Gradient boosting is a powerful statistical learning method known for its ability to model complex relationships between predictors and outcomes while performing inherent variable selection. However, traditional gradient boosting methods lack flexibility in handling longitudinal data where within-subject correlations play a critical role. In this package, we propose a novel approach Mixed Effect Gradient Boosting ('MEGB'), designed specifically for high-dimensional longitudinal data. MEGB incorporates a flexible semi-parametric model that embeds random effects within the gradient boosting framework, allowing it to account for within-individual covariance over time. Additionally, the method efficiently handles scenarios where the number of predictors greatly exceeds the number of observations (p>>n) making it particularly suitable for genomics data and other large-scale biomedical studies.

Measure of the Effect ('MOTE') is an effect size calculator, including a wide variety of effect sizes in the mean differences family (all versions of d) and the variance overlap family (eta, omega, epsilon, r). MOTE provides non-central confidence intervals for each effect size, relevant test statistics, and output for reporting in APA Style (American Psychological Association, 2010, <ISBN:1433805618>) with LaTeX'. In research, an over-reliance on p-values may conceal the fact that a study is under-powered (Halsey, Curran-Everett, Vowler, & Drummond, 2015 <doi:10.1038/nmeth.3288>). A test may be statistically significant, yet practically inconsequential (Fritz, Scherndl, & Kühberger, 2012 <doi:10.1177/0959354312436870>). Although the American Psychological Association has long advocated for the inclusion of effect sizes (Wilkinson & American Psychological Association Task Force on Statistical Inference, 1999 <doi:10.1037/0003-066X.54.8.594>), the vast majority of peer-reviewed, published academic studies stop short of reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals (Cumming, 2013, <doi:10.1177/0956797613504966>). MOTE simplifies the use and interpretation of effect sizes and confidence intervals.

This package provides a variety of functions useful for data analysis, selection, manipulation, and graphics.

Calculates k-best solutions and costs for an assignment problem following the method outlined in Murty (1968) <doi:10.1287/opre.16.3.682>.

Simulation from an mrgsolve <https://cran.r-project.org/package=mrgsolve> model using a parallel backend. Input data sets are split (chunked) and simulated in parallel using mclapply() or future_lapply() <https://cran.r-project.org/package=future.apply>.

Analyse, plot, and tabulate antimicrobial minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) data. Validate the results of an MIC experiment by comparing observed MIC values to a gold standard assay, in line with standards from the International Organization for Standardization (2021) <https://www.iso.org/standard/79377.html>.

Computes indirect effects, conditional effects, and conditional indirect effects in a structural equation model or path model after model fitting, with no need to define any user parameters or label any paths in the model syntax, using the approach presented in Cheung and Cheung (2024) <doi:10.3758/s13428-023-02224-z>. Can also form bootstrap confidence intervals by doing bootstrapping only once and reusing the bootstrap estimates in all subsequent computations. Supports bootstrap confidence intervals for standardized (partially or completely) indirect effects, conditional effects, and conditional indirect effects as described in Cheung (2009) <doi:10.3758/BRM.41.2.425> and Cheung, Cheung, Lau, Hui, and Vong (2022) <doi:10.1037/hea0001188>. Model fitting can be done by structural equation modeling using lavaan() or regression using lm().

Quickly and conveniently create interactive visualisations of spatial data with or without background maps. Attributes of displayed features are fully queryable via pop-up windows. Additional functionality includes methods to visualise true- and false-color raster images and bounding boxes.

Tool for easy prior construction and visualization. It helps to formulates joint prior distributions for variance parameters in latent Gaussian models. The resulting prior is robust and can be created in an intuitive way. A graphical user interface (GUI) can be used to choose the joint prior, where the user can click through the model and select priors. An extensive guide is available in the GUI. The package allows for direct inference with the specified model and prior. Using a hierarchical variance decomposition, we formulate a joint variance prior that takes the whole model structure into account. In this way, existing knowledge can intuitively be incorporated at the level it applies to. Alternatively, one can use independent variance priors for each model components in the latent Gaussian model. Details can be found in the accompanying scientific paper: Hem, Fuglstad, Riebler (2024, Journal of Statistical Software, <doi:10.18637/jss.v110.i03>).

Researchers often have expectations about the relations between means of different groups or standardized regression coefficients; using informative hypothesis testing to incorporate these expectations into the analysis through order constraints increases statistical power Vanbrabant and Rosseel (2020) <doi:10.4324/9780429273872-14>. Another valuable tool, the Bayes factor, can evaluate evidence for multiple hypotheses without concerns about multiple testing, and can be used in Bayesian updating Hoijtink, Mulder, van Lissa & Gu (2019) <doi:10.1037/met0000201>. The bain R package enables informative hypothesis testing using the Bayes factor. The mmibain package provides shiny web applications based on bain'. The RepliCrisis() function launches a shiny card game to simulate the evaluation of replication studies while the mmibain() function launches a shiny application to fit Bayesian informative hypotheses evaluation models from bain'.

