These functions provide a convenient interface for downloading data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics <https://www.bls.gov>. The functions in this package utilize flat files produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which contain full series history. These files include employment, unemployment, wages, prices, industry and occupational data at a national, state, and sub-state level, depending on the series. Individual functions are included for those programs which have data available at the state level. The core functions provide direct access to the Current Employment Statistics (CES) <https://www.bls.gov/ces/>, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) <https://www.bls.gov/lau/>, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) <https://www.bls.gov/oes/> and Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization (SALT) <https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm> data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This package implements a novel Bayesian disaggregation framework that combines Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) dimension reduction of prior weight matrices with deterministic Bayesian updating rules. The method provides Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) free posterior estimation with built-in diagnostic metrics. While based on established PCA (Jolliffe, 2002) <doi:10.1007/b98835> and Bayesian principles (Gelman et al., 2013) <doi:10.1201/b16018>, the specific integration for economic disaggregation represents an original methodological contribution.

Arrays of structured data types can require large volumes of disk space to store. Blosc is a library that provides a fast and efficient way to compress such data. It is often applied in storage of n-dimensional arrays, such as in the case of the geo-spatial zarr file format. This package can be used to compress and decompress data using Blosc'.

Offers a flexible formula-based interface for building and training Bayesian Neural Networks powered by Stan'. The package supports modeling complex relationships while providing rigorous uncertainty quantification via posterior distributions. With features like user chosen priors, clear predictions, and support for regression, binary, and multi-class classification, it is well-suited for applications in clinical trials, finance, and other fields requiring robust Bayesian inference and decision-making. References: Neal(1996) <doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0745-0>.

This package provides tools for fitting bivariate hurdle negative binomial models with horseshoe priors, Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) via stacking, and comprehensive causal inference methods including G-computation, transfer entropy, Threshold Vector Autoregressive (TVAR) and Smooth Transition Autoregressive (STAR) models, Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN), Hidden Markov Models (HMM), and sensitivity analysis.

Preprocessing tools and biodiversity measures (species abundance, species richness, population heterogeneity and sensitivity) for analysing marine benthic data. See Van Loon et al. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.seares.2015.05.002> for an application of these tools.

This is an implementation of design methods for binomial reliability demonstration tests (BRDTs) with failure count data. The acceptance decision uncertainty of BRDT has been quantified and the impacts of the uncertainty on related reliability assurance activities such as reliability growth (RG) and warranty services (WS) are evaluated. This package is associated with the work from the published paper "Optimal Binomial Reliability Demonstration Tests Design under Acceptance Decision Uncertainty" by Suiyao Chen et al. (2020) <doi:10.1080/08982112.2020.1757703>.

Allows local bone density estimates to be derived from CT data and mapped to 3D bone models in a reproducible manner. Processing can be performed at the individual bone or group level. Also includes tools for visualizing the bone density estimates. Example methods are described in Telfer et al., (2021) <doi:10.1002/jor.24792>, Telfer et al., (2021) <doi:10.1016/j.jse.2021.05.011>.

This package provides methods for estimation and hypothesis testing of proportions in group testing designs: methods for estimating a proportion in a single population (assuming sensitivity and specificity equal to 1 in designs with equal group sizes), as well as hypothesis tests and functions for experimental design for this situation. For estimating one proportion or the difference of proportions, a number of confidence interval methods are included, which can deal with various different pool sizes. Further, regression methods are implemented for simple pooling and matrix pooling designs. Methods for identification of positive items in group testing designs: Optimal testing configurations can be found for hierarchical and array-based algorithms. Operating characteristics can be calculated for testing configurations across a wide variety of situations.

This package provides tools for extraction and analysis of various n-grams (k-mers) derived from biological sequences (proteins or nucleic acids). Contains QuiPT (quick permutation test) for fast feature-filtering of the n-gram data.

This package provides tools designed to perform and evaluate cluster analysis (including Tocher's algorithm), discriminant analysis and path analysis (standard and under collinearity), as well as some useful miscellaneous tools for dealing with sample size and optimum plot size calculations. A test for seed sample heterogeneity is now available. Mantel's permutation test can be found in this package. A new approach for calculating its power is implemented. biotools also contains tests for genetic covariance components. Heuristic approaches for performing non-parametric spatial predictions of generic response variables and spatial gene diversity are implemented.

Prognostic Enrichment is a clinical trial strategy of evaluating an intervention in a patient population with a higher rate of the unwanted event than the broader patient population (R. Temple (2010) <DOI:10.1038/clpt.2010.233>). A higher event rate translates to a lower sample size for the clinical trial, which can have both practical and ethical advantages. This package is a tool to help evaluate biomarkers for prognostic enrichment of clinical trials.

