This package provides functions for performing set-theoretic multi-method research, QCA for clustered data, theory evaluation, Enhanced Standard Analysis, indirect calibration, radar visualisations. Additionally it includes data to replicate the examples in the books by Oana, I.E, C. Q. Schneider, and E. Thomann. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R: A Beginner's Guide. Cambridge University Press and C. Q. Schneider and C. Wagemann "Set Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences", Cambridge University Press.

This package provides functions to compute split generalized linear models. The approach fits generalized linear models that split the covariates into groups. The optimal split of the variables into groups and the regularized estimation of the coefficients are performed by minimizing an objective function that encourages sparsity within each group and diversity among them. Example applications can be found in Christidis et al. (2021) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2102.08591>.

An end-to-end toolkit for land use and land cover classification using big Earth observation data. Builds satellite image data cubes from cloud collections. Supports visualization methods for images and time series and smoothing filters for dealing with noisy time series. Enables merging of multi-source imagery (SAR, optical, DEM). Includes functions for quality assessment of training samples using self-organized maps and to reduce training samples imbalance. Provides machine learning algorithms including support vector machines, random forests, extreme gradient boosting, multi-layer perceptrons, temporal convolution neural networks, and temporal attention encoders. Performs efficient classification of big Earth observation data cubes and includes functions for post-classification smoothing based on Bayesian inference. Enables best practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change. Includes object-based spatio-temporal segmentation for space-time OBIA. Minimum recommended requirements: 16 GB RAM and 4 CPU dual-core.

Analyse light spectra for visual and non-visual (often called melanopic) needs, wrapped up in a Shiny App. Spectran allows for the import of spectra in various CSV forms but also provides a wide range of example spectra and even the creation of own spectral power distributions. The goal of the app is to provide easy access and a visual overview of the spectral calculations underlying common parameters used in the field. It is thus ideal for educational purposes or the creation of presentation ready graphs in lighting research and application. Spectran uses equations and action spectra described in CIE S026 (2018) <doi:10.25039/S026.2018>, DIN/TS 5031-100 (2021) <doi:10.31030/3287213>, and ISO/CIE 23539 (2023) <doi:10.25039/IS0.CIE.23539.2023>.

Inference in a Bayesian framework for a generalised stochastic block model. The generalised stochastic block model (SBM) can capture group structure in network data without requiring conjugate priors on the edge-states. Two sampling methods are provided to perform inference on edge parameters and block structure: a split-merge Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm and a Dirichlet process sampler. Green, Richardson (2001) <doi:10.1111/1467-9469.00242>; Neal (2000) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2000.10474879>; Ludkin (2019) <arXiv:1909.09421>.

User-friendly framework that enables the training and the evaluation of species distribution models (SDMs). The package implements functions for data driven variable selection and model tuning and includes numerous utilities to display the results. All the functions used to select variables or to tune model hyperparameters have an interactive real-time chart displayed in the RStudio viewer pane during their execution.

It provides the density and random number generator for the Scale-Shape Mixtures of Skew-Normal Distributions proposed by Jamalizadeh and Lin (2016) <doi:10.1007/s00180-016-0691-1>.

Collect your data on digital marketing campaigns from Snapchat Ads using the Windsor.ai API <https://windsor.ai/api-fields/>.

The aim of most plant breeding programmes is simultaneous improvement of several characters. An objective method involving simultaneous selection for several attributes then becomes necessary. It has been recognised that most rapid improvements in the economic value is expected from selection applied simultaneously to all the characters which determine the economic value of a plant, and appropriate assigned weights to each character according to their economic importance, heritability and correlations between characters. So the selection for economic value is a complex matter. If the component characters are combined together into an index in such a way that when selection is applied to the index, as if index is the character to be improved, most rapid improvement of economic value is expected. Such an index was first proposed by Smith (1937 <doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1936.tb02143.x>) based on the Fisher's (1936 <doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1936.tb02137.x>) "discriminant function" Dabholkar (1999 <https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mlFtumAXQ0oC&lpg=PA4&ots=Xgxp1qLuxS&dq=elements%20of%20biometrical%20genetics&lr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false>). In this package selection index is calculated based on the Smith (1937) selection index method.

Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers for posterior simulations of conjugate Bayesian nonparametric mixture models. Functionality is provided for Gibbs sampling as in Algorithm 3 of Neal (2000) <DOI:10.1080/10618600.2000.10474879>, restricted Gibbs merge-split sampling as described in Jain & Neal (2004) <DOI:10.1198/1061860043001>, and sequentially-allocated merge-split sampling <DOI:10.1080/00949655.2021.1998502>, as well as summary and utility functions.

Regression-based ranking of pathogen strains with respect to their contributions to natural epidemics, using demographic and genetic data sampled in the curse of the epidemics. This package also includes the GMCPIC test.

This package provides functions to calculate step- and cadence-based metrics from timestamped accelerometer and wearable device data. Supports CSV and AGD files from ActiGraph devices, CSV files from Fitbit devices, and step counts derived with R package GGIR <https://github.com/wadpac/GGIR>, with automatic handling of epoch lengths from 1 to 60 seconds. Metrics include total steps, cadence peaks, minutes and steps in predefined cadence bands, and time and steps in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Methods and thresholds are informed by the literature, e.g., Tudor-Locke and Rowe (2012) <doi:10.2165/11599170-000000000-00000>, Barreira et al. (2012) <doi:10.1249/MSS.0b013e318254f2a3>, and Tudor-Locke et al. (2018) <doi:10.1136/bjsports-2017-097628>. The package record is also available on Zenodo (2023) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.7858094>.

