Heuristic methods to solve the routing problems in a warehouse management. Package includes several heuristics such as the Midpoint, Return, S-Shape and Semi-Optimal Heuristics for designation of the pickerâ s route in order picking. The heuristics aim to provide the acceptable travel distances while considering warehouse layout constraints such as aisles and shelves. It also includes implementation of the COPRAS (COmplex PRoportional ASsessment) method for supporting selection of locations to be visited by the picker in shared storage systems. The package is designed to facilitate more efficient warehouse routing and logistics operations. see: Bartholdi, J. J., Hackman, S. T. (2019). "WAREHOUSE & DISTRIBUTION SCIENCE. Release 0.98.1." The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute. H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Georgia Institute of Technology. <https://www.warehouse-science.com/book/editions/wh-sci-0.98.1.pdf>.

Bayesian MCPMod (Fleischer et al. (2022) <doi:10.1002/pst.2193>) is an innovative method that improves the traditional MCPMod by systematically incorporating historical data, such as previous placebo group data. This package offers functions for simulating, analyzing, and evaluating Bayesian MCPMod trials with normally and binary distributed endpoints. It enables the assessment of trial designs incorporating historical data across various true dose-response relationships and sample sizes. Robust mixture prior distributions, such as those derived with the Meta-Analytic-Predictive approach (Schmidli et al. (2014) <doi:10.1111/biom.12242>), can be specified for each dose group. Resulting mixture posterior distributions are used in the Bayesian Multiple Comparison Procedure and modeling steps. The modeling step also includes a weighted model averaging approach (Pinheiro et al. (2014) <doi:10.1002/sim.6052>). Estimated dose-response relationships can be bootstrapped and visualized.

This package provides reusable functions for aggregated cluster-period data, mixed-effects analysis, and simulation-based power and type I error evaluation in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials. The design and mixed-effects analysis follow Hussey and Hughes (2007) <doi:10.1016/j.cct.2006.05.007>. Intraclass correlations for binary outcomes are converted to logistic-normal random-intercept standard deviations following Eldridge, Ukoumunne and Carlin (2009) <doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2009.00092.x>. Monte Carlo uncertainty in estimated power is summarized using the exact binomial interval of Clopper and Pearson (1934) <doi:10.1093/biomet/26.4.404>. The simulation engine supports sequence-specific baseline risks, cluster random effects, direct intraclass-correlation specification, Monte Carlo uncertainty intervals, and model-fitting diagnostics. Applied physician and specialty helpers are retained for backward compatibility and for an example health-services workflow.

Visualization of antibody titer scores is valuable for examination of vaccination effects. AntibodyTiters visualizes antibody titers of all or selected patients. This package also produces empty excel files in a specified format, in which users can fill in experimental data for visualization. Excel files with toy data can also be produced, so that users can see how it is visualized before obtaining real data. The data should contain titer scores at pre-vaccination, after-1st shot, after-2nd shot, and at least one additional sampling points. Patients with missing values can be included. The first two sampling points (pre-vaccination and after-1st shot) will be plotted discretely, whereas those following will be plotted on a continuous time scale that starts from the day of second shot. Half-life of titer can also be calculated for each pair of sampling points.

This package contains functions that allow Bayesian inference on a parameter of some widely-used exponential models. The functions can generate independent samples from the closed-form posterior distribution using the inverse stable prior. Inverse stable is a non-conjugate prior for a parameter of an exponential subclass of discrete and continuous data distributions (e.g. Poisson, exponential, inverse gamma, double exponential (Laplace), half-normal/half-Gaussian, etc.). The prior class provides flexibility in capturing a wide array of prior beliefs (right-skewed and left-skewed) as modulated by a parameter that is bounded in (0,1). The generated samples can be used to simulate the prior and posterior predictive distributions. More details can be found in Cahoy and Sedransk (2019) <doi:10.1007/s42519-018-0027-2>. The package can also be used as a teaching demo for introductory Bayesian courses.

