This data package contains the Item Response Theory (IRT) parameters for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) items used on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) from 1990 to 2015. The values in these tables are used along with NAEP data to turn student item responses into scores and include information about item difficulty, discrimination, and guessing parameter for 3 parameter logit (3PL) items. Parameters for Generalized Partial Credit Model (GPCM) items are also included. The adjustments table contains the information regarding the treatment of items (e.g., deletion of an item or a collapsing of response categories), when these items did not appear to fit the item response models used to describe the NAEP data. Transformation constants change the score estimates that are obtained from the IRT scaling program to the NAEP reporting metric. Values from the years 2000 - 2013 were taken from the NCES website <https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/> and values from 1990 - 1998 and 2015 were extracted from their NAEP data files. All subtest names were reduced and homogenized to one word (e.g. "Reading to gain information" became "information"). The various subtest names for univariate transformation constants were all homogenized to "univariate".

Facilitates the performance of several analyses, including simple and sequential path coefficient analysis, correlation estimate, drawing correlogram, Heatmap, and path diagram. When working with raw data, that includes one or more dependent variables along with one or more independent variables are available, the path coefficient analysis can be conducted. It allows for testing direct effects, which can be a vital indicator in path coefficient analysis. The process of preparing the dataset rule is explained in detail in the vignette file "Path.Analysis_manual.Rmd". You can find this in the folders labelled "data" and "~/inst/extdata". Also see: 1)the lavaan', 2)a sample of sequential path analysis in metan suggested by Olivoto and Lúcio (2020) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13384>, 3)the simple PATHSAS macro written in SAS by Cramer et al. (1999) <doi:10.1093/jhered/90.1.260>, and 4)the semPlot() function of OpenMx as initial tools for conducting path coefficient analyses and SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). To gain a comprehensive understanding of path coefficient analysis, both in theory and practice, see a Minitab macro developed by Arminian, A. in the paper by Arminian et al. (2008) <doi:10.1080/15427520802043182>.

Predict Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions for UK Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes and annual turnover data, as well as Scope 1 carbon emissions for UK farms. The carbonpredict package provides single and batch prediction, plotting, and workflow tools for carbon accounting and reporting. The package utilises pre-trained models, leveraging rich classified transaction data to accurately predict Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions for UK SMEs as well as identifying emissions hotspots. It also provides Scope 1 carbon emissions predictions for UK farms of types: Cereals ex. rice, Dairy, Mixed farming, Sheep and goats, Cattle & buffaloes, Poultry, Animal production and Support for crop production. The methodology used to produce the estimates in this package is fully detailed in the following peer-reviewed publications: Phillpotts, A., Owen. A., Norman, J., Trendl, A., Gathergood, J., Jobst, Norbert., Leake, D. (2025) <doi:10.1111/jiec.70106> "Bridging the SME Reporting Gap: A New Model for Predicting Scope 1 and 2 Emissions" and Wells, J., Trendl, A., Owen, A., Barrett, J., Gridley, J., Jobst, N., Leake, D. (2025) <doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ae20ab> "A Scalable Tool for Farm-Level Carbon Accounting: Evidence from UK Agriculture".

This package provides tools for producing climate-health indicators and supporting official statistics from health and climate data. Implements analytical workflows for temperature-related mortality, wildfire smoke exposure, air pollution, suicides related to extreme heat, malaria, and diarrhoeal disease outcomes, with utilities for descriptive statistics, model validation, attributable fraction and attributable number estimation, relative risk estimation, minimum mortality temperature estimation, and plotting for reporting. These six indicators are endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission for inclusion in the Global Set of Environment and Climate Change Statistics. Implemented methods include distributed lag non-linear models (DLNM), quasi-Poisson time-series regression, case-crossover analysis, Bayesian spatio-temporal models using the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation ('INLA'), and multivariate meta-analysis for sub-national estimates. The package is based on methods developed in the Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions (SOSCHI) project <https://climate-health.officialstatistics.org>. For methodologies, see Watkins et al. (2025) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.14865904>, Brown et al. (2024) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.14052183>, Pearce et al. (2024) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.14050224>, Byukusenge et al. (2025) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.15585042>, Dzakpa et al. (2025) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.14881886>, and Dzakpa et al. (2025) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.14871506>.

