Bond Pricing and Fixed-Income Valuation of Selected Securities included here serve as a quick reference of Quantitative Methods for undergraduate courses on Fixed-Income and CFA Level I Readings on Fixed-Income Valuation, Risk and Return. CFA Institute ("CFA Program Curriculum 2020 Level I Volumes 1-6. (Vol. 5, pp. 107-151, pp. 237-299)", 2019, ISBN: 9781119593577). Barbara S. Petitt ("Fixed Income Analysis", 2019, ISBN: 9781119628132). Frank J. Fabozzi ("Handbook of Finance: Financial Markets and Instruments", 2008, ISBN: 9780470078143). Frank J. Fabozzi ("Fixed Income Analysis", 2007, ISBN: 9780470052211).

Fits, validates and compares a number of Bayesian models for spatial and space time point referenced and areal unit data. Model fitting is done using several packages: rstan', INLA', spBayes', spTimer', spTDyn', CARBayes and CARBayesST'. Model comparison is performed using the DIC and WAIC, and K-fold cross-validation where the user is free to select their own subset of data rows for validation. Sahu (2022) <doi:10.1201/9780429318443> describes the methods in detail.

The Bayesian optimal interval (BOIN) design is a novel phase I clinical trial design for finding the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). It can be used to design both single-agent and drug-combination trials. The BOIN design is motivated by the top priority and concern of clinicians when testing a new drug, which is to effectively treat patients and minimize the chance of exposing them to subtherapeutic or overly toxic doses. The prominent advantage of the BOIN design is that it achieves simplicity and superior performance at the same time. The BOIN design is algorithm-based and can be implemented in a simple way similar to the traditional 3+3 design. The BOIN design yields an average performance that is comparable to that of the continual reassessment method (CRM, one of the best model-based designs) in terms of selecting the MTD, but has a substantially lower risk of assigning patients to subtherapeutic or overly toxic doses. For tutorial, please check Yan et al. (2020) <doi:10.18637/jss.v094.i13>.

This package implements bridge models for nowcasting and forecasting macroeconomic variables by linking high-frequency indicator variables (e.g., monthly data) to low-frequency target variables (e.g., quarterly GDP). Simplifies forecasting and aggregating indicator variables to match the target frequency, enabling timely predictions ahead of official data releases. For more on bridge models, see Baffigi, A., Golinelli, R., & Parigi, G. (2004) <doi:10.1016/S0169-2070(03)00067-0>, Burri (2023) <https://www5.unine.ch/RePEc/ftp/irn/pdfs/WP23-02.pdf> or Schumacher (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.07.004>.

Model-based clustering using Bayesian parsimonious Gaussian mixture models. MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo) are used for parameter estimation. The RJMCMC (Reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo) is used for model selection. GREEN et al. (1995) <doi:10.1093/biomet/82.4.711>.

This package provides a comprehensive statistical analysis of the accuracy of blood pressure devices based on the method of AAMI/ANSI SP10 standards developed by the AAMI Sphygmomanometer Committee for indirect measurement of blood pressure, incorporated into IS0 81060-2. The bpAcc package gives the exact probability of accepting a device D derived from the join distribution of the sample standard deviation and a non-linear transformation of the sample mean for a specified sample size introduced by Chandel et al. (2023) and by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (2003, ISBN:1-57020-183-8).

Whitening is the first step of almost all blind source separation (BSS) methods. A fast implementation of whitening for BSS is implemented to serve as a lightweight dependency for packages providing BSS methods.

Get a current financial year, start of current month, End of current month, start of financial year and end of it. Allow for offset from the date.

This package creates bivariate choropleth maps using Leaflet'. This package provides tools for visualizing the relationship between two variables through a color matrix representation on an interactive map.

This package provides a tool to perform all different statistical tests and calculations needed by Biological dosimetry Laboratories. Detailed documentation is available in <https://biodosetools-team.github.io/documentation/>.

This package implements the efficient estimator of bid-ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices described in Ardia, Guidotti, & Kroencke (JFE, 2024) <doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2024.103916>. It also provides an implementation of the estimators described in Roll (JF, 1984) <doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03897.x>, Corwin & Schultz (JF, 2012) <doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01729.x>, and Abdi & Ranaldo (RFS, 2017) <doi:10.1093/rfs/hhx084>.

