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 Package: mice
 Type: Package
-Version: 3.16.5
+Version: 3.16.6
 Title: Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations
-Date: 2023-09-04
+Date: 2023-09-07
 Authors@R: c(person("Stef", "van Buuren", role = c("aut","cre"),
     email = "stef.vanbuuren@tno.nl"),
     person("Karin", "Groothuis-Oudshoorn", role = "aut",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# mice 3.16.6
+
 * Prepares for the deprecation of the `blocks` argument at various places
 * Removes the need for `blocks` in `initialize_chain()`
 * In `rbind()`, when formulas are concatenated and duplicate names are found, also rename the duplicated variables in formulas by their new name
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ set.seed(1)
 [![CRAN_Status_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/mice)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=mice)
 [![](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/mice)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=mice)
 [![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/amices/mice/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/amices/mice/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)
-[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/github%20version-3.16.5-orange.svg)](https://amices.org/mice/)
+[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/github%20version-3.16.6-orange.svg)](https://amices.org/mice/)
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 ## [Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations](https://amices.org/mice/)
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 [![CRAN_Status_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/mice)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=mice)
 [![](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/mice)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=mice)
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-[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/github%20version-3.16.5-orange.svg)](https://amices.org/mice/)
+[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/github%20version-3.16.6-orange.svg)](https://amices.org/mice/)
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 ## [Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations](https://amices.org/mice/)
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ fit <- with(imp, lm(chl ~ age + bmi))
 
 # pool and summarize the results
 summary(pool(fit))
-#>          term estimate std.error statistic    df p.value
-#> 1 (Intercept)     9.08     73.09     0.124  4.50  0.9065
-#> 2         age    35.23     17.46     2.017  1.36  0.2377
-#> 3         bmi     4.69      1.94     2.417 15.25  0.0286
+#>          term estimate std.error statistic   df p.value
+#> 1 (Intercept)    83.91      78.6     1.067 3.42   0.355
+#> 2         age    13.61      17.6     0.774 1.84   0.526
+#> 3         bmi     3.07       2.3     1.339 5.47   0.233
 ```
 
 The complete-data is fit to each imputed dataset, and the results are
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