ChunkyPNG is a pure Ruby library that can read and write Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images without depending on an external image library. It tries to be memory efficient and reasonably fast. It has features such as:

• Decoding support for any image that the PNG standard allows. This includes all standard color modes, all bit depths, all transparency, and interlacing and filtering options.

• Encoding support for images of all color modes (true color, grayscale, and indexed) and transparency for all these color modes. The best color mode is chosen automatically, based on the amount of used colors.

• Read/write access to the image's pixels.

• Read/write access to all image metadata that is stored in chunks.

• Memory efficiency: fixnum are used, i.e. 4 or 8 bytes of memory per pixel, depending on the hardware).

• Performance: ChunkyPNG is reasonably fast for Ruby standards, by only using integer math and a highly optimized saving routine.

• Interoperability with RMagick.

ChunkyPNG is vulnerable to decompression bombs and can run out of memory when loading a specifically crafted PNG file. This is hard to fix in pure Ruby. Deal with untrusted images in a separate process, e.g., by using fork or a background processing library.

This uses a mixed integer mathematical programming (MIP) approach for building and solving multi-action planning problems, where the goal is to find an optimal combination of management actions that abate threats, in an efficient way while accounting for spatial aspects. Thus, optimizing the connectivity and conservation effectiveness of the prioritized units and of the deployed actions. The package is capable of handling different commercial (gurobi, CPLEX) and non-commercial (symphony, CBC) MIP solvers. Gurobi optimization solver can be installed using comprehensive instructions in the gurobi installation vignette of the prioritizr package (available in <https://prioritizr.net/articles/gurobi_installation_guide.html>). Instead, CPLEX optimization solver can be obtain from IBM CPLEX web page (available here <https://www.ibm.com/es-es/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio>). Additionally, the rcbc R package (available at <https://github.com/dirkschumacher/rcbc>) can be used to obtain solutions using the CBC optimization software (<https://github.com/coin-or/Cbc>). Methods used in the package refers to Salgado-Rojas et al. (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108901>, Beyer et al. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.02.005>, Cattarino et al. (2015) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128027> and Watts et al. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.06.005>. See the prioriactions website for more information, documentations and examples.

This package provides tools to calculate stability indices with parametric, non-parametric and probabilistic approaches. The basic data format requirement for toolStability is a data frame with 3 columns including numeric trait values, genotype,and environmental labels. Output format of each function is the dataframe with chosen stability index for each genotype. Function "table_stability" offers the summary table of all stability indices in this package. This R package toolStability is part of the main publication: Wang, Casadebaig and Chen (2023) <doi:10.1007/s00122-023-04264-7>. Analysis pipeline for main publication can be found on github: <https://github.com/Illustratien/Wang_2023_TAAG>. Sample dataset in this package is derived from another publication: Casadebaig P, Zheng B, Chapman S et al. (2016) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146385>. For detailed documentation of dataset, please see on Zenodo <doi:10.5281/zenodo.4729636>. Indices used in this package are from: Döring TF, Reckling M (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.eja.2018.06.007>. Eberhart SA, Russell WA (1966) <doi:10.2135/cropsci1966.0011183X000600010011x>. Eskridge KM (1990) <doi:10.2135/cropsci1990.0011183X003000020025x>. Finlay KW, Wilkinson GN (1963) <doi:10.1071/AR9630742>. Hanson WD (1970) Genotypic stability. <doi:10.1007/BF00285245>. Lin CS, Binns MR (1988). Nassar R, Hühn M (1987). Pinthus MJ (1973) <doi:10.1007/BF00021563>. Römer T (1917). Shukla GK (1972). Wricke G (1962).

