This package provides a-priori, post-hoc, and compromise power-analyses for structural equation models (SEM).

Sensitivity analysis in structural equation modeling using influence measures and diagnostic plots. Support leave-one-out casewise sensitivity analysis presented by Pek and MacCallum (2011) <doi:10.1080/00273171.2011.561068> and approximate casewise influence using scores and casewise likelihood.

Estimate networks and causal relationships in complex systems through Structural Equation Modeling. This package also includes functions for importing, weight, manipulate, and fit biological network models within the Structural Equation Modeling framework as outlined in the Supplementary Material of Grassi M, Palluzzi F, Tarantino B (2022) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac567>.

Semi-distance and mean-variance (MV) index are proposed to measure the dependence between a categorical random variable and a continuous variable. Test of independence and feature screening for classification problems can be implemented via the two dependence measures. For the details of the methods, see Zhong et al. (2023) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2023.2284988>; Cui and Zhong (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2019.05.004>; Cui, Li and Zhong (2015) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2014.920256>.

Most function focus on specific ways to customize a graph. They use a qgraph output as the first argument, and return a modified qgraph object. This allows the functions to be chained by a pipe operator.

This package implements named semaphores from the boost C++ library <https://www.boost.org/> for interprocess communication. Multiple R sessions on the same host can block (with optional timeout) on a semaphore until it becomes positive, then atomically decrement it and unblock. Any session can increment the semaphore.

We present a rank-based Mercer kernel to compute a pair-wise similarity metric corresponding to informative representation of data. We tailor the development of a kernel to encode our prior knowledge about the data distribution over a probability space. The philosophical concept behind our construction is that objects whose feature values fall on the extreme of that featureâ s probability mass distribution are more similar to each other, than objects whose feature values lie closer to the mean. Semblance emphasizes features whose values lie far away from the mean of their probability distribution. The kernel relies on properties empirically determined from the data and does not assume an underlying distribution. The use of feature ranks on a probability space ensures that Semblance is computational efficacious, robust to outliers, and statistically stable, thus making it widely applicable algorithm for pattern analysis. The output from the kernel is a square, symmetric matrix that gives proximity values between pairs of observations.

This package provides functions for fitting multi-state semi-Markov models to longitudinal data. A parametric maximum likelihood estimation method adapted to deal with Exponential, Weibull and Exponentiated Weibull distributions is considered. Right-censoring can be taken into account and both constant and time-varying covariates can be included using a Cox proportional model. Reference: A. Krol and P. Saint-Pierre (2015) <doi:10.18637/jss.v066.i06>.

Semantic Versions allow for standardized management versions. This package implements semantic versioning handling in R. using R6 to create a mutable object that can handle deciphering and checking versions.

This package provides a collection of helper functions for forming bootstrapping confidence intervals and examining bootstrap estimates in structural equation modelling. Currently supports models fitted by the lavaan package by Rosseel (2012) <doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i02>.

Semi-parametric estimation problem can be solved by two-step Newton-Raphson iteration. The implicit profiling method<arXiv:2108.07928> is an improved method of two-step NR iteration especially for the implicit-bundled type of the parametric part and non-parametric part. This package provides a function semislv() supporting the above two methods and numeric derivative approximation for unprovided Jacobian matrix.

This package implements several functions that automates the cleaning and spell-checking of text data. Also converges, finalizes, removes plurals and continuous strings, and puts text data in binary format for semantic network analysis. Uses the SemNetDictionaries package to make the cleaning process more accurate, efficient, and reproducible.

Hierarchical multistate models are considered to perform the analysis of independent/clustered semi-competing risks data. The package allows to choose the specification for model components from a range of options giving users substantial flexibility, including: accelerated failure time or proportional hazards regression models; parametric or non-parametric specifications for baseline survival functions and cluster-specific random effects distribution; a Markov or semi-Markov specification for terminal event following non-terminal event. While estimation is mainly performed within the Bayesian paradigm, the package also provides the maximum likelihood estimation approach for several parametric models. The package also includes functions for univariate survival analysis as complementary analysis tools.

This package implements Multivariate ANalysis Of VAriance (MANOVA) parameters inference and test with regularization for semicontinuous high-dimensional data. The method can be applied also in presence of low-dimensional data. The p-value can be obtained through asymptotic distribution or using a permutation procedure. The package gives also the possibility to simulate this type of data. Method is described in Elena Sabbioni, Claudio Agostinelli and Alessio Farcomeni (2024) <arXiv:2401.04036>.

This package contains methods to generate and evaluate semi-artificial data sets. Based on a given data set different methods learn data properties using machine learning algorithms and generate new data with the same properties. The package currently includes the following data generators: i) a RBF network based generator using rbfDDA() from package RSNNS', ii) a Random Forest based generator for both classification and regression problems iii) a density forest based generator for unsupervised data Data evaluation support tools include: a) single attribute based statistical evaluation: mean, median, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, medcouple, L/RMC, KS test, Hellinger distance b) evaluation based on clustering using Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) and FM c) evaluation based on classification performance with various learning models, e.g., random forests.

Style sheets and JavaScript assets for shiny.semantic package.

An assortment of helper functions for doing structural equation modeling, mainly by lavaan for now. Most of them are time-saving functions for common tasks in doing structural equation modeling and reading the output. This package is not for functions that implement advanced statistical procedures. It is a light-weight package for simple functions that do simple tasks conveniently, with as few dependencies as possible.

Copula based Cox proportional hazards models for survival data subject to dependent censoring. This approach does not assume that the parameter defining the copula is known. The dependency parameter is estimated with other finite model parameters by maximizing a Pseudo likelihood function. The cumulative hazard function is estimated via estimating equations derived based on martingale ideas. Available copula functions include Frank, Gumbel and Normal copulas. Only Weibull and lognormal models are allowed for the censoring model, even though any parametric model that satisfies certain identifiability conditions could be used. Implemented methods are described in the article "Copula based Cox proportional hazards models for dependent censoring" by Deresa and Van Keilegom (2024) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2161387>.

Use inverse probability weighting methods to estimate treatment effect under marginal structure model (MSM) for the transition hazard of semi competing risk data, i.e. illness death model. We implement two specific such models, the usual Markov illness death structural model and the general Markov illness death structural model. We also provide the predicted three risks functions from the marginal structure models. Zhang, Y. and Xu, R. (2022) <arXiv:2204.10426>.

It offers functions for creating dashboard with Fomantic UI.

This package implements dictionaries that can be used in the SemNetCleaner package. Also includes several functions aimed at facilitating the text cleaning analysis in the SemNetCleaner package. This package is designed to integrate and update word lists and dictionaries based on each user's individual needs by allowing users to store and save their own dictionaries. Dictionaries can be added to the SemNetDictionaries package by submitting user-defined dictionaries to <https://github.com/AlexChristensen/SemNetDictionaries>.