Conduct random forests-based meta-analysis, obtain partial dependence plots for metaforest and classic meta-analyses, and cross-validate and tune metaforest- and classic meta-analyses in conjunction with the caret package. A requirement of classic meta-analysis is that the studies being aggregated are conceptually similar, and ideally, close replications. However, in many fields, there is substantial heterogeneity between studies on the same topic. Classic meta-analysis lacks the power to assess more than a handful of univariate moderators. MetaForest, by contrast, has substantial power to explore heterogeneity in meta-analysis. It can identify important moderators from a larger set of potential candidates (Van Lissa, 2020). This is an appealing quality, because many meta-analyses have small sample sizes. Moreover, MetaForest yields a measure of variable importance which can be used to identify important moderators, and offers partial prediction plots to explore the shape of the marginal relationship between moderators and effect size.

This system allows one to model a multi-variate, multi-response problem with interaction effects. It combines the usual squared error loss for the multi-response problem with some penalty terms to encourage responses that correlate to form groups and also allow for modeling main and interaction effects that exit within the covariates. The optimization method employed is the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). The implementation is based on the methodology presented on Quachie Asenso, T., & Zucknick, M. (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2303.11155>.

This package provides an interface to MetaPost (Hobby, 1998) <http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf>. There are functions to generate an R description of a MetaPost curve, functions to generate MetaPost code from an R description, functions to process MetaPost code, and functions to read solved MetaPost paths back into R.

Calculates the Most Probable Number (MPN) to quantify the concentration (density) of microbes in serial dilutions of a laboratory sample (described in Jarvis, 2010 <doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04792.x>). Also calculates the Aerobic Plate Count (APC) for similar microbial enumeration experiments.

Computes the degrees of freedom of the lasso, elastic net, generalized elastic net and adaptive lasso based on the generalized path seeking algorithm. The optimal model can be selected by model selection criteria including Mallows Cp, bias-corrected AIC (AICc), generalized cross validation (GCV) and BIC.

Projects mean squared out-of-sample error for a linear regression based upon the methodology developed in Rohlfs (2022) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2209.01493>. It consumes as inputs the lm object from an estimated OLS regression (based on the "training sample") and a data.frame of out-of-sample cases (the "test sample") that have non-missing values for the same predictors. The test sample may or may not include data on the outcome variable; if it does, that variable is not used. The aim of the exercise is to project what what mean squared out-of-sample error can be expected given the predictor values supplied in the test sample. Output consists of a list of three elements: the projected mean squared out-of-sample error, the projected out-of-sample R-squared, and a vector of out-of-sample "hat" or "leverage" values, as defined in the paper.

This package provides a toolkit for identifying potential mortalities and expelled tags in aquatic acoustic telemetry arrays. Designed for arrays with non-overlapping receivers.

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.

Framework for the simulation framework for the simulation of complex breeding programs and compare their economic and genetic impact. Associated publication: Pook et al. (2020) <doi:10.1534/g3.120.401193>.

Handling the microclimatic data in R. The myClim workflow begins at the reading data primary from microclimatic dataloggers, but can be also reading of meteorological station data from files. Cleaning time step, time zone settings and metadata collecting is the next step of the work flow. With myClim tools one can crop, join, downscale, and convert microclimatic data formats, sort them into localities, request descriptive characteristics and compute microclimatic variables. Handy plotting functions are provided with smart defaults.

This package provides methods for performing genetic risk prediction from genotype data. You can use it to perform risk prediction for individuals, or for families with missing data.

Wraps the Material UI React components <https://mui.com/> for use in R, shiny applications and quarto documents, including inputs, layouts, navigation, and surfaces. All inputs come with R usage examples.

The Markov Decision Processes (MDP) toolbox proposes functions related to the resolution of discrete-time Markov Decision Processes: finite horizon, value iteration, policy iteration, linear programming algorithms with some variants and also proposes some functions related to Reinforcement Learning.

Model stability and variable inclusion plots [Mueller and Welsh (2010, <doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2010.00108.x>); Murray, Heritier and Mueller (2013, <doi:10.1002/sim.5855>)] as well as the adaptive fence [Jiang et al. (2008, <doi:10.1214/07-AOS517>); Jiang et al. (2009, <doi:10.1016/j.spl.2008.10.014>)] for linear and generalised linear models.

