This package performs combination tests and sample size calculation for fixed design with survival endpoints using combination tests under either proportional hazards or non-proportional hazards. The combination tests include maximum weighted log-rank test and projection test. The sample size calculation procedure is very flexible, allowing for user-defined hazard ratio function and considering various trial conditions like staggered entry, drop-out etc. The sample size calculation also applies to various cure models such as proportional hazards cure model, cure model with (random) delayed treatments effects. Trial simulation function is also provided to facilitate the empirical power calculation. The references for projection test and maximum weighted logrank test include Brendel et al. (2014) <doi:10.1111/sjos.12059> and Cheng and He (2021) <arXiv:2110.03833>. The references for sample size calculation under proportional hazard include Schoenfeld (1981) <doi:10.1093/biomet/68.1.316> and Freedman (1982) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780010204>. The references for calculation under non-proportional hazards include Lakatos (1988) <doi:10.2307/2531910> and Cheng and He (2023) <doi:10.1002/bimj.202100403>.

This package provides a method for obtaining nonparametric estimates of regression models with or without factor-by-curve interactions using local polynomial kernel smoothers or splines. Additionally, a parametric model (allometric model) can be estimated.

Statistical tools for analyzing cognitive diagnosis (CD) data collected from small settings using the nonparametric classification (NPCD) framework. The core methods of the NPCD framework includes the nonparametric classification (NPC) method developed by Chiu and Douglas (2013) <DOI:10.1007/s00357-013-9132-9> and the general NPC (GNPC) method developed by Chiu, Sun, and Bian (2018) <DOI:10.1007/s11336-017-9595-4> and Chiu and Köhn (2019) <DOI:10.1007/s11336-019-09660-x>. An extension of the NPCD framework included in the package is the nonparametric method for multiple-choice items (MC-NPC) developed by Wang, Chiu, and Koehn (2023) <DOI:10.3102/10769986221133088>. Functions associated with various extensions concerning the evaluation, validation, and feasibility of the CD analysis are also provided. These topics include the completeness of Q-matrix, Q-matrix refinement method, as well as Q-matrix estimation.

This package performs nonparametric tests for equality of location against ordered alternatives.

Estimating the first and second derivatives of a regression function by the method of Wang and Lin (2015) <http://www.jmlr.org/papers/v16/wang15b.html>.

Addressing crucial research questions often necessitates a small sample size due to factors such as distinctive target populations, rarity of the event under study, time and cost constraints, ethical concerns, or group-level unit of analysis. Many readily available analytic methods, however, do not accommodate small sample sizes, and the choice of the best method can be unclear. The npboottprm package enables the execution of nonparametric bootstrap tests with pooled resampling to help fill this gap. Grounded in the statistical methods for small sample size studies detailed in Dwivedi, Mallawaarachchi, and Alvarado (2017) <doi:10.1002/sim.7263>, the package facilitates a range of statistical tests, encompassing independent t-tests, paired t-tests, and one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) F-tests. The nonparboot() function undertakes essential computations, yielding detailed outputs which include test statistics, effect sizes, confidence intervals, and bootstrap distributions. Further, npboottprm incorporates an interactive shiny web application, nonparboot_app(), offering intuitive, user-friendly data exploration.

Given a failure type, the function computes covariate-specific probability of failure over time and covariate-specific conditional hazard rate based on possibly right-censored competing risk data. Specifically, it computes the non-parametric maximum-likelihood estimates of these quantities and their asymptotic variances in a semi-parametric mixture model for competing-risks data, as described in Chang et al. (2007a).

This package provides functions and examples for histogram, kernel (classical, variable bandwidth and transformations based), discrete and semiparametric hazard rate estimators.

Returns nonparametric aligned rank tests for the interaction in two-way factorial designs, on R data sets with repeated measures in wide format. Five ANOVAs tables are reported. A PARAMETRIC one on the original data, one for a CHECK upon the interaction alignments, and three aligned rank tests: one on the aligned REGULAR, one on the FRIEDMAN, and one on the KOCH ranks. In these rank tests, only the resulting values for the interaction are relevant.

This package provides a novel integral estimator for estimating the causal effects with continuous treatments (or dose-response curves) and a localized derivative estimator for estimating the derivative effects. The inference on the dose-response curve and its derivative is conducted via nonparametric bootstrap. The reference paper is Zhang, Chen, and Giessing (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2405.09003>.

Sample sizes are often small due to hard to reach target populations, rare target events, time constraints, limited budgets, or ethical considerations. Two statistical methods with promising performance in small samples are the nonparametric bootstrap test with pooled resampling method, which is the focus of Dwivedi, Mallawaarachchi, and Alvarado (2017) <doi:10.1002/sim.7263>, and informative hypothesis testing, which is implemented in the restriktor package. The npboottprmFBar package uses the nonparametric bootstrap test with pooled resampling method to implement informative hypothesis testing. The bootFbar() function can be used to analyze data with this method and the persimon() function can be used to conduct performance simulations on type-one error and statistical power.

This package implements several nonparametric regression approaches for the inclusion of covariate information on the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) framework.

These routines create multiple imputations of missing at random categorical data, and create multiply imputed synthesis of categorical data, with or without structural zeros. Imputations and syntheses are based on Dirichlet process mixtures of multinomial distributions, which is a non-parametric Bayesian modeling approach that allows for flexible joint modeling, described in Manrique-Vallier and Reiter (2014) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2013.844700>.

Nested Partially Balanced Bipartite Block (NPBBB) designs involve two levels of blocking: (i) The block design (ignoring sub-block classification) serves as a partially balanced bipartite block (PBBB) design, and (ii) The sub-block design (ignoring block classification) also serves as a PBBB design. More details on constructions of the PBBB designs and their characterization properties are available in Vinayaka et al.(2023) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2023.2251623>. This package calculates A-efficiency values for both block and sub-block structures, along with all parameters of a given NPBBB design.