Leverages the high-performance GeoArrow memory layout to render potentially very large Deck.gl data layers on a maplibregl'/'mapboxgl map created with R package mapgl'. The heavy lifting is done on the JavaScript side in the browser using deck.gl-geoarrow (<https://github.com/geoarrow/deck.gl-geoarrow/>). Currently provides functions for adding Scatterplot (points), Path (lines) and Polygon (polygons) layers. Has support for data classes from R packages wk and sf'. In addition, convenience functions for styling data, tooltips and popups, as well as layer management are provided. Furthermore, remotely hosted GeoParquet and GeoArrow files can be visualised directly in the browser, without the need to first read them into R memory. Only the styling instructions are prepared by the user in R and are then transferred to and applied in the browser as the data arrives.

This package provides a multiple-response chi-square framework for the analysis of contingency tables arising from multiple-response questionnaires, such as check-all-that-apply tasks, where response options are crossed with a known grouping factor. The framework accommodates within-block (e.g., within-subject) designs, as commonly encountered in sensory evaluation. It comprises a multiple-response chi-square test of homogeneity with an associated dimensionality test, a multiple-response Correspondence Analysis (CA), and per-cell multiple-response hypergeometric tests. These methods extend their classical counterparts by grounding inference in a null model that properly accounts for the multiple-response nature of the data, treating evaluations, rather than individual citations, as the experimental units, yielding more statistically valid conclusions than standard contingency table analyses. Details may be found in Mahieu, Schlich, Visalli, and Cardot (2021). <doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104256>.

This package provides tools for importing, harmonising, cleaning, analysing, benchmarking and visualising National Health Service (NHS) England Cancer Waiting Times data. The package supports national performance monitoring, provider-level benchmarking and cancer pathway comparisons through key performance indicator summaries, provider filtering, clustering analyses, mixed-effects regression models, variance decomposition, intraclass correlation coefficient estimation, adjusted provider performance estimation and sensitivity analyses. Functions are included for exploratory analysis, publication-ready visualisations and spreadsheet exports, supporting reproducible health services research, cancer services evaluation, quality improvement and assessment of waiting-time performance across healthcare organisations. Mixed-effects modelling functionality is based on Bates et al. (2015) <doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01>. Multilevel modelling concepts and variance decomposition follow Gelman and Hill (2007, ISBN:9780521686891). Cancer Waiting Times definitions and reporting standards follow NHS England <https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/>.

Sample size estimations for MRMC studies based on the Obuchowski-Rockette (OR) methodology is implemented. The function can calculate sample sizes where the endpoint of interest in the study is either ROC AUC (Area-Under-the-Receiver-Operating-Characteristics-Curve) or sensitivity. The package can also return sample sizes for studies expected to have clustering effect (e.g.- multiple pulmonary nodules per patient). All calculations assume that the study design is fully crossed (paired-reader, paired-case) where each reader reads/interprets each case and that there are two interventions/imaging-modalities/techniques in the study. In addition to MRMC, it can also be used to estimate sample sizes for standalone studies where sensitivity or AUC are the primary endpoints. The methods implemented are based on the methods described in Zhou et.al. (2011) <doi:10.1002/9780470906514> and Obuchowski (2000) <doi:10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181a663cc>.

This package provides a supervised learning algorithm inputs a train set, and outputs a prediction function, which can be used on a test set. If each data point belongs to a subset (such as geographic region, year, etc), then how do we know if subsets are similar enough so that we can get accurate predictions on one subset, after training on Other subsets? And how do we know if training on All subsets would improve prediction accuracy, relative to training on the Same subset? SOAK, Same/Other/All K-fold cross-validation, <doi:10.1002/sam.70055> can be used to answer these questions, by fixing a test subset, training models on Same/Other/All subsets, and then comparing test error rates (Same versus Other and Same versus All). Also provides code for estimating how many train samples are required to get accurate predictions on a test set.

