This package provides a lightweight package designed to facilitate statistical simulations through functional programming. It centralizes the simulation process into a single higher-order function, enhancing manageability and usability without adding overhead from external dependencies. The package includes ready-to-use functions for common simulation targets. A detailed example can be found on <https://github.com/ielbadisy/mcstatsim>.

In the omics data association studies, it is common to conduct the p-value corrections to control the false significance. Beyond the P-value corrections, E-value is recently studied to facilitate multiple testing correction based on V. Vovk and R. Wang (2021) <doi:10.1214/20-AOS2020>. This package provides E-value calculation for DNA methylation data and RNA-seq data. Currently, five data formats are supported: DNA methylation levels using DMR detection tools (BiSeq, DMRfinder, MethylKit, Metilene and other DNA methylation tools) and RNA-seq data. The relevant references are listed below: Katja Hebestreit and Hans-Ulrich Klein (2022) <doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.BiSeq>; Altuna Akalin et.al (2012) <doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.methylKit>.

Test for independence of two random vectors, learn and report the dependency structure. For more information, see Gorsky, Shai and Li Ma, Multiscale Fisher's Independence Test for Multivariate Dependence, Biometrika, accepted, January 2022.

Helper functions that interface with the system utilities to learn about the local build environment. Lets you explore make rules to test the local configuration, or query pkg-config to find compiler flags and libs needed for building packages with external dependencies. Also contains tools to analyze which libraries that a installed R package linked to by inspecting output from ldd in combination with information from your distribution package manager, e.g. rpm or dpkg'.

Nonparametric estimation and inference for natural direct and indirect effects by Chan, Imai, Yam and Zhang (2016) <arXiv:1601.03501>.

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>.

R Client for the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text Analytics REST API, including Sentiment Analysis, Topic Detection, Language Detection, and Key Phrase Extraction. An account MUST be registered at the Microsoft Cognitive Services website <https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/> in order to obtain a (free) API key. Without an API key, this package will not work properly.

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.

Create meta tags for R Markdown HTML documents and Shiny apps for customized social media cards, for accessibility, and quality search engine indexing. metathis currently supports HTML documents created with rmarkdown', shiny', xaringan', pagedown', bookdown', and flexdashboard'.

Similarity plots based on correlation and median absolute deviation (MAD); adjusting colors for heatmaps; aggregate technical replicates; calculate pairwise fold-changes and log fold-changes; compute one- and two-way ANOVA; simplified interface to package limma (Ritchie et al. (2015), <doi:10.1093/nar/gkv007> ) for moderated t-test and one-way ANOVA; Hamming and Levenshtein (edit) distance of strings as well as optimal alignment scores for global (Needleman-Wunsch) and local (Smith-Waterman) alignments with constant gap penalties (Merkl and Waack (2009), ISBN:978-3-527-32594-8).

Estimation and comparison of the performances of diagnostic tests in multi-reader multi-case studies where true case statuses (or ground truths) are known and one or more readers provide test ratings for multiple cases. Reader performance metrics are provided for area under and expected utility of ROC curves, likelihood ratio of positive or negative tests, and sensitivity and specificity. ROC curves can be estimated empirically or with binormal or binormal likelihood-ratio models. Statistical comparisons of diagnostic tests are based on the ANOVA model of Obuchowski-Rockette and the unified framework of Hillis (2005) <doi:10.1002/sim.2024>. The ANOVA can be conducted with data from a full factorial, nested, or partially paired study design; with random or fixed readers or cases; and covariances estimated with the DeLong method, jackknifing, or an unbiased method. Smith and Hillis (2020) <doi:10.1117/12.2549075>.

To assess a summary survival curve from survival probabilities and number of at-risk patients collected at various points in time in various studies, and to test the between-strata heterogeneity.

This package performs Multiple Factor Analysis method for quantitative, categorical, frequency and mixed data, in addition to generating a lot of graphics, also has other useful functions.

This package provides tools for phase-type distributions including the following variants: continuous, discrete, multivariate, in-homogeneous, right-censored, and regression. Methods for functional evaluation, simulation and estimation using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm are provided for all models. The methods of this package are based on the following references. Asmussen, S., Nerman, O., & Olsson, M. (1996). Fitting phase-type distributions via the EM algorithm, Olsson, M. (1996). Estimation of phase-type distributions from censored data, Albrecher, H., & Bladt, M. (2019) <doi:10.1017/jpr.2019.60>, Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1111/sjos.12505>, Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2022.08.001>, Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1080/03461238.2022.2097019>, Bladt, M. (2022) <doi:10.1017/asb.2021.40>, Bladt, M. (2023) <doi:10.1080/10920277.2023.2167833>, Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., & Mueller, A. (2023) <doi:10.1515/demo-2022-0153>, Bladt, M. & Yslas, J. (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2023.02.008>.