Understanding morphological variation is an important task in many applications. Recent studies in computational biology have focused on developing computational tools for the task of sub-image selection which aims at identifying structural features that best describe the variation between classes of shapes. A major part in assessing the utility of these approaches is to demonstrate their performance on both simulated and real datasets. However, when creating a model for shape statistics, real data can be difficult to access and the sample sizes for these data are often small due to them being expensive to collect. Meanwhile, the landscape of current shape simulation methods has been mostly limited to approaches that use black-box inference---making it difficult to systematically assess the power and calibration of sub-image models. In this R package, we introduce the alpha-shape sampler: a probabilistic framework for simulating realistic 2D and 3D shapes based on probability distributions which can be learned from real data or explicitly stated by the user. The ashapesampler package supports two mechanisms for sampling shapes in two and three dimensions. The first, empirically sampling based on an existing data set, was highlighted in the original main text of the paper. The second, probabilistic sampling from a known distribution, is the computational implementation of the theory derived in that paper. Work based on Winn-Nunez et al. (2024) <doi:10.1101/2024.01.09.574919>.

Tree-based classification and soft-clustering method for preference rankings, with tools for external validation of fuzzy clustering, and Kemeny-equivalent augmented unfolding. It contains the recursive partitioning algorithm for preference rankings, non-parametric tree-based method for a matrix of preference rankings as a response variable. It contains also the distribution-free soft clustering method for preference rankings, namely the K-median cluster component analysis (CCA). The package depends on the ConsRank R package. Options for validate the tree-based method are both test-set procedure and V-fold cross validation. The package contains the routines to compute the adjusted concordance index (a fuzzy version of the adjusted rand index) and the normalized degree of concordance (the corresponding fuzzy version of the rand index). The package also contains routines to perform the Kemeny-equivalent augmented unfolding. The mds endine is the function sacofSym from the package smacof'. Essential references: D'Ambrosio, A., Vera, J.F., and Heiser, W.J. (2021) <doi:10.1080/00273171.2021.1899892>; D'Ambrosio, A., Amodio, S., Iorio, C., Pandolfo, G., and Siciliano, R. (2021) <doi:10.1007/s00357-020-09367-0>; D'Ambrosio, A., and Heiser, W.J. (2019) <doi:10.1007/s41237-018-0069-5>; D'Ambrosio, A., and Heiser W.J. (2016) <doi:10.1007/s11336-016-9505-1>; Hullermeier, E., Rifqi, M., Henzgen, S., and Senge, R. (2012) <doi:10.1109/TFUZZ.2011.2179303>; Marden, J.J. <ISBN:0412995212>.

Current layout algorithms such as Kamada Kawai do not take into consideration disjoint clusters in a network, often resulting in a high overlap among the clusters, resulting in a visual â hairballâ that often is uninterpretable. The ExplodeLayout algorithm takes as input (1) an edge list of a unipartite or bipartite network, (2) node layout coordinates (x, y) generated by a layout algorithm such as Kamada Kawai, (3) node cluster membership generated from a clustering algorithm such as modularity maximization, and (4) a radius to enable the node clusters to be â explodedâ to reduce their overlap. The algorithm uses these inputs to generate new layout coordinates of the nodes which â explodesâ the clusters apart, such that the edge lengths within the clusters are preserved, while the edge lengths between clusters are recalculated. The modified network layout with nodes and edges are displayed in two dimensions. The user can experiment with different explode radii to generate a layout which has sufficient separation of clusters, while reducing the overall layout size of the network. This package is a basic version of an earlier version called [epl]<https://github.com/UTMB-DIVA-Lab/epl> that searched for an optimal explode radius, and offered multiple ways to separate clusters in a network (Bhavnani et al(2017) <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5543384/>). The example dataset is for a bipartite network, but the algorithm can work also for unipartite networks.

