This package implements Mander & Thompson's (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.cct.2010.07.008> methods for two-stage designs optimal under the alternative hypothesis for phase II [cancer] trials. Also provides an implementation of Simon's (1989) <doi:10.1016/0197-2456(89)90015-9> original methodology and allows exploration of the operating characteristics of sub-optimal designs.

The modified Adult Treatment Panel -III guidelines (ATP-III) proposed by American Heart Association (AHA) and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) are used widely for the clinical diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome. The AHA-NHLBI criteria advise using parameters such as waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), triglycerides (TG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) for diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. Each parameter has to be interpreted based on the proposed cut-offs, making the diagnosis slightly complex and error-prone. This package is developed by incorporating the modified ATP-III guidelines, and it will aid in the easy and quick diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in busy healthcare settings and also for research purposes. The modified ATP-III-AHA-NHLBI criteria for the diagnosis is described by Grundy et al ., (2005) <doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.169404>.

In the context of multistate models, which are popular in sociology, demography, and epidemiology, Markov chain with rewards calculations can help to refine transition timings and so obtain more accurate estimates. The package code accommodates up to nine transient states and irregular age (time) intervals. Traditional demographic life tables result as a special case. Formulas and methods involved are explained in detail in the accompanying article: Schneider / Myrskyla / van Raalte (2021): Flexible Transition Timing in Discrete-Time Multistate Life Tables Using Markov Chains with Rewards, MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-002.

Multiple 2 by 2 tables often arise in meta-analysis which combines statistical evidence from multiple studies. Two risks within the same study are possibly correlated because they share some common factors such as environment and population structure. This package implements a set of novel Bayesian approaches for multivariate meta analysis when the risks within the same study are independent or correlated. The exact posterior inference of odds ratio, relative risk, and risk difference given either a single 2 by 2 table or multiple 2 by 2 tables is provided. Luo, Chen, Su, Chu, (2014) <doi:10.18637/jss.v056.i11>, Chen, Luo, (2011) <doi:10.1002/sim.4248>, Chen, Chu, Luo, Nie, Chen, (2015) <doi:10.1177/0962280211430889>, Chen, Luo, Chu, Su, Nie, (2014) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2012.700379>, Chen, Luo, Chu, Wei, (2013) <doi:10.1080/19466315.2013.791483>.

This package provides access to well-documented medical datasets for teaching. Featuring several from the Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences website <https://www.causeweb.org/tshs/category/dataset/>, a few reconstructed datasets of historical significance in medical research, some reformatted and extended from existing R packages, and some data donations.

Simulating data and fitting multi-species N-mixture models using nimble'. Includes features for handling zero-inflation and temporal correlation, Bayesian inference, model diagnostics, parameter estimation, and predictive checks. Designed for ecological studies with zero-altered or time-series data. Mimnagh, N., Parnell, A., Prado, E., & Moral, R. A. (2022) <doi:10.1007/s10651-022-00542-7>. Royle, J. A. (2004) <doi:10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00142.x>.

Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients are commonly used to quantify the strength of bivariate associations of genomic variables. For example, correlations of gene-level DNA copy number and gene expression measurements may be used to assess the impact of DNA copy number changes on gene expression in tumor tissue. MVisAGe enables users to quickly compute and visualize the correlations in order to assess the effect of regional genomic events such as changes in DNA copy number or DNA methylation level. Please see Walter V, Du Y, Danilova L, Hayward MC, Hayes DN, 2018. Cancer Research <doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-3464>.

The utility of this package is in simulating mixtures of Gaussian distributions with different levels of overlap between mixture components. Pairwise overlap, defined as a sum of two misclassification probabilities, measures the degree of interaction between components and can be readily employed to control the clustering complexity of datasets simulated from mixtures. These datasets can then be used for systematic performance investigation of clustering and finite mixture modeling algorithms. Among other capabilities of MixSim', there are computing the exact overlap for Gaussian mixtures, simulating Gaussian and non-Gaussian data, simulating outliers and noise variables, calculating various measures of agreement between two partitionings, and constructing parallel distribution plots for the graphical display of finite mixture models.

This package provides functions for fitting various models to capture-recapture data including mixed-effects Cormack-Jolly-Seber(CJS) and multistate models and the multi-variate state model structure for survival estimation and POPAN structured Jolly-Seber models for abundance estimation. There are also Hidden Markov model (HMM) implementations of CJS and multistate models with and without state uncertainty and a simulation capability for HMM models.

Estimation of multivariate normal (MVN) and student-t data of arbitrary dimension where the pattern of missing data is monotone. See Pantaleo and Gramacy (2010) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.0907.2135>. Through the use of parsimonious/shrinkage regressions (plsr, pcr, lasso, ridge, etc.), where standard regressions fail, the package can handle a nearly arbitrary amount of missing data. The current version supports maximum likelihood inference and a full Bayesian approach employing scale-mixtures for Gibbs sampling. Monotone data augmentation extends this Bayesian approach to arbitrary missingness patterns. A fully functional standalone interface to the Bayesian lasso (from Park & Casella), Normal-Gamma (from Griffin & Brown), Horseshoe (from Carvalho, Polson, & Scott), and ridge regression with model selection via Reversible Jump, and student-t errors (from Geweke) is also provided.

Detection of multivariate outliers using robust estimates of location and scale. The Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) estimator is used to calculate robust estimates of the mean vector and covariance matrix. Outliers are determined based on robust Mahalanobis distances using either an unstructured covariance matrix, a principal components structured covariance matrix, or a factor analysis structured covariance matrix. Includes options for specifying the direction of interest for outlier detection for each variable.

