These are miscellaneous functions that I find useful for my research and teaching. The contents include themes for plots, functions for simulating quantities of interest from regression models, functions for simulating various forms of fake data for instructional/research purposes, and many more. All told, the functions provided here are broadly useful for data organization, data presentation, data recoding, and data simulation.

The goal of SAFEPG is to predict climate-related extreme losses by fitting a frequency-severity model. It improves predictive performance by introducing a sign-aligned regularization term, which ensures consistent signs for the coefficients across the frequency and severity components. This enhancement not only increases model accuracy but also enhances its interpretability, making it more suitable for practical applications in risk assessment.

Perform association test within linear mixed model framework using score test integrated with Empirical Bayes for genome-wide association study. Firstly, score test was conducted for each marker under linear mixed model framework, taking into account the genetic relatedness and population structure. And then all the potentially associated markers were selected with a less stringent criterion. Finally, all the selected markers were placed into a multi-locus model to identify the true quantitative trait nucleotide.

Surveys to collect employment data so as to obtain data estimates on the number of employed people, the number of unemployed, and other employment indicators.

An iterative feature selection method that internally utilizes various Machine Learning methods that have embedded feature reduction in order to shrink down the feature space into a small and yet robust set.

Build a constrained high quality Delaunay triangulation from simple features objects, applying constraints based on input line segments, and triangle properties including maximum area, minimum internal angle. The triangulation code in RTriangle uses the method of Cheng, Dey and Shewchuk (2012, ISBN:9781584887300). For a low-dependency alternative with low-quality path-based constrained triangulation see <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=decido> and for high-quality configurable triangulation see <https://github.com/hypertidy/anglr>. Also consider comparison with the GEOS lib which since version 3.10.0 includes a low quality polygon triangulation method that starts with ear clipping and refines to Delaunay.

Three new methods to perform outlier detection in a survival context. In total there are six methods provided, the first three methods are traditional residual-based outlier detection methods, the second three are the concordance-based. Package developed during the work on the two following publications: Pinto J., Carvalho A. and Vinga S. (2015) <doi:10.5220/0005225300750082>; Pinto J.D., Carvalho A.M., Vinga S. (2015) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27926-8_22>.

Provide regularized maximum covariance analysis incorporating smoothness, sparseness and orthogonality of couple patterns by using the alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm. The method can be applied to either regularly or irregularly spaced data, including 1D, 2D, and 3D (Wang and Huang, 2018 <doi:10.1002/env.2481>).

This package implements multi-study learning algorithms such as merging, the study-specific ensemble (trained-on-observed-studies ensemble) the study strap, the covariate-matched study strap, covariate-profile similarity weighting, and stacking weights. Embedded within the caret framework, this package allows for a wide range of single-study learners (e.g., neural networks, lasso, random forests). The package offers over 20 default similarity measures and allows for specification of custom similarity measures for covariate-profile similarity weighting and an accept/reject step. This implements methods described in Loewinger, Kishida, Patil, and Parmigiani. (2019) <doi:10.1101/856385>.

Full text, in data frames containing one row per verse, of the Standard Works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). These are the Old Testament, (KJV), the New Testament (KJV), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

This package produces LaTeX code, HTML/CSS code and ASCII text for well-formatted tables that hold regression analysis results from several models side-by-side, as well as summary statistics.

This is a wrapper of the React library React-Toastify'. It allows to show some notifications (toasts) in Shiny applications. There are options for the style, the position, the transition effect, and more.

Stores objects (e.g. neural networks) that are needed for using Sojourn accelerometer methods. For more information, see Lyden K, Keadle S, Staudenmayer J, & Freedson P (2014) <doi:10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182a42a2d>, Ellingson LD, Schwabacher IJ, Kim Y, Welk GJ, & Cook DB (2016) <doi:10.1249/MSS.0000000000000915>, and Hibbing PR, Ellingson LD, Dixon PM, & Welk GJ (2018) <doi:10.1249/MSS.0000000000001486>.

Proposes an application for sequence prediction generalizing the similarity within the network of previous sequences.

