Functions to prepare rankings data and fit the Plackett-Luce model
    jointly attributed to Plackett (1975) <doi:10.2307/2346567> and Luce
    (1959, ISBN:0486441369). The standard Plackett-Luce model is generalized
    to accommodate ties of any order in the ranking. Partial rankings, in which
    only a subset of items are ranked in each ranking, are also accommodated in
    the implementation. Disconnected/weakly connected networks implied by the
    rankings may be handled by adding pseudo-rankings with a hypothetical item.
    Optionally, a multivariate normal prior may be set on the log-worth
    parameters and ranker reliabilities may be incorporated as proposed by
    Raman and Joachims (2014) <doi:10.1145/2623330.2623654>. Maximum a
    posteriori estimation is used when priors are set. Methods are provided to
    estimate standard errors or quasi-standard errors for inference as well as
    to fit Plackett-Luce trees. See the package website or vignette for further
    details.
| Version: | 0.4.4 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.10) | 
| Imports: | CVXR, igraph, Matrix, matrixStats, methods, partykit, psychotools, psychotree, R6, RSpectra, qvcalc, sandwich, stats | 
| Suggests: | BiocStyle, BayesMallows, BradleyTerry2, PLMIX, ROlogit, StatRank, bookdown, covr, hyper2, kableExtra, knitr, lbfgs, gnm, pmr, prefmod, rmarkdown, survival, testthat | 
| Published: | 2025-09-03 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.PlackettLuce | 
| Author: | Heather Turner  [aut, cre],
  Ioannis Kosmidis  [aut],
  David Firth  [aut],
  Jacob van Etten  [ctb] | 
| Maintainer: | Heather Turner  <ht at heatherturner.net> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/hturner/PlackettLuce/issues | 
| License: | GPL-3 | 
| URL: | https://hturner.github.io/PlackettLuce/,
https://github.com/hturner/PlackettLuce | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Language: | en-GB | 
| Citation: | PlackettLuce citation info | 
| Materials: | README, NEWS | 
| CRAN checks: | PlackettLuce results |