This package provides a binding for the valection program which offers various ways to sample the outputs of competing algorithms or parameterizations, and fairly assess their performance against each other. The valection C library is required to use this package and can be downloaded from: <http://labs.oicr.on.ca/boutros-lab/software/valection>. Cooper CI, et al; Valection: Design Optimization for Validation and Verification Studies; Biorxiv 2018; <doi:10.1101/254839>.

This package provides a framework to infer causality on a pair of time series of real numbers based on variable-lag Granger causality and transfer entropy. Typically, Granger causality and transfer entropy have an assumption of a fixed and constant time delay between the cause and effect. However, for a non-stationary time series, this assumption is not true. For example, considering two time series of velocity of person A and person B where B follows A. At some time, B stops tying his shoes, then running to catch up A. The fixed-lag assumption is not true in this case. We propose a framework that allows variable-lags between cause and effect in Granger causality and transfer entropy to allow them to deal with variable-lag non-stationary time series. Please see Chainarong Amornbunchornvej, Elena Zheleva, and Tanya Berger-Wolf (2021) <doi:10.1145/3441452> when referring to this package in publications.

This package implements the algorithm introduced in Tian, Y., and Safikhani, A. (2024) <doi:10.5705/ss.202024.0182>, "Sequential Change Point Detection in High-dimensional Vector Auto-regressive Models". This package provides tools for detecting change points in the transition matrices of VAR models, effectively identifying shifts in temporal and cross-correlations within high-dimensional time series data.

This package provides tools to analyze vaccine coverage data and simulate potential disease outbreak scenarios. It allows users to calculate key epidemiological metrics such as the effective reproduction number (Re), outbreak probabilities, and expected infection counts based on county-level vaccination rates, disease characteristics, and vaccine effectiveness. The package includes historical kindergarten vaccination data for Florida counties and offers functions for generating summary tables, visualizations, and exporting the underlying plot data.

Facilitates modeling species ecological niches and geographic distributions based on occurrences and environments that have a vertical as well as horizontal component, and projecting models into three-dimensional geographic space. Working in three dimensions is useful in an aquatic context when the organisms one wishes to model can be found across a wide range of depths in the water column. The package also contains functions to automatically generate marine training model training regions using machine learning, and interpolate and smooth patchily sampled environmental rasters using thin plate splines. Davis Rabosky AR, Cox CL, Rabosky DL, Title PO, Holmes IA, Feldman A, McGuire JA (2016) <doi:10.1038/ncomms11484>. Nychka D, Furrer R, Paige J, Sain S (2021) <doi:10.5065/D6W957CT>. Pateiro-Lopez B, Rodriguez-Casal A (2022) <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=alphahull>.

Interactive visualization for Bayesian prior and posterior distributions. This package facilitates an animated transition between prior and posterior distributions. Additionally, it splits the distribution into bars based on the provided breaks, displaying the probability for each region. If no breaks are provided, it defaults to zero.

This package implements the novel testing approach by Janitza et al.(2015) <http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-25587-4> for the permutation variable importance measure in a random forest and the PIMP-algorithm by Altmann et al.(2010) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq134>. Janitza et al.(2015) <http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-25587-4> do not use the "standard" permutation variable importance but the cross-validated permutation variable importance for the novel test approach. The cross-validated permutation variable importance is not based on the out-of-bag observations but uses a similar strategy which is inspired by the cross-validation procedure. The novel test approach can be applied for classification trees as well as for regression trees. However, the use of the novel testing approach has not been tested for regression trees so far, so this routine is meant for the expert user only and its current state is rather experimental.

Computation of volatility impulse response function for multivariate time series model using algorithm by Jin, Lin and Tamvakis (2012) <doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2012.03.003>.

Various methods to count ballots in voting systems are provided. Functions to check validity of ballots are also provided to ensure flexibility.

Estimate vaccine efficacy (VE) using immunogenicity data. The inclusion of immunogenicity data in regression models can increase precision in VE. The methods are described in the publications "Elucidating vaccine efficacy using a correlate of protection, demographics, and logistic regression" and "Improving precision of vaccine efficacy evaluation using immune correlate data in time-to-event models" by Julie Dudasova, Zdenek Valenta, and Jeffrey R. Sachs (2024).

This package provides platform for Vedic calendar system having several functionalities to facilitate conversion between Gregorian and Vedic calendar systems, and helpful in examining its impact in the time series analysis domain.

Visual contour and 2D point and contour plots for binary classification modeling under algorithms such as glm', rf', gbm', nnet and svm', presented over two dimensions generated by famd and mca methods. Package FactoMineR for multivariate reduction functions and package MBA for interpolation functions are used. The package can be used to visualize the discriminant power of input variables and algorithmic modeling, explore outliers, compare algorithm behaviour, etc. It has been created initially for teaching purposes, but it has also many practical uses under the XAI paradigm.

