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  <dc:title>Utilities for Quantiles</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package Qtools version 1.6.0</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MissingData (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MissingData)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Functions for unconditional and conditional quantiles. These
    include methods for transformation-based quantile regression,
    quantile-based measures of location, scale and shape, methods for quantiles
    of discrete variables, quantile-based multiple imputation, restricted
    quantile regression, directional quantile classification, and quantile
	ratio regression.
	A vignette is given in Geraci (2016, The R Journal) &lt;doi:10.32614/RJ-2016-037&gt; and included in the package.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: boot, conquer, corpcor, glmx, graphics, grDevices, gtools,
MASS, Matrix, np, numDeriv (&gt;= 2016.8-1), quantdr, quantreg,
Rcpp (&gt;= 0.12.13), stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, mice, rmarkdown, survey</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Marco Geraci &lt;marco.geraci@uniroma1.it&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Marco Geraci [aut, cph, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6311-8685&gt;),
  Alessio Farcomeni [ctb] (Contributions to midrq and qrr code, ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7104-5826&gt;),
  Cinzia Viroli [ctb] (Contributions to dqc code, ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3278-5266&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-07-28</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Qtools</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.Qtools</dc:identifier>
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