This package provides a simple function that anonymises a list of variables in a consistent way: anonymised factors are not recycled and the same original levels receive the same anonymised factor even if located in different datasets.

Simulates data sets in order to explore modeling techniques or better understand data generating processes. The user specifies a set of relationships between covariates, and generates data based on these specifications. The final data sets can represent data from randomized control trials, repeated measure (longitudinal) designs, and cluster randomized trials. Missingness can be generated using various mechanisms (MCAR, MAR, NMAR).

This package provides a pipeline for estimating the stellar age, mass, and radius given observational effective temperature, [Fe/H], and astroseismic parameters. The results are obtained adopting a maximum likelihood technique over a grid of pre-computed stellar models, as described in Valle et al. (2014) <doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322210>.

The overall performance of soil ecosystem services and productivity greatly relies on soil health, making it a crucial indicator. The evaluation of soil physical, chemical, and biological parameters is necessary to determine the overall soil quality index. In our package, three commonly used methods, including linear scoring, regression-based, and principal component-based soil quality indexing, are employed to calculate the soil quality index. This package has been developed using concept of Bastida et al. (2008) and Doran and Parkin (1994) <doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.08.007> <doi:10.2136/sssaspecpub35.c1>.

Smart Adaptive Recommendations (SAR) is the name of a fast, scalable, adaptive algorithm for personalized recommendations based on user transactions and item descriptions. It produces easily explainable/interpretable recommendations and handles "cold item" and "semi-cold user" scenarios. This package provides two implementations of SAR': a standalone implementation, and an interface to a web service in Microsoft's Azure cloud: <https://github.com/Microsoft/Product-Recommendations/blob/master/doc/sar.md>. The former allows fast and easy experimentation, and the latter provides robust scalability and extra features for production use.

Sample size calculation to detect dynamic treatment regime (DTR) effects based on change in clinical attachment level (CAL) outcomes from a non-surgical chronic periodontitis treatments study. The experiment is performed under a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) design. The clustered tooth (sub-unit) level CAL outcomes are skewed, spatially-referenced, and non-randomly missing. The implemented algorithm is available in Xu et al. (2019+) <arXiv:1902.09386>.

Detection of item-wise Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in fitted mirt', multipleGroup or bfactor models using score-based structural change tests. Under the hood the sctest() function from the strucchange package is used.

This package provides a framework for undertaking space and time varying coefficient models (varying parameter models) using a Generalized Additive Model (GAM) with smooths approach. The framework suggests the need to investigate for the presence and nature of any space-time dependencies in the data. It proposes a workflow that creates and refines an initial space-time GAM and includes tools to create and evaluate multiple model forms. The workflow sequence is to: i) Prepare the data by lengthening it to have a single location and time variables for each observation. ii) Create all possible space and/or time models in which each predictor is specified in different ways in smooths. iii) Evaluate each model via their AIC value and pick the best one. iv) Create the final model. v) Calculate the varying coefficient estimates to quantify how the relationships between the target and predictor variables vary over space, time or space-time. vi) Create maps, time series plots etc. The number of knots used in each smooth can be specified directly or iteratively increased. This is illustrated with a climate point dataset of the dry rain forest in South America. This builds on work in Comber et al (2024) <doi:10.1080/13658816.2023.2270285> and Comber et al (2004) <doi:10.3390/ijgi13120459>.

This package implements SplitWise', a hybrid regression approach that transforms numeric variables into either single-split (0/1) dummy variables or retains them as continuous predictors. The transformation is followed by stepwise selection to identify the most relevant variables. The default iterative mode adaptively explores partial synergies among variables to enhance model performance, while an alternative univariate mode applies simpler transformations independently to each predictor. For details, see Kurbucz et al. (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.15423>.

This package provides a set of tools for state-dependent empirical analysis through both VAR- and local projection-based state-dependent forecasts, impulse response functions, historical decompositions, and forecast error variance decompositions.

This package provides a set of functions to create SQL tables of gene and SNP information and compose them into a SNP Set, for example to export to a PLINK set.

Spatial statistical modeling and prediction for data on stream networks, including models based on in-stream distance (Ver Hoef, J.M. and Peterson, E.E., (2010) <DOI:10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08248>.) Models are created using moving average constructions. Spatial linear models, including explanatory variables, can be fit with (restricted) maximum likelihood. Mapping and other graphical functions are included.