Sharing statistical methods or simulation frameworks through shiny applications often requires workflows for handling data. To help save and display simulation results, the postgresUI() and postgresServer() functions in mmints help with persistent data storage using a PostgreSQL database. The mmints package also offers data upload functionality through the csvUploadUI() and csvUploadServer() functions which allow users to upload data, view variables and their types, and edit variable types before fitting statistical models within the shiny application. These tools aim to enhance efficiency and user interaction in shiny based statistical and simulation applications.

Application of a test to rule out that trends detected in hydrological time series are explained exclusively by the randomness of the climate. Based on: Ricchetti, (2018) <https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/168487>.

Extract cross sections from long bone meshes at specified intervals along the diaphysis. Calculate two and three-dimensional morphometric maps, cross-sectional geometric parameters, and semilandmarks on the periosteal and endosteal contours of each cross section.

The penalized inverse-variance weighted (pIVW) estimator is a Mendelian randomization method for estimating the causal effect of an exposure variable on an outcome of interest based on summary-level GWAS data. The pIVW estimator accounts for weak instruments and balanced horizontal pleiotropy simultaneously. See Xu S., Wang P., Fung W.K. and Liu Z. (2022) <doi:10.1111/biom.13732>.

This package provides functions to compute and visualize movement-based kernel density estimates (MKDEs) for animal utilization distributions in 2 or 3 spatial dimensions.

This package creates sophisticated models of training data and validates the models with an independent test set, cross validation, or Out Of Bag (OOB) predictions on the training data. Create graphs and tables of the model validation results. Applies these models to GIS .img files of predictors to create detailed prediction surfaces. Handles large predictor files for map making, by reading in the .img files in chunks, and output to the .txt file the prediction for each data chunk, before reading the next chunk of data.

Computes regression deletion diagnostics for multivariate linear models and provides some associated diagnostic plots. The diagnostic measures include hat-values (leverages), generalized Cook's distance, and generalized squared studentized residuals. Several types of plots to detect influential observations are provided.

This package contains the MultiFractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA), MultiFractal Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis (MFXDFA), and the Multiscale Multifractal Analysis (MMA). The MFDFA() function proposed in this package was used in Laib et al. (<doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2018.02.024> and <doi:10.1063/1.5022737>). See references for more information. Interested users can find a parallel version of the MFDFA() function on GitHub.

This package provides a set of tools for fitting Markov-modulated linear regression, where responses Y(t) are time-additive, and model operates in the external environment, which is described as a continuous time Markov chain with finite state space. Model is proposed by Alexander Andronov (2012) <arXiv:1901.09600v1> and algorithm of parameters estimation is based on eigenvalues and eigenvectors decomposition. Markov-switching regression models have the same idea of varying the regression parameters randomly in accordance with external environment. The difference is that for Markov-modulated linear regression model the external environment is described as a continuous-time homogeneous irreducible Markov chain with known parameters while switching models consider Markov chain as unobserved and estimation procedure involves estimation of transition matrix. These models have significant differences in terms of the analytical approach. Also, package provides a set of data simulation tools for Markov-modulated linear regression (for academical/research purposes). Research project No. 1.1.1.2/VIAA/1/16/075.

Procedures for simulating biomes by equilibrium vegetation models, with a special focus on paleoenvironmental applications. Three widely used equilibrium biome models are currently implemented in the package: the Holdridge Life Zone (HLZ) system (Holdridge 1947, <doi:10.1126/science.105.2727.367>), the Köppen-Geiger classification (KGC) system (Köppen 1936, <https://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/pdf/Koppen_1936.pdf>) and the BIOME model (Prentice et al. 1992, <doi:10.2307/2845499>). Three climatic forest-steppe models are also implemented. An approach for estimating monthly time series of relative sunshine duration from temperature and precipitation data (Yin 1999, <doi:10.1007/s007040050111>) is also adapted, allowing process-based biome models to be combined with high-resolution paleoclimate simulation datasets (e.g., CHELSA-TraCE21k v1.0 dataset: <https://chelsa-climate.org/chelsa-trace21k/>).