heaping: Correction of Heaping on Individual Level
Provides methods for correcting heaping (digit preference) in
survey data at the individual record level. Age heaping, where respondents
disproportionately report ages ending in 0 or 5, is a common phenomenon that
can distort demographic analyses. Unlike traditional smoothing methods that
only correct aggregated statistics, this package corrects individual values
by replacing a calculated proportion of heaped observations with draws from
fitted truncated distributions (log-normal, normal, or uniform). Supports
5-year and 10-year heaping patterns, single heap correction, and optional
model-based adjustment to preserve covariate relationships.
| Version: |
0.1.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: |
fitdistrplus, EnvStats, stats |
| Suggests: |
VIM, ranger, data.table, ggplot2, simPop, testthat (≥
3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: |
2026-02-09 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.heaping (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Matthias Templ 
[aut, cre],
Bernhard Meindl [ctb] |
| Maintainer: |
Matthias Templ <matthias.templ at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/matthias-da/heaping/issues |
| License: |
GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: |
https://github.com/matthias-da/heaping |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| CRAN checks: |
heaping results |
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