Speed up common tasks, particularly logical or relational comparisons and routine follow up tasks such as finding the indices and subsetting. Inspired by mathematics, where something like: 3 < x < 6 is a standard, elegant and clear way to assert that x is both greater than 3 and less than 6 (see for example <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_operator>), a chaining operator is implemented. The chaining operator, %c%, allows multiple relational operations to be used in quotes on the right hand side for the same object, on the left hand side. The %e% operator allows something like set-builder notation (see for example <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-builder_notation>) to be used on the right hand side. Operators have built in prefixes defined for all, any, subset, and which to reduce the amount of code needed for common tasks, such as return those values that are true.

Enables computationally efficient parameters-estimation by variational Bayesian methods for various diagnostic classification models (DCMs). DCMs are a class of discrete latent variable models for classifying respondents into latent classes that typically represent distinct combinations of skills they possess. Recently, to meet the growing need of large-scale diagnostic measurement in the field of educational, psychological, and psychiatric measurements, variational Bayesian inference has been developed as a computationally efficient alternative to the Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, e.g., Yamaguchi and Okada (2020a) <doi:10.1007/s11336-020-09739-w>, Yamaguchi and Okada (2020b) <doi:10.3102/1076998620911934>, Yamaguchi (2020) <doi:10.1007/s41237-020-00104-w>, Oka and Okada (2023) <doi:10.1007/s11336-022-09884-4>, and Yamaguchi and Martinez (2023) <doi:10.1111/bmsp.12308>. To facilitate their applications, variationalDCM is developed to provide a collection of recently-proposed variational Bayesian estimation methods for various DCMs.

We present a range of simulations to aid researchers in determining appropriate sample sizes when performing critical thermal limits studies (e.g. CTmin/CTmin experiments). A number of wrapper functions are provided for plotting and summarising outputs from these simulations. This package is presented in van Steenderen, C.J.M., Sutton, G.F., Owen, C.A., Martin, G.D., and Coetzee, J.A. Sample size assessments for thermal physiology studies: An R package and R Shiny application. 2023. Physiological Entomology. <doi:10.1111/phen.12416>. The GUI version of this package is available on the R Shiny online server at: <https://clarkevansteenderen.shinyapps.io/ThermalSampleR_Shiny/> , or it is accessible via GitHub at <https://github.com/clarkevansteenderen/ThermalSampleR_Shiny/>. We would like to thank Grant Duffy (University of Otago, Dundedin, New Zealand) for granting us permission to use the source code for the Test of Total Equivalency function.

Plots traced ultrasound tongue imaging data according to a polar coordinate system. There is currently support for plotting means and standard deviations of each category's trace; Smoothing Splines Analysis of Variance (SSANOVA) could be implemented as well. The origin of the polar coordinates may be defined manually or automatically determined based on different algorithms. Points for each category can be split into two groups (anterior and posterior) at the point of maximum curvature of each trace. User can specify rays to intersect various parts of the tongue; intersections along these rays serve as input for a pairwise t-test to measure significant contrasts between segments. Currently ultrapolaRplot supports ultrasound tongue imaging trace data from UltraTrace (<https://github.com/SwatPhonLab/UltraTrace>). UltraTrace is capable of importing data from Articulate Instruments AAA. read_textgrid.R is required for opening TextGrids to determine category and alignment information of ultrasound traces.

Compute the frequency distribution of a search term in a series of texts. For example, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a total of 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, comprised of 54 short stories and 4 longer novels. I wanted to test my own subjective impression that, in many of the stories, Sherlock Holmes popularity was used as bait to induce the reader to read a story that is essentially not primarily a Sherlock Holmes story. I used the term "Holmes" as a search pattern, since Watson would frequently address him by name, or use his name to describe something that he was doing. My hypothesis is that the frequency distribution of the search pattern "Holmes" is a good proxy for the degree to which a story is or is not truly a Sherlock Holmes story. The results are presented in a manuscript that is available as a vignette and online at <https://barryzee.github.io/Concordance/index.html>.