Recursive partitioning for varying coefficient generalized linear models and ordinal linear mixed models. Special features are coefficient-wise partitioning, non-varying coefficients and partitioning of time-varying variables in longitudinal regression. A description of a part of this package was published by Burgin and Ritschard (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v080.i06>.

Alternative splicing produces a variety of different protein products from a given gene. VALERIE enables visualisation of alternative splicing events from high-throughput single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments. VALERIE computes percent spliced-in (PSI) values for user-specified genomic coordinates corresponding to alternative splicing events. PSI is the proportion of sequencing reads supporting the included exon/intron as defined by Shiozawa (2018) <doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06063-x>. PSI are inferred from sequencing reads data based on specialised infrastructures for representing and computing annotated genomic ranges by Lawrence (2013) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003118>. Computed PSI for each single cell are subsequently presented in the form of a heatmap implemented using the pheatmap package by Kolde (2010) <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pheatmap>. Board overview of the mean PSI difference and associated p-values across different user-defined groups of single cells are presented in the form of a line graph using the ggplot2 package by Wickham (2007) <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggplot2>.

Computes Value at risk and expected shortfall, two most popular measures of financial risk, for over one hundred parametric distributions, including all commonly known distributions. Also computed are the corresponding probability density function and cumulative distribution function. See Chan, Nadarajah and Afuecheta (2015) <doi:10.1080/03610918.2014.944658> for more details.

US VAERS vaccine data for 01/01/2018 - 06/14/2018. If you want to explore the full VAERS data for 1990 - Present (data, symptoms, and vaccines), then check out the vaers package from the URL below. The URL and BugReports below correspond to the vaers package, of which vaersvax is a small subset (2018 only). vaers is not hosted on CRAN due to the large size of the data set. To install the Suggested vaers and vaersND packages, use the following R code: devtools::install_git("<https://gitlab.com/iembry/vaers.git>", build_vignettes = TRUE) and devtools::install_git("<https://gitlab.com/iembry/vaersND.git>", build_vignettes = TRUE)'. "The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines. VAERS is co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." For more information about the data, visit <https://vaers.hhs.gov/>. For information about vaccination/immunization hazards, visit <http://www.questionuniverse.com/rethink.html#vaccine>.

Vega and Vega-Lite parse text in JSON notation to render chart-specifications into HTML'. This package is used to facilitate the rendering. It also provides a means to interact with signals, events, and datasets in a Vega chart using JavaScript or Shiny'.

The Vega-Lite JavaScript framework provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis, akin to ggplot or Tableau', that generates complete Vega specifications. Functions exist which enable building a valid spec from scratch or importing a previously created spec file. Functions also exist to export spec files and to generate code which will enable plots to be embedded in properly configured web pages. The default behavior is to generate an htmlwidget'.

This package implements variable screening techniques for ultra-high dimensional regression settings. Techniques for independent (iid) data, varying-coefficient models, and longitudinal data are implemented. The package currently contains three screen functions: screenIID(), screenLD() and screenVCM(), and six methods for simulating dataset: simulateDCSIS(), simulateLD, simulateMVSIS(), simulateMVSISNY(), simulateSIRS() and simulateVCM(). The package is based on the work of Li-Ping ZHU, Lexin LI, Runze LI, and Li-Xing ZHU (2011) <DOI:10.1198/jasa.2011.tm10563>, Runze LI, Wei ZHONG, & Liping ZHU (2012) <DOI:10.1080/01621459.2012.695654>, Jingyuan LIU, Runze LI, & Rongling WU (2014) <DOI:10.1080/01621459.2013.850086> Hengjian CUI, Runze LI, & Wei ZHONG (2015) <DOI:10.1080/01621459.2014.920256>, and Wanghuan CHU, Runze LI and Matthew REIMHERR (2016) <DOI:10.1214/16-AOAS912>.

This package creates Vertex Similarity matrix of an undirected graph based on the method stated by E. A. Leicht, Petter Holme, AND M. E. J. Newman in their paper <DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.73.026120>.

Forecasting univariate time series with Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) based time delay neural network models.For method details see Konstantin, D.and Dominique, Z. (2014). <doi:10.1109/TSP.2013.2288675>.

This package contains functions for a variational Bayesian method for sparse PCA proposed by Ning (2020) <arXiv:2102.00305>. There are two algorithms: the PX-CAVI algorithm (if assuming the loadings matrix is jointly row-sparse) and the batch PX-CAVI algorithm (if without this assumption). The outputs of the main function, VBsparsePCA(), include the mean and covariance of the loadings matrix, the score functions, the variable selection results, and the estimated variance of the random noise.

Utilities for verifying discrete, continuous and probabilistic forecasts, and forecasts expressed as parametric distributions are included.

This package provides functions for downloading, reshaping, culling, cleaning, and analyzing fossil data from the Paleobiology Database <https://paleobiodb.org>.