This package provides a suite of functions to ping URLs and to time HTTP requests'. Designed to work with httr'.

This package provides functions to conduct robust inference in difference-in-differences and event study designs by implementing the methods developed in Rambachan & Roth (2023) <doi:10.1093/restud/rdad018>, "A More Credible Approach to Parallel Trends" [Previously titled "An Honest Approach..."]. Inference is conducted under a weaker version of the parallel trends assumption. Uniformly valid confidence sets are constructed based upon conditional confidence sets, fixed-length confidence sets and hybridized confidence sets.

This package provides functions to compute small area estimates based on a basic area or unit-level model. The model is fit using restricted maximum likelihood, or in a hierarchical Bayesian way. In the latter case numerical integration is used to average over the posterior density for the between-area variance. The output includes the model fit, small area estimates and corresponding mean squared errors, as well as some model selection measures. Additional functions provide means to compute aggregate estimates and mean squared errors, to minimally adjust the small area estimates to benchmarks at a higher aggregation level, and to graphically compare different sets of small area estimates.

This package provides a function to assess and test for heterogeneity in the utility of a surrogate marker with respect to a baseline covariate. The main function can be used for either a continuous or discrete baseline covariate. More details will be available in the future in: Parast, L., Cai, T., Tian L (2021). "Testing for Heterogeneity in the Utility of a Surrogate Marker." Biometrics, In press.

Tests for a treatment effect using surrogate marker information accounting for heterogeneity in the utility of the surrogate. Details are described in Parast et al (2022) <arXiv:2209.08315>.

This package implements the method developed by Cao and Kosorok (2011) for the significance analysis of thousands of features in high-dimensional biological studies. It is an asymptotically valid data-driven procedure to find critical values for rejection regions controlling the k-familywise error rate, false discovery rate, and the tail probability of false discovery proportion.

This package provides a shiny application, which allows you to perform single- and multi-omics analyses using your own omics datasets. After the upload of the omics datasets and a metadata file, single-omics is performed for feature selection and dataset reduction. These datasets are used for pairwise- and multi-omics analyses, where automatic tuning is done to identify correlations between the datasets - the end goal of the recommended Holomics workflow. Methods used in the package were implemented in the package mixomics by Florian Rohart,Benoît Gautier,Amrit Singh,Kim-Anh Lê Cao (2017) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005752> and are described there in further detail.

Implementation of a class of hierarchical item response theory (IRT) models where both the mean and the variance of latent preferences (ability parameters) may depend on observed covariates. The current implementation includes both the two-parameter latent trait model for binary data and the graded response model for ordinal data. Both are fitted via the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Asymptotic standard errors are derived from the observed information matrix. See Zhou (2019) <doi:10.1017/pan.2018.63> for details.

This package provides a collection of datasets of human-computer interaction (HCI) experiments. Each dataset is from an HCI paper, with all fields described and the original publication linked. All paper authors of included data have consented to the inclusion of their data in this package. The datasets include data from a range of HCI studies, such as pointing tasks, user experience ratings, and steering tasks. Dataset sources: Bergström et al. (2022) <doi:10.1145/3490493>; Dalsgaard et al. (2021) <doi:10.1145/3489849.3489853>; Larsen et al. (2019) <doi:10.1145/3338286.3340115>; Lilija et al. (2019) <doi:10.1145/3290605.3300676>; Pohl and Murray-Smith (2013) <doi:10.1145/2470654.2481307>; Pohl and Mottelson (2022) <doi:10.3389/frvir.2022.719506>.

