Maximum likelihood estimation of log-binomial regression with special functionality when the MLE is on the boundary of the parameter space.

Fit different model forms to single-cohort litter decomposition data (mass remaining through time) using likelihood-based estimation. Models span simple empirical to process-motivated forms with differing numbers of free parameters. Provides parameter estimates, uncertainty, and tools for model comparison/selection. Based on Cornwell & Weedon (2013) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12138>.

Evaluates whether the relationship between two vectors is linear or nonlinear. Performs a test to determine how well a linear model fits the data compared to higher order polynomial models. Jhang et al. (2004) <doi:10.1043/1543-2165(2004)128%3C44:EOLITC%3E2.0.CO;2>.

This package provides functions that allow for convenient working with vector space models of semantics/distributional semantic models/word embeddings. Originally built for LSA models (hence the name), but can be used for all such vector-based models. For actually building a vector semantic space, use the package lsa or other specialized software. Downloadable semantic spaces can be found at <https://sites.google.com/site/fritzgntr/software-resources>.

Calculates insurance reserves and equivalence premiums using advanced numerical methods, including the Runge-Kutta algorithm and product integrals for transition probabilities. This package is useful for actuarial analyses and life insurance modeling, facilitating accurate financial projections.

This package provides a dataset containing several color naming conventions established by multiple sources, along with associated color metadata. The package also provides related helper functions for mapping among the different Lego color naming conventions and between Lego colors, hex colors, and R color names, making it easy to convert any color palette to one based on existing Lego colors while keeping as close to the original color palette as possible. The functions use nearest color matching based on Euclidean distance in RGB space. Naming conventions for color mapping include those from BrickLink (<https://www.bricklink.com>), The Lego Group (<https://www.lego.com>), LDraw (<https://www.ldraw.org/>), and Peeron (<http://www.peeron.com/>).

Cellular cooperation compromises the established method of calculating clonogenic activity from limiting dilution assay (LDA) data. This tool provides functions that enable robust analysis in presence or absence of cellular cooperation. The implemented method incorporates the same cooperativity module to model the non-linearity associated with cellular cooperation as known from the colony formation assay (Brix et al. (2021) <doi:10.1038/s41596-021-00615-0>: "Analysis of clonogenic growth in vitro." Nature protocols).

Brings together a comprehensive collection of R packages providing access to API functions and curated datasets from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Includes real-time and historical data through public RESTful APIs ('Nager.Date', World Bank API, REST Countries API, and country-specific APIs) and extensive curated collections of open datasets covering economics, demographics, public health, environmental data, political indicators, social metrics, and cultural information. Designed to provide researchers, analysts, educators, and data scientists with centralized access to Latin American data sources, facilitating reproducible research, comparative analysis, and teaching applications focused on these five major Latin American countries. Included packages: - ArgentinAPI': API functions and curated datasets for Argentina covering exchange rates, inflation, political figures, national holidays and more. - BrazilDataAPI': API functions and curated datasets for Brazil covering postal codes, banks, economic indicators, holidays, company registrations and more. - ChileDataAPI': API functions and curated datasets for Chile covering financial indicators ('UF', UTM, Dollar, Euro, Yen, Copper, Bitcoin, IPSA index), holidays and more. - ColombiAPI': API functions and curated datasets for Colombia covering geographic locations, cultural attractions, economic indicators, demographic data, national holidays and more. - PeruAPIs': API functions and curated datasets for Peru covering economic indicators, demographics, national holidays, administrative divisions, electoral data, biodiversity and more. For more information on the APIs, see: Nager.Date <https://date.nager.at/Api>, World Bank API <https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392>, REST Countries API <https://restcountries.com/>, ArgentinaDatos API <https://argentinadatos.com/>, BrasilAPI <https://brasilapi.com.br/>, FINDIC <https://findic.cl/>, and API-Colombia <https://api-colombia.com/>.

L-systems or Lindenmayer systems are parallel rewriting systems which can be used to simulate biological forms and certain kinds of fractals. Briefly, in an L-system a series of symbols in a string are replaced iteratively according to rules to give a more complex string. Eventually, the symbols are translated into turtle graphics for plotting. Wikipedia has a very good introduction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system This package provides basic functions for exploring L-systems.

This package provides the method for computing the local partial autocorrelation function for locally stationary wavelet time series from Killick, Knight, Nason, Eckley (2020) <doi:10.1214/20-EJS1748>.