Computes the sBIC for various singular model collections including: binomial mixtures, factor analysis models, Gaussian mixtures, latent forests, latent class analyses, and reduced rank regressions.

Numerically solve and plot solutions of a parametric ordinary differential equations model of growth, death, and respiration of macroinvertebrate and algae taxa dependent on pre-defined environmental factors. The model (version 1.0) is introduced in Schuwirth, N. and Reichert, P., (2013) <DOI:10.1890/12-0591.1>. This package includes model extensions and the core functions introduced and used in Schuwirth, N. et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.12605>, Kattwinkel, M. et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1021/acs.est.5b04068>, Mondy, C. P., and Schuwirth, N. (2017) <DOI:10.1002/eap.1530>, and Paillex, A. et al. (2017) <DOI:10.1111/fwb.12927>.

An outcome-guided algorithm is developed to identify clusters of samples with similar characteristics and survival rate. The algorithm first builds a random forest and then defines distances between samples based on the fitted random forest. Given the distances, we can apply hierarchical clustering algorithms to define clusters. Details about this method is described in <https://github.com/luyouepiusf/SurvivalClusteringTree>.

Model age schedules of mortality, nqx, suitable for a life table. This package implements the SVD-Comp mortality model indexed by either child or child/adult mortality. Given input value(s) of either 5q0 or (5q0, 45q15), the qx() function generates single-year 1qx or 5-year 5qx conditional age-specific probabilities of dying. See Clark (2016) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1612.01408> and Clark (2019) <doi:10.1007/s13524-019-00785-3>.

This package provides tools for creating and working with survey replicate weights, extending functionality of the survey package from Lumley (2004) <doi:10.18637/jss.v009.i08>. Implements bootstrap methods for complex surveys, including the generalized survey bootstrap as described by Beaumont and Patak (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2011.00166.x>. Methods are provided for applying nonresponse adjustments to both full-sample and replicate weights as described by Rust and Rao (1996) <doi:10.1177/096228029600500305>. Implements methods for sample-based calibration described by Opsomer and Erciulescu (2021) <https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/12-001-x/2021002/article/00006-eng.htm>. Diagnostic functions are included to compare weights and weighted estimates from different sets of replicate weights.

Substitution matrices are important parameters in protein alignment algorithms. These matrices represent the likelihood that an amino acid will be substituted for another during mutation. This tool allows users to apply predefined and custom matrices and then explore the resulting alignments with interactive visualizations. SubVis requires the availability of a web browser.

This package provides a collection of functions which (i) assess the quality of variable subsets as surrogates for a full data set, in either an exploratory data analysis or in the context of a multivariate linear model, and (ii) search for subsets which are optimal under various criteria. Theoretical support for the heuristic search methods and exploratory data analysis criteria is in Cadima, Cerdeira, Minhoto (2003, <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2003.11.001>). Theoretical support for the leap and bounds algorithm and the criteria for the general multivariate linear model is in Duarte Silva (2001, <doi:10.1006/jmva.2000.1920>). There is a package vignette "subselect", which includes additional references.

Use inverse probability weighting methods to estimate treatment effect under marginal structure model (MSM) for the transition hazard of semi competing risk data, i.e. illness death model. We implement two specific such models, the usual Markov illness death structural model and the general Markov illness death structural model. We also provide the predicted three risks functions from the marginal structure models. Zhang, Y. and Xu, R. (2022) <arXiv:2204.10426>.

This package implements a method for fitting a bounded probability distribution to quantiles (for example stated by an expert), see Bornkamp and Ickstadt (2009) for details. For this purpose B-splines are used, and the density is obtained by penalized least squares based on a Brier entropy penalty. The package provides methods for fitting the distribution as well as methods for evaluating the underlying density and cdf. In addition methods for plotting the distribution, drawing random numbers and calculating quantiles of the obtained distribution are provided.

Estimation of copula using ranks and subsampling. The main feature of this method is that simulation studies show a low sensitivity to dimension, on realistic cases.