There is an increasing interest in investigating how the compositions of microbial communities are associated with human health and disease. In this package, we present a novel global testing method called aMiSPU, that is highly adaptive and thus high powered across various scenarios, alleviating the issue with the choice of a phylogenetic distance. Our simulations and real data analysis demonstrated that aMiSPU test was often more powerful than several competing methods while correctly controlling type I error rates.

This package provides tools to solve real-world problems with multiple classes classifications by computing the areas under ROC and PR curve via micro-averaging and macro-averaging. The vignettes of this package can be found via <https://github.com/WandeRum/multiROC>. The methodology is described in V. Van Asch (2013) <https://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/~vincent/pdf/microaverage.pdf> and Pedregosa et al. (2011) <http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/model_selection/plot_roc.html>.

Implementation of marginalized models for zero-inflated count data. This package provides a tool to implement an estimation algorithm for the marginalized count models, which directly makes inference on the effect of each covariate on the marginal mean of the outcome. The method involves the marginalized zero-inflated Poisson model described in Long et al. (2014) <doi:10.1002/sim.6293>.

We implement a surrogate modeling algorithm to guide simulation-based sample size planning. The method is described in detail in our paper (Zimmer & Debelak (2023) <doi:10.1037/met0000611>). It supports multiple study design parameters and optimization with respect to a cost function. It can find optimal designs that correspond to a desired statistical power or that fulfill a cost constraint. We also provide a tutorial paper (Zimmer et al. (2023) <doi:10.3758/s13428-023-02269-0>).

Simulation, analysis and sampling of spatial biodiversity data (May, Gerstner, McGlinn, Xiao & Chase 2017) <doi:10.1111/2041-210x.12986>. In the simulation tools user define the numbers of species and individuals, the species abundance distribution and species aggregation. Functions for analysis include species rarefaction and accumulation curves, species-area relationships and the distance decay of similarity.

Values below the limit of detection (LOD) are a problem in several fields of science, and there are numerous approaches for replacing the missing data. We present a new mathematical solution for maximum likelihood estimation that allows us to estimate the true values of the mean and standard deviation for normal distributions and is significantly faster than previous implementations. The article with the details was submitted to JSS and can be currently seen on <https://www2.arnes.si/~tverbo/LOD/Verbovsek_Sega_2_Manuscript.pdf>.

This package provides a tool for computing probabilities and other quantities that are relevant in selecting performance criteria for discrete trial training. The main function, miebl(), computes Bayesian and frequentist probabilities and bounds for each of n possible performance criterion choices when attempting to determine a student's true mastery level by counting their number of successful attempts at displaying learning among n trials. The reporting function miebl_re() takes output from miebl() and prepares it into a brief report for a specific criterion. miebl_cp() combines 2 to 5 distributions of true mastery level given performance criterion in one plot for comparison. Ramos (2025) <doi:10.1007/s40617-025-01058-9>.

Conducts moderated nonlinear factor analysis (e.g., Curran et al., 2014, <doi:10.1080/00273171.2014.889594>). Regularization methods are implemented for assessing non-invariant items. Currently, the package includes dichotomous items and unidimensional item response models. Extensions will be included in future package versions.

This package provides functions for analyzing the association between one single response categorical variable (SRCV) and one multiple response categorical variable (MRCV), or between two or three MRCVs. A modified Pearson chi-square statistic can be used to test for marginal independence for the one or two MRCV case, or a more general loglinear modeling approach can be used to examine various other structures of association for the two or three MRCV case. Bootstrap- and asymptotic-based standardized residuals and model-predicted odds ratios are available, in addition to other descriptive information. Statisical methods implemented are described in Bilder et al. (2000) <doi:10.1080/03610910008813665>, Bilder and Loughin (2004) <doi:10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00147.x>, Bilder and Loughin (2007) <doi:10.1080/03610920600974419>, and Koziol and Bilder (2014) <https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2014-014/>.

Fits the MESSI, hard constraint, and unconstrained models in Boss et al. (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2306.17347> for mediation analyses with external summary-level information on the total effect.