Statistical methods to match feature vectors between multiple datasets in a one-to-one fashion. Given a fixed number of classes/distributions, for each unit, exactly one vector of each class is observed without label. The goal is to label the feature vectors using each label exactly once so to produce the best match across datasets, e.g. by minimizing the variability within classes. Statistical solutions based on empirical loss functions and probabilistic modeling are provided. The Gurobi software and its R interface package are required for one of the package functions (match.2x()) and can be obtained at <https://www.gurobi.com/> (free academic license). For more details, refer to Degras (2022) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2022.2074429> "Scalable feature matching for large data collections" and Bandelt, Maas, and Spieksma (2004) <doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601723> "Local search heuristics for multi-index assignment problems with decomposable costs".

Downloads and processes health microdata from Brazilian Unified Health System ('DataSUS') information systems. It handles the compressed DBC format internally and provides functions to organize variables and add labels to categorical fields from mortality, live births, hospital admissions, outpatient care, health facilities, and notifiable diseases data. For details, see Saldanha et al. (2019) <doi:10.1590/0102-311x00032419>.

Various utilities to manipulate multivariate polynomials. The package is almost completely superceded by the spray and mvp packages, which are much more efficient.

This package provides functions for obtaining estimates of the parameter of the niche preemption model (also known as the geometric series), in particular a maximum likelihood estimator (Graffelman, 2021) <doi:10.1101/2021.01.27.428381>. The niche preemption model is a widely used model in ecology and biodiversity studies.

The tools for MicroRNA Set Enrichment Analysis can identify risk pathways(or prior gene sets) regulated by microRNA set in the context of microRNA expression data. (1) This package constructs a correlation profile of microRNA and pathways by the hypergeometric statistic test. The gene sets of pathways derived from the three public databases (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes ('KEGG'); Reactome'; Biocarta') and the target gene sets of microRNA are provided by four databases('TarBaseV6.0'; mir2Disease'; miRecords'; miRTarBase';). (2) This package can quantify the change of correlation between microRNA for each pathway(or prior gene set) based on a microRNA expression data with cases and controls. (3) This package uses the weighted Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic to calculate an enrichment score (ES) of a microRNA set that co-regulate to a pathway , which reflects the degree to which a given pathway is associated with the specific phenotype. (4) This package can provide the visualization of the results.

Providing C implementation for the computing of monotonic spline bases, including M-splines, I-splines, and C-splines, denoted by MIC splines. The definitions of the spline bases are described in Meyer (2008) <doi: 10.1214/08-AOAS167>. The package also provides the computing of constrained least-squares estimates when a subset of or all of the regression coefficients are constrained to be non-negative.

The Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) algorithm operates on count data. This package offers implementations for several algorithms that extend this to nested structures: parent and child items for both of which constraints can be provided. The fitting algorithms include Iterative Proportional Updating <https://trid.trb.org/view/881554>, Hierarchical IPF <doi:10.3929/ethz-a-006620748>, Entropy Optimization <https://trid.trb.org/view/881144>, and Generalized Raking <doi:10.2307/2290793>. Additionally, a number of replication methods is also provided such as Truncate, replicate, sample <doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2013.03.004>.

This package provides a unified toolkit for classical test theory (CTT) item analysis of multiple-choice test data, including item difficulty (p-value), item discrimination (point-biserial correlation and upper-lower 27-percent discrimination index), per-distractor analysis (frequency, proportion, and discrimination), and Haladyna's distractor efficiency. A wrapper function returns a tidy mcq_analysis object with print, plot (difficulty-discrimination scatter), and APA-style table methods for direct inclusion in journal manuscripts. Implemented in pure R with no compiled code and minimal dependencies.

Identifying important factors from a large number of potentially important factors of a highly nonlinear and computationally expensive black box model is a difficult problem. Xiao, Joseph, and Ray (2022) <doi:10.1080/00401706.2022.2141897> proposed Maximum One-Factor-at-a-Time (MOFAT) designs for doing this. A MOFAT design can be viewed as an improvement to the random one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) design proposed by Morris (1991) <doi:10.1080/00401706.1991.10484804>. The improvement is achieved by exploiting the connection between Morris screening designs and Monte Carlo-based Sobol designs, and optimizing the design using a space-filling criterion. This work is supported by a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant CMMI-1921646 <https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921646>.

This package provides methods for extracting results from mixed-effect model objects fit with the lme4 package. Allows construction of prediction intervals efficiently from large scale linear and generalized linear mixed-effects models. This method draws from the simulation framework used in the Gelman and Hill (2007) textbook: Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models.