Flexible stochastic tree ensemble software. Robust implementations of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) Chipman, George, McCulloch (2010) <doi:10.1214/09-AOAS285> for supervised learning and Bayesian Causal Forests (BCF) Hahn, Murray, Carvalho (2020) <doi:10.1214/19-BA1195> for causal inference. Enables model serialization and parallel sampling and provides a low-level interface for custom stochastic forest samplers.

Two versions of sample variance plots, Sv-plot1 and Sv-plot2, will be provided illustrating the squared deviations from sample variance. Besides indicating the contribution of squared deviations for the sample variability, these plots are capable of detecting characteristics of the distribution such as symmetry, skewness and outliers. A remarkable graphical method based on Sv-plot2 can determine the decision on testing hypotheses over one or two population means. In sum, Sv-plots will be appealing visualization tools. Complete description of this methodology can be found in the article, Wijesuriya (2020) <doi:10.1080/03610918.2020.1851716>.

Estimates the coefficients of the two-time centered autologistic regression model based on Gegout-Petit A., Guerin-Dubrana L., Li S. "A new centered spatio-temporal autologistic regression model. Application to local spread of plant diseases." 2019. <arXiv:1811.06782>, using a grid of binary variables to estimate the spread of a disease on the grid over the years.

Unsupervised text tokenizer allowing to perform byte pair encoding and unigram modelling. Wraps the sentencepiece library <https://github.com/google/sentencepiece> which provides a language independent tokenizer to split text in words and smaller subword units. The techniques are explained in the paper "SentencePiece: A simple and language independent subword tokenizer and detokenizer for Neural Text Processing" by Taku Kudo and John Richardson (2018) <doi:10.18653/v1/D18-2012>. Provides as well straightforward access to pretrained byte pair encoding models and subword embeddings trained on Wikipedia using word2vec', as described in "BPEmb: Tokenization-free Pre-trained Subword Embeddings in 275 Languages" by Benjamin Heinzerling and Michael Strube (2018) <http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/pdf/1049.pdf>.

This package implements the algorithm described in Barron, M., Zhang, S. and Li, J. 2017, "A sparse differential clustering algorithm for tracing cell type changes via single-cell RNA-sequencing data", Nucleic Acids Research, gkx1113, <doi:10.1093/nar/gkx1113>. This algorithm clusters samples from two different populations, links the clusters across the conditions and identifies marker genes for these changes. The package was designed for scRNA-Seq data but is also applicable to many other data types, just replace cells with samples and genes with variables. The package also contains functions for estimating the parameters for SparseDC as outlined in the paper. We recommend that users further select their marker genes using the magnitude of the cluster centers.

This package provides a curated set of colors that are called using a standardized syntax: saturation + hue + lightness. For example, "brightblue4" and "mutedred2". Functions exists to return individual colors by name or to build palettes across or within hues. Most functions allow you to visualize the palettes in addition to returning the desired hex codes.

Perform variable selection for the spatial Poisson regression model under the adaptive elastic net penalty. Spatial count data with covariates is the input. We use a spatial Poisson regression model to link the spatial counts and covariates. For maximization of the likelihood under adaptive elastic net penalty, we implemented the penalized quasi-likelihood (PQL) and the approximate penalized loglikelihood (APL) methods. The proposed methods can automatically select important covariates, while adjusting for possible spatial correlations among the responses. More details are available in Xie et al. (2018, <arXiv:1809.06418>). The package also contains the Lyme disease dataset, which consists of the disease case data from 2006 to 2011, and demographic data and land cover data in Virginia. The Lyme disease case data were collected by the Virginia Department of Health. The demographic data (e.g., population density, median income, and average age) are from the 2010 census. Land cover data were obtained from the Multi-Resolution Land Cover Consortium for 2006.

An algorithm to cluster satellite hot spot data spatially and temporally.

Set of tools to find coherent patterns in gene expression (microarray) data using a Bayesian Sparse Latent Factor Model (SLFM) <DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-12454-4_15>. Considerable effort has been put to build a fast and memory efficient package, which makes this proposal an interesting and computationally convenient alternative to study patterns of gene expressions exhibited in matrices. The package contains the implementation of two versions of the model based on different mixture priors for the loadings: one relies on a degenerate component at zero and the other uses a small variance normal distribution for the spike part of the mixture.

This program calculates bioclimatic indices and fluxes (radiation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture) for use in studies of ecosystem function, species distribution, and vegetation dynamics under changing climate scenarios. Predictions are based on a minimum of required inputs: latitude, precipitation, air temperature, and cloudiness. Davis et al. (2017) <doi:10.5194/gmd-10-689-2017>.

Estimation of robust estimators for multi-group and spatial data including the casewise robust Spatially Smoothed Minimum Regularized Determinant (ssMRCD) estimator and its usage for local outlier detection as described in Puchhammer and Filzmoser (2023) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2023.2277875> as well as for sparse robust PCA for multi-source data described in Puchhammer, Wilms and Filzmoser (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2407.16299>. Moreover, a cellwise robust multi-group Gaussian mixture model (MG-GMM) is implemented as described in Puchhammer, Wilms and Filzmoser (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2504.02547>. Included are also complementary visualization and parameter tuning tools.

This package implements the methodological developments found in Hermes, van Heerwaarden, and Behrouzi (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2308.04325>, and allows for the statistical modeling of asymmetric between-location effects, as well as within-location effects using spatial autoregressive graphical models. The package allows for the generation of spatial weight matrices to capture asymmetric effects for strip-type intercropping designs, although it can handle any type of spatial data commonly found in other sciences.