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.

Allows for fitting of maximum likelihood models using Markov chains on phylogenetic trees for analysis of discrete character data. Examples of such discrete character data include restriction sites, gene family presence/absence, intron presence/absence, and gene family size data. Hypothesis-driven user- specified substitution rate matrices can be estimated. Allows for biologically realistic models combining constrained substitution rate matrices, site rate variation, site partitioning, branch-specific rates, allowing for non-stationary prior root probabilities, correcting for sampling bias, etc. See Dang and Golding (2016) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv541> for more details.

Estimation functions and diagnostic tools for mean length-based total mortality estimators based on Gedamke and Hoenig (2006) <doi:10.1577/T05-153.1>.

Life expectancy is highly correlated over time among countries and between males and females. These associations can be used to improve forecasts. Here we have implemented a method for forecasting female life expectancy based on analysis of the gap between female life expectancy in a country compared with the record level of female life expectancy in the world. Second, to forecast male life expectancy, the gap between male life expectancy and female life expectancy in a country is analysed. We named this method the Double-Gap model. For a detailed description of the method see Pascariu et al. (2018). <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.011>.

Computes mutual information matrices from continuous, categorical and survival variables, as well as feature selection with minimum redundancy, maximum relevance (mRMR) and a new ensemble mRMR technique. Published in De Jay et al. (2013) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt383>.

Computing functional traits-based distances between pairs of species for species gathered in assemblages allowing to build several functional spaces. The package allows to compute functional diversity indices assessing the distribution of species (and of their dominance) in a given functional space for each assemblage and the overlap between assemblages in a given functional space, see: Chao et al. (2018) <doi:10.1002/ecm.1343>, Maire et al. (2015) <doi:10.1111/geb.12299>, Mouillot et al. (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.tree.2012.10.004>, Mouillot et al. (2014) <doi:10.1073/pnas.1317625111>, Ricotta and Szeidl (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2009.10.001>. Graphical outputs are included. Visit the mFD website for more information, documentation and examples.

Supply functions for the creation and handling of missing data as well as tools to evaluate missing data methods. Nearly all possibilities of generating missing data discussed by Santos et al. (2019) <doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2891360> and some additional are implemented. Functions are supplied to compare parameter estimates and imputed values to true values to evaluate missing data methods. Evaluations of these types are done, for example, by Cetin-Berber et al. (2019) <doi:10.1177/0013164418805532> and Kim et al. (2005) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth499>.

This package provides a tool for implementing so called deft approach (see Fisher, David J., et al. (2017) <DOI:10.1136/bmj.j573>) and model visualization.

This package provides a test of multivariate normality of an unknown sample that does not require estimation of the nuisance parameters, the mean and covariance matrix. Rather, a sequence of transformations removes these nuisance parameters and results in a set of sample matrices that are positive definite. These matrices are uniformly distributed on the space of positive definite matrices in the unit hyper-rectangle if and only if the original data is multivariate normal (Fairweather, 1973, Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington). The package performs a goodness of fit test of this hypothesis. In addition to the test, functions in the package give visualizations of the support region of positive definite matrices for bivariate samples.

This package provides methods to analyze cluster alternatives based on multi-objective optimization of cluster validation indices. For details see Kraus et al. (2011) <doi:10.1007/s00180-011-0244-6>.

This package provides functions for measuring population divergence from genotypic data.

Geospatial shapefile data of China administrative divisions to the county/district-level.

R interface to MLflow', open source platform for the complete machine learning life cycle, see <https://mlflow.org/>. This package supports installing MLflow', tracking experiments, creating and running projects, and saving and serving models.

Econometric analysis of multiple-input-multiple-output production technologies with ray-based input distance functions as suggested by Price and Henningsen (2022): "A Ray-Based Input Distance Function to Model Zero-Valued Output Quantities: Derivation and an Empirical Application", <https://ideas.repec.org/p/foi/wpaper/2022_03.html>.

