An introduction to a couple of novel predictive variable selection methods for generalised boosted regression modeling (gbm). They are based on various variable influence methods (i.e., relative variable influence (RVI) and knowledge informed RVI (i.e., KIRVI, and KIRVI2)) that adopted similar ideas as AVI, KIAVI and KIAVI2 in the steprf package, and also based on predictive accuracy in stepwise algorithms. For details of the variable selection methods, please see: Li, J., Siwabessy, J., Huang, Z. and Nichol, S. (2019) <doi:10.3390/geosciences9040180>. Li, J., Alvarez, B., Siwabessy, J., Tran, M., Huang, Z., Przeslawski, R., Radke, L., Howard, F., Nichol, S. (2017). <DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27686.22085>.

This package contains an implementation of invariant causal prediction for sequential data. The main function in the package is seqICP', which performs linear sequential invariant causal prediction and has guaranteed type I error control. For non-linear dependencies the package also contains a non-linear method seqICPnl', which allows to input any regression procedure and performs tests based on a permutation approach that is only approximately correct. In order to test whether an individual set S is invariant the package contains the subroutines seqICP.s and seqICPnl.s corresponding to the respective main methods.

This package provides methods for statistical disclosure control in tabular data such as primary and secondary cell suppression as described for example in Hundepol et al. (2012) <doi:10.1002/9781118348239> are covered in this package.

This package provides a supervised compression method that incorporates the response for reducing big data to a carefully selected subset. Please see Joseph and Mak (2021) <doi:10.1002/sam.11508>. This research is supported by a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant CMMI-1921646.

Optimized prediction based on textual sentiment, accounting for the intrinsic challenge that sentiment can be computed and pooled across texts and time in various ways. See Ardia et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v099.i02>.

The functions allow for the numerical evaluation of some commonly used entropy measures, such as Shannon entropy, Rényi entropy, Havrda and Charvat entropy, and Arimoto entropy, at selected parametric values from several well-known and widely used probability distributions. Moreover, the functions also compute the relative loss of these entropies using the truncated distributions. Related works include: Awad, A. M., & Alawneh, A. J. (1987). Application of entropy to a life-time model. IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 4(2), 143-148. <doi:10.1093/imamci/4.2.143>.

This package provides a computational framework for analyzing mutations in immunoglobulin (Ig) sequences. Includes methods for Bayesian estimation of antigen-driven selection pressure, mutational load quantification, building of somatic hypermutation (SHM) models, and model-dependent distance calculations. Also includes empirically derived models of SHM for both mice and humans. Citations: Gupta and Vander Heiden, et al (2015) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv359>, Yaari, et al (2012) <doi:10.1093/nar/gks457>, Yaari, et al (2013) <doi:10.3389/fimmu.2013.00358>, Cui, et al (2016) <doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1502263>.

This package provides a systematic bioinformatics tool to perform single-sample mutation-based pathway analysis by integrating somatic mutation data with the Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) network. In this method, we use local and global weighted strategies to evaluate the effects of network genes from mutations according to the network topology and then calculate the mutation-based pathway enrichment score (ssMutPES) to reflect the accumulated effect of mutations of each pathway. Subsequently, the ssMutPES profiles are used for unsupervised spectral clustering to identify cancer subtypes.

This package provides a dynamic timer control (DTC) is a shiny widget that enables time-based processes in applications. It allows users to execute these processes manually in individual steps or at customizable speeds. The timer can be paused, resumed, or restarted. This control is particularly well-suited for simulations, animations, countdowns, or interactive visualizations.

This package provides functionality for analytically calculating parameters (via the InteractionPoweR package) useful for simulation of moderated multiple regression, based on the correlations among the predictors and outcome and the reliability of predictors.

Fits Bayesian hierarchical spatial and spatial-temporal process models for point-referenced Gaussian, Poisson, binomial, and binary data using stacking of predictive densities. It involves sampling from analytically available posterior distributions conditional upon candidate values of the spatial process parameters and, subsequently assimilate inference from these individual posterior distributions using Bayesian predictive stacking. Our algorithm is highly parallelizable and hence, much faster than traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms while delivering competitive predictive performance. See Zhang, Tang, and Banerjee (2025) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2025.2566449>, and, Pan, Zhang, Bradley, and Banerjee (2025) <doi:10.1214/25-BA1582> for details.

Estimate Bayesian nested mixture models via Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Specifically, the package implements the common atoms model (Denti et al., 2023), and hybrid finite-infinite models. All models use Gaussian mixtures with a normal-inverse-gamma prior distribution on the parameters. Additional functions are provided to help analyzing the results of the fitting procedure. References: Denti, Camerlenghi, Guindani, Mira (2023) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2021.1933499>, Dâ Angelo, Denti (2024) <doi:10.1214/24-BA1458>.