This package provides validation, harmonization, descriptive analysis, compositional analysis, transparent risk components, grouped cross-validation, visualization, and predictive modelling tools for freshwater microplastic datasets. The package includes synthetic demonstration data conforming to the LIMPID-India data model and emphasizes explicit units, provenance, percentage closure, non-imputation of missing environmental covariates, and leakage-aware model evaluation.

Fast and accurate inference of gene-environment associations (GEA) in genome-wide studies (Caye et al., 2019, <doi:10.1093/molbev/msz008>). We developed a least-squares estimation approach for confounder and effect sizes estimation that provides a unique framework for several categories of genomic data, not restricted to genotypes. The speed of the new algorithm is several times faster than the existing GEA approaches, then our previous version of the LFMM program present in the LEA package (Frichot and Francois, 2015, <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12382>).

Perform two linear combination methods for biomarkers: (1) Empirical performance optimization for specificity (or sensitivity) at a controlled sensitivity (or specificity) level of Huang and Sanda (2022) <doi:10.1214/22-aos2210>, and (2) weighted maximum score estimator with empirical minimization of averaged false positive rate and false negative rate. Both adopt the algorithms of Huang and Sanda (2022) <doi:10.1214/22-aos2210>. MOSEK solver is used and needs to be installed; an academic license for MOSEK is free.

Estimate linear quantile mixtures based on Time-Constant (TC) and/or Time-Varying (TV), discrete, random coefficients.

Labeling, weighting, and plotting data following custom style guidelines for use in reports, presentations, and social media posts. The Center for Global Democracy (formerly the Latin American Public Opinion Project) at Vanderbilt University is a leader in public survey research, best known for the Americas Barometer project. The publicly available data can be downloaded from: <https://www.vanderbilt.edu/cgd/data-access/>.

An (upper) level set of a function is the set of inputs for which the function value is at or above a specified threshold. (Also called an excursion set). Applications of level sets include confidence or credible regions for parameters of statistical models, where the function is the likelihood or posterior density; regions where classification rules assign high probability to a given class; and scientific or engineering models where one is interested in input regions for which model output is above a threshold. This package maps out the boundary of a level set by finding its intersections with collections of 1-dimensional rays, generalizing a proposal by Kim and Lindsay (Statistica Sinica 21:923-948, 2011). Tools are provided to generate rays, find intersections, and visualize results. The package makes few assumptions about the studied function: it may be discontinuous, it may have a complicated feasible region, and the target level set may be non-convex or have multiple, disconnected parts. Vignettes describe package usage and show examples with two to five input space dimensions.

This package provides a lightweight grammar of tables. Build a table by declaring a JSON spec (titles, spanners, row groups, footnotes, formatting functions, etc.); a tiny vanilla JavaScript runtime builds the HTML table from the spec on page load. No sass', no V8', no htmlwidgets â just base R and xfun ('htmltools is used only for the optional Shiny binding).

Perform pairwise likelihood inference in latent autoregressive count models. See Pedeli and Varin (2020) for details.

Bayesian Survival models via the mixture of Log-Normal distribution extends the well-known survival models and accommodates different behaviour over time and considers higher censored survival times. The proposal combines mixture distributions Fruhwirth-Schnatter(2006) <doi:10.1007/s11336-009-9121-4>, and data augmentation techniques Tanner and Wong (1987) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1987.10478458>.

This package provides a lightweight interface to the libcmaes C++ library for the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES). CMA-ES is a state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithm for the optimization of difficult non-linear, non-convex black-box functions, as described in Hansen and Ostermeier (2001) <doi:10.1162/106365601750190398>. Supports the active, separable, and VD (diagonal plus rank-one covariance) variants of the algorithm as well as the IPOP (increasing population size) and BIPOP (bi-population) restart strategies. A patched copy of libcmaes (LGPL >= 3) is bundled; see the COPYRIGHTS file for details.

This package provides functions to automatically retrieve and deduplicate reference metadata based on saved search strings. Access to Web of Science and Scopus requires personal API keys, while PubMed can be queried without one. The optional deduplication functionality requires the package ASySD available from <https://github.com/camaradesuk/ASySD>.

Logger to keep track of informational events and errors useful for debugging.

Simplifies the whole process of creating stacked tilted maps, that are often used in scientific publications to show different environmental layers for a geographical region. Tilting maps and layering them allows to easily draw visual correlations between these environmental layers.

Solves quadratic programming problems where the Hessian is represented as the product of two matrices. Thanks to Greg Hunt for helping getting this version back on CRAN. The methods in this package are described in: Ormerod, Wand and Koch (2008) "Penalised spline support vector classifiers: computational issues" <doi:10.1007/s00180-007-0102-8>.