An array of nonparametric and parametric estimation methods for cognitive diagnostic models, including nonparametric classification of examinee attribute profiles, joint maximum likelihood estimation (JMLE) of examinee attribute profiles and item parameters, and nonparametric refinement of the Q-matrix, as well as conditional maximum likelihood estimation (CMLE) of examinee attribute profiles given item parameters and CMLE of item parameters given examinee attribute profiles. Currently the nonparametric methods in the package support both conjunctive and disjunctive models, and the parametric methods in the package support the DINA model, the DINO model, the NIDA model, the G-NIDA model, and the R-RUM model.

This package provides a JAGS extension module provides neo-normal distributions family including MSNBurr, MSNBurr-IIa, GMSNBurr, Lunetta Exponential Power, Fernandez-Steel Skew t, Fernandez-Steel Skew Normal, Fernandez-Osiewalski-Steel Skew Exponential Power, Jones Skew Exponential Power. References: Choir, A. S. (2020). "The New Neo-Normal Distributions and Their Properties".Unpublished Dissertation. Denwood, M.J. (2016) <doi:10.18637/jss.v071.i09>. Fernandez, C., Osiewalski, J., & Steel, M. F. (1995) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1995.10476637>. Fernandez, C., & Steel, M. F. (1998) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1998.10474117>. Iriawan, N. (2000). "Computationally Intensive Approaches to Inference in NeoNormal Linear Models".Unpublished Dissertation. Mineo, A., & Ruggieri, M. (2005) <doi:10.18637/jss.v012.i04>. Rigby, R. A., & Stasinopoulos, D. M. (2005) <doi:10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00510.x>. Lunetta, G. (1963). "Di una Generalizzazione dello Schema della Curva Normale". Rigby, R. A., Stasinopoulos, M. D., Heller, G. Z., & Bastiani, F. D. (2019) <doi:10.1201/9780429298547>.

This package implements methods introduced in Chen, Christensen, and Kankanala (2024) <doi:10.1093/restud/rdae025> for estimating and constructing uniform confidence bands for nonparametric structural functions using instrumental variables, including data-driven choice of tuning parameters. All methods in this package apply to nonparametric regression as a special case.

This package provides utility functions, distributions, and fitting methods for Bayesian Spatial Capture-Recapture (SCR) and Open Population Spatial Capture-Recapture (OPSCR) modelling using the nimble package (de Valpine et al. 2017 <doi:10.1080/10618600.2016.1172487 >). Development of the package was motivated primarily by the need for flexible and efficient analysis of large-scale SCR data (Bischof et al. 2020 <doi:10.1073/pnas.2011383117 >). Computational methods and techniques implemented in nimbleSCR include those discussed in Turek et al. 2021 <doi:10.1002/ecs2.3385>; among others. For a recent application of nimbleSCR, see Milleret et al. (2021) <doi:10.1098/rsbl.2021.0128>.

Semissupervised model for geographical document classification (Watanabe 2018) <doi:10.1080/21670811.2017.1293487>. This package currently contains seed dictionaries in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

Sends queries to a specified Neo4J graph database, capturing results in a dataframe where appropriate. Other useful functions for the importing and management of data on the Neo4J server and basic local server admin.

Implementation of a probabilistic method to calculate nicheROVER (_niche_ _r_egion and niche _over_lap) metrics using multidimensional niche indicator data (e.g., stable isotopes, environmental variables, etc.). The niche region is defined as the joint probability density function of the multidimensional niche indicators at a user-defined probability alpha (e.g., 95%). Uncertainty is accounted for in a Bayesian framework, and the method can be extended to three or more indicator dimensions. It provides directional estimates of niche overlap, accounts for species-specific distributions in multivariate niche space, and produces unique and consistent bivariate projections of the multivariate niche region. The article by Swanson et al. (2015) <doi:10.1890/14-0235.1> provides a detailed description of the methodology. See the package vignette for a worked example using fish stable isotope data.

Neighbourhood functions are key components of local-search algorithms such as Simulated Annealing or Threshold Accepting. These functions take a solution and return a slightly-modified copy of it, i.e. a neighbour. The package provides a function neighbourfun() that constructs such neighbourhood functions, based on parameters such as admissible ranges for elements in a solution. Supported are numeric and logical solutions. The algorithms were originally created for portfolio-optimisation applications, but can be used for other models as well. Several recipes for neighbour computations are taken from "Numerical Methods and Optimization in Finance" by M. Gilli, D. Maringer and E. Schumann (2019, ISBN:978-0128150658).

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>.

This package provides tools for performing nowcasting using the Chain-Ladder method <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-ladder_method>. It supports both non-cumulative delay-based estimation and model-based completeness fitting (e.g., using logistic or Gompertz curves) to predict final counts from partially reported data.

This package provides tools for 4D nucleome imaging. Quantitative analysis of the 3D nuclear landscape recorded with super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. See Volker J. Schmid, Marion Cremer, Thomas Cremer (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ymeth.2017.03.013>.

Access the New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database from R and a few functions to clean the data once in R.

Miscellaneous R functions developed as collateral damage over the course of work in statistical and scientific computing for research. These include, for example, utilities that supplement existing idiosyncrasies of the R language, extend existing plotting functionality and aesthetics, help prepare data objects for imputation, and extend access to command line tools and systems-level information.

