Handling of behavioural data from the Ethoscope platform (Geissmann, Garcia Rodriguez, Beckwith, French, Jamasb and Gilestro (2017) <DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.2003026>). Ethoscopes (<https://giorgiogilestro.notion.site/Ethoscope-User-Manual-a9739373ae9f4840aa45b277f2f0e3a7>) are an open source/open hardware framework made of interconnected raspberry pis (<https://www.raspberrypi.org>) designed to quantify the behaviour of multiple small animals in a distributed and real-time fashion. The default tracking algorithm records primary variables such as xy coordinates, dimensions and speed. This package is part of the rethomics framework <https://rethomics.github.io/>.

In the recent past, measurement of coverage has been mainly through two-stage cluster sampled surveys either as part of a nutrition assessment or through a specific coverage survey known as Centric Systematic Area Sampling (CSAS). However, such methods are resource intensive and often only used for final programme evaluation meaning results arrive too late for programme adaptation. SLEAC, which stands for Simplified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Evaluation of Access and Coverage, is a low resource method designed specifically to address this limitation and is used regularly for monitoring, planning and importantly, timely improvement to programme quality, both for agency and Ministry of Health (MoH) led programmes. SLEAC is designed to complement the Semi-quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) method. This package provides functions for use in conducting a SLEAC assessment.

Simple and quick method of exporting the most often used survival analysis results to an Excel sheet.

An implementation of the surrogate approach to residuals and diagnostics for ordinal and general regression models; for details, see Liu and Zhang (2017) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2017.1292915>. These residuals can be used to construct standard residual plots for model diagnostics (e.g., residual-vs-fitted value plots, residual-vs-covariate plots, Q-Q plots, etc.). The package also provides an autoplot function for producing standard diagnostic plots using ggplot2 graphics. The package currently supports cumulative link models from packages MASS', ordinal', rms', and VGAM'. Support for binary regression models using the standard glm function is also available.

Computes the trimmed-k mean by removing the k smallest and k largest values from a numeric vector. Created for STAT 5400 at the University of Iowa.

The package is used for calibrating the design parameters for single-to-double arm transition design proposed by Shi and Yin (2017). The calibration is performed via numerical enumeration to find the optimal design that satisfies the constraints on the type I and II error rates.

An R implementation of the Self-Organising Migrating Algorithm, a general-purpose, stochastic optimisation algorithm. The approach is similar to that of genetic algorithms, although it is based on the idea of a series of ``migrations by a fixed set of individuals, rather than the development of successive generations. It can be applied to any cost-minimisation problem with a bounded parameter space, and is robust to local minima.

Fits linear difference-in-differences models in scenarios where intervention roll-outs are staggered over time. The package implements a version of an approach proposed by Sun and Abraham (2021) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.09.006> to estimate cohort- and time-since-treatment specific difference-in-differences parameters, and it provides convenience functions both for specifying the model and for flexibly aggregating coefficients to answer a variety of research questions.

Implement a GAM-based (Generalized Additive Models) spatial surplus production model (spatial SPM), aimed at modeling northern shrimp population in Atlantic Canada but potentially to any stock in any location. The package is opinionated in its implementation of SPMs as it internally makes the choice to use penalized spatial gams with time lags. However, it also aims to provide options for the user to customize their model. The methods are described in Pedersen et al. (2022, <https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2022/2022_062-eng.html>).

Data on the Spy vs. Spy comic strip of Mad magazine, created and written by Antonio Prohias.

Computes the entire solution paths for Support Vector Regression(SVR) with respect to the regularization parameter, lambda and epsilon in epsilon-intensive loss function, efficiently. We call each path algorithm svrpath and epspath. See Wang, G. et al (2008) <doi:10.1109/TNN.2008.2002077> for details regarding the method.

This package provides a sensitivity analysis approach for unmeasured confounding in observational data with multiple treatments and a binary outcome. This approach derives the general bias formula and provides adjusted causal effect estimates in response to various assumptions about the degree of unmeasured confounding. Nested multiple imputation is embedded within the Bayesian framework to integrate uncertainty about the sensitivity parameters and sampling variability. Bayesian Additive Regression Model (BART) is used for outcome modeling. The causal estimands are the conditional average treatment effects (CATE) based on the risk difference. For more details, see paper: Hu L et al. (2020) A flexible sensitivity analysis approach for unmeasured confounding with multiple treatments and a binary outcome with application to SEER-Medicare lung cancer data <arXiv:2012.06093>.

