Generalised additive P-spline regression models estimation using the separation of overlapping precision matrices (SOP) method. Estimation is based on the equivalence between P-splines and linear mixed models, and variance/smoothing parameters are estimated based on restricted maximum likelihood (REML). The package enables users to estimate P-spline models with overlapping penalties. Based on the work described in Rodriguez-Alvarez et al. (2015) <doi:10.1007/s11222-014-9464-2>; Rodriguez-Alvarez et al. (2019) <doi:10.1007/s11222-018-9818-2>, and Eilers and Marx (1996) <doi:10.1214/ss/1038425655>.

An implementation of W3C WebDriver 2.0 (<https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/>), allowing interaction with a Selenium Server (<https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/grid/>) instance from R'. Allows a web browser to be automated from R'.

This package provides extensions for package sitree for allometric variables, growth, mortality, recruitment, management, tree removal and external modifiers functions.

New tools for post-selection inference, for use with forward stepwise regression, least angle regression, the lasso, and the many means problem. The lasso function implements Gaussian, logistic and Cox survival models.

This package implements estimation methods for shrinkage covariance matrices using user-specified covariance targets. The covariance target is a structured matrix towards which the unbiased sample covariance is shrunk, optionally incorporating prior knowledge. Shrinkage intensity is computed analytically. The method is described and applied to microarray gene expression data in Jelizarow et al. (2010) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq323>.

This package provides tools for interacting with U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase <https://www.sciencebase.gov> interfaces. ScienceBase is a data cataloging and collaborative data management platform. Functions included for querying ScienceBase, and creating and fetching datasets.

This package provides small area estimation for count data type and gives option whether to use covariates in the estimation or not. By implementing Empirical Bayes (EB) Poisson-Gamma model, each function returns EB estimators and mean squared error (MSE) estimators for each area. The EB estimators without covariates are obtained using the model proposed by Clayton & Kaldor (1987) <doi:10.2307/2532003>, the EB estimators with covariates are obtained using the model proposed by Wakefield (2006) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxl008> and the MSE estimators are obtained using Jackknife method by Jiang et. al. (2002) <doi:10.1214/aos/1043351257>.

An implementation of ranked sparsity methods, including penalized regression methods such as the sparsity-ranked lasso, its non-convex alternatives, and elastic net, as well as the sparsity-ranked Bayesian Information Criterion. As described in Peterson and Cavanaugh (2022) <doi:10.1007/s10182-021-00431-7>, ranked sparsity is a philosophy with methods primarily useful for variable selection in the presence of prior informational asymmetry, which occurs in the context of trying to perform variable selection in the presence of interactions and/or polynomials. Ultimately, this package attempts to facilitate dealing with cumbersome interactions and polynomials while not avoiding them entirely. Typically, models selected under ranked sparsity principles will also be more transparent, having fewer falsely selected interactions and polynomials than other methods.

Computerized Adaptive Testing simulations with dichotomous and polytomous items. Selects items with Maximum Fisher Information method or randomly, with or without constraints (content balancing and item exposure control). Evaluates the simulation results in terms of precision, item exposure, and test length. Inspired on Magis & Barrada (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v076.c01>.

Identifies a bicluster, a submatrix of the data such that the features and observations within the submatrix differ from those not contained in submatrix, using a two-step method. In the first step, observations in the bicluster are identified to maximize the sum of weighted between cluster feature differences. The method is described in Helgeson et al. (2020) <doi:10.1111/biom.13136>. SCBiclust can be used to identify biclusters which differ based on feature means, feature variances, or more general differences.

Converts the dates to different SAS date formats. In SAS dates are a special case of numeric values. Each day is assigned a specific numeric value, starting from January 1, 1960. This date is assigned the date value 0, and the next date has a date value of 1 and so on. The previous days to this date are represented by -1 , -2 and so on. With this approach, SAS can represent any date in the future or any date in the past. There are many date formats used in SAS to represent date-time. Here, we try to develop functions which will convert the date to different SAS date formats.

This package provides functions for conducting jackknife Euclidean / empirical likelihood inference for Spearman's rho (de Carvalho and Marques (2012) <doi:10.1080/10920277.2012.10597644>).

Handle POST requests on a custom path (e.g., /ingress) inside the same shiny HTTP server using user interface functions and HTTP responses. Expose latest payload as a reactive and provide helpers for query parameters.