This package performs Bayesian t Regression where mean and scale parameters are modeling by lineal regression structures, and the degrees of freedom parameters are estimated.

This package provides functions for blind source separation over multivariate spatial data, and useful statistics for evaluating performance of estimation on mixing matrix. BSSoverSpace is based on an eigen analysis of a positive definite matrix defined in terms of multiple normalized spatial local covariance matrices, and thus can handle moderately high-dimensional random fields. This package is an implementation of the method described in Zhang, Hao and Yao (2022)<arXiv:2201.02023>.

This package provides a set of functions to allow analysis of count data (such as faecal egg count data) using Bayesian MCMC methods. Returns information on the possible values for mean count, coefficient of variation and zero inflation (true prevalence) present in the data. A complete faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) model is implemented, which returns inference on the true efficacy of the drug from the pre- and post-treatment data provided, using non-parametric bootstrapping as well as using Bayesian MCMC. Functions to perform power analyses for faecal egg counts (including FECRT) are also provided.

We perform general mediation analysis in the Bayesian setting using the methods described in Yu and Li (2022, ISBN:9780367365479). With the package, the mediation analysis can be performed on different types of outcomes (e.g., continuous, binary, categorical, or time-to-event), with default or user-defined priors and predictive models. The Bayesian estimates and credible sets of mediation effects are reported as analytic results.

Bayesian seemingly unrelated regression with general variable selection and dense/sparse covariance matrix. The sparse seemingly unrelated regression is described in Bottolo et al. (2021) <doi:10.1111/rssc.12490>, the software paper is in Zhao et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i11>, and the model with random effects is described in Zhao et al. (2024) <doi:10.1093/jrsssc/qlad102>.

Extract, visualize and summarize aerial movements of birds and insects from weather radar data. See Dokter, A. M. et al. (2018) "bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data" <doi:10.1111/ecog.04028> for a software paper describing package and methodologies.

Computation and visualization of Bayesian Regions of Evidence to systematically evaluate the sensitivity of a superiority or non-inferiority claim against any prior assumption of its assessors. Methodological details are elaborated by Hoefler and Miller (<https://osf.io/jxnsv>). Besides generic functions, the package also provides an intuitive Shiny application, that can be run in local R environments.

The card game War is simple in its rules but can be lengthy. In another domain, the nonparametric bootstrap test with pooled resampling (nbpr) methods, as outlined in Dwivedi, Mallawaarachchi, and Alvarado (2017) <doi:10.1002/sim.7263>, is optimal for comparing paired or unpaired means in non-normal data, especially for small sample size studies. However, many researchers are unfamiliar with these methods. The bootwar package bridges this gap by enabling users to grasp the concepts of nbpr via Boot War, a variation of the card game War designed for small samples. The package provides functions like score_keeper() and play_round() to streamline gameplay and scoring. Once a predetermined number of rounds concludes, users can employ the analyze_game() function to derive game results. This function leverages the npboottprm package's nonparboot() to report nbpr results and, for comparative analysis, also reports results from the stats package's t.test() function. Additionally, bootwar features an interactive shiny web application, bootwar(). This offers a user-centric interface to experience Boot War, enhancing understanding of nbpr methods across various distributions, sample sizes, number of bootstrap resamples, and confidence intervals.

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.

Model selection method with multiple block-wise imputation for block-wise missing data; see Xue, F., and Qu, A. (2021) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2020.1751176>.

This package provides a fast integrative genetic association test for rare diseases based on a model for disease status given allele counts at rare variant sites. Probability of association, mode of inheritance and probability of pathogenicity for individual variants are all inferred in a Bayesian framework - A Fast Association Test for Identifying Pathogenic Variants Involved in Rare Diseases', Greene et al 2017 <doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.05.015>.

Run basic pattern analyses on character sets, digits, or combined input containing both characters and numeric digits. Useful for data cleaning and for identifying columns containing multiple or nonstandard formats.

This package contains all the necessary tools to process audio recordings of various formats (e.g., WAV, WAC, MP3, ZC), filter noisy files, display audio signals, detect and extract automatically acoustic features for further analysis such as classification.