Calibrates population-level cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) that are derived using computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) algorithms. Leveraging the data collected in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS;<https://champshealth.org/>) project, the package stores misclassification matrix estimates of three CCVA algorithms (EAVA, InSilicoVA, and InterVA) and two age groups (neonates aged 0-27 days, and children aged 1-59 months) across countries (specific estimates for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and South Africa, and a combined estimate for all other countries), enabling global calibration. These estimates are obtained using the framework proposed in Pramanik et al. (2025;<doi:10.1214/24-AOAS2006>) and are analyzed in Pramanik et al. (2026;<doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2025-021747>). Given VA-only data for an age group, CCVA algorithm, and country, the package utilizes the corresponding misclassification matrix estimate in the modular VA-Calibration framework (Pramanik et al.,2025;<doi:10.1214/24-AOAS2006>) and produces calibrated estimates of CSMFs. The package also supports ensemble calibration to accommodate multiple algorithms. More generally, this allows calibration of population-level prevalence derived from single-class predictions of discrete classifiers. For this, users need to provide fixed or uncertainty-quantified misclassification matrices. This work is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health K99 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (1K99HD114884-01A1), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-034842), and the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute.

This package performs analyzes and estimates of environmental covariates and genetic parameters related to selection strategies and development of superior genotypes. It has two main functionalities, the first being about prediction models of covariates and environmental processes, while the second deals with the estimation of genetic parameters and selection strategies. Designed for researchers and professionals in genetics and environmental sciences, the package combines statistical methods for modeling and data analysis. This includes the plastochron estimate proposed by Porta et al. (2024) <doi:10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v28n10e278299>, Stress indices for genotype selection referenced by Ghazvini et al. (2024) <doi:10.1007/s10343-024-00981-1>, the Environmental Stress Index described by Tazzo et al. (2024) <https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/77035>, industrial quality indices of wheat genotypes (Szareski et al., 2019), <doi:10.4238/gmr18223>, Ear Indexes estimation (Rigotti et al., 2024), <doi:10.13083/reveng.v32i1.17394>, Selection index for protein and grain yield (de Pelegrin et al., 2017), <doi:10.4236/ajps.2017.813224>, Estimation of the ISGR - Genetic Selection Index for Resilience for environmental resilience (Bandeira et al., 2024) <https://www.cropj.com/Carvalho_18_12_2024_825_830.pdf>, estimation of Leaf Area Index (Meira et al., 2015) <https://www.fag.edu.br/upload/revista/cultivando_o_saber/55d1ef202e494.pdf>, Restriction of control variability (Carvalho et al., 2023) <doi:10.4025/actasciagron.v45i1.56156>, Risk of Disease Occurrence in Soybeans described by Engers et al. (2024) <doi:10.1007/s40858-024-00649-1> and estimation of genetic parameters for selection based on balanced experiments (Yadav et al., 2024) <doi:10.1155/2024/9946332>.

This package provides tools to teach students elemental statistics. The main topics covered are descriptive statistics, probability models (discrete and continuous variables) and statistical inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis tests). One of the main advantages of this package is that allows the user to read quite a variety of types of data files with one unique command. Moreover it includes shortcuts to simple but up-to-now not in R descriptive features such a complete frequency table or an histogram with the optimal number of intervals. Related to model distributions (both discrete and continuous), the package allows the student to easy plot the mass/density function, distribution function and quantile function just detailing as input arguments the known population parameters. The inference related tools are basically confidence interval and hypothesis testing. Having defined independent commands for these two tools makes it easier for the student to understand what the software is performing, and it also helps the student to have a better knowledge on which specific tool they need to use in each situation. Moreover, the hypothesis testing commands provide not only the numeric result on the screen but also a very intuitive graph (which includes the statistic distribution, the observed value of the statistic, the rejection area and the p-value) that is very useful for the student to visualise the process. The regression section includes up to now, a simple linear model, with one single command the student can obtain the numeric summary as well as the corresponding diagram with the adjusted regression model and a legend with basic information (formula of the adjusted model and R-squared).