We propose an age-dependent topic modelling (ATM) model, providing a low-rank representation of longitudinal records of hundreds of distinct diseases in large electronic health record data sets. The model assigns to each individual topic weights for several disease topics; each disease topic reflects a set of diseases that tend to co-occur as a function of age, quantified by age-dependent topic loadings for each disease. The model assumes that for each disease diagnosis, a topic is sampled based on the individualâ s topic weights (which sum to 1 across topics, for a given individual), and a disease is sampled based on the individualâ s age and the age-dependent topic loadings (which sum to 1 across diseases, for a given topic at a given age). The model generalises the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model by allowing topic loadings for each topic to vary with age. References: Jiang (2023) <doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01522-8>.

Providing easy, portable access to NASA EarthData products through the use of bearer tokens. Much of NASA's public data catalogs hosted and maintained by its 12 Distributed Active Archive Centers ('DAACs') are now made available on the Amazon Web Services S3 storage. However, accessing this data through the standard S3 API is restricted to only to compute resources running inside us-west-2 Data Center in Portland, Oregon, which allows NASA to avoid being charged data egress rates. This package provides public access to the data from any networked device by using the EarthData login application programming interface (API), <https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/earthdata-login>, providing convenient authentication and access to cloud-hosted NASA EarthData products. This makes access to a wide range of earth observation data from any location straight forward and compatible with R packages that are widely used with cloud native earth observation data (such as terra', sf', etc.).

Weather indices represent the overall weekly effect of a weather variable on crop yield throughout the cropping season. This package contains functions that can convert the weekly weather data into yearly weighted Weather indices with weights being the correlation coefficient between weekly weather data over the years and crop yield over the years. This can be done for an individual weather variable and for two weather variables at a time as the interaction effect. This method was first devised by Jain, RC, Agrawal R, and Jha, MP (1980), "Effect of climatic variables on rice yield and its forecast",MAUSAM, 31(4), 591â 596, <doi:10.54302/mausam.v31i4.3477>. Later, the method have been used by various researchers and the latest can found in Gupta, AK, Sarkar, KA, Dhakre, DS, & Bhattacharya, D (2022), "Weather Based Potato Yield Modelling using Statistical and Machine Learning Technique",Environment and Ecology, 40(3B), 1444â 1449,<https://www.environmentandecology.com/volume-40-2022>.

QuaternaryProd is an R package that performs causal reasoning on biological networks, including publicly available networks such as STRINGdb. QuaternaryProd is an open-source alternative to commercial products such as Inginuity Pathway Analysis. For a given a set of differentially expressed genes, QuaternaryProd computes the significance of upstream regulators in the network by performing causal reasoning using the Quaternary Dot Product Scoring Statistic (Quaternary Statistic), Ternary Dot product Scoring Statistic (Ternary Statistic) and Fisher's exact test (Enrichment test). The Quaternary Statistic handles signed, unsigned and ambiguous edges in the network. Ambiguity arises when the direction of causality is unknown, or when the source node (e.g., a protein) has edges with conflicting signs for the same target gene. On the other hand, the Ternary Statistic provides causal reasoning using the signed and unambiguous edges only. The Vignette provides more details on the Quaternary Statistic and illustrates an example of how to perform causal reasoning using STRINGdb.

In searching for research articles, we often want to obtain lists of references from across studies, and also obtain lists of articles that cite a particular study. In systematic reviews, this supplementary search technique is known as citation chasing': forward citation chasing looks for all records citing one or more articles of known relevance; backward citation chasing looks for all records referenced in one or more articles. Traditionally, this process would be done manually, and the resulting records would need to be checked one-by-one against included studies in a review to identify potentially relevant records that should be included in a review. This package contains functions to automate this process by making use of the Lens.org API. An input article list can be used to return a list of all referenced records, and/or all citing records in the Lens.org database (consisting of PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Microsoft Academic Graph and CORE; <https://www.lens.org>).