This package implements the generalized semi-supervised elastic-net. This method extends the supervised elastic-net problem, and thus it is a practical solution to the problem of feature selection in semi-supervised contexts. Its mathematical formulation is presented from a general perspective, covering a wide range of models. We focus on linear and logistic responses, but the implementation could be easily extended to other losses in generalized linear models. We develop a flexible and fast implementation, written in C++ using RcppArmadillo and integrated into R via Rcpp modules. See Culp, M. 2013 <doi:10.1080/10618600.2012.657139> for references on the Joint Trained Elastic-Net.

Fast computation of multivariate analyses of small (10s to 100s markers) to big (1000s to 100000s) genotype data. Runs Principal Component Analysis allowing for centering, z-score standardization and scaling for genetic drift, projection of ancient samples to modern genetic space and multivariate tests for differences in group location (Permutation-Based Multivariate Analysis of Variance) and dispersion (Permutation-Based Multivariate Analysis of Dispersion).

In Shiny apps, it is sometimes useful to see a plot or a table in full screen. Using Shinyfullscreen', you can easily designate the HTML elements that can be displayed on fullscreen and use buttons to trigger the fullscreen view.

Integration of two data sources referred to the same target population which share a number of variables. Some functions can also be used to impute missing values in data sets through hot deck imputation methods. Methods to perform statistical matching when dealing with data from complex sample surveys are available too.

This package provides an R and shiny interface to the Web Awesome component library. The package is generator-driven, exposing Web Awesome web components as R functions that produce HTML tags and integrate with the reactive model that shiny uses.

This package provides a metric expressing the quality of a UMAP layout. This is a package that contains the Saturn_coefficient() function that reads an input matrix, its dimensionality reduction produced by UMAP, and evaluates the quality of this dimensionality reduction by producing a real value in the [0; 1] interval. We call this real value Saturn coefficient. A higher value means better dimensionality reduction; a lower value means worse dimensionality reduction. Reference: Davide Chicco et al. (February 2026), "The advantages of our proposed Saturn coefficient over continuity and trustworthiness for UMAP dimensionality reduction evaluation", PeerJ Computer Science 12:e3424 (pp. 1-30), <doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.3424>.

This package provides a pipeline to perform small area estimation and prevalence mapping of binary indicators using health and demographic survey data, described in Fuglstad et al. (2022) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2110.09576> and Wakefield et al. (2020) <doi:10.1111/insr.12400>.

This package provides a fast and flexible set of tools for large scale estimation. It features many stochastic gradient methods, built-in models, visualization tools, automated hyperparameter tuning, model checking, interval estimation, and convergence diagnostics.

This package provides a tool for working with SQLite databases. SQLite has some idiosyncrasies and limitations that impose some hurdles to the R developer who is using this database as a repository. For instance, SQLite doesn't have a date type and sqliteutils has some functions to deal with that.

This package provides SPSS- and SAS-like output for least squares multiple regression, logistic regression, and count variable regressions. Detailed output is also provided for OLS moderated regression, interaction plots, and Johnson-Neyman regions of significance. The output includes standardized coefficients, partial and semi-partial correlations, collinearity diagnostics, plots of residuals, and detailed information about simple slopes for interactions. The output for some functions includes Bayes Factors and, if requested, regression coefficients from Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo analyses. There are numerous options for model plots. The REGIONS_OF_SIGNIFICANCE function also provides Johnson-Neyman regions of significance and plots of interactions for both lm and lme models. There is also a function for partial and semipartial correlations and a function for conducting Cohen's set correlation analyses.

Social risks are increasingly becoming a critical component of health care research. One of the most common ways to identify social needs is by using ICD-10-CM "Z-codes." This package identifies social risks using varying taxonomies of ICD-10-CM Z-codes from administrative health care data. The conceptual taxonomies come from: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2021) <https://www.cms.gov/files/document/zcodes-infographic.pdf>, Reidhead (2018) <https://web.mhanet.com/>, A Arons, S DeSilvey, C Fichtenberg, L Gottlieb (2018) <https://sirenetwork.ucsf.edu/tools-resources/resources/compendium-medical-terminology-codes-social-risk-factors>.

Simulation methods for the Fisher Bingham distribution on the unit sphere, the matrix Bingham distribution on a Grassmann manifold, the matrix Fisher distribution on SO(3), and the bivariate von Mises sine model on the torus. The methods use an acceptance/rejection simulation algorithm for the Bingham distribution and are described fully by Kent, Ganeiber and Mardia (2018) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2017.1390468>. These methods supersede earlier MCMC simulation methods and are more general than earlier simulation methods. The methods can be slower in specific situations where there are existing non-MCMC simulation methods (see Section 8 of Kent, Ganeiber and Mardia (2018) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2017.1390468> for further details).