This package implements the Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE; Tangri and colleagues (2011) <doi:10.1001/jama.2011.451>; Tangri and colleagues (2016) <doi:10.1001/jama.2015.18202>) to compute 2- and 5-year kidney failure risk using 4-, 6-, and 8-variable models. Includes helpers to append risk columns to data frames, classify chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) outcomes, and evaluate and plot model performance.

Implementations of the kernel measure of multi-sample dissimilarity (KMD) between several samples using K-nearest neighbor graphs and minimum spanning trees. The KMD measures the dissimilarity between multiple samples, based on the observations from them. It converges to the population quantity (depending on the kernel) which is between 0 and 1. A small value indicates the multiple samples are from the same distribution, and a large value indicates the corresponding distributions are different. The population quantity is 0 if and only if all distributions are the same, and 1 if and only if all distributions are mutually singular. The package also implements the tests based on KMD for H0: the M distributions are equal against H1: not all the distributions are equal. Both permutation test and asymptotic test are available. These tests are consistent against all alternatives where at least two samples have different distributions. For more details on KMD and the associated tests, see Huang, Z. and B. Sen (2022) <arXiv:2210.00634>.

This package provides a fast and computationally efficient algorithm designed to enable researchers to efficiently and quickly extract semantically-related keywords using a fitted embedding model. For more details about the methods applied, see Chester (2025). <doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/5B7RQ>.

This package implements the kernel method of test equating as defined in von Davier, A. A., Holland, P. W. and Thayer, D. T. (2004) <doi:10.1007/b97446> and Andersson, B. and Wiberg, M. (2017) <doi:10.1007/s11336-016-9528-7> using the CB, EG, SG, NEAT CE/PSE and NEC designs, supporting Gaussian, logistic and uniform kernels and unsmoothed and pre-smoothed input data.

Computes Khattree-Bahuguna's univariate and multivariate skewness, principal-component-based Khattree-Bahuguna's multivariate skewness. It also provides several measures of univariate or multivariate skewnesses including, Pearsonâ s coefficient of skewness, Bowleyâ s univariate skewness and Mardia's multivariate skewness. See Khattree, R. and Bahuguna, M. (2019) <doi: 10.1007/s41060-018-0106-1>.

This package implements the Lilliefors-corrected Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for use in goodness-of-fit tests, suitable when population parameters are unknown and must be estimated by sample statistics. P-values are estimated by simulation. Can be used with a variety of continuous distributions, including normal, lognormal, univariate mixtures of normals, uniform, loguniform, exponential, gamma, and Weibull distributions. Functions to generate random numbers and calculate density, distribution, and quantile functions are provided for use with the log uniform and mixture distributions.

This package provides functions for identification of putative causal loci in whole-genome sequencing data. The functions allow genome-wide association scan. It also includes an efficient knockoff generator for genetic data.

This package contains kernel smoothing tools designed for use by historical dialectologists and philologists for exploring spatial and temporal patterns in noisy historical language data, such as that obtained from historical texts. The main way in which these might differ from other implementations of kernel smoothing is that they assume that the function (linguistic variable) being explored has the form of the relative frequency of a series of discrete possibilities (linguistic variants). This package also offers a way of exploring distributions in 2-dimensional space and in time with separate kernels, and tools for identifying appropriate bandwidths for these.

Create a kite-square plot for contingency tables using ggplot2', to display their relevant quantities in a single figure (marginal, conditional, expected, observed, chi-squared). The plot resembles a flying kite inside a square if the variables are independent, and deviates from this the more dependence exists.

Detect and test for changes in covariance structures of functional data, as well as changepoint detection for multivariate data more generally. Method for detecting non-stationarity in resting state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans as seen in Ramsay, K., & Chenouri, S. (2025) <doi:10.1080/10485252.2025.2503891> is implemented in fmri_changepoints(). Also includes depth- and rank-based implementation of the wild binary segmentation algorithm for detecting multiple changepoints in multivariate data.

Kernel Machine Score Test for Pathway Analysis in the Presence of Semi-Competing Risks. Method is detailed in: Neykov, Hejblum & Sinnott (2018) <doi: 10.1177/0962280216653427>.

Rcpp implementation of the multivariate Kalman filter for state space models that can handle missing values and exogenous data in the observation and state equations. There is also a function to handle time varying parameters. Kim, Chang-Jin and Charles R. Nelson (1999) "State-Space Models with Regime Switching: Classical and Gibbs-Sampling Approaches with Applications" <doi:10.7551/mitpress/6444.001.0001><http://econ.korea.ac.kr/~cjkim/>.

