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		Aggregation and Consensus Methods for Preference-Approvals //
		Tools for aggregating ordinal preference data into a group
		consensus. The package implements DIVA (Divide and Conquer for
		Preference-Approvals), a distance-based aggregation method for
		preference-approvals, that is, preference data in which voters
		express both a (weak) ranking and an approval of the
		alternatives. The consensus is the preference-approval
		minimising the average distance to the set of voters, measured
		through the family of distances of Erdamar, Garcia-Lapresta,
		Perez-Roman and Sanver (2014)
		doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2013.10.005. Methods and applications
		are described in Albano and Romano (2026)
		doi:10.1007/s11634-025-00663-4. The package is designed to be
		extended with further methods for ordinal preference data.
	</longdescription>
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