This package provides a random forest variant block forest ('BlockForest') tailored to the prediction of binary, survival and continuous outcomes using block-structured covariate data, for example, clinical covariates plus measurements of a certain omics data type or multi-omics data, that is, data for which measurements of different types of omics data and/or clinical data for each patient exist. Examples of different omics data types include gene expression measurements, mutation data and copy number variation measurements. Block forest are presented in Hornung & Wright (2019). The package includes four other random forest variants for multi-omics data: RandomBlock', BlockVarSel', VarProb', and SplitWeights'. These were also considered in Hornung & Wright (2019), but performed worse than block forest in their comparison study based on 20 real multi-omics data sets. Therefore, we recommend to use block forest ('BlockForest') in applications. The other random forest variants can, however, be consulted for academic purposes, for example, in the context of further methodological developments. Reference: Hornung, R. & Wright, M. N. (2019) Block Forests: random forests for blocks of clinical and omics covariate data. BMC Bioinformatics 20:358. <doi:10.1186/s12859-019-2942-y>.

Bindings to the blowfish password hashing algorithm <https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bcrypt-paper.pdf> derived from the OpenBSD implementation.

Allows the user to generate bootstrap cards within R markdown documents. Intended for use in conjunction with R markdown HTML outputs and other formats that support the bootstrap 4 library.

The main functions carry out Gibbs sampler routines for nonparametric and semiparametric Bayesian models for random effects meta-analysis.

This package provides functions for the Bayesian analysis of some simple commonly-used models, without using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods such as Gibbs sampling. The rust package <https://cran.r-project.org/package=rust> is used to simulate a random sample from the required posterior distribution, using the generalized ratio-of-uniforms method. See Wakefield, Gelfand and Smith (1991) <DOI:10.1007/BF01889987> for details. At the moment three conjugate hierarchical models are available: beta-binomial, gamma-Poisson and a 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).

The bullwhipgame is an educational game that has as purpose the illustration and exploration of the bullwhip effect,i.e, the increase in demand variability along the supply chain. Marchena Marlene (2010) <arXiv:1009.3977>.

Computes Blyth-Still-Casella exact binomial confidence intervals based on a refining procedure proposed by George Casella (1986) <doi:10.2307/3314658>.

This package provides functions for modelling microbial inactivation under isothermal or dynamic conditions. The calculations are based on several mathematical models broadly used by the scientific community and industry. Functions enable to make predictions for cases where the kinetic parameters are known. It also implements functions for parameter estimation for isothermal and dynamic conditions. The model fitting capabilities include an Adaptive Monte Carlo method for a Bayesian approach to parameter estimation.

Bayes Watch fits an array of Gaussian Graphical Mixture Models to groupings of homogeneous data in time, called regimes, which are modeled as the observed states of a Markov process with unknown transition probabilities. In doing so, Bayes Watch defines a posterior distribution on a vector of regime assignments, which gives meaningful expressions on the probability of every possible change-point. Bayes Watch also allows for an effective and efficient fault detection system that assesses what features in the data where the most responsible for a given change-point. For further details, see: Alexander C. Murph et al. (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2310.02940>.

This package provides the bayesGARCH() function which performs the Bayesian estimation of the GARCH(1,1) model with Student's t innovations as described in Ardia (2008) <doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78657-3>.

This package provides a set of functions to select the optimal block-length for a dependent bootstrap (block-bootstrap). Includes the Hall, Horowitz, and Jing (1995) <doi:10.1093/biomet/82.3.561> subsampling-based cross-validation method, the Politis and White (2004) <doi:10.1081/ETC-120028836> Spectral Density Plug-in method, including the Patton, Politis, and White (2009) <doi:10.1080/07474930802459016> correction, and the Lahiri, Furukawa, and Lee (2007) <doi:10.1016/j.stamet.2006.08.002> nonparametric plug-in method, with a corresponding set of S3 plot methods.

This package provides a Bayesian variable selection approach using continuous spike and slab prior distributions. The prior choices here are motivated by the shrinking and diffusing priors studied in Narisetty & He (2014) <DOI:10.1214/14-AOS1207>.

Generates Monte Carlo confidence intervals for standardized regression coefficients (beta) and other effect sizes, including multiple correlation, semipartial correlations, improvement in R-squared, squared partial correlations, and differences in standardized regression coefficients, for models fitted by lm(). betaMC combines ideas from Monte Carlo confidence intervals for the indirect effect (Pesigan and Cheung, 2024 <doi:10.3758/s13428-023-02114-4>) and the sampling covariance matrix of regression coefficients (Dudgeon, 2017 <doi:10.1007/s11336-017-9563-z>) to generate confidence intervals effect sizes in regression.

