Quantitative methods for benefit-risk analysis help to condense complex decisions into a univariate metric describing the overall benefit relative to risk. One approach is to use the multi-criteria decision analysis framework (MCDA), as in Mussen, Salek, and Walker (2007) <doi:10.1002/pds.1435>. Bayesian benefit-risk analysis incorporates uncertainty through posterior distributions which are inputs to the benefit-risk framework. The brisk package provides functions to assist with Bayesian benefit-risk analyses, such as MCDA. Users input posterior samples, utility functions, weights, and the package outputs quantitative benefit-risk scores. The posterior of the benefit-risk scores for each group can be compared. Some plotting capabilities are also included.

We provide a tidy data structure and visualisations for multiple or grouped variable correlations, general association measures scagnostics and other pairwise scores suitable for numerical, ordinal and nominal variables. Supported measures include distance correlation, maximal information, ace correlation, Kendall's tau, and polychoric correlation.

Build decision trees and random forests for classification and regression. The implementation strikes a balance between minimizing computing efforts and maximizing the expected predictive accuracy, thus scales well to large data sets. Multi-threading is available through OpenMP <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/openmp>.

Bayesian Model Averaging for linear models with a wide choice of (customizable) priors. Built-in priors include coefficient priors (fixed, hyper-g and empirical priors), 5 kinds of model priors, moreover model sampling by enumeration or various MCMC approaches. Post-processing functions allow for inferring posterior inclusion and model probabilities, various moments, coefficient and predictive densities. Plotting functions available for posterior model size, MCMC convergence, predictive and coefficient densities, best models representation, BMA comparison. Also includes Bayesian normal-conjugate linear model with Zellner's g prior, and assorted methods.

This package provides classes for storing and manipulating arbitrary-precision integer vectors and high-precision floating-point vectors. These extend the range and precision of the integer and double data types found in R. This package utilizes the Boost.Multiprecision C++ library. It is specifically designed to work well with the tidyverse collection of R packages.

Utility functions for large-scale data. For now, package bigutilsr mainly includes functions for outlier detection and unbiased PCA projection.

Bayesian Additive Regression Kernels (BARK) provides an implementation for non-parametric function estimation using Levy Random Field priors for functions that may be represented as a sum of additive multivariate kernels. Kernels are located at every data point as in Support Vector Machines, however, coefficients may be heavily shrunk to zero under the Cauchy process prior, or even, set to zero. The number of active features is controlled by priors on precision parameters within the kernels, permitting feature selection. For more details see Ouyang, Z (2008) "Bayesian Additive Regression Kernels", Duke University. PhD dissertation, Chapter 3 and Wolpert, R. L, Clyde, M.A, and Tu, C. (2011) "Stochastic Expansions with Continuous Dictionaries Levy Adaptive Regression Kernels, Annals of Statistics Vol (39) pages 1916-1962 <doi:10.1214/11-AOS889>.

It is vital to assess the heterogeneity of treatment effects (HTE) when making health care decisions for an individual patient or a group of patients. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to evaluate HTE based on information collected from clinical studies that are often designed and conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment for the overall population. The Bayesian framework offers a principled and flexible approach to estimate and compare treatment effects across subgroups of patients defined by their characteristics. This package allows users to explore a wide range of Bayesian HTE analysis models, and produce posterior inferences about HTE. See Wang et al. (2018) <DOI:10.18637/jss.v085.i07> for further details.

An implementation of the model in Steorts (2015) <DOI:10.1214/15-BA965SI>, which performs Bayesian entity resolution for categorical and text data, for any distance function defined by the user. In addition, the precision and recall are in the package to allow one to compare to any other comparable method such as logistic regression, Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), or random forests. The experiments are reproducible and illustrated using a simple vignette. LICENSE: GPL-3 + file license.

This package provides functions to plot and help understand positive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV), and their relationship with sensitivity, specificity, and prevalence. See Akobeng, A.K. (2007) <doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.2006.00180.x> for a theoretical overview of the technical concepts and Navarrete et al. (2015) for a practical explanation about the importance of their understanding <doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01327>.

Bit-level reading and writing are necessary when dealing with many file formats e.g. compressed data and binary files. Currently, R connections are manipulated at the byte level. This package wraps existing connections and raw vectors so that it is possible to read bits, bit sequences, unaligned bytes and low-bit representations of integers.

Co-clustering of the rows and columns of a contingency or binary matrix, or double binary matrices and model selection for the number of row and column clusters. Three models are considered: the Poisson latent block model for contingency matrix, the binary latent block model for binary matrix and a new model we develop: the multiple latent block model for double binary matrices. A new procedure named bikm1 is implemented to investigate more efficiently the grid of numbers of clusters. Then, the studied model selection criteria are the integrated completed likelihood (ICL) and the Bayesian integrated likelihood (BIC). Finally, the co-clustering adjusted Rand index (CARI) to measure agreement between co-clustering partitions is implemented. Robert Valerie, Vasseur Yann, Brault Vincent (2021) <doi:10.1007/s00357-020-09379-w>.

Bayesian models to estimate causal effects of biological treatments on time-to-event endpoints in clinical trials with principal strata defined by the occurrence of antidrug antibodies. The methodology is based on Frangakis and Rubin (2002) <doi:10.1111/j.0006-341x.2002.00021.x> and Imbens and Rubin (1997) <doi:10.1214/aos/1034276631>, and here adapted to a specific time-to-event setting.

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 tools for constructing board/grid based games, as well as readily available game(s) for your entertainment.

This package provides users with an EZ-to-use platform for representing data with biplots. Currently principal component analysis (PCA), canonical variate analysis (CVA) and simple correspondence analysis (CA) biplots are included. This is accompanied by various formatting options for the samples and axes. Alpha-bags and concentration ellipses are included for visual enhancements and interpretation. For an extensive discussion on the topic, see Gower, J.C., Lubbe, S. and le Roux, N.J. (2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-01255-0) Understanding Biplots. Wiley: Chichester.

The BioTIME database was first published in 2018 and inspired ideas, questions, project and research article. To make it even more accessible, an R package was created. The BioTIMEr package provides tools designed to interact with the BioTIME database. The functions provided include the BioTIME recommended methods for preparing (gridding and rarefaction) time series data, a selection of standard biodiversity metrics (including species richness, numerical abundