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  <dc:title>Conditional Inference Trees with Stacked Multiple Imputation</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package ctreeMI version 1.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements the stacked-imputation workflow for conditional
    inference trees ('ctree') described in Sherlock et al. (2026)
    &lt;doi:10.1080/00273171.2026.2661244&gt;. When data contain missing values,
    multiply imputed datasets (e.g., from 'mice') are stacked vertically
    and a single 'ctree' is fit on the combined data. To correct for the
    artificially inflated sample size introduced by stacking, every
    node-level test statistic is divided by the number of imputations M,
    the node-level p-values are recomputed from the chi-squared reference
    distribution 'ctree' uses (including its multiplicity adjustment across
    candidate splitting variables), and the tree is compressed bottom-up
    (the Stack/M correction). Degrees of freedom are derived for each node
    and each candidate variable, so univariate, bivariate and
    higher-dimensional outcomes are all handled, as are unordered factor
    predictors, whose degrees of freedom depend on how many levels remain
    in a node. The result is a conservative but interpretable single tree
    that incorporates imputation uncertainty without requiring pooling of
    structurally different trees. Also exports stack_imputations(),
    rescale_statistic(), prune_stackM(), node_table() and
    report_ctreeMI() as standalone utilities. The underlying 'ctree'
    algorithm is provided by 'partykit' (Hothorn &amp; Zeileis, 2015; Hothorn,
    Hornik &amp; Zeileis, 2006 &lt;doi:10.1198/106186006X133933&gt;).</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: partykit (&gt;= 1.2-0), mice (&gt;= 3.0.0), stats, methods</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Phillip Sherlock &lt;phillip.sherlock@ufl.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Phillip Sherlock [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0433-3681&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-27</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ctreeMI</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.ctreeMI</dc:identifier>
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