, methods,
utils, graphics, grDevices, fmsb</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: doParallel (&gt;= 1.0.17), e1071 (&gt;= 1.7.17), prefmod (&gt;=
0.8-34), rankdist (&gt;= 1.1.3), StatRank (&gt;= 0.0.6), pmr (&gt;=
1.2.5), PlackettLuce (&gt;= 0.2-3)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Cristina Mollica &lt;cristina.mollica@uniroma1.it&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Cristina Mollica [aut, cre],
  Luca Tardella [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-10-11</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PLMIX</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.PLMIX</dc:identifier>
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