This package provides a set of functions to help clinical trial researchers calculate power and sample size for two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trials that do or do not incorporate historical control data. At some point during the design process, a clinical trial researcher who is designing a basic two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trial needs to make decisions about power and sample size within the context of hypothesized treatment effects. Through simulation, the simple_sim() function will estimate power and other user specified clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user defined scenarios about treatment effect,control group characteristics, and outcome. If the clinical trial researcher has access to historical control data, then the researcher can design a two-arm Bayesian randomized clinical trial that incorporates the historical data. In such a case, the researcher needs to work through the potential consequences of historical and randomized control differences on trial characteristics, in addition to working through issues regarding power in the context of sample size, treatment effect size, and outcome. If a researcher designs a clinical trial that will incorporate historical control data, the researcher needs the randomized controls to be from the same population as the historical controls. What if this is not the case when the designed trial is implemented? During the design phase, the researcher needs to investigate the negative effects of possible historic/randomized control differences on power, type one error, and other trial characteristics. Using this information, the researcher should design the trial to mitigate these negative effects. Through simulation, the historic_sim() function will estimate power and other user specified clinical trial characteristics at user specified sample sizes given user defined scenarios about historical and randomized control differences as well as treatment effects and outcomes. The results from historic_sim() and simple_sim() can be printed with print_table() and graphed with plot_table() methods. Outcomes considered are Gaussian, Poisson, Bernoulli, Lognormal, Weibull, and Piecewise Exponential. The methods are described in Eggleston et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i21>.

This package provides functions that facilitate the use of accepted taxonomic nomenclature, collection of functional trait data, and assignment of functional group classifications to phytoplankton species. Possible classifications include Morpho-functional group (MFG; Salmaso et al. 2015 <doi:10.1111/fwb.12520>) and CSR (Reynolds 1988; Functional morphology and the adaptive strategies of phytoplankton. In C.D. Sandgren (ed). Growth and reproductive strategies of freshwater phytoplankton, 388-433. Cambridge University Press, New York). Versions 2.0.0 and later includes new functions for querying the algaebase online taxonomic database (www.algaebase.org), however these functions require a valid API key that must be acquired from the algaebase administrators. Note that none of the algaeClassify authors are affiliated with algaebase in any way. Taxonomic names can also be checked against a variety of taxonomic databases using the Global Names Resolver service via its API (<https://resolver.globalnames.org/api>). In addition, currently accepted and outdated synonyms, and higher taxonomy, can be extracted for lists of species from the ITIS database using wrapper functions for the ritis package. The algaeClassify package is a product of the GEISHA (Global Evaluation of the Impacts of Storms on freshwater Habitat and Structure of phytoplankton Assemblages), funded by CESAB (Centre for Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity) and the U.S. Geological Survey John Wesley Powell Center for Synthesis and Analysis, with data and other support provided by members of GLEON (Global Lake Ecology Observation Network). DISCLAIMER: This software has been approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although the software has been subjected to rigorous review, the USGS reserves the right to update the software as needed pursuant to further analysis and review. No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS or the U.S. Government as to the functionality of the software and related material nor shall the fact of release constitute any such warranty. Furthermore, the software is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.

Automatically selects and visualises statistical hypothesis tests between two vectors, based on their class, distribution, sample size, and a user-defined confidence level (conf.level). Visual outputs - including box plots, bar charts, regression lines with confidence bands, mosaic plots, residual plots, and Q-Q plots - are annotated with relevant test statistics, assumption checks, and post-hoc analyses where applicable. The algorithmic workflow helps the user focus on the interpretation of test results rather than test selection. It is particularly suited for quick data analysis, e.g., in statistical consulting projects or educational settings. The test selection algorithm proceeds as follows: Input vectors of class numeric or integer are considered numerical; those of class factor are considered categorical. Assumptions of residual normality and homogeneity of variances are considered met if the corresponding test yields a p-value greater than the significance level alpha = 1 - conf.level. (1) When the response vector is numerical and the predictor vector is categorical, a test of central tendencies is selected. If the categorical predictor has exactly two levels, t.test() is applied when group sizes exceed 30 (Lumley et al. (2002) <doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.23.100901.140546>). For smaller samples, normality of residuals is tested using shapiro.test(); if met, t.test() is used; otherwise, wilcox.test(). If the predictor is categorical with more than two levels, an aov() is initially fitted. Residual normality is evaluated using both shapiro.test() and ad.test(); residuals are considered approximately normal if at least one test yields a p-value above alpha. If this assumption is met, bartlett.test() assesses variance homogeneity. If variances are homogeneous, aov() is used; otherwise oneway.test(). Both tests are followed by TukeyHSD(). If residual normality cannot be assumed, kruskal.test() is followed by pairwise.wilcox.test(). (2) When both the response and predictor vectors are numerical, a simple linear regression model is fitted using lm(). (3) When both vectors are categorical, Cochran's rule (Cochran (1954) <doi:10.2307/3001666>) is applied to test independence either by chisq.test() or fisher.test().