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).

Package for processing downloaded MODIS Surface reflectance Product HDF files. Specifically, MOD09 surface reflectance product files, and the associated MOD03 geolocation files (for MODIS-TERRA). The package will be most effective if the user installs MRTSwath (MODIS Reprojection Tool for swath products; <https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/tools/modis_reprojection_tool_swath>, and adds the directory with the MRTSwath executable to the default R PATH by editing ~/.Rprofile.

Build spatially and temporally explicit process-based species distribution models, that can include an arbitrary number of environmental factors, species and processes including metabolic constraints and species interactions. The focus of the package is simulating populations of one or multiple species in a grid-based landscape and studying the meta-population dynamics and emergent patterns that arise from the interaction of species under complex environmental conditions. It provides functions for common ecological processes such as negative exponential, kernel-based dispersal (see Nathan et al. (2012) <doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608898.003.0015>), calculation of the environmental suitability based on cardinal values ( Yin et al. (1995) <doi:10.1016/0168-1923(95)02236-Q>, simplified by Yan and Hunt (1999) <doi:10.1006/anbo.1999.0955> see eq: 4), reproduction in form of an Ricker model (see Ricker (1954) <doi:10.1139/f54-039> and Cabral and Schurr (2010) <doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00492.x>), as well as metabolic scaling based on the metabolic theory of ecology (see Brown et al. (2004) <doi:10.1890/03-9000> and Brown, Sibly and Kodric-Brown (2012) <doi:10.1002/9781119968535.ch>).

Permutation tests for variance components for 2-level, 3-level and 4-level data with univariate or multivariate responses.

Several functions for maximum likelihood estimation of various univariate and multivariate distributions. The list includes more than 100 functions for univariate continuous and discrete distributions, distributions that lie on the real line, the positive line, interval restricted, circular distributions. Further, multivariate continuous and discrete distributions, distributions for compositional and directional data, etc. Some references include Johnson N. L., Kotz S. and Balakrishnan N. (1994). "Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 1" <ISBN:978-0-471-58495-7>, Johnson, Norman L. Kemp, Adrianne W. Kotz, Samuel (2005). "Univariate Discrete Distributions". <ISBN:978-0-471-71580-1> and Mardia, K. V. and Jupp, P. E. (2000). "Directional Statistics". <ISBN:978-0-471-95333-3>.

Fitting multivariate covariance generalized linear models (McGLMs) to data. McGLM is a general framework for non-normal multivariate data analysis, designed to handle multivariate response variables, along with a wide range of temporal and spatial correlation structures defined in terms of a covariance link function combined with a matrix linear predictor involving known matrices. The models take non-normality into account in the conventional way by means of a variance function, and the mean structure is modelled by means of a link function and a linear predictor. The models are fitted using an efficient Newton scoring algorithm based on quasi-likelihood and Pearson estimating functions, using only second-moment assumptions. This provides a unified approach to a wide variety of different types of response variables and covariance structures, including multivariate extensions of repeated measures, time series, longitudinal, spatial and spatio-temporal structures. The package offers a user-friendly interface for fitting McGLMs similar to the glm() R function. See Bonat (2018) <doi:10.18637/jss.v084.i04>, for more information and examples.

Import bathymetric and hypsometric data from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, <https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/etopo-global-relief-model>), GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, <https://www.gebco.net>) and other sources, plot xyz data to prepare publication-ready figures, analyze xyz data to extract transects, get depth / altitude based on geographical coordinates, or calculate z-constrained least-cost paths.

This package provides real & simulated datasets containing time-series traffic observations and additional information pertaining to Loop 1 "Mopac" located in Austin, Texas.

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 creates and manages a PostgreSQL database suitable for storing fisheries data and aggregating ready for use within a Gadget <https://gadget-framework.github.io/gadget2/> model. See <https://mareframe.github.io/mfdb/> for more information.