This package provides a guidance system for analysis with missing data. It incorporates expert, up-to-date methodology to help researchers choose the most appropriate analysis approach when some data are missing. You provide the available data and the assumed causal structure, including the likely causes of missing data. midoc will advise which analysis approaches can be used, and how best to perform them. midoc follows the framework for the treatment and reporting of missing data in observational studies (TARMOS). Lee et al (2021). <doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.01.008>.

Computes Monte Carlo standard errors for summaries of Monte Carlo output. Summaries and their standard errors are based on columns of Monte Carlo simulation output. Dennis D. Boos and Jason A. Osborne (2015) <doi:10.1111/insr.12087>.

This package provides an interface to OpenML.org to list and download machine learning data, tasks and experiments. The OpenML objects can be automatically converted to mlr3 objects. For a more sophisticated interface with more upload options, see the OpenML package.

Calculate Krippendorff's alpha for multi-valued data using the methods introduced by Krippendorff and Craggs (2016) <doi:10.1080/19312458.2016.1228863>. Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio data types are supported, with options to create bootstrapped estimates of alpha and/or parallelize calculations.

This package implements the methods described in Bond S, Farewell V, 2006, Exact Likelihood Estimation for a Negative Binomial Regression Model with Missing Outcomes, Biometrics.

The unique function of this package allows representing in a single graph the relative occurrence and co-occurrence of events measured in a sample. As examples, the package was applied to describe the occurrence and co-occurrence of different species of bacterial or viral symbionts infecting arthropods at the individual level. The graphics allows determining the prevalence of each symbiont and the patterns of multiple infections (i.e. how different symbionts share or not the same individual hosts). We named the package after the famous painter as the graphical output recalls Mondrianâ s paintings.

This package provides functions for detecting multicollinearity. This test gives statistical support to two of the most famous methods for detecting multicollinearity in applied work: Kleinâ s rule and Variance Inflation Factor (VIF). See the URL for the papers associated with this package, as for instance, Morales-Oñate and Morales-Oñate (2015) <doi:10.33333/rp.vol51n2.05>.

Apply the marginal classification method to achieve the purpose of providing the point and interval estimates for the minimal clinically important difference based on the classical anchor-based method. For more details of the methodology, please see Zehua Zhou, Leslie J. Bisson and Jiwei Zhao (2021) <arXiv:2108.11589>.

Balancing quasi-experimental field research for effects of covariates is fundamental for drawing causal inference. Propensity Score Matching deals with this issue but current techniques are restricted to binary treatment variables. Moreover, they provide several solutions without providing a comprehensive framework on choosing the best model. The MAGMA R-package addresses these restrictions by offering nearest neighbor matching for two to four groups. It also includes the option to match data of a 2x2 design. In addition, MAGMA includes a framework for evaluating the post-matching balance. The package includes functions for the matching process and matching reporting. We provide a tutorial on MAGMA as vignette. More information on MAGMA can be found in Feuchter, M. D., Urban, J., Scherrer V., Breit, M. L., and Preckel F. (2022) <https://osf.io/p47nc/>.

Perform correlation and linear regression test among the numeric fields in a data.frame automatically and make plots using pairs or lattice::parallelplot.

Implementation of custom tidymodels metrics for multi-class prediction models with a single negative class. Currently are implemented macro-average sensitivity and specificity as in Mortaz, Ebrahim (2020) "Imbalance accuracy metric for model selection in multi-class imbalance classification problemsâ <doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106490> and a generalized weighted Youden index as in Li, D.L., Shen F., Yin Y., Peng J.X and Chen P.Y. (2013) â Weighted Youden index and its two-independent-sample comparison based on weighted sensitivity and specificityâ <doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.20123102>.

This package provides a low-dependency implementation of GSIF::mpspline() <https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/R/mpspline.R?view=markup&revision=240&root=gsif>, which applies a mass-preserving spline to soil attributes. Splining soil data is a safe way to make continuous down-profile estimates of attributes measured over discrete, often discontinuous depth intervals.

This package provides functions to run fixed effects or random effects multivariate meta-analysis.

Implementation of the methodology of Aleshin-Guendel & Sadinle (2022) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2021.2013242>. It handles the general problem of multifile record linkage and duplicate detection, where any number of files are to be linked, and any of the files may have duplicates.