Regression, classification, contour plots, hypothesis testing and fitting of distributions for compositional data are some of the functions included. We further include functions for percentages (or proportions). The standard textbook for such data is John Aitchison's (1986) "The statistical analysis of compositional data". Relevant papers include: a) Tsagris M.T., Preston S. and Wood A.T.A. (2011). "A data-based power transformation for compositional data". Fourth International International Workshop on Compositional Data Analysis. <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1106.1451>. b) Tsagris M. (2014). "The k-NN algorithm for compositional data: a revised approach with and without zero values present". Journal of Data Science, 12(3): 519--534. <doi:10.6339/JDS.201407_12(3).0008>. c) Tsagris M. (2015). "A novel, divergence based, regression for compositional data". Proceedings of the 28th Panhellenic Statistics Conference, 15-18 April 2015, Athens, Greece, 430--444. <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1511.07600>. d) Tsagris M. (2015). "Regression analysis with compositional data containing zero values". Chilean Journal of Statistics, 6(2): 47--57. <https://soche.cl/chjs/volumes/06/02/Tsagris(2015).pdf>. e) Tsagris M., Preston S. and Wood A.T.A. (2016). "Improved supervised classification for compositional data using the alpha-transformation". Journal of Classification, 33(2): 243--261. <doi:10.1007/s00357-016-9207-5>. f) Tsagris M., Preston S. and Wood A.T.A. (2017). "Nonparametric hypothesis testing for equality of means on the simplex". Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 87(2): 406--422. <doi:10.1080/00949655.2016.1216554>. g) Tsagris M. and Stewart C. (2018). "A Dirichlet regression model for compositional data with zeros". Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics, 39(3): 398--412. <doi:10.1134/S1995080218030198>. h) Alenazi A. (2019). "Regression for compositional data with compositional data as predictor variables with or without zero values". Journal of Data Science, 17(1): 219--238. <doi:10.6339/JDS.201901_17(1).0010>. i) Tsagris M. and Stewart C. (2020). "A folded model for compositional data analysis". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 62(2): 249--277. <doi:10.1111/anzs.12289>. j) Alenazi A.A. (2022). "f-divergence regression models for compositional data". Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 18(4): 867--882. <doi:10.18187/pjsor.v18i4.3969>. k) Tsagris M. and Stewart C. (2022). "A Review of Flexible Transformations for Modeling Compositional Data". In Advances and Innovations in Statistics and Data Science, pp. 225--234. <doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08329-7_10>. l) Alenazi A. (2023). "A review of compositional data analysis and recent advances". Communications in Statistics--Theory and Methods, 52(16): 5535--5567. <doi:10.1080/03610926.2021.2014890>. m) Tsagris M., Alenazi A. and Stewart C. (2023). "Flexible non-parametric regression models for compositional response data with zeros". Statistics and Computing, 33(106). <doi:10.1007/s11222-023-10277-5>. n) Tsagris. M. (2025). "Constrained least squares simplicial-simplicial regression". Statistics and Computing, 35(27). <doi:10.1007/s11222-024-10560-z>. o) Sevinc V. and Tsagris. M. (2025). "Energy Based Equality of Distributions Testing for Compositional Data". <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2412.05199>. p) Tsagris M. and Alzeley O. (2025). "Scalable approximation of the transformation-free linear simplicial-simplicial regression via constrained iterative reweighted least squares". <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2511.13296>.