This package provides nonparametric CUSUM tests for detecting changes in possibly serially dependent univariate or low-dimensional multivariate observations. Retrospective tests sensitive to changes in the expectation, the variance, the covariance, the autocovariance, the distribution function, Spearman's rho, Kendall's tau, Gini's mean difference, and the copula are provided, as well as a test for detecting changes in the distribution of independent block maxima (with environmental studies in mind). The package also contains a test sensitive to changes in the autocopula and a combined test of stationarity sensitive to changes in the distribution function and the autocopula. The latest additions are an open-end sequential test based on the retrospective CUSUM statistic that can be used for monitoring changes in the mean of possibly serially dependent univariate observations, as well as closed-end and open-end sequential tests based on empirical distribution functions that can be used for monitoring changes in the contemporary distribution of possibly serially dependent univariate or low-dimensional multivariate observations.

Computes various geospatial indices of socioeconomic deprivation and disparity in the United States. Some indices are considered "spatial" because they consider the values of neighboring (i.e., adjacent) census geographies in their computation, while other indices are "aspatial" because they only consider the value within each census geography. Two types of aspatial neighborhood deprivation indices (NDI) are available, including: (1) based on Messer et al. (2006) <doi:10.1007/s11524-006-9094-x> and (2) based on Andrews et al. (2020) <doi:10.1080/17445647.2020.1750066> and Slotman et al. (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108002> who use variables chosen by Roux and Mair (2010) <doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05333.x>. Both are a decomposition of multiple demographic characteristics from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (ACS-5; 2006-2010 onward). Using data from the ACS-5 (2005-2009 onward), the package can also compute indices of racial or ethnic residential segregation, including but limited to those discussed in Massey & Denton (1988) <doi:10.1093/sf/67.2.281>, and additional indices of socioeconomic disparity.

Next-Generation Clustered Heat Maps (NG-CHMs) allow for dynamic exploration of heat map data in a web browser. NGCHM allows users to create both stand-alone HTML files containing a Next-Generation Clustered Heat Map, and .ngchm files to view in the NG-CHM viewer. See Ryan MC, Stucky M, et al (2020) <doi:10.12688/f1000research.20590.2> for more details.

Calculate various functions needed for design and monitoring clinical trials with negative binomial endpoint with variable follow-up. This version has a few changes compared to the previous version 1.0.0, including (1) correct a typo in Type 1 censoring, mtbnull=bnull and (2) restructure the code to account for shape parameter equal to zero, i.e. Poisson scenario.

Additional nonlinear regression functions using self-start (SS) algorithms. One of the functions is the Beta growth function proposed by Yin et al. (2003) <doi:10.1093/aob/mcg029>. There are several other functions with breakpoints (e.g. linear-plateau, plateau-linear, exponential-plateau, plateau-exponential, quadratic-plateau, plateau-quadratic and bilinear), a non-rectangular hyperbola and a bell-shaped curve. Twenty eight (28) new self-start (SS) functions in total. This package also supports the publication Nonlinear regression Models and applications in agricultural research by Archontoulis and Miguez (2015) <doi:10.2134/agronj2012.0506>, a book chapter with similar material <doi:10.2134/appliedstatistics.2016.0003.c15> and a publication by Oddi et. al. (2019) in Ecology and Evolution <doi:10.1002/ece3.5543>. The function nlsLMList uses nlsLM for fitting, but it is otherwise almost identical to nlme::nlsList'.In addition, this release of the package provides functions for conducting simulations for nlme and gnls objects as well as bootstrapping. These functions are intended to work with the modeling framework of the nlme package. It also provides four vignettes with extended examples.

This package provides a function designed to estimate the minimal sample size required to attain a specific statistical power in the context of linear regression and logistic regression models through simulations.

Implementation for nFunNN method, which is a novel nonlinear functional principal component analysis method using neural networks. The crucial function of this package is nFunNNmodel().

Count the occurrence of sequences of values in a vector that meets certain conditions of length and magnitude. The method is based on the Run Length Encoding algorithm, available with base R, inspired by A. H. Robinson and C. Cherry (1967) <doi:10.1109/PROC.1967.5493>.

Models for non-linear time series analysis and causality detection. The main functionalities of this package consist of an implementation of the classical causality test (C.W.J.Granger 1980) <doi:10.1016/0165-1889(80)90069-X>, and a non-linear version of it based on feed-forward neural networks. This package contains also an implementation of the Transfer Entropy <doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.461>, and the continuous Transfer Entropy using an approximation based on the k-nearest neighbors <doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.066138>. There are also some other useful tools, like the VARNN (Vector Auto-Regressive Neural Network) prediction model, the Augmented test of stationarity, and the discrete and continuous entropy and mutual information.

The Nordklim dataset 1.0 is a unique and useful achievement for climate analysis. It includes observations of twelve different climate elements from more than 100 stations in the Nordic region, in time span over 100 years. The project contractors were NORDKLIM/NORDMET on behalf of the National meteorological services in Denmark (DMI), Finland (FMI), Iceland (VI), Norway (DNMI) and Sweden (SMHI).

This package provides nearest-neighbors matching and analysis of case-control data. Cui, Z., Marder, E. P., Click, E. S., Hoekstra, R. M., & Bruce, B. B. (2022) <doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001504>.