Graphical model is an informative and powerful tool to explore the conditional dependence relationships among variables. The traditional Gaussian graphical model and its extensions either have a Gaussian assumption on the data distribution or assume the data are homogeneous. However, there are data with complex distributions violating these two assumptions. For example, the air pollutant concentration records are non-negative and, hence, non-Gaussian. Moreover, due to climate changes, distributions of these concentration records in different months of a year can be far different, which means it is uncertain whether datasets from different months are homogeneous. Methods with a Gaussian or homogeneous assumption may incorrectly model the conditional dependence relationships among variables. Therefore, we propose a heterogeneous graphical model for non-negative data (HGMND) to simultaneously cluster multiple datasets and estimate the conditional dependence matrix of variables from a non-Gaussian and non-negative exponential family in each cluster.

Analysing time-series accelerometer data to quantify length and intensity of physical activity using hidden Markov models. It also contains the traditional cut-off point method. Witowski V, Foraita R, Pitsiladis Y, Pigeot I, Wirsik N (2014). <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114089>.

Pre-made models that can be rapidly tailored to various chemicals and species using chemical-specific in vitro data and physiological information. These tools allow incorporation of chemical toxicokinetics ("TK") and in vitro-in vivo extrapolation ("IVIVE") into bioinformatics, as described by Pearce et al. (2017) (<doi:10.18637/jss.v079.i04>). Chemical-specific in vitro data characterizing toxicokinetics have been obtained from relatively high-throughput experiments. The chemical-independent ("generic") physiologically-based ("PBTK") and empirical (for example, one compartment) "TK" models included here can be parameterized with in vitro data or in silico predictions which are provided for thousands of chemicals, multiple exposure routes, and various species. High throughput toxicokinetics ("HTTK") is the combination of in vitro data and generic models. We establish the expected accuracy of HTTK for chemicals without in vivo data through statistical evaluation of HTTK predictions for chemicals where in vivo data do exist. The models are systems of ordinary differential equations that are developed in MCSim and solved using compiled (C-based) code for speed. A Monte Carlo sampler is included for simulating human biological variability (Ring et al., 2017 <doi:10.1016/j.envint.2017.06.004>) and propagating parameter uncertainty (Wambaugh et al., 2019 <doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfz205>). Empirically calibrated methods are included for predicting tissue:plasma partition coefficients and volume of distribution (Pearce et al., 2017 <doi:10.1007/s10928-017-9548-7>). These functions and data provide a set of tools for using IVIVE to convert concentrations from high-throughput screening experiments (for example, Tox21, ToxCast) to real-world exposures via reverse dosimetry (also known as "RTK") (Wetmore et al., 2015 <doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfv171>).

This package provides a Shiny app allowing to convert HTML code to R code (e.g. <span>Hello</span> to tags$span("Hello")'), for usage in a Shiny UI.

This package provides functions for basic hydraulic calculations related to water flow in circular pipes both flowing full (under pressure), and partially full (gravity flow), and trapezoidal open channels. For pressure flow this includes friction loss calculations by solving the Darcy-Weisbach equation for head loss, flow or diameter, plotting a Moody diagram, matching a pump characteristic curve to a system curve, and solving for flows in a pipe network using the Hardy-Cross method. The Darcy-Weisbach friction factor is calculated using the Colebrook (or Colebrook-White equation), the basis of the Moody diagram, the original citation being Colebrook (1939) <doi:10.1680/ijoti.1939.13150>. For gravity flow, the Manning equation is used, again solving for missing parameters. The derivation of and solutions using the Darcy-Weisbach equation and the Manning equation are outlined in many fluid mechanics texts such as Finnemore and Maurer (2024, ISBN:978-1-264-78729-6). Some gradually- and rapidly-varied flow functions are included. For the Manning equation solutions, this package uses modifications of original code from the iemisc package by Irucka Embry.

Efficient Bayesian multinomial logistic regression based on heavy-tailed (hyper-LASSO, non-convex) priors. The posterior of coefficients and hyper-parameters is sampled with restricted Gibbs sampling for leveraging the high-dimensionality and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for handling the high-correlation among coefficients. A detailed description of the method: Li and Yao (2018), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 88:14, 2827-2851, <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1405.3319>.