Fit a variety of models to two-way tables with ordered categories. Most of the models are appropriate to apply to tables of that have correlated ordered response categories. There is a particular interest in rater data and models for rescore tables. Some utility functions (e.g., Cohen's kappa and weighted kappa) support more general work on rater agreement. Because the names of the models are very similar, the functions that implement them are organized by last name of the primary author of the article or book that suggested the model, with the name of the function beginning with that author's name and an underscore. This may make some models more difficult to locate if one doesn't have the original sources. The vignettes and tests can help to locate models of interest. For more dertaiils see the following references: Agresti, A. (1983) <doi:10.1016/0167-7152(83)90051-2> "A Simple Diagonals-Parameter Symmetry And Quasi-Symmetry Model", Agrestim A. (1983) <doi:10.2307/2531022> "Testing Marginal Homogeneity for Ordinal Categorical Variables", Agresti, A. (1988) <doi:10.2307/2531866> "A Model For Agreement Between Ratings On An Ordinal Scale", Agresti, A. (1989) <doi:10.1016/0167-7152(89)90104-1> "An Agreement Model With Kappa As Parameter", Agresti, A. (2010 ISBN:978-0470082898) "Analysis Of Ordinal Categorical Data", Bhapkar, V. P. (1966) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1966.10502021> "A Note On The Equivalence Of Two Test Criteria For Hypotheses In Categorical Data", Bhapkar, V. P. (1979) <doi:10.2307/2530344> "On Tests Of Marginal Symmetry And Quasi-Symmetry In Two And Three-Dimensional Contingency Tables", Bowker, A. H. (1948) <doi:10.2307/2280710> "A Test For Symmetry In Contingency Tables", Clayton, D. G. (1974) <doi:10.2307/2335638> "Some Odds Ratio Statistics For The Analysis Of Ordered Categorical Data", Cliff, N. (1993) <doi:10.1037/0033-2909.114.3.494> "Dominance Statistics: Ordinal Analyses To Answer Ordinal Questions", Cliff, N. (1996 ISBN:978-0805813333) "Ordinal Methods For Behavioral Data Analysis", Goodman, L. A. (1979) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1979.10481650> "Simple Models For The Analysis Of Association In Cross-Classifications Having Ordered Categories", Goodman, L. A. (1979) <doi:10.2307/2335159> "Multiplicative Models For Square Contingency Tables With Ordered Categories", Ireland, C. T., Ku, H. H., & Kullback, S. (1969) <doi:10.2307/2286071> "Symmetry And Marginal Homogeneity Of An r à r Contingency Table", Ishi-kuntz, M. (1994 ISBN:978-0803943766) "Ordinal Log-linear Models", McCullah, P. (1977) <doi:10.2307/2345320> "A Logistic Model For Paired Comparisons With Ordered Categorical Data", McCullagh, P. (1978) <doi:10.2307/2335224> A Class Of Parametric Models For The Analysis Of Square Contingency Tables With Ordered Categories", McCullagh, P. (1980) <doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1980.tb01109.x> "Regression Models For Ordinal Data", Penn State: Eberly College of Science (undated) <https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat504/lesson/11> "Stat 504: Analysis of Discrete Data, 11. Advanced Topics I", Schuster, C. (2001) <doi:10.3102/10769986026003331> "Kappa As A Parameter Of A Symmetry Model For Rater Agreement", Shoukri, M. M. (2004 ISBN:978-1584883210). "Measures Of Interobserver Agreement", Stuart, A. (1953) <doi:10.2307/2333101> "The Estimation Of And Comparison Of Strengths Of Association In Contingency Tables", Stuart, A. (1955) <doi:10.2307/2333387> "A Test For Homogeneity Of The Marginal Distributions In A Two-Way Classification", von Eye, A., & Mun, E. Y. (2005 ISBN:978-0805849677) "Analyzing Rater Agreement: Manifest Variable Methods".

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