Perform sensitivity analysis in structural equation modeling using meta-heuristic optimization methods (e.g., ant colony optimization and others). The references for the proposed methods are: (1) Leite, W., & Shen, Z., Marcoulides, K., Fish, C., & Harring, J. (2022). <doi:10.1080/10705511.2021.1881786> (2) Harring, J. R., McNeish, D. M., & Hancock, G. R. (2017) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2018.1506925>; (3) Fisk, C., Harring, J., Shen, Z., Leite, W., Suen, K., & Marcoulides, K. (2022). <doi:10.1177/00131644211073121>; (4) Socha, K., & Dorigo, M. (2008) <doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.06.046>. We also thank Dr. Krzysztof Socha for sharing his research on ant colony optimization algorithm with continuous domains and associated R code, which provided the base for the development of this package.

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.

Routines for a collection of screen-and-clean type variable selection procedures, including UPS and GS.

An enterprise-targeted scalable and customizable shiny module providing an easy way to incorporate free-form note taking or discussion boards into applications. The package includes a shiny module that can be included in any shiny application to create a panel containing searchable, editable text broken down by section headers. Can be used with a local SQLite database, or a compatible remote database of choice.

Identifies a bicluster, a submatrix of the data such that the features and observations within the submatrix differ from those not contained in submatrix, using a two-step method. In the first step, observations in the bicluster are identified to maximize the sum of weighted between cluster feature differences. The method is described in Helgeson et al. (2020) <doi:10.1111/biom.13136>. SCBiclust can be used to identify biclusters which differ based on feature means, feature variances, or more general differences.

Generate the same random numbers in R and Python.

This package produces tables with descriptive statistics for continuous, categorical and dichotomous variables. It is largely based on the package gtsummary'; Sjoberg DD et al. (2021) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-053>.

An implementation of the selectboost algorithm (Bertrand et al. 2020, Bioinformatics', <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa855>), which is a general algorithm that improves the precision of any existing variable selection method. This algorithm is based on highly intensive simulations and takes into account the correlation structure of the data. It can either produce a confidence index for variable selection or it can be used in an experimental design planning perspective.

This package provides tools for scraping information from webpages and other XML contents, using XPath or CSS selectors.

Estimation and inference for parameters in a Gaussian copula model, treating the univariate marginal distributions as nuisance parameters as described in Hoff (2007) <doi:10.1214/07-AOAS107>. This package also provides a semiparametric imputation procedure for missing multivariate data.

This package provides small area estimation for count data type and gives option whether to use covariates in the estimation or not. By implementing Empirical Bayes (EB) Poisson-Gamma model, each function returns EB estimators and mean squared error (MSE) estimators for each area. The EB estimators without covariates are obtained using the model proposed by Clayton & Kaldor (1987) <doi:10.2307/2532003>, the EB estimators with covariates are obtained using the model proposed by Wakefield (2006) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxl008> and the MSE estimators are obtained using Jackknife method by Jiang et. al. (2002) <doi:10.1214/aos/1043351257>.

An introduction to several novel predictive variable selection methods for random forest. They are based on various variable importance methods (i.e., averaged variable importance (AVI), and knowledge informed AVI (i.e., KIAVI, and KIAVI2)) and 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 provides tools for performing variable selection in three-way data using N-PLS in combination with L1 penalization, Selectivity Ratio and VIP scores. The N-PLS model (Rasmus Bro, 1996 <DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1099-128X(199601)10:1%3C47::AID-CEM400%3E3.0.CO;2-C>) is the natural extension of PLS (Partial Least Squares) to N-way structures, and tries to maximize the covariance between X and Y data arrays. The package also adds variable selection through L1 penalization, Selectivity Ratio and VIP scores.

Sometimes it is handy to be able to view an image file on an R graphics device. This package just does that. Currently it supports PNG files.

Machine learning provides algorithms that can learn from data and make inferences or predictions. Stochastic automata is a class of input/output devices which can model components. This work provides implementation an inference algorithm for stochastic automata which is similar to the Viterbi algorithm. Moreover, we specify a learning algorithm using the expectation-maximization technique and provide a more efficient implementation of the Baum-Welch algorithm for stochastic automata. This work is based on Inference and learning in stochastic automata was by Karl-Heinz Zimmermann(2017) <doi:10.12732/ijpam.v115i3.15>.

Dual interfaces, graphical and programmatic, designed for intuitive applications of Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP). Users can apply the method to a variety of datasets, from electronic health records to sample survey data, through an end-to-end Bayesian data analysis workflow. The package provides robust tools for data cleaning, exploratory analysis, flexible model building, and insightful result visualization. For more details, see Si et al. (2020) <https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/12-001-x/2020002/article/00003-eng.pdf?st=iF1_Fbrh> and Si (2025) <doi:10.1214/24-STS932>.

Construct sketches of data via random subspace embeddings. For more details, see the following papers. Lee, S. and Ng, S. (2022). "Least Squares Estimation Using Sketched Data with Heteroskedastic Errors," Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML22), 162:12498-12520. Lee, S. and Ng, S. (2020). "An Econometric Perspective on Algorithmic Subsampling," Annual Review of Economics, 12(1): 45â 80.

This package provides a method to explore the treatment-covariate interactions in survival or generalized linear model (GLM) for continuous, binomial and count data arising from two or more treatment arms of a clinical trial. A permutation distribution approach to inference is implemented, based on permuting the covariate values within each treatment group.

This package provides functions that wrap HTML Bootstrap components code to enable the design and layout of informative landing home pages for Shiny applications. This can lead to a better user experience for the users and writing less HTML for the developer.

An Electronic Data Capture system (EDC) and Data Standard agnostic solution that enables the pharmaceutical programming community to develop Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) datasets in R. The reusable algorithms concept in sdtm.oak provides a framework for modular programming and can potentially automate the conversion of raw clinical data to SDTM through standardized SDTM specifications. SDTM is one of the required standards for data submission to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States and Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) in Japan. SDTM standards are implemented following the SDTM Implementation Guide as defined by CDISC <https://www.cdisc.org/standards/foundational/sdtmig>.

Calculation of solar zenith and azimuth angles.

This package provides an abstraction for managing, installing, and switching between sets of installed R packages. This allows users to maintain multiple package libraries simultaneously, e.g. to maintain strict, package-version-specific reproducibility of many analyses, or work within a development/production release paradigm. Introduces a generalized package installation process which supports multiple repository and non-repository sources and tracks package provenance.

This package provides a modular and extendable approach to extract (micro)saccades from gaze samples via an ensemble of methods. Although there is an agreement about a general definition of a saccade, the more specific details are harder to agree upon. Therefore, there are numerous algorithms that extract saccades based on various heuristics, which differ in the assumptions about velocity, acceleration, etc. The package uses three methods (Engbert and Kliegl (2003) <doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00084-1>, Otero-Millan et al. (2014)<doi:10.1167/14.2.18>, and Nyström and Holmqvist (2010) <doi:10.3758/BRM.42.1.188>) to label individual samples and then applies a majority vote approach to identify saccades. The package includes three methods but can be extended via custom functions. It also uses a modular approach to compute velocity and acceleration from noisy samples. Finally, you can obtain methods votes per gaze sample instead of saccades.

This package implements multiple imputation of missing covariates by Substantive Model Compatible Fully Conditional Specification. This is a modification of the popular FCS/chained equations multiple imputation approach, and allows imputation of missing covariate values from models which are compatible with the user specified substantive model.