The `scorecard` package makes the development of credit risk scorecard easier and efficient by providing functions for some common tasks, such as data partition, variable selection, woe binning, scorecard scaling, performance evaluation and report generation. These functions can also used in the development of machine learning models. The references including: 1. Refaat, M. (2011, ISBN: 9781447511199). Credit Risk Scorecard: Development and Implementation Using SAS. 2. Siddiqi, N. (2006, ISBN: 9780471754510). Credit risk scorecards. Developing and Implementing Intelligent Credit Scoring.

Estimate the size of a networked population based on respondent-driven sampling data. The package is part of the "RDS Analyst" suite of packages for the analysis of respondent-driven sampling data. See Handcock, Gile and Mar (2014) <doi:10.1214/14-EJS923>, Handcock, Gile and Mar (2015) <doi:10.1111/biom.12255>, Kim and Handcock (2021) <doi:10.1093/jssam/smz055>, and McLaughlin, et. al. (2023) <doi:10.1214/23-AOAS1807>.

Given raster files directly downloaded from various websites, it generates a raster structure where it merges them if they are tiles of the same scene and classifies them according to their spectral and spatial resolution for easy access by name.

Package including additional modules for interactive ShinyItemAnalysis application for the psychometric analysis of educational tests, psychological assessments, health-related and other types of multi-item measurements, or ratings from multiple raters.

This package provides methods for sensory discrimination methods; duotrio, tetrad, triangle, 2-AFC, 3-AFC, A-not A, same-different, 2-AC and degree-of-difference. This enables the calculation of d-primes, standard errors of d-primes, sample size and power computations, and comparisons of different d-primes. Methods for profile likelihood confidence intervals and plotting are included. Most methods are described in Brockhoff, P.B. and Christensen, R.H.B. (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2009.04.003>.

Stochastic dominance tests help ranking different distributions. The package implements the consistent test for stochastic dominance by Barrett and Donald (2003) <doi:10.1111/1468-0262.00390>. Specifically, it implements Barrett and Donald's Kolmogorov-Smirnov type tests for first- and second-order stochastic dominance based on bootstrapping 2 and 1.

Stepwise regression is a statistical technique used for model selection. This package streamlines stepwise regression analysis by supporting multiple regression types(linear, Cox, logistic, Poisson, Gamma, and negative binomial), incorporating popular selection strategies(forward, backward, bidirectional, and subset), and offering essential metrics. It enables users to apply multiple selection strategies and metrics in a single function call, visualize variable selection processes, and export results in various formats. StepReg offers a data-splitting option to address potential issues with invalid statistical inference and a randomized forward selection option to avoid overfitting. We validated StepReg's accuracy using public datasets within the SAS software environment. For an interactive web interface, users can install the companion StepRegShiny package.

Simple Component Analysis (SCA) often provides much more interpretable components than Principal Components (PCA) while still representing much of the variability in the data.

Basic functions for dealing with wav files and sound samples.

In the recent past, measurement of coverage has been mainly through two-stage cluster sampled surveys either as part of a nutrition assessment or through a specific coverage survey known as Centric Systematic Area Sampling (CSAS). However, such methods are resource intensive and often only used for final programme evaluation meaning results arrive too late for programme adaptation. SLEAC, which stands for Simplified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Evaluation of Access and Coverage, is a low resource method designed specifically to address this limitation and is used regularly for monitoring, planning and importantly, timely improvement to programme quality, both for agency and Ministry of Health (MoH) led programmes. SLEAC is designed to complement the Semi-quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) method. This package provides functions for use in conducting a SLEAC assessment.

Computes the optimal alignment of two character sequences. Visualizes the result of the alignment in a matrix plot. Needleman, Saul B.; Wunsch, Christian D. (1970) "A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins" <doi:10.1016/0022-2836(70)90057-4>.

Analyze public-use micro data from the Survey of Consumer Finances. Provides tools to download prepared data files, construct replicate-weighted multiply imputed survey designs, compute descriptive statistics and model estimates, and produce plots and tables. Methods follow design-based inference for complex surveys and pooling across multiple imputations. See the package website and the code book for background.