Vector autoregressive (VAR) model is a fundamental and effective approach for multivariate time series analysis. Shrinkage estimation methods can be applied to high-dimensional VAR models with dimensionality greater than the number of observations, contrary to the standard ordinary least squares method. This package is an integrative package delivering nonparametric, parametric, and semiparametric methods in a unified and consistent manner, such as the multivariate ridge regression in Golub, Heath, and Wahba (1979) <doi:10.2307/1268518>, a James-Stein type nonparametric shrinkage method in Opgen-Rhein and Strimmer (2007) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S2-S3>, and Bayesian estimation methods using noninformative and informative priors in Lee, Choi, and S.-H. Kim (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2016.03.007> and Ni and Sun (2005) <doi:10.1198/073500104000000622>.

This package provides a set of functions for data transformations. Transformations are performed on character and numeric data. As the scope of the package is within Student Analytics, there are functions focused around the academic year.

If f <- function(x)x^2 and g <- function(x)x+1 it is a constant source of annoyance that "f+g" is not defined. Package vfunc allows you to do this, and we have (f+g)(2) returning 5. The other arithmetic operators are similarly implemented. A wide class of coding bugs is eliminated.

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'.

Fit and simulate latent position and cluster models for network data, using a fast Variational Bayes approximation developed in Salter-Townshend and Murphy (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2012.08.004>.

This package provides a Shiny application for the interactive visualisation and analysis of networks that also provides a web interface for collecting social media data using vosonSML'.

This package performs clustering of quantitative variables, assuming that clusters lie in low-dimensional subspaces. Segmentation of variables, number of clusters and their dimensions are selected based on BIC. Candidate models are identified based on many runs of K-means algorithm with different random initializations of cluster centers.

Tool for easy and efficient discretization of continuous and categorical data. The package calculates the most optimal binning of a given explanatory variable with respect to a user-specified target variable. The purpose is to assign a unique Weight-of-Evidence value to each of the calculated binpoints in order to recode the original variable. The package allows users to impose certain restrictions on the functional form on the resulting binning while maximizing the overall information value in the original data. The package is well suited for logistic scoring models where input variables may be subject to restrictions such as linearity by e.g. regulatory authorities. An excellent source describing in detail the development of scorecards, and the role of Weight-of-Evidence coding in credit scoring is (Siddiqi 2006, ISBN: 978â 0-471â 75451â 0). The package utilizes the discrete nature of decision trees and Isotonic Regression to accommodate the trade-off between flexible functional forms and maximum information value.

Fits linear varying coefficient (VC) models, which assert a linear relationship between an outcome and several covariates but allow that relationship (i.e., the coefficients or slopes in the linear regression) to change as functions of additional variables known as effect modifiers, by approximating the coefficient functions with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees. Implements a Metropolis-within-Gibbs sampler to simulate draws from the posterior over coefficient function evaluations. VC models with independent observations or repeated observations can be fit. For more details see Deshpande et al. (2024) <doi:10.1214/24-BA1470>.

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>.

Via Foundry API provides streamlined tools for interacting with and extracting data from structured responses, particularly for use cases involving hierarchical data from Foundry's API. It includes functions to fetch and parse process-level and file-level metadata, allowing users to efficiently query and manipulate nested data structures. Key features include the ability to list all unique process names, retrieve file metadata for specific or all processes, and dynamically load or download files based on their type. With built-in support for handling various file formats (e.g., tabular and non-tabular files) and seamless integration with API through authentication, this package is designed to enhance workflows involving large-scale data management and analysis. Robust error handling and flexible configuration ensure reliable performance across diverse data environments. Please consult the documentation for the API endpoint for your installation.

This package provides direct access to linked names for the same entity across the world's major name authority files, including national and regional variations in language, character set, and spelling. For more information go to <https://viaf.org/>.

This package implements a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method for estimation and prediction of Gaussian process-based spatially varying coefficient (SVC) models (Dambon et al. (2021a) <doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100470>). Covariance tapering (Furrer et al. (2006) <doi:10.1198/106186006X132178>) can be applied such that the method scales to large data. Further, it implements a joint variable selection of the fixed and random effects (Dambon et al. (2021b) <doi:10.1080/13658816.2022.2097684>). The package and its capabilities are described in (Dambon et al. (2021c) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2106.02364>).

Declare data validation rules and data quality indicators; confront data with them and analyze or visualize the results. The package supports rules that are per-field, in-record, cross-record or cross-dataset. Rules can be automatically analyzed for rule type and connectivity. Supports checks implied by an SDMX DSD file as well. See also Van der Loo and De Jonge (2018) <doi:10.1002/9781118897126>, Chapter 6 and the JSS paper (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i10>.

Feature selection using Sequential Forward Floating feature Selection and Jeffries-Matusita distance. It returns a suboptimal set of features to use for image classification. Reference: Dalponte, M., Oerka, H.O., Gobakken, T., Gianelle, D. & Naesset, E. (2013). Tree Species Classification in Boreal Forests With Hyperspectral Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 2632-2645, <DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2012.2216272>.

Handling of vegetation data from different sources ( Turboveg 2.0 <https://www.synbiosys.alterra.nl/turboveg/>; the German national repository <https://www.vegetweb.de> and others. Taxonomic harmonization (given appropriate taxonomic lists, e.g. the Euro+Med list <https://eurosl.infinitenature.org>).

The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model is a macroscale hydrologic model that solves full water and energy balances, originally developed by Xu Liang at the University of Washington (UW). The version of VIC source code used is of 5.0.1 on <https://github.com/UW-Hydro/VIC/>, see Hamman et al. (2018). Development and maintenance of the current official version of the VIC model at present is led by the UW Hydro (Computational Hydrology group) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW. VIC is a research model and in its various forms it has been applied to most of the major river basins around the world, as well as globally <http://vic.readthedocs.io/en/master/Documentation/References/>. References: "Liang, X., D. P. Lettenmaier, E. F. Wood, and S. J. Burges (1994), A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for general circulation models, J. Geophys. Res., 99(D7), 14415-14428, <doi:10.1029/94JD00483>"; "Hamman, J. J., Nijssen, B., Bohn, T. J., Gergel, D. R., and Mao, Y. (2018), The Variable Infiltration Capacity model version 5 (VIC-5): infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3481-3496, <doi:10.5194/gmd-11-3481-2018>".

R Codes and Datasets for Duchateau, L. and Janssen, P. and Rowlands, G. J. (1998). Linear Mixed Models. An Introduction with applications in Veterinary Research. International Livestock Research Institute.

This package provides fast sampling from von Mises-Fisher distribution using the method proposed by Andrew T.A Wood (1994) <doi:10.1080/03610919408813161>.

This package provides a set of wrapper functions for Visa Chart Components'. Visa Chart Components <https://github.com/visa/visa-chart-components> is an accessibility focused, framework agnostic set of data experience design systems components for the web.

Visualizing of distributions of covariance matrices. The package implements the methodology described in Tokuda, T., Goodrich, B., Van Mechelen, I., Gelman, A., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2012) <https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/research/unpublished/Visualization.pdf>.

This package provides a collection of statistical tests for martingale difference hypothesis, including automatic portmanteau test (Escansiano and Lobato, 2009) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.03.001> and automatic variance ratio test (Kim, 2009) <doi:10.1016/j.frl.2009.04.003>.

Practicals, data sets, helper functions and interactive Shiny apps used in the introductory course on Bayesian inference at the Valencia International Bayesian Summer School. Installing vibass installs all the other packages used during the course and downloads all necessary materials for working off line.

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.