Most multilevel methodologies can only model macro-micro multilevel situations in an unbiased way, wherein group-level predictors (e.g., city temperature) are used to predict an individual-level outcome variable (e.g., citizen personality). In contrast, this R package enables researchers to model micro-macro situations, wherein individual-level (micro) predictors (and other group-level predictors) are used to predict a group-level (macro) outcome variable in an unbiased way.

Offers automation tools to parallelize Mplus operations when using R for data generation. It facilitates streamlined integration between Mplus and R', allowing users to run and manage multiple Mplus models simultaneously and efficiently in R'.

Grey model is commonly used in time series forecasting when statistical assumptions are violated with a limited number of data points. The minimum number of data points required to fit a grey model is four observations. This package fits Grey model of First order and One Variable, i.e., GM (1,1) for multivariate time series data and returns the parameters of the model, model evaluation criteria and h-step ahead forecast values for each of the time series variables. For method details see, Akay, D. and Atak, M. (2007) <DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2006.11.014>, Hsu, L. and Wang, C. (2007).<DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2006.02.005>.

This package provides functions to estimate start and duration of moult from moult data, based on models developed in Underhill and Zucchini (1988, 1990).

This package provides tools for computing Monte Carlo standard errors (MCSE) in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) settings (survey in <doi:10.1201/b10905>, Chapter 7). MCSE computation for expectation and quantile estimators is supported as well as multivariate estimations. The package also provides functions for computing effective sample size and for plotting Monte Carlo estimates versus sample size.

Estimates risk as a function of a marker by integrating over other covariates in a conditional risk model.

Microbial growth is often measured by growth curves i.e. a table of population sizes and times of measurements. This package allows to use such growth curve data to determine the duration of "microbial lag phase" i.e. the time needed for microbes to restart divisions. It implements the most commonly used methods to calculate the lag duration, these methods are discussed and described in Opalek et.al. 2022. Citation: Smug, B. J., Opalek, M., Necki, M., & Wloch-Salamon, D. (2024). Microbial lag calculator: A shiny-based application and an R package for calculating the duration of microbial lag phase. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15, 301â 307 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14269>.

Modelling interacting microbial populations - example applications include human gut microbiota, rumen microbiota and phytoplankton. Solves a system of ordinary differential equations to simulate microbial growth and resource uptake over time. This version contains network visualisation functions.

This package performs mean shift classification using linear and k-d tree based nearest neighbor implementations for the Gaussian, Epanechnikov, and biweight product kernels.

Define, manipulate and plot meshes on simplices, spheres, balls, rectangles and tubes. Directional and other multivariate histograms are provided.

Fit data from a continuous population with a smooth density on finite interval by an approximate Bernstein polynomial model which is a mixture of certain beta distributions and find maximum approximate Bernstein likelihood estimator of the unknown coefficients. Consequently, maximum likelihood estimates of the unknown density, distribution functions, and more can be obtained. If the support of the density is not the unit interval then transformation can be applied. This is an implementation of the methods proposed by the author of this package published in the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics: Guan (2016) <doi:10.1080/10485252.2016.1163349> and Guan (2017) <doi:10.1080/10485252.2017.1374384>. For data with covariates, under some semiparametric regression models such as Cox proportional hazards model and the accelerated failure time model, the baseline survival function can be estimated smoothly based on general interval censored data.

Estimates exponential-family random graph models for multilevel network data, assuming the multilevel structure is observed. The scope, at present, covers multilevel models where the set of nodes is nested within known blocks. The estimation method uses Monte-Carlo maximum likelihood estimation (MCMLE) methods to estimate a variety of canonical or curved exponential family models for binary random graphs. MCMLE methods for curved exponential-family random graph models can be found in Hunter and Handcock (JCGS, 2006). The package supports parallel computing, and provides methods for assessing goodness-of-fit of models and visualization of networks.

Implementation of the MarkerPen algorithm, short for marker gene detection via penalized principal component analysis, described in the paper by Qiu, Wang, Lei, and Roeder (2021, <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab257>). MarkerPen is a semi-supervised algorithm for detecting marker genes by combining prior marker information with bulk transcriptome data.

This package provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA). Methods are described in Merlo (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.026> and Evans et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.011>. Automatically generates intersectional strata, fits analytical models, extracts statistics, and produces visualizations.