To fit the kernel semi-parametric model and its extensions. It allows multiple kernels and unlimited interactions in the same model. Coefficients are estimated by maximizing a penalized log-likelihood; penalization terms and hyperparameters are estimated by minimizing leave-one-out error. It includes predictions with confidence/prediction intervals, statistical tests for the significance of each kernel, a procedure for variable selection and graphical tools for diagnostics and interpretation of covariate effects. Currently it is implemented for continuous dependent variables. The package is based on the paper of Liu et al. (2007), <doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00799.x>.

This package implements the Known Sub-Sequence Algorithm <doi:10.1016/j.aaf.2021.12.013>, which helps to automatically identify and validate the best method for missing data imputation in a time series. Supports the comparison of multiple state-of-the-art algorithms.

This package implements a quantified approach to the Kraljic Matrix (Kraljic, 1983, <https://hbr.org/1983/09/purchasing-must-become-supply-management>) for strategically analyzing a firmâ s purchasing portfolio. It combines multi-objective decision analysis to measure purchasing characteristics and uses this information to place products and services within the Kraljic Matrix.

Knowledge space theory by Doignon and Falmagne (1999) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-58625-5> is a set- and order-theoretical framework which proposes mathematical formalisms to operationalize knowledge structures in a particular domain. The kstIO package provides basic functionalities to read and write KST data from/to files to be used together with the kst', kstMatrix', CDSS', pks', or DAKS packages.

Fits keyword assisted topic models (keyATM) using collapsed Gibbs samplers. The keyATM combines the latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) models with a small number of keywords selected by researchers in order to improve the interpretability and topic classification of the LDA. The keyATM can also incorporate covariates and directly model time trends. The keyATM is proposed in Eshima, Imai, and Sasaki (2024) <doi:10.1111/ajps.12779>.

K Quantiles Medoids (KQM) clustering applies quantiles to divide data of each dimension into K mean intervals. Combining quantiles of all the dimensions of the data and fully permuting quantiles on each dimension is the strategy to determine a pool of candidate initial cluster centers. To find the best initial cluster centers from the pool of candidate initial cluster centers, two methods based on quantile strategy and PAM strategy respectively are proposed. During a clustering process, medoids of clusters are used to update cluster centers in each iteration. Comparison between KQM and the method of randomly selecting initial cluster centers shows that KQM is almost always getting clustering results with smaller total sum squares of distances.

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI') data from the Kirby21 reproducibility study <https://www.nitrc.org/projects/multimodal/>, including functional and structural imaging.

It uses species accumulation curves and diverse estimators to assess, at the same time, the levels of survey coverage in multiple geographic cells of a size defined by the user or polygons. It also enables the geographical depiction of observed species richness, survey effort and completeness values including a background with administrative areas.

This package provides a function called COTUCKER3() (Co-Inertia Analysis + Tucker3 method) which performs a Co-Tucker3 analysis of two sequences of matrices, as well as other functions called PCA() (Principal Component Analysis) and BGA() (Between-Groups Analysis), which perform analysis of one matrix, COIA() (Co-Inertia Analysis), which performs analysis of two matrices, PTA() (Partial Triadic Analysis), STATIS(), STATISDUAL() and TUCKER3(), which perform analysis of a sequence of matrices, and BGCOIA() (Between-Groups Co-Inertia Analysis), STATICO() (STATIS method + Co-Inertia Analysis), COSTATIS() (Co-Inertia Analysis + STATIS method), which also perform analysis of two sequences of matrices.

Uses Bessel functions to calculate the fundamental and complementary analytic solutions to the Kelvin differential equation.

This package provides a function that uses a genetic algorithm to search for a subset of size k from the integers 1:n, such that a user-supplied objective function is minimized at that subset. The selection step is done by tournament selection based on ranks, and elitism may be used to retain a portion of the best solutions from one generation to the next. Population objective function values may optionally be evaluated in parallel.

Kernel-based Tweedie compound Poisson gamma model using high-dimensional predictors for the analyses of zero-inflated response variables. The package features built-in estimation, prediction and cross-validation tools and supports choice of different kernel functions. For more details, please see Yi Lian, Archer Yi Yang, Boxiang Wang, Peng Shi & Robert William Platt (2023) <doi:10.1080/00401706.2022.2156615>.