Simulate a (bivariate) multivariate renewal Hawkes (MRHawkes) self-exciting process, with given immigrant hazard rate functions and offspring density function. Calculate the likelihood of a MRHawkes process with given hazard rate functions and offspring density function for an (increasing) sequence of event times. Calculate the Rosenblatt residuals of the event times. Predict future event times based on observed event times up to a given time. For details see Stindl and Chen (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2018.01.021>.

An interactive document on the topic of multidimensional scaling and principal component analysis using rmarkdown and shiny packages. Runtime examples are provided in the package function as well as at <https://kartikeyabolar.shinyapps.io/MDS_PCAShiny/>.

This package implements the MST-kNN clustering algorithm proposed by Inostroza-Ponta (2008) <https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28729389>. The algorithm determines the number of clusters automatically by recursively intersecting the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and the k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) proximity graphs constructed from a pairwise distance matrix. The value of k is selected via a connectivity criterion (the smallest k such that the kNN graph is connected, bounded by floor(log(n))). The package requires only a distance matrix as input and returns cluster assignments, an igraph network, and partition metadata.

Requires rooted phylogeny as input and creates a table of genera, their monophyly-status, which taxa cause problems in monophyly etc. Different information can be extracted from the output and a plot function allows visualization of the results in a number of ways. "MonoPhy: a simple R package to find and visualize monophyly issues." Schwery, O. & O'Meara, B.C. (2016) <doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.56>.

Multimodal mediation analysis is an emerging problem in microbiome data analysis. Multimedia make advanced mediation analysis techniques easy to use, ensuring that all statistical components are transparent and adaptable to specific problem contexts. The package provides a uniform interface to direct and indirect effect estimation, synthetic null hypothesis testing, bootstrap confidence interval construction, and sensitivity analysis. More details are available in Jiang et al. (2024) "multimedia: Multimodal Mediation Analysis of Microbiome Data" <doi:10.1101/2024.03.27.587024>.

This project extends R with a mechanism for efficient parallel data access by utilizing C++ shared memory. Large data objects can be accessed and manipulated directly from R without redundant copying, providing both speed and memory efficiency. Memshare was published in Thrun, M.C., Märte J.: "Memshare: Memory Sharing for Multicore Computation in R with an Application to Feature Selection by Mutual Information using PDE" (2026), R Journal, <DOI:10.32614/RJ-2025-043>.

Implementation of the mid-n algorithms presented in Wellek S (2015) <DOI:10.1111/stan.12063> Statistica Neerlandica 69, 358-373 for exact sample size calculation for superiority trials with binary outcome.

This package implements methods for estimating generalized estimating equations (GEE) with advanced options for flexible modeling and handling missing data. This package provides tools to fit and analyze GEE models for longitudinal data, allowing users to address missingness using a variety of imputation techniques. It supports both univariate and multivariate modeling, visualization of missing data patterns, and facilitates the transformation of data for efficient statistical analysis. Designed for researchers working with complex datasets, it ensures robust estimation and inference in longitudinal and clustered data settings.

Perform multivariate modeling of evolved traits, with special attention to understanding the interplay of the multi-factorial determinants of their origins in complex ecological settings (Stephens, 2007 <doi:10.1016/j.tree.2006.12.003>). This software primarily concentrates on phylogenetic regression analysis, enabling implementation of tree transformation averaging and visualization functionality. Functions additionally support information theoretic approaches (Grueber, 2011 <doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02210.x>; Garamszegi, 2011 <doi:10.1007/s00265-010-1028-7>) such as model averaging and selection of phylogenetic models. Accessory functions are also implemented for coef standardization (Cade 2015), selection uncertainty, and variable importance (Burnham & Anderson 2000). There are other numerous functions for visualizing confounded variables, plotting phylogenetic trees, as well as reporting and exporting modeling results. Lastly, as challenges to ecology are inherently multifarious, and therefore often multi-dataset, this package features several functions to support the identification, interpolation, merging, and updating of missing data and outdated nomenclature.

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies continue to be a significant public health problem. This is particularly critical in developing countries where deficiencies to vitamin A, iron, iodine, and other micronutrients lead to adverse health consequences. Cross-sectional surveys are helpful in answering questions related to the magnitude and distribution of deficiencies of selected vitamins and minerals. This package provides tools for calculating and determining select vitamin and mineral deficiencies based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines found at <https://www.who.int/teams/nutrition-and-food-safety/databases/vitamin-and-mineral-nutrition-information-system>.

This package implements contamination bias diagnostics and alternative estimators for regressions with multiple treatments. The implementation is based on Goldsmith-Pinkham, Hull, and Kolesár (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2106.05024>.

This package provides an interface to the Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP) Application Programming Interface. <https://www.maxar.com/maxar-geospatial-platform> It facilitates imagery searches using the MGP Streaming Application Programming Interface via the Web Feature Service (WFS) method, and supports image downloads through Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) methods. Additionally, it integrates with the Maxar Geospatial Platform Basemaps Application Programming Interface for accessing Maxar basemaps imagery and seamlines. The package also offers seamless integration with the Maxar Geospatial Platform Discovery Application Programming Interface, allowing users to search, filter, and sort Maxar content, while retrieving detailed metadata in formats like SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) and GeoJSON.

Sentiment analysis is a popular technique in text mining that attempts to determine the emotional state of some text. We provide a new implementation of a common method for computing sentiment, whereby words are scored as positive or negative according to a dictionary lookup. Then the sum of those scores is returned for the document. We use the Hu and Liu sentiment dictionary ('Hu and Liu', 2004) <doi:10.1145/1014052.1014073> for determining sentiment. The scoring function is vectorized by document, and scores for multiple documents are computed in parallel via OpenMP'.