An implementation of methods related to sparse clustering and variable importance in clustering. The package currently allows to perform sparse k-means clustering with a group penalty, so that it automatically selects groups of numerical features. It also allows to perform sparse clustering and variable selection on mixed data (categorical and numerical features), by preprocessing each categorical feature as a group of numerical features. Several methods for visualizing and exploring the results are also provided. M. Chavent, J. Lacaille, A. Mourer and M. Olteanu (2020)<https://www.esann.org/sites/default/files/proceedings/2020/ES2020-103.pdf>.

This package implements the Vine Copula Change Point (VCCP) methodology for the estimation of the number and location of multiple change points in the vine copula structure of multivariate time series. The method uses vine copulas, various state-of-the-art segmentation methods to identify multiple change points, and a likelihood ratio test or the stationary bootstrap for inference. The vine copulas allow for various forms of dependence between time series including tail, symmetric and asymmetric dependence. The functions have been extensively tested on simulated multivariate time series data and fMRI data. For details on the VCCP methodology, please see Xiong & Cribben (2021).

This package provides functions for validating the structure and properties of data frames. Answers essential questions about a data set after initial import or modification. What are the unique or missing values? What columns form a primary key? What are the properties of the numeric or categorical columns? What kind of overlap or mapping exists between 2 columns?

This package provides tools for reporting and forecasting viral respiratory infections, using case surveillance data. Report generation tools for short-term forecasts, and validation metrics for an arbitrary number of customizable respiratory viruses. Estimation of the effective reproduction number is based on the EpiEstim framework described in work by Cori and colleagues. (2013) <doi:10.1093/aje/kwt133>.

This package provides tools for 3D point cloud voxelisation, projection, geometrical and morphological description of trees (DBH, height, volume, crown diameter), analyses of temporal changes between different measurement times, distance based clustering and visualisation of 3D voxel clouds and 2D projection. Most analyses and algorithms provided in the package are based on the concept of space exploration and are described in Lecigne et al. (2018, <doi:10.1093/aob/mcx095>).

Generating functions for both optimal and ordinary difference sequences, and the difference-based estimation functions.

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>.

Using frequency matrices, very low frequency variants (VLFs) are assessed for amino acid and nucleotide sequences. The VLFs are then compared to see if they occur in only one member of a species, singleton VLFs, or if they occur in multiple members of a species, shared VLFs. The amino acid and nucleotide VLFs are then compared to see if they are concordant with one another. Amino acid VLFs are also assessed to determine if they lead to a change in amino acid residue type, and potential changes to protein structures. Based on Stoeckle and Kerr (2012) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043992> and Phillips et al. (2023) <doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e96480>.

The biomarker data set by Vermeulen et al. (2009) <doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70154-8> is provided. The data source, however, is by Ruijter et al. (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.ymeth.2012.08.011>. The original data set may be downloaded from <https://medischebiologie.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/qpcrdatamethods.zip>. This data set is for a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiment that comprises the raw fluorescence data of 24,576 amplification curves. This data set comprises 59 genes of interest and 5 reference genes. Each gene was assessed on 366 neuroblastoma complementary DNA (cDNA) samples and on 18 standard dilution series samples (10-fold 5-point dilution series x 3 replicates + no template controls (NTC) x 3 replicates).

This package provides a tool for fast, efficient bitwise operations along the elements within a vector. Provides such functionality for AND, OR and XOR, as well as infix operators for all of the binary bitwise operations.

Although model selection is ubiquitous in scientific discovery, the stability and uncertainty of the selected model is often hard to evaluate. How to characterize the random behavior of the model selection procedure is the key to understand and quantify the model selection uncertainty. This R package offers several graphical tools to visualize the distribution of the selected model. For example, Gplot(), Hplot(), VDSM_scatterplot() and VDSM_heatmap(). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to visualize such a distribution. About what distribution of selected model is and how it work please see Qin,Y.and Wang,L. (2021) "Visualization of Model Selection Uncertainty" <https://homepages.uc.edu/~qinyn/VDSM/VDSM.html>.

The qda() function from package MASS is extended to calculate a weighted linear (LDA) and quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) by changing the group variances and group means based on cell-wise uncertainties. The uncertainties can be derived e.g. through relative errors for each individual measurement (cell), not only row-wise or column-wise uncertainties. The method can be applied compositional data (e.g. portions of substances, concentrations) and non-compositional data.

The Bank of Canada updated their Valet API <https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/docs>, and no R client currently exists. This provides access to all of Valet's endpoints and serves responses in wide format easy for researchers to handle but also provides tools to access API responses as a list.

Penalized weighted least-squares estimate for variable selection on correlated multiply imputed data and penalized estimating equations for generalized linear models with multiple imputation. Reference: Li, Y., Yang, H., Yu, H., Huang, H., Shen, Y*. (2023) "Penalized estimating equations for generalized linear models with multiple imputation", <doi:10.1214/22-AOAS1721>. Li, Y., Yang, H., Yu, H., Huang, H., Shen, Y*. (2023) "Penalized weighted least-squares estimate for variable selection on correlated multiply imputed data", <doi:10.1093/jrsssc/qlad028>.

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.

This package performs modeling and forecasting of park visitor counts using social media data and (partial) on-site visitor counts. Specifically, the model is built based on an automatic decomposition of the trend and seasonal components of the social media-based park visitor counts, from which short-term forecasts of the visitor counts and percent changes in the visitor counts can be made. A reference for the underlying model that VisitorCounts uses can be found at Russell Goebel, Austin Schmaltz, Beth Ann Brackett, Spencer A. Wood, Kimihiro Noguchi (2023) <doi:10.1002/for.2965> .

Estimates hierarchical models using variational inference. At present, it can estimate logistic, linear, and negative binomial models. It can accommodate models with an arbitrary number of random effects and requires no integration to estimate. It also provides the ability to improve the quality of the approximation using marginal augmentation. Goplerud (2022) <doi:10.1214/21-BA1266> and Goplerud (2024) <doi:10.1017/S0003055423000035> provide details on the variational algorithms.

Comparison of variance - covariance patterns using relative principal component analysis (relative eigenanalysis), as described in Le Maitre and Mitteroecker (2019) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13253>. Also provides functions to compute group covariance matrices, distance matrices, and perform proportionality tests. A worked sample on the body shape of cichlid fishes is included, based on the dataset from Kerschbaumer et al. (2013) <doi:10.5061/dryad.fc02f>.

Implementation of Azure DevOps <https://azure.microsoft.com/> API calls. It enables the extraction of information about repositories, build and release definitions and individual releases. It also helps create repositories and work items within a project without logging into Azure DevOps'. There is the ability to use any API service with a shell for any non-predefined call.

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>).

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.

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>.

This package provides methods for calculating the variance scale exponent to identify memory patterns in time series data. Includes tests for white noise, short memory, and long memory. See Fu, H. et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.physa.2018.06.092>.

Bayesian variable selection using shrinkage priors to identify significant variables in high-dimensional datasets. The package includes methods for determining the number of significant variables through innovative clustering techniques of posterior distributions, specifically utilizing the 2-Means and Sequential 2-Means (S2M) approaches. The package aims to simplify the variable selection process with minimal tuning required in statistical analysis.