Search and download data from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) APIs <https://www.bfs.admin.ch/>.

Interface with the Brickset API <https://brickset.com/article/52664/api-version-3-documentation> for getting data about LEGO sets. Data sets that can be used for teaching and learning without the need of a Brickset account and API key are also included. Includes all LEGO since through the end of 2025.

The Behavioral Change Point Analysis (BCPA) is a method of identifying hidden shifts in the underlying parameters of a time series, developed specifically to be applied to animal movement data which is irregularly sampled. The method is based on: E. Gurarie, R. Andrews and K. Laidre A novel method for identifying behavioural changes in animal movement data (2009) Ecology Letters 12:5 395-408. A development version is on <https://github.com/EliGurarie/bcpa>. NOTE: the BCPA method may be useful for any univariate, irregularly sampled Gaussian time-series, but animal movement analysts are encouraged to apply correlated velocity change point analysis as implemented in the smoove package, as of this writing on GitHub at <https://github.com/EliGurarie/smoove>. An example of a univariate analysis is provided in the UnivariateBCPA vignette.

All the seeds do not germinate at a single point in time due to physiological mechanisms determined by temperature which vary among individual seeds in the population. Seeds germinate by following accumulation of thermal time in degree days/hours, quantified by multiplying the time of germination with excess of base temperature required by each seed for its germination, which follows log-normal distribution. The theoretical germination course can be obtained by regressing the rate of germination at various fractions against temperature (Garcia et al., 1982), where the fraction-wise regression lines intersect the temperature axis at base temperature and the methodology of determining optimum base temperature has been described by Ellis et al. (1987). This package helps to find the base temperature of seed germination using algorithms of Garcia et al. (1982) and Ellis et al. (1982) <doi:10.1093/JXB/38.6.1033> <doi:10.1093/jxb/33.2.288>.

This package provides a class of Bayesian beta regression models for the analysis of continuous data with support restricted to an unknown finite support. The response variable is modeled using a four-parameter beta distribution with the mean or mode parameter depending linearly on covariates through a link function. When the response support is known to be (0,1), the above class of models reduce to traditional (0,1) supported beta regression models. Model choice is carried out via the logarithm of the pseudo marginal likelihood (LPML), the deviance information criterion (DIC), and the Watanabe-Akaike information criterion (WAIC). See Zhou and Huang (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2021.107345>.

Simulate multivariate data with arbitrary marginal distributions. bigsimr is a package for simulating high-dimensional multivariate data with a target correlation and arbitrary marginal distributions via Gaussian copula. It utilizes the Julia package Bigsimr.jl for its core routines.

Create a blended curve from two survival curves, which is particularly useful for survival extrapolation in health technology assessment. The main idea is to mix a flexible model that fits the observed data well with a parametric model that encodes assumptions about long-term survival. The two curves are blended into a single survival curve that is identical to the first model over the range of observed times and gradually approaches the parametric model over the extrapolation period based on a given weight function. This approach allows for the inclusion of external information, such as data from registries or expert opinion, to guide long-term extrapolations, especially when dealing with immature trial data. See Che et al. (2022) <doi:10.1177/0272989X221134545>.

This package provides a backward-pipe operator for magrittr (%<%) or pipeR (%<<%) that allows for a performing operations from right-to-left. This allows writing more legible code where right-to-left ordering is natural. This is common with hierarchies and nested structures such as trees, directories or markup languages (e.g. HTML and XML). The package also includes a R-Studio add-in that can be bound to a keyboard shortcut.

Generation of correlated artificial binary data.

This package provides probability computation, data generation, and model estimation for fully-visible Boltzmann machines. It follows the methods described in Nguyen and Wood (2016a) <doi:10.1162/NECO_a_00813> and Nguyen and Wood (2016b) <doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2015.2425898>.

Imports benthic count data, reformats this data, and computes environmental inferences from this data.

This package provides a cross-platform representation of models as sets of equations that facilitates modularity in model building and allows users to harness modern techniques for numerical integration and data visualization. Documentation is provided by several vignettes included in this package; also see Lochocki et al. (2022) <doi:10.1093/insilicoplants/diac003>.