Developed for the following tasks. 1- Simulating and computing the maximum likelihood estimator for the Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution, 2- Computing the Bayesian estimator for the parameters of the BS distribution based on reference prior proposed by Xu and Tang (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2009.08.004> and conjugate prior. 3- Computing the Bayesian estimator for the BS distribution based on conjugate prior. 4- Computing the Bayesian estimator for the BS distribution based on Jeffrey prior given by Achcar (1993) <doi:10.1016/0167-9473(93)90170-X> 5- Computing the Bayesian estimator for the BS distribution under progressive type-II censoring scheme.

An interactive document on the topic of binary logistic regression analysis using rmarkdown and shiny packages. Runtime examples are provided in the package function as well as at <https://analyticmodels.shinyapps.io/BinaryLogisticRegressionModelling/>.

Extend the bigmemory package with various analytics. Functions bigkmeans and binit may also be used with native R objects. For tapply'-like functions, the bigtabulate package may also be helpful. For linear algebra support, see bigalgebra'. For mutex (locking) support for advanced shared-memory usage, see synchronicity'.

This package provides tools for conducting Bayesian analyses and Bayesian model averaging (Kass and Raftery, 1995, <doi:10.1080/01621459.1995.10476572>, Hoeting et al., 1999, <doi:10.1214/ss/1009212519>). The package contains functions for creating a wide range of prior distribution objects, mixing posterior samples from JAGS and Stan models, plotting posterior distributions, and etc... The tools for working with prior distribution span from visualization, generating JAGS and bridgesampling syntax to basic functions such as rng, quantile, and distribution functions.

Two practical tests are provided for assessing whether multiple covariates in a treatment group and a matched control group are balanced in observational studies.

Implementation of the bootstrapping approach for the estimation of clustering stability and its application in estimating the number of clusters, as introduced by Yu et al (2016)<doi:10.1142/9789814749411_0007>. Implementation of the non-parametric bootstrap approach to assessing the stability of module detection in a graph, the extension for the selection of a parameter set that defines a graph from data in a way that optimizes stability and the corresponding visualization functions, as introduced by Tian et al (2021) <doi:10.1002/sam.11495>. Implemented out-of-bag stability estimation function and k-select Smin-based k-selection function as introduced by Liu et al (2022) <doi:10.1002/sam.11593>. Implemented ensemble clustering method based-on k-means clustering method, spectral clustering method and hierarchical clustering method.

The bullwhipgame is an educational game that has as purpose the illustration and exploration of the bullwhip effect,i.e, the increase in demand variability along the supply chain. Marchena Marlene (2010) <arXiv:1009.3977>.

Create and manage tournament brackets for various competition formats including single elimination, double elimination, round robin, Swiss system, and group-stage-to-knockout tournaments. Provides tools for seeding, scheduling, recording results, and tracking standings.

Calculates nonparametric pointwise confidence intervals for the survival distribution for right censored data, and for medians [Fay and Brittain <DOI:10.1002/sim.6905>]. Has two-sample tests for dissimilarity (e.g., difference, ratio or odds ratio) in survival at a fixed time, and differences in medians [Fay, Proschan, and Brittain <DOI:10.1111/biom.12231>]. Basically, the package gives exact inference methods for one- and two-sample exact inferences for Kaplan-Meier curves (e.g., generalizing Fisher's exact test to allow for right censoring), which are especially important for latter parts of the survival curve, small sample sizes or heavily censored data. Includes mid-p options.

Highly efficient functions for estimating various rank (centrality) measures of nodes in bipartite graphs (two-mode networks). Includes methods for estimating HITS, CoHITS, BGRM, and BiRank with implementation primarily inspired by He et al. (2016) <doi:10.1109/TKDE.2016.2611584>. Also provides easy-to-use tools for efficiently estimating PageRank in one-mode graphs, incorporating or removing edge-weights during rank estimation, projecting two-mode graphs to one-mode, and for converting edgelists and matrices to sparseMatrix format. Best of all, the package's rank estimators can work directly with common formats of network data including edgelists (class data.frame, data.table, or tbl_df) and adjacency matrices (class matrix or dgCMatrix).

This package provides functions to compute distances between probability measures or any other data object than can be posed in this way, entropy measures for samples of curves, distances and depth measures for functional data, and the Generalized Mahalanobis Kernel distance for high dimensional data. For further details about the metrics please refer to Martos et al (2014) <doi:10.3233/IDA-140706>; Martos et al (2018) <doi:10.3390/e20010033>; Hernandez et al (2018, submitted); Martos et al (2018, submitted).

Assigns standardized diagnoses using the Banff Classification (Category 1 to 6 diagnoses, including Acute and Chronic active T-cell mediated rejection as well as Active, Chronic active, and Chronic antibody mediated rejection). The main function considers a minimal dataset containing biopsies information in a specific format (described by a data dictionary), verifies its content and format (based on the data dictionary), assigns diagnoses, and creates a summary report. The package is developed on the reference guide to the Banff classification of renal allograft pathology Roufosse C, Simmonds N, Clahsen-van Groningen M, et al. A (2018) <doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000002366>. The full description of the Banff classification is available at <https://banfffoundation.org/>.