[R-pkg-team] Bug#999830: ITP: r-cran-gb2 -- GNU R generalized beta distribution of the second kind

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Subject: ITP: r-cran-gb2 -- GNU R generalized beta distribution of the second kind
Package: wnpp
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-cran-gb2
  Version         : 2.1
  Upstream Author : Monique Graf <monique.p.n.graf at bluewin.ch>, Desislava Nedyalkova <desislava.nedyalkova at gmail.com>.
* URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/package=GB2
* License         : GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description     : GNU R generalized beta distribution of the second kind
 Properties, Likelihood, Estimation Package GB2 explores the Generalized
 Beta distribution of the second kind. Density, cumulative distribution
 function, quantiles and moments of the distributions are given.
 Functions for the full log-likelihood, the profile log-likelihood and
 the scores are provided. Formulas for various indicators of inequality
 and poverty under the GB2 are implemented. The GB2 is fitted by the
 methods of maximum pseudo-likelihood estimation using the full and
 profile log-likelihood, and non-linear least squares estimation of the
 model parameters. Various plots for the visualization and analysis of
 the results are provided. Variance estimation of the parameters is
 provided for the method of maximum pseudo-likelihood estimation. A
 mixture distribution based on the compounding property of the GB2 is
 presented (denoted as "compound" in the documentation). This mixture
 distribution is based on the discretization of the distribution of the
 underlying random scale parameter. The discretization can be left or
 right tail. Density, cumulative distribution function, moments and
 quantiles for the mixture distribution are provided. The compound
 mixture distribution is fitted using the method of maximum pseudo-
 likelihood estimation. The fit can also incorporate the use of auxiliary
 information. In this new version of the package, the mixture case is
 complemented with new functions for variance estimation by linearization
 and comparative density plots.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-gb2