Package: bisg
Type: Package
Title: Performs Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: 
  c(person(given = "Ari",
           family = "Decter-Frain",
           role = c("aut"),
           email = "adecterfrain@gmail.com",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9635-3334")),
    person(given = "Pratik",
           family = "Sachdeva",
           role = c("aut"),
           email = "pratik.sachdeva@berkeley.edu",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6809-2437")),
    person(given ="Rachel", 
           family = "Carroll", 
           role = c("aut", "cre"),
           email = "rachelcarroll4@gmail.com"))
URL: https://github.com/RPVote/bisg
Maintainer: Rachel Carroll <rachelcarroll4@gmail.com>
Description: Performs Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) analysis to
  obtain probabilistic estimates of race based on surname and geolocation.   
  This package can be used in tandem with the 'eiCompare' package.
  Methods implemented in this package are described in Decter-Frain, 
  A., Sachdeva, P., Collingwood, L., Burke, J.,  Murayama, H., 
  Barreto, M., … Zingher, J. (2022). "Comparing Methods for Estimating 
  Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses" <doi:10.31235/osf.io/e854z>.
License: GPL-3
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), wru (>= 1.0.0)
Imports: dplyr, rlang, stringr, tidycensus, tigris
Suggests: eiCompare, eiExpand
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.2.1
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2023-07-21 03:23:05 UTC; rachelcarroll
Author: Ari Decter-Frain [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9635-3334>),
  Pratik Sachdeva [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6809-2437>),
  Rachel Carroll [aut, cre]
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2023-07-21 08:10:02 UTC
