Age-specific mortality rates are estimated and projected using the Kannisto, Lee-Carter and related methods as described in Sevcikova et al. (2016) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26603-9_15>.

Novel method to unbiasedly include studies with Non-statistically Significant Unreported Effects (NSUEs) in a meta-analysis. First, the function calculates the interval where the unreported effects (e.g., t-values) should be according to the threshold of statistical significance used in each study. Afterward, the method uses maximum likelihood techniques to impute the expected effect size of each study with NSUEs, accounting for between-study heterogeneity and potential covariates. Multiple imputations of the NSUEs are then randomly created based on the expected value, variance, and statistical significance bounds. Finally, it conducts a restricted-maximum likelihood random-effects meta-analysis separately for each set of imputations, and it performs estimations from these meta-analyses. Please read the reference in metansue for details of the procedure.

Addressing a central challenge encountered in Mendelian randomization (MR) studies, where MR primarily focuses on discerning the effects of individual exposures on specific outcomes and establishes causal links between them. Using a network-based methodology, the intricacy involving interdependent outcomes due to numerous factors has been tackled through this routine. Based on Ni et al. (2018) <doi:10.1214/17-BA1087>, MR.RGM extends to a broader exploration of the causal landscape by leveraging on network structures and involves the construction of causal graphs that capture interactions between response variables and consequently between responses and instrument variables. The resulting Graph visually represents these causal connections, showing directed edges with effect sizes labeled. MR.RGM facilitates the navigation of various data availability scenarios effectively by accommodating three input formats, i.e., individual-level data and two types of summary-level data. The method also optionally incorporates measured covariates (when available) and allows flexible modeling of the error variance structure, including correlated errors that may reflect unmeasured confounding among responses. In the process, causal effects, adjacency matrices, and other essential parameters of the complex biological networks, are estimated. Besides, MR.RGM provides uncertainty quantification for specific network structures among response variables. Parts of the Inverse Wishart sampler are adapted from the econ722 repository by DiTraglia (GPL-2.0).

This package provides functions to collapse a tidy data frame into matrices in a data frame and expand a data frame of matrices into a tidy data frame.

This package provides a model designed to be a reliable testbed where various gene drive interventions for mosquito-borne diseases control. It is being developed to accommodate the use of various mosquito-specific gene drive systems within a population dynamics framework that allows migration of individuals between patches in landscape. Previous work developing the population dynamics can be found in Deredec et al. (2001) <doi:10.1073/pnas.1110717108> and Hancock & Godfray (2007) <doi:10.1186/1475-2875-6-98>, and extensions to accommodate CRISPR homing dynamics in Marshall et al. (2017) <doi:10.1038/s41598-017-02744-7>.

Functionalities for facilitating systematic reviews, data extractions, and meta-analyses. It includes a GUI (graphical user interface) to help screen the abstracts and titles of bibliographic data; tools to assign screening effort across multiple collaborators/reviewers and to assess inter- reviewer reliability; tools to help automate the download and retrieval of journal PDF articles from online databases; figure and image extractions from PDFs; web scraping of citations; automated and manual data extraction from scatter-plot and bar-plot images; PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) flow diagrams; simple imputation tools to fill gaps in incomplete or missing study parameters; generation of random effects sizes for Hedges d, log response ratio, odds ratio, and correlation coefficients for Monte Carlo experiments; covariance equations for modelling dependencies among multiple effect sizes (e.g., effect sizes with a common control); and finally summaries that replicate analyses and outputs from widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis software (i.e., metawin). Funding for this package was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grants DBI-1262545 and DEB-1451031. CITE: Lajeunesse, M.J. (2016) Facilitating systematic reviews, data extraction and meta-analysis with the metagear package for R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7, 323-330 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12472>.

Unbiased estimators of overall and per-class thematic map accuracy and area published in Olofsson et al. (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.015> and Stehman (2014) <doi:10.1080/01431161.2014.930207>.

Framework for creating and orchestrating data pipelines. Organize, orchestrate, and monitor multiple pipelines in a single project. Use tags to decorate functions with scheduling parameters and configuration.

This package provides a system for Analysis of LSD when there is one missing observation. Methods for this process is described in A.M.Gun,M.K.Gupta,B.Dasgupta(2019,ISBN:81-87567-81-3).

Basic functions for microbial sequence data analysis. The idea is to use generic R data structures as much as possible, making R data wrangling possible also for sequence data.

Calculation routines based on the FOCUS Kinetics Report (2006, 2014). Includes a function for conveniently defining differential equation models, model solution based on eigenvalues if possible or using numerical solvers. If a C compiler (on windows: Rtools') is installed, differential equation models are solved using automatically generated C functions. Non-constant errors can be taken into account using variance by variable or two-component error models <doi:10.3390/environments6120124>. Hierarchical degradation models can be fitted using nonlinear mixed-effects model packages as a back end <doi:10.3390/environments8080071>. Please note that no warranty is implied for correctness of results or fitness for a particular purpose.

