Generates binary test data based on Item Response Theory using the two-parameter logistic model (Lord, 1980 <doi:10.4324/9780203056615>). Useful functions for test equating are included, e.g. functions for generating internal and external common items between test forms and a function to create a linkage plans between those forms. Ancillary functions for generating true item and person parameters as well as for calculating the probability of a person correctly answering an item are also included.

This package provides a general purpose simulation-based power analysis API for routine and customized simulation experimental designs. The package focuses exclusively on Monte Carlo simulation experiment variants of (expected) prospective power analyses, criterion analyses, compromise analyses, sensitivity analyses, and a priori/post-hoc analyses. The default simulation experiment functions defined within the package provide stochastic variants of the power analysis subroutines in G*Power 3.1 (Faul, Erdfelder, Buchner, and Lang, 2009) <doi:10.3758/brm.41.4.1149>, along with various other parametric and non-parametric power analysis applications (e.g., mediation analyses) and support for Bayesian power analysis by way of Bayes factors or posterior probability evaluations. Additional functions for building empirical power curves, reanalyzing simulation information, and for increasing the precision of the resulting power estimates are also included, each of which utilize similar API structures. For further details see the associated publication in Chalmers (2025) <doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02787-z>.

Maximum-likelihood estimation of the spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model with individual fixed effects (removed by first differencing) and endogenous regressors handled through a Gaussian control function, as in Giannini (2025) <doi:10.1080/17421772.2024.2414962>. Returns coefficient estimates and standard errors, spatially-corrected technical (in)efficiency scores, and direct, indirect and total marginal impacts. Depends only on base R.

Trains neural networks (multilayer perceptrons with one hidden layer) for bi- or multi-class classification.

Generate syntax for use with the sparklines package for LaTeX.

Model based clustering with spherical data using mixtures of elliptically symmetric distributions, namely mixtures of spherical elliptically symmetric projected Cauchy (SESPC) or mixtures of elliptically symmetric angular Gaussian (ESAG) distributions. The relevant paper is: Perdikis T., Alharbi N. and Tsagris M. (2026). <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2605.27496>.

The main function is icweib(), which fits a stratified Weibull proportional hazards model for left censored, right censored, interval censored, and non-censored survival data. We parameterize the Weibull regression model so that it allows a stratum-specific baseline hazard function, but where the effects of other covariates are assumed to be constant across strata. Please refer to Xiangdong Gu, David Shapiro, Michael D. Hughes and Raji Balasubramanian (2014) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2014-003> for more details.

Is designed to interactively and reproducibly visualize and filter SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) datasets. This R-based implementation of SNP and genotype filters facilitates an interactive and iterative SNP filtering pipeline, which can be documented reproducibly via rmarkdown'. SNPfiltR contains functions for visualizing various quality and missing data metrics for a SNP dataset, and then filtering the dataset based on user specified cutoffs. All functions take vcfR objects as input, which can easily be generated by reading standard vcf (variant call format) files into R using the R package vcfR authored by Knaus and Grünwald (2017) <doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12549>. Each SNPfiltR function can return a newly filtered vcfR object, which can then be written to a local directory in standard vcf format using the vcfR package, for downstream population genetic and phylogenetic analyses.

This package provides a modification of the preventive vaccine efficacy trial design of Gilbert, Grove et al. (2011, Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases) is implemented, with application generally to individual-randomized clinical trials with multiple active treatment groups and a shared control group, and a study endpoint that is a time-to-event endpoint subject to right-censoring. The design accounts for the issues that the efficacy of the treatment/vaccine groups may take time to accrue while the multiple treatment administrations/vaccinations are given; there is interest in assessing the durability of treatment efficacy over time; and group sequential monitoring of each treatment group for potential harm, non-efficacy/efficacy futility, and high efficacy is warranted. The design divides the trial into two stages of time periods, where each treatment is first evaluated for efficacy in the first stage of follow-up, and, if and only if it shows significant treatment efficacy in stage one, it is evaluated for longer-term durability of efficacy in stage two. The package produces plots and tables describing operating characteristics of a specified design including an unconditional power for intention-to-treat and per-protocol/as-treated analyses; trial duration; probabilities of the different possible trial monitoring outcomes (e.g., stopping early for non-efficacy); unconditional power for comparing treatment efficacies; and distributions of numbers of endpoint events occurring after the treatments/vaccinations are given, useful as input parameters for the design of studies of the association of biomarkers with a clinical outcome (surrogate endpoint problem). The code can be used for a single active treatment versus control design and for a single-stage design.

An exact method for computing the Poisson-Binomial Distribution (PBD). The package provides a function for generating a random sample from the PBD, as well as two distinct approaches for computing the density, distribution, and quantile functions of the PBD. The first method uses direct-convolution, or a dynamic-programming approach which is numerically stable but can be slow for a large input due to its quadratic complexity. The second method is much faster on large inputs thanks to its use of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based convolutions. Notably in this case the package uses an exponential shift to practically guarantee the relative accuracy of the computation of an arbitrarily small tail of the PBD -- something that FFT-based methods often struggle with. This ShiftConvolvePoiBin method is described in Peres, Lee and Keich (2020) <arXiv:2004.07429> where it is also shown to be competitive with the fastest implementations for exactly computing the entire Poisson-Binomial distribution.