Introduction to some novel accurate hybrid methods of geostatistical and machine learning methods for spatial predictive modelling. It contains two commonly used geostatistical methods, two machine learning methods, four hybrid methods and two averaging methods. For each method, two functions are provided. One function is for assessing the predictive errors and accuracy of the method based on cross-validation. The other one is for generating spatial predictions using the method. For details please see: Li, J., Potter, A., Huang, Z., Daniell, J. J. and Heap, A. (2010) <https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/71407> Li, J., Heap, A. D., Potter, A., Huang, Z. and Daniell, J. (2011) <doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.05.015> Li, J., Heap, A. D., Potter, A. and Daniell, J. (2011) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.07.004> Li, J., Potter, A., Huang, Z. and Heap, A. (2012) <https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/74030>.

Augmenting a matched data set by generating multiple stochastic, matched samples from the data using a multi-dimensional histogram constructed from dropping the input matched data into a multi-dimensional grid built on the full data set. The resulting stochastic, matched sets will likely provide a collectively higher coverage of the full data set compared to the single matched set. Each stochastic match is without duplication, thus allowing downstream validation techniques such as cross-validation to be applied to each set without concern for overfitting.

The overall performance of soil ecosystem services and productivity greatly relies on soil health, making it a crucial indicator. The evaluation of soil physical, chemical, and biological parameters is necessary to determine the overall soil quality index. In our package, three commonly used methods, including linear scoring, regression-based, and principal component-based soil quality indexing, are employed to calculate the soil quality index. This package has been developed using concept of Bastida et al. (2008) and Doran and Parkin (1994) <doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.08.007> <doi:10.2136/sssaspecpub35.c1>.

This package provides methods for inference using stacked multiple imputations augmented with weights. The vignette provides example R code for implementation in general multiple imputation settings. For additional details about the estimation algorithm, we refer the reader to Beesley, Lauren J and Taylor, Jeremy M G (2020) â A stacked approach for chained equations multiple imputation incorporating the substantive modelâ <doi:10.1111/biom.13372>, and Beesley, Lauren J and Taylor, Jeremy M G (2021) â Accounting for not-at-random missingness through imputation stackingâ <arXiv:2101.07954>.

This package provides a simulation-based tool made to help researchers to become familiar with multilevel variations, and to build up sampling designs for their study. This tool has two main objectives: First, it provides an educational tool useful for students, teachers and researchers who want to learn to use mixed-effects models. Users can experience how the mixed-effects model framework can be used to understand distinct biological phenomena by interactively exploring simulated multilevel data. Second, it offers research opportunities to those who are already familiar with mixed-effects models, as it enables the generation of data sets that users may download and use for a range of simulation-based statistical analyses such as power and sensitivity analysis of multilevel and multivariate data [Allegue, H., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Dingemanse, N.J., Dochtermann N.A., Garamszegi, L.Z., Nakagawa, S., Reale, D., Schielzeth, H. and Westneat, D.F. (2016) <doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12659>].

This package provides functions to parse and analyze logs generated by ShinyProxy containers. It extracts metadata from log file names, reads log contents, and computes summary statistics (such as the total number of lines and lines containing error messages), facilitating efficient monitoring and debugging of ShinyProxy deployments.

This package provides tools for obtaining, processing, and visualizing spectral reflectance data for the user-defined land or water surface classes for visual exploring in which wavelength the classes differ. Input should be a shapefile with polygons of surface classes (it might be different habitat types, crops, vegetation, etc.). The Sentinel-2 L2A satellite mission optical bands pixel data are obtained through the Google Earth Engine service (<https://earthengine.google.com/>) and used as a source of spectral data.

Web application using shiny for the SSD (Species Sensitivity Distribution) module of the MOSAIC (MOdeling and StAtistical tools for ecotoxICology) platform. It estimates the Hazardous Concentration for x% of the species (HCx) from toxicity values that can be censored and provides various plotting options for a better understanding of the results. See our companion paper Kon Kam King et al. (2014) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1311.5772>.

Reliability of (normal) stress-strength models and for building two-sided or one-sided confidence intervals according to different approximate procedures.

Fast single trait Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) following the method described in Kang et al. (2010), <doi:10.1038/ng.548>. One of a series of statistical genetic packages for streamlining the analysis of typical plant breeding experiments developed by Biometris.

Computes a simple blinding index for randomized controlled trials introduced in Petroff, Bacak, Dagres, Dilk, Wachter: A simple blinding index for randomized controlled trials. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2024 Nov 26;42:101393. <doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2024.101393>. PMID: 39686958.