This package provides the facility to calculate non-isotropic accumulated cost surface, least-cost paths, least-cost corridors, least-cost networks using a number of human-movement-related cost functions that can be selected by the user. It just requires a Digital Terrain Model, a start location and (optionally) destination locations. See Alberti (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.softx.2019.100331>.

Convenience functions and datasets to be used with Practical Multilevel Modeling using R. The package includes functions for calculating group means, group mean centered variables, and displaying some basic missing data information. A function for computing robust standard errors for linear mixed models based on Liang and Zeger (1986) <doi:10.1093/biomet/73.1.13> and Bell and McCaffrey (2002) <https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/12-001-x/2002002/article/9058-eng.pdf?st=NxMjN1YZ> is included as well as a function for checking for level-one homoskedasticity (Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002, ISBN:076191904X).

This package implements three bias-correction techniques from Battaglia et al. (2025 <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2402.15585>) to improve inference in regression models with covariates generated by AI or machine learning.

This package provides tools of Bayesian analysis framework using the method suggested by Berger (1985) <doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-4286-2> for multivariate normal (MVN) distribution and multivariate normal mixture (MixMVN) distribution: a) calculating Bayesian posteriori of (Mix)MVN distribution; b) generating random vectors of (Mix)MVN distribution; c) Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for (Mix)MVN distribution.

Perform multi-trait rare-variant association tests using the summary statistics and adjust for possible sample overlap. Package is based on "Multi-Trait Analysis of Rare-Variant Association Summary Statistics using MTAR" by Luo, L., Shen, J., Zhang, H., Chhibber, A. Mehrotra, D.V., Tang, Z., 2019 (submitted).

This package provides functions for fitting various models to capture-recapture data including mixed-effects Cormack-Jolly-Seber(CJS) and multistate models and the multi-variate state model structure for survival estimation and POPAN structured Jolly-Seber models for abundance estimation. There are also Hidden Markov model (HMM) implementations of CJS and multistate models with and without state uncertainty and a simulation capability for HMM models.

Persistent interface to Macaulay2 <https://www.macaulay2.com> and front-end tools facilitating its use in the R ecosystem. For details see Kahle et. al. (2020) <doi:10.18637/jss.v093.i09>.

This package provides a graphical user interface tool to estimate ploidy from DNA cells stained with fluorescent dyes and analyzed by flow cytometry, following the methodology of Gómez-Muñoz and Fischer (2024) <doi:10.1101/2024.01.24.577056>. Features include multiple file uploading and configuration, peak fluorescence intensity detection, histogram visualizations, peak error curation, ploidy and genome size calculations, and easy results export.

Defines predict function that transforms output from a Tweedie Generalized Linear Mixed Model (using glmmTMB'), Generalized Additive Model (using mgcv'), or spatio-temporal Generalized Linear Mixed Model (using package tinyVAST'), and returns predicted proportions (and standard errors) across a grouping variable from an equivalent multivariate-logit Tweedie model. These predicted proportions can then be used for standard plotting and diagnostics. See Thorson et al. 2022 <doi:10.1002/ecy.3637>.

Penalized regression methods, such as lasso and elastic net, are used in many biomedical applications when simultaneous regression coefficient estimation and variable selection is desired. However, missing data complicates the implementation of these methods, particularly when missingness is handled using multiple imputation. Applying a variable selection algorithm on each imputed dataset will likely lead to different sets of selected predictors, making it difficult to ascertain a final active set without resorting to ad hoc combination rules. miselect presents Stacked Adaptive Elastic Net (saenet) and Grouped Adaptive LASSO (galasso) for continuous and binary outcomes, developed by Du et al (2022) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2022.2035739>. They, by construction, force selection of the same variables across multiply imputed data. miselect also provides cross validated variants of these methods.

Identification of ring borders on scanned image sections from dendrochronological samples. Processing of image reflectances to produce gray matrices and time series of smoothed gray values. Luminance data is plotted on segmented images for users to perform both: visual identification of ring borders or control of automatic detection. Routines to visually include/exclude ring borders on the R graphical devices, or automatically detect ring borders using a linear detection algorithm. This algorithm detects ring borders according to positive/negative extreme values in the smoothed time-series of gray values. Most of the in-package routines can be recursively implemented using the multiDetect() function.

This package provides a function to perform bias diagnostics on linear mixed models fitted with lmer() from the lme4 package. Implements permutation tests for assessing the bias of fixed effects, as described in Karl and Zimmerman (2021) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2020.06.004>. Karl and Zimmerman (2020) <doi:10.17632/tmynggddfm.1> provide R code for implementing the test using mvglmmRank output. Development of this package was assisted by GPT o1-preview for code structure and documentation.

Flexible implementation of a structural change point detection algorithm for multivariate time series. It authorizes inclusion of trends, exogenous variables, and break test on the intercept or on the full vector autoregression system. Bai, Lumsdaine, and Stock (1998) <doi:10.1111/1467-937X.00051>.