Creating, rendering and writing BPMN diagrams <https://www.bpmn.org/>. Functionalities can be used to visualize and export BPMN diagrams created using the pm4py and bupaRminer packages. Part of the bupaR ecosystem.

Collection of procedures to perform Bayesian analysis on a variety of factor models. Currently, it includes: "Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis" (befa) from G. Conti, S. Frühwirth-Schnatter, J.J. Heckman, R. Piatek (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.06.008>, an approach to dedicated factor analysis with stochastic search on the structure of the factor loading matrix. The number of latent factors, as well as the allocation of the manifest variables to the factors, are not fixed a priori but determined during MCMC sampling.

This package provides functions for exploring and visualising estimation results obtained with BayesX, a free software for estimating structured additive regression models (<https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/bayesx/550513.html>). In addition, functions that allow to read, write and manipulate map objects that are required in spatial analyses performed with BayesX.

This project aims to enable the method of Path Analysis to infer causalities from data. For this we propose a hybrid approach, which uses Bayesian network structure learning algorithms from data to create the input file for creation of a PA model. The process is performed in a semi-automatic way by our intermediate algorithm, allowing novice researchers to create and evaluate their own PA models from a data set. The references used for this project are: Koller, D., & Friedman, N. (2009). Probabilistic graphical models: principles and techniques. MIT press. <doi:10.1017/S0269888910000275>. Nagarajan, R., Scutari, M., & Lèbre, S. (2013). Bayesian networks in r. Springer, 122, 125-127. Scutari, M., & Denis, J. B. <doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6446-4>. Scutari M (2010). Bayesian networks: with examples in R. Chapman and Hall/CRC. <doi:10.1201/b17065>. Rosseel, Y. (2012). lavaan: An R Package for Structural Equation Modeling. Journal of Statistical Software, 48(2), 1 - 36. <doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i02>.

Creating spatially or environmentally separated folds for cross-validation to provide a robust error estimation in spatially structured environments; Investigating and visualising the effective range of spatial autocorrelation in continuous raster covariates and point samples to find an initial realistic distance band to separate training and testing datasets spatially described in Valavi, R. et al. (2019) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13107>.

Calculate Bayesian marginal effects, average marginal effects, and marginal coefficients (also called population averaged coefficients) for models fit using the brms package including fixed effects, mixed effects, and location scale models. These are based on marginal predictions that integrate out random effects if necessary (see for example <doi:10.1186/s12874-015-0046-6> and <doi:10.1111/biom.12707>).

This package provides functions to utilize a command line utility that does bulk inserts and exports from SQL Server databases.

This package provides functions to prepare tidy objects from estimated models via BVAR (see Kuschnig & Vashold, 2019 <doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.25541.60643>) and visualisation thereof. Bridges the gap between estimating models with BVAR and plotting the results in a more sophisticated way with ggplot2 as well as passing them on in a tidy format.

This package provides methods for examining posterior MCMC samples from a single chain using trace plots and density plots, and from multiple chains by comparing posterior medians and credible intervals from each chain. These plotting functions have a variety of options, such as figure sizes, legends, parameters to plot, and saving plots to file. Functions interface with the NIMBLE software package, see de Valpine, Turek, Paciorek, Anderson-Bergman, Temple Lang and Bodik (2017) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2016.1172487>.

Boldness-recalibration maximally spreads out probability predictions while maintaining a user specified level of calibration, facilitated the brcal() function. Supporting functions to assess calibration via Bayesian and Frequentist approaches, Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) recalibration, Linear in Log Odds (LLO)-adjust via any specified parameters, and visualize results are also provided. Methodological details can be found in Guthrie & Franck (2024) <doi:10.1080/00031305.2024.2339266>.

Easily create tables from data frames/matrices. Create/manipulate tables row-by-row, column-by-column or cell-by-cell. Use common formatting/styling to output rich tables as HTML', HTML widgets or to Excel'.

This package implements a wide variety of one- and two-parameter Bayesian CRM designs. The program can run interactively, allowing the user to enter outcomes after each cohort has been recruited, or via simulation to assess operating characteristics. See Sweeting et al. (2013): <doi:10.18637/jss.v054.i13>.