This package provides tools for modelling, ML estimation, validation analysis and simulation of non homogeneous Poisson processes in time.

Fast functions implemented in C++ via Rcpp to support the NeuroAnatomy Toolbox ('nat') ecosystem. These functions provide large speed-ups for basic manipulation of neuronal skeletons over pure R functions found in the nat package. The expectation is that end users will not use this package directly, but instead the nat package will automatically use routines from this package when it is available to enable large performance gains.

This package provides functions for working with (grouped) multivariate normal variance mixture distributions (evaluation of distribution functions and densities, random number generation and parameter estimation), including Student's t distribution for non-integer degrees-of-freedom as well as the grouped t distribution and copula with multiple degrees-of-freedom parameters. See <doi:10.18637/jss.v102.i02> for a high-level description of select functionality.

Nested loop cross validation for classification purposes for misclassification error rate estimation. The package supports several methodologies for feature selection: random forest, Student t-test, limma, and provides an interface to the following classification methods in the MLInterfaces package: linear, quadratic discriminant analyses, random forest, bagging, prediction analysis for microarray, generalized linear model, support vector machine (svm and ksvm). Visualizations to assess the quality of the classifier are included: plot of the ranks of the features, scores plot for a specific classification algorithm and number of features, misclassification rate for the different number of features and classification algorithms tested and ROC plot. For further details about the methodology, please check: Markus Ruschhaupt, Wolfgang Huber, Annemarie Poustka, and Ulrich Mansmann (2004) <doi:10.2202/1544-6115.1078>.

Perform non-bipartite matching and matched randomization. A "bipartite" matching utilizes two separate groups, e.g. smokers being matched to nonsmokers or cases being matched to controls. A "non-bipartite" matching creates mates from one big group, e.g. 100 hospitals being randomized for a two-arm cluster randomized trial or 5000 children who have been exposed to various levels of secondhand smoke and are being paired to form a greater exposure vs. lesser exposure comparison. At the core of a non-bipartite matching is a N x N distance matrix for N potential mates. The distance between two units expresses a measure of similarity or quality as mates (the lower the better). The gendistance() and distancematrix() functions assist in creating this. The nonbimatch() function creates the matching that minimizes the total sum of distances between mates; hence, it is referred to as an "optimal" matching. The assign.grp() function aids in performing a matched randomization. Note bipartite matching can be performed using the prevent option in gendistance()'.

Exploration and analysis of compositional data in the framework of Aitchison (1986, ISBN: 978-94-010-8324-9). This package provides tools for chemical fingerprinting and source tracking of ancient materials.

This package contains functions to query and visualize the Neuroimaging features associated with genetically regulated gene expression (GReX). The primary utility, neuroimaGene(), relies on a list of user-defined genes and returns a table of neuroimaging features (NIDPs) associated with each gene. This resource is designed to assist in the interpretation of genome-wide and transcriptome-wide association studies that evaluate brain related traits. Bledsoe (2024) <doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.06.002>. In addition there are several visualization functions that generate summary plots and 2-dimensional visualizations of regional brain measures. Mowinckel (2020).

Illustrate graphically the most common Null Hypothesis Significance Testing procedures. More specifically, this package provides functions to plot Chi-Squared, F, t (one- and two-tailed) and z (one- and two-tailed) tests, by plotting the probability density under the null hypothesis as a function of the different test statistic values. Although highly flexible (color theme, fonts, etc.), only the minimal number of arguments (observed test statistic, degrees of freedom) are necessary for a clear and useful graph to be plotted, with the observed test statistic and the p value, as well as their corresponding value labels. The axes are automatically scaled to present the relevant part and the overall shape of the probability density function. This package is especially intended for education purposes, as it provides a helpful support to help explain the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing process, its use and/or shortcomings.

This package provides functions to access and download data from various NASA APIs <https://api.nasa.gov/#browseAPI>, including: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), Mars Rover Photos, Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), Near Earth Object Web Service (NeoWs), Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET), and NASA Earthdata CMR Search. Most endpoints require a NASA API key for access. Data is retrieved, cleaned for analysis, and returned in a dataframe-friendly format.

Several methods have been developed to integrate structural equation modeling techniques with network data analysis to examine the relationship between network and non-network data. Both node-based and edge-based information can be extracted from the network data to be used as observed variables in structural equation modeling. To facilitate the application of these methods, model specification can be performed in the familiar syntax of the lavaan package, ensuring ease of use for researchers. Technical details and examples can be found at <https://bigsem.psychstat.org>.

Cross-Entropy optimisation of unconstrained deterministic and noisy functions illustrated in Rubinstein and Kroese (2004, ISBN: 978-1-4419-1940-3) through a highly flexible and customisable function which allows user to define custom variable domains, sampling distributions, updating and smoothing rules, and stopping criteria. Several built-in methods and settings make the package very easy-to-use under standard optimisation problems.

An efficient unified nonconvex penalized estimation algorithm for Gaussian (linear), binomial Logit (logistic), Poisson, multinomial Logit, and Cox proportional hazard regression models. The unified algorithm is implemented based on the convex concave procedure and the algorithm can be applied to most of the existing nonconvex penalties. The algorithm also supports convex penalty: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO). Supported nonconvex penalties include smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD), minimax concave penalty (MCP), truncated LASSO penalty (TLP), clipped LASSO (CLASSO), sparse ridge (SRIDGE), modified bridge (MBRIDGE) and modified log (MLOG). For high-dimensional data (data set with many variables), the algorithm selects relevant variables producing a parsimonious regression model. Kim, D., Lee, S. and Kwon, S. (2018) <arXiv:1811.05061>, Lee, S., Kwon, S. and Kim, Y. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2015.08.019>, Kwon, S., Lee, S. and Kim, Y. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2015.07.001>. (This research is funded by Julian Virtue Professorship from Center for Applied Research at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and the National Research Foundation of Korea.).