This package provides functions for an assortment of factor analysis-related procedures, including eleven procedures for determining the number of factors; for factor analysis with multiple options for methods of extraction and rotation; for bi-factor analysis; for extension factor analysis; options for running the analyses using either raw data or correlation matrices as input and with options for conducting the analyses using Pearson correlations, Kendall correlations, Spearman correlations, gamma correlations, or polychoric correlations; wrapper lavaan'-based functions for factorial invariance and exploratory structural equation modeling; functions for the factor-ability of a correlation matrix, for the congruence between factors from different datasets, for the assessment of local independence, for the assessment of factor solution complexity, for internal consistency, and for correcting Pearson correlation coefficients for attenuation due to unreliability. Auerswald & Moshagen (2019, <doi:10.1037/met0000200>); Field, Miles, & Field (2012, ISBN:978-1-4462-0045-2); Mulaik (2010, ISBN:978-1-4200-9981-2); O'Connor (2000, <doi:10.3758/bf03200807>).

This package provides comprehensive analytics, reporting, and testing capabilities for systematic review search strategies. The package focuses on validating search performance, generating standardized PRISMA'-compliant reports, and ensuring reproducibility in evidence synthesis. Features include precision-recall analysis, cross-database performance comparison, benchmark validation against gold standards, sensitivity analysis, temporal coverage assessment, automated report generation, and statistical comparison of search strategies. Supports multiple export formats including CSV', Excel', RIS', BibTeX', and EndNote'. Includes tools for duplicate detection, search strategy optimization, cross-validation frameworks, meta-analysis of benchmark results, power analysis for study design, and reproducibility package creation. Optionally connects to PubMed for direct database searching and real-time strategy comparison using the E-utilities API'. Enhanced with bootstrap comparison methods, McNemar test for strategy evaluation, and comprehensive visualization tools for performance assessment. Methods based on Manning et al. (2008) for information retrieval metrics, Moher et al. (2009) for PRISMA guidelines, and Sampson et al. (2006) for systematic review search methodology.

Recast is state of the art navigation mesh construction toolset for games.

• It is automatic, which means that you can throw any level geometry at it and you will get robust mesh out.

• It is fast which means swift turnaround times for level designers.

The Recast process starts with constructing a voxel mold from a level geometry and then casting a navigation mesh over it. The process consists of three steps, building the voxel mold, partitioning the mold into simple regions, peeling off the regions as simple polygons.

Recast is accompanied with Detour, path-finding and spatial reasoning toolkit. You can use any navigation mesh with Detour, but of course the data generated with Recast fits perfectly.

Detour offers simple static navigation mesh which is suitable for many simple cases, as well as tiled navigation mesh which allows you to plug in and out pieces of the mesh. The tiled mesh allows you to create systems where you stream new navigation data in and out as the player progresses the level, or you may regenerate tiles as the world changes.

An implementation of a method of extending a logistic regression model beyond linear effects of the co-variates. The extension in is constructed by first equating the logistic regression model to a naive Bayes model where all the margins are specified to follow natural exponential distributions conditional on Y, that is, a model for Y given X that is specified through the distribution of X given Y, where the columns of X are assumed to be mutually independent conditional on Y. Subsequently, the model is expanded by adding vine - copulas to relax the assumption of mutual independence, where pair-copulas are added in a stage-wise, forward selection manner. Some heuristics are employed during the process of selecting edges, as well as the families of pair-copula models. After each component is added, the parameters are updated by a (smaller) number of gradient steps to maximise the likelihood. When the algorithm has stopped adding edges, based the criterion that a new edge should improve the likelihood more than k times the number new parameters, the parameters are updated with a larger number of gradient steps, or until convergence.