Display hexagonally binned scatterplots for multi-class data, using coloured triangles to show class proportions.

This package provides a multiple-testing procedure for high-dimensional mediation hypotheses. Mediation analysis is of rising interest in epidemiology and clinical trials. Among existing methods for mediation analyses, the popular joint significance (JS) test yields an overly conservative type I error rate and therefore low power. In the R package HDMT we implement a multiple-testing procedure that accurately controls the family-wise error rate (FWER) and the false discovery rate (FDR) when using JS for testing high-dimensional mediation hypotheses. The core of our procedure is based on estimating the proportions of three component null hypotheses and deriving the corresponding mixture distribution of null p-values. Results of the data examples include better-behaved quantile-quantile plots and improved detection of novel mediation relationships on the role of DNA methylation in genetic regulation of gene expression. With increasing interest in mediation by molecular intermediaries such as gene expression, the proposed method addresses an unmet methodological challenge. Methods used in the package refer to James Y. Dai, Janet L. Stanford & Michael LeBlanc (2020) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2020.1765785>.

When performing multiple imputations, while 5-10 imputations are sufficient for obtaining point estimates, a larger number of imputations are needed for proper standard error estimates. This package allows you to calculate how many imputations are needed, following the work of von Hippel (2020) <doi:10.1177/0049124117747303>.

Decode elements of the Australian Higher Education Information Management System (HEIMS) data for clarity and performance. HEIMS is the record system of the Department of Education, Australia to record enrolments and completions in Australia's higher education system, as well as a range of relevant information. For more information, including the source of the data dictionary, see <https://web.archive.org/web/20180210074903/http://heimshelp.education.gov.au/sites/heimshelp/dictionary/pages/data-element-dictionary>. That collection has since been superseded by the Tertiary Collection of Student Information, whose data element dictionary is at <https://www.tcsisupport.gov.au/element>.

This package performs iterative extrapolation of species haplotype accumulation curves using a nonparametric stochastic (Monte Carlo) optimization method for assessment of specimen sampling completeness based on the approach of Phillips et al. (2015) <doi:10.1515/dna-2015-0008>, Phillips et al. (2019) <doi:10.1002/ece3.4757> and Phillips et al. (2020) <doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.243>. HACSim outputs a number of useful summary statistics of sampling coverage ("Measures of Sampling Closeness"), including an estimate of the likely required sample size (along with desired level confidence intervals) necessary to recover a given number/proportion of observed unique species haplotypes. Any genomic marker can be targeted to assess likely required specimen sample sizes for genetic diversity assessment. The method is particularly well-suited to assess sampling sufficiency for DNA barcoding initiatives. Users can also simulate their own DNA sequences according to various models of nucleotide substitution. A Shiny app is also available.

This package implements the Clarke-Wright algorithm to find a quasi-optimal solution to the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. See Clarke, G. and Wright, J.R. (1964) <doi:10.1287/opre.12.4.568> for details. The implementation is accompanied by helper functions to inspect its solution.

In streaming data analysis, it is crucial to detect significant shifts in the data distribution or the accuracy of predictive models over time, a phenomenon known as concept drift. The package aims to identify when concept drift occurs and provide methodologies for adapting models in non-stationary environments. It offers a range of state-of-the-art techniques for detecting concept drift and maintaining model performance. Additionally, the package provides tools for adapting models in response to these changes, ensuring continuous and accurate predictions in dynamic contexts. Methods for concept drift detection are described in Tavares (2022) <doi:10.1007/s12530-021-09415-z>.

Palettes generated from Hello Kitty cartoon.

Historical borrowing in clinical trials can improve precision and operating characteristics. This package supports a longitudinal hierarchical model to borrow historical control data from other studies to better characterize the control response of the current study. It also quantifies the amount of borrowing through longitudinal benchmark models (independent and pooled). The hierarchical model approach to historical borrowing is discussed by Viele et al. (2013) <doi:10.1002/pst.1589>.