Download data from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) data portal, accessed at <https://data.nisra.gov.uk>. NISRA is a government agency and the principal source of official statistics and social research on Northern Ireland.

Neighbour-balanced designs ensure that no treatment is disadvantaged unfairly by its surroundings. The treatment allocation in these designs is such that every treatment appears equally often as a neighbour with every other treatment. Neighbour Balanced Designs are employed when there is a possibility of neighbour effects from treatments used in adjacent experimental units. In the literature, a vast number of such designs have been developed. This package generates some efficient neighbour balanced block designs which are balanced and partially variance balanced for estimating the contrast pertaining to direct and neighbour effects, as well as provides a function for analysing the data obtained from such trials (Azais, J.M., Bailey, R.A. and Monod, H. (1993). "A catalogue of efficient neighbour designs with border plots". Biometrics, 49, 1252-1261 ; Tomar, J. S., Jaggi, Seema and Varghese, Cini (2005)<DOI: 10.1080/0266476042000305177>. "On totally balanced block designs for competition effects"). This package contains functions named nbbd1(),nbbd2(),nbbd3(),pnbbd1() and pnbbd2() which generates neighbour balanced block designs within a specified range of number of treatment (v). It contains another function named anlys()for performing the analysis of data generated from such trials.

NeuroAnatomy Toolbox (nat) enables analysis and visualisation of 3D biological image data, especially traced neurons. Reads and writes 3D images in NRRD and Amira AmiraMesh formats and reads surfaces in Amira hxsurf format. Traced neurons can be imported from and written to SWC and Amira LineSet and SkeletonGraph formats. These data can then be visualised in 3D via rgl', manipulated including applying calculated registrations, e.g. using the CMTK registration suite, and analysed. There is also a simple representation for neurons that have been subjected to 3D skeletonisation but not formally traced; this allows morphological comparison between neurons including searches and clustering (via the nat.nblast extension package).

This package provides a novel integral estimator for estimating the causal effects with continuous treatments (or dose-response curves) and a localized derivative estimator for estimating the derivative effects. The inference on the dose-response curve and its derivative is conducted via nonparametric bootstrap. The reference paper is Zhang, Chen, and Giessing (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2405.09003>.

Quantifies and removes technical noise from high-throughput sequencing data. Two approaches are used, one based on the count matrix, and one using the alignment BAM files directly. Contains several options for every step of the process, as well as tools to quality check and assess the stability of output.

Simulates the extinction of species in ecological networks and it analyzes its cascading effects, described in Dunne et al. (2002) <doi:10.1073/pnas.192407699>.

Utilities and kinship information for behavior genetics and developmental research using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY; <https://www.nlsinfo.org/>).

Color palettes based on nature inspired colours in "Sri Lanka".

Piecewise constant hazard functions are used to flexibly model survival distributions with non-proportional hazards and to simulate data from the specified distributions. A function to calculate weighted log-rank tests for the comparison of two hazard functions is included. Also, a function to calculate a test using the maximum of a set of test statistics from weighted log-rank tests (MaxCombo test) is provided. This test utilizes the asymptotic multivariate normal joint distribution of the separate test statistics. The correlation is estimated from the data. These methods are described in Ristl et al. (2021) <doi:10.1002/pst.2062>. Finally, a function is provided for the estimation and inferential statistics of various parameters that quantify the difference between two survival curves. Eligible parameters are differences in survival probabilities, log survival probabilities, complementary log log (cloglog) transformed survival probabilities, quantiles of the survival functions, log transformed quantiles, restricted mean survival times, as well as an average hazard ratio, the Cox model score statistic (logrank statistic), and the Cox-model hazard ratio. Adjustments for multiple testing and simultaneous confidence intervals are calculated using a multivariate normal approximation to the set of selected parameters.

This package provides a set of techniques that can be used to develop, validate, and implement automated classifiers. A powerful tool for transforming raw data into meaningful information, ncodeR (Shaffer, D. W. (2017) Quantitative Ethnography. ISBN: 0578191687) is designed specifically for working with big data: large document collections, logfiles, and other text data.

Stacking arrays according to dimension names, subset-aware splitting and mapping of functions, intersecting along arbitrary dimensions, converting to and from data.frames, and many other helper functions.

Computes interdaily stability (IS), intradaily variability (IV) & the relative amplitude (RA) from actigraphy data as described in Blume et al. (2016) <doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2016.05.006> and van Someren et al. (1999) <doi: 10.3109/07420529908998724>. Additionally, it also computes L5 (i.e. the 5 hours with lowest average actigraphy amplitude) and M10 (the 10 hours with highest average amplitude) as well as the respective start times. The flex versions will also compute the L-value for a user-defined number of minutes. IS describes the strength of coupling of a rhythm to supposedly stable zeitgebers. It varies between 0 (Gaussian Noise) and 1 for perfect IS. IV describes the fragmentation of a rhythm, i.e. the frequency and extent of transitions between rest and activity. It is near 0 for a perfect sine wave, about 2 for Gaussian noise and may be even higher when a definite ultradian period of about 2 hrs is present. RA is the relative amplitude of a rhythm. Note that to obtain reliable results, actigraphy data should cover a reasonable number of days.