This package provides tools to design best-worst scaling designs (i.e., balanced incomplete block designs) and to analyze data from these designs, using aggregate and individual methods such as: difference scores, Louviere, Lings, Islam, Gudergan, & Flynn (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.ijresmar.2012.10.002>; analytical estimation, Lipovetsky & Conklin (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.jocm.2014.02.001>; empirical Bayes, Lipovetsky & Conklin (2015) <doi:10.1142/S1793536915500028>; Elo, Hollis (2018) <doi:10.3758/s13428-017-0898-2>; and network-based measures.

Set of functions to perform various bootstrap unit root tests for both individual time series (including augmented Dickey-Fuller test and union tests), multiple time series and panel data; see Smeekes and Wilms (2023) <doi:10.18637/jss.v106.i12>, Palm, Smeekes and Urbain (2008) <doi:10.1111/j.1467-9892.2007.00565.x>, Palm, Smeekes and Urbain (2011) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2010.11.010>, Moon and Perron (2012) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2012.01.008>, Smeekes and Taylor (2012) <doi:10.1017/S0266466611000387> and Smeekes (2015) <doi:10.1111/jtsa.12110> for key references.

Adjust the Gamma regression models from a Bayesian perspective described by Cepeda and Urdinola (2012) <doi:10.1080/03610918.2011.600500>, modeling the parameters of mean and shape and using different link functions for the parameter associated to the mean. And calculates different adjustment statistics such as the Akaike information criterion and Bayesian information criterion.

These functions provide a convenient interface for downloading data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics <https://www.bls.gov>. The functions in this package utilize flat files produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which contain full series history. These files include employment, unemployment, wages, prices, industry and occupational data at a national, state, and sub-state level, depending on the series. Individual functions are included for those programs which have data available at the state level. The core functions provide direct access to the Current Employment Statistics (CES) <https://www.bls.gov/ces/>, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) <https://www.bls.gov/lau/>, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) <https://www.bls.gov/oes/> and Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization (SALT) <https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm> data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Estimation of large Vector AutoRegressive (VAR), Vector AutoRegressive with Exogenous Variables X (VARX) and Vector AutoRegressive Moving Average (VARMA) Models with Structured Lasso Penalties, see Nicholson, Wilms, Bien and Matteson (2020) <https://jmlr.org/papers/v21/19-777.html> and Wilms, Basu, Bien and Matteson (2021) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2021.1942013>.

Select balanced and spatially balanced probability samples in multi-dimensional spaces with any prescribed inclusion probabilities. It contains fast (C++ via Rcpp) implementations of the included sampling methods. The local pivotal method by Grafström, Lundström and Schelin (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01699.x> and spatially correlated Poisson sampling by Grafström (2012) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2011.07.003> are included. Also the cube method (for balanced sampling) and the local cube method (for doubly balanced sampling) are included, see Grafström and Tillé (2013) <doi:10.1002/env.2194>.

This package provides functions to compute distances between probability measures or any other data object than can be posed in this way, entropy measures for samples of curves, distances and depth measures for functional data, and the Generalized Mahalanobis Kernel distance for high dimensional data. For further details about the metrics please refer to Martos et al (2014) <doi:10.3233/IDA-140706>; Martos et al (2018) <doi:10.3390/e20010033>; Hernandez et al (2018, submitted); Martos et al (2018, submitted).

This package provides functions that allow users to quantify the relative contributions of geographic and ecological distances to empirical patterns of genetic differentiation on a landscape. Specifically, we use a custom Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, which is used to estimate the parameters of the inference model, as well as functions for performing MCMC diagnosis and assessing model adequacy.

This package provides functions streamlining the data analysis workflow: Outsourcing data import, renaming and type casting to a *.csv. Manipulating imputed datasets and fitting models on them. Summarizing models.

Calculates the Boltzmann entropy of a landscape gradient. This package uses the analytical method created by Gao, P., Zhang, H. and Li, Z., 2018 (<doi:10.1111/tgis.12315>) and by Gao, P. and Li, Z., 2019 (<doi:10.1007/s10980-019-00854-3>). It also extend the original ideas by allowing calculations on data with missing values.

Several specialized statistical tests and support functions for determining if numerical data could conform to Benford's law.