Implementation of hybrid STL decomposition based time delay neural network model for univariate time series forecasting. For method details see Jha G K, Sinha, K (2014). <doi:10.1007/s00521-012-1264-z>, Xiong T, Li C, Bao Y (2018). <doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2017.11.053>.

Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithms for fitting a generalised additive mixed model (GAMM) to surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy (SERRS), using the method of Moores et al. (2016) <arXiv:1604.07299>. Multivariate observations of SERRS are highly collinear and lend themselves to a reduced-rank representation. The GAMM separates the SERRS signal into three components: a sequence of Lorentzian, Gaussian, or pseudo-Voigt peaks; a smoothly-varying baseline; and additive white noise. The parameters of each component of the model are estimated iteratively using SMC. The posterior distributions of the parameters given the observed spectra are represented as a population of weighted particles.

Browser notifications in Shiny apps, using toastr': <https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr#readme>.

Fast enrichment analysis for locally correlated statistics via circular permutations. The analysis can be performed at multiple significance thresholds for both primary and auxiliary data sets with efficient correction for multiple testing.

Generates and predicts a set of linearly stacked Random Forest models using bootstrap sampling. Individual datasets may be heterogeneous (not all samples have full sets of features). Contains support for parallelization but the user should register their cores before running. This is an extension of the method found in Matlock (2018) <doi:10.1186/s12859-018-2060-2>.

Allows the user to connect with IBGE's (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica, see <https://www.ibge.gov.br/> for more information) SIDRA API in a flexible way. SIDRA is the acronym to "Sistema IBGE de Recuperacao Automatica" and is the system where IBGE turns available aggregate data from their researches.

This package contains an R Markdown template for a clinical trial protocol adhering to the SPIRIT statement. The SPIRIT (Standard Protocol Items for Interventional Trials) statement outlines recommendations for a minimum set of elements to be addressed in a clinical trial protocol. Also contains functions to create a xml document from the template and upload it to clinicaltrials.gov<https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/> for trial registration.

This package performs automatic creation of short forms of scales with an ant colony optimization algorithm and a Tabu search. As implemented in the package, the ant colony algorithm randomly selects items to build a model of a specified length, then updates the probability of item selection according to the fit of the best model within each set of searches. The algorithm continues until the same items are selected by multiple ants a given number of times in a row. On the other hand, the Tabu search changes one parameter at a time to be either free, constrained, or fixed while keeping track of the changes made and putting changes that result in worse fit in a "tabu" list so that the algorithm does not revisit them for some number of searches. See Leite, Huang, & Marcoulides (2008) <doi:10.1080/00273170802285743> for an applied example of the ant colony algorithm, and Marcoulides & Falk (2018) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2017.1409074> for an applied example of the Tabu search.

This package implements the routines and algorithms developed and analysed in "Multiple Systems Estimation for Sparse Capture Data: Inferential Challenges when there are Non-Overlapping Lists" Chan, L, Silverman, B. W., Vincent, K (2019) <arXiv:1902.05156>. This package explicitly handles situations where there are pairs of lists which have no observed individuals in common. It deals correctly with parameters whose estimated values can be considered as being negative infinity. It also addresses other possible issues of non-existence and non-identifiability of maximum likelihood estimates.

Takes a list of character strings and forms an adjacency matrix for the times the specified characters appear together in the strings provided. For use in social network analysis and data wrangling. Simple package, comprised of three functions.

Based on the structure of the SPSS version of the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) data, provides a function seqFromWaves() that seeks the data of variables specified by the user in each of the wave files and collects them as sequences. The function also matches the sequences with variables from other files such as the master files of persons (MP) and households (MH), and social origins (SO). It can also match with activity calendar data (CA).

This package provides elastic net penalized maximum likelihood estimator for structural equation models (SEM). The package implements `lasso` and `elastic net` (l1/l2) penalized SEM and estimates the model parameters with an efficient block coordinate ascent algorithm that maximizes the penalized likelihood of the SEM. Hyperparameters are inferred from cross-validation (CV). A Stability Selection (STS) function is also available to provide accurate causal effect selection. The software achieves high accuracy performance through a `Network Generative Pre-trained Transformer` (Network GPT) Framework with two steps: 1) pre-trains the model to generate a complete (fully connected) graph; and 2) uses the complete graph as the initial state to fit the `elastic net` penalized SEM.