wru

Predicts individual race/ethnicity using surname, first name, middle name, geolocation, and other attributes, such as gender and age. The method utilizes Bayes' Rule (with optional measurement error correction) to compute the posterior probability of each racial category for any given individual. The package implements methods described in Imai and Khanna (2016) "Improving Ecological Inference by Predicting Individual Ethnicity from Voter Registration Records" Political Analysis <doi:10.1093/pan/mpw001> and Imai, Olivella, and Rosenman (2022) "Addressing census data problems in race imputation via fully Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding and name supplements" <doi:10.1126/sciadv.adc9824>. The package also incorporates the data described in Rosenman, Olivella, and Imai (2023) "Race and ethnicity data for first, middle, and surnames" <doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02202-2>.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 553 times in the last 30 days. More downloads than an obscure whitepaper, but not enough to bring down any servers. A solid effort! The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 15 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 6,704 times in the last 365 days. That's a lot of interest! Someone might even write a blog post about it. The day with the most downloads was Sep 11, 2024 with 85 downloads.

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