Compiles and displays the available data sets regarding the Italian school system, with a focus on the infrastructural aspects. Input datasets are downloaded from the web, with the aim of updating everything to real time. The functions are divided in four main modules, namely Get', to scrape raw data from the web Util', various utilities needed to process raw data Group', to aggregate data at the municipality or province level Map', to visualize the output datasets.

There are four categories of Phase III clinical trials according to different research goals, including (1) Testing for equality, (2) Superiority trial, (3) Non-inferiority trial, and (4) Equivalence trial. This package aims to help researchers to calculate sample size when comparing means or proportions in Phase III clinical trials with different research goals.

This package provides functionality to fit a zero-inflated estimator for small area estimation. This estimator is a combines a linear mixed effects regression model and a logistic mixed effects regression model via a two-stage modeling approach. The estimator's mean squared error is estimated via a parametric bootstrap method. Chandra and others (2012, <doi:10.1080/03610918.2011.598991>) introduce and describe this estimator and mean squared error estimator. White and others (2024+, <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2402.03263>) describe the applicability of this estimator to estimation of forest attributes and further assess the estimator's properties.

The sufficient forecasting (SF) method is implemented by this package for a single time series forecasting using many predictors and a possibly nonlinear forecasting function. Assuming that the predictors are driven by some latent factors, the SF first conducts factor analysis and then performs sufficient dimension reduction on the estimated factors to derive predictive indices for forecasting. The package implements several dimension reduction approaches, including principal components (PC), sliced inverse regression (SIR), and directional regression (DR). Methods for dimension reduction are as described in: Fan, J., Xue, L. and Yao, J. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2017.08.009>, Luo, W., Xue, L., Yao, J. and Yu, X. (2022) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asab037> and Yu, X., Yao, J. and Xue, L. (2022) <doi:10.1080/07350015.2020.1813589>.

This package provides a complete suite of tools for interacting with the Survey Solutions GraphQL API <https://demo.mysurvey.solutions/graphql/>. This package encompasses all currently available queries and mutations, including the latest features for map uploads. It is built on the modern httr2 package, offering a streamlined and efficient interface without relying on external GraphQL client packages. In addition to core API functionalities, the package includes a range of helper functions designed to facilitate the use of available query filters.

This package provides tools for the stochastic simulation of effectiveness scores to mitigate data-related limitations of Information Retrieval evaluation research, as described in Urbano and Nagler (2018) <doi:10.1145/3209978.3210043>. These tools include: fitting, selection and plotting distributions to model system effectiveness, transformation towards a prespecified expected value, proxy to fitting of copula models based on these distributions, and simulation of new evaluation data from these distributions and copula models.

This package provides a pipeline for the comparative analysis of collective movement data (e.g. fish schools, bird flocks, baboon troops) by processing 2-dimensional positional data (x,y,t) from GPS trackers or computer vision tracking systems, discretizing events of collective motion, calculating a set of established metrics that characterize each event, and placing the events in a multi-dimensional swarm space constructed from these metrics. The swarm space concept, the metrics and data sets included are described in: Papadopoulou Marina, Furtbauer Ines, O'Bryan Lisa R., Garnier Simon, Georgopoulou Dimitra G., Bracken Anna M., Christensen Charlotte and King Andrew J. (2023) <doi:10.1098/rstb.2022.0068>.

Simple implementation of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 ('SemVer') on the vctrs package. This package provides a simple way to create, compare, and manipulate semantic versions in R. It is designed to be lightweight and easy to use.

Create a hexagon tile map display from spatial polygons. Each polygon is represented by a hexagon tile, placed as close to it's original centroid as possible, with a focus on maintaining spatial relationship to a focal point. Developed to aid visualisation and analysis of spatial distributions across Australia, which can be challenging due to the concentration of the population on the coast and wide open interior.

This package provides a very nice interface to Princeton's WordNet without rJava dependency. WordNet data is not included. Princeton University makes WordNet available to research and commercial users free of charge provided the terms of their license (<https://wordnet.princeton.edu/license-and-commercial-use>) are followed, and proper reference is made to the project using an appropriate citation (<https://wordnet.princeton.edu/citing-wordnet>).

This package provides functions for converting transliterated Sumerian texts to sign names and cuneiform characters, creating and querying dictionaries, analyzing the structure of Sumerian words, and creating translations. Includes a built-in dictionary and supports both forward lookup (Sumerian to English) and reverse lookup (English to Sumerian).

This package provides functions to compute standardized differences for numeric, binary, and categorical variables on Apache Spark DataFrames using sparklyr'. The implementation mirrors the methods used in the stddiff package but operates on distributed data. See Zhicheng Du, Yuantao Hao (2022) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.stddiff> for reference.

Sample size and effect size calculations for survival endpoints based on mixture survival-by-response model. The methods implemented can be found in Bofill, Shen & Gómez (2021) <arXiv:2008.12887>.

This package provides a complete analysis pipeline for the WHO STEPwise Approach to NCD Risk Factor Surveillance (STEPS) as described in Riley et al. (2016) <doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302962>. Imports raw survey data ('CSV', Excel', Stata', SPSS'), applies WHO-standard cleaning and recoding, sets up complex survey designs, computes all standard NCD indicators (tobacco, alcohol, diet, physical activity, anthropometry, blood pressure, biochemical), and generates publication-ready tables, visualisations, and Word'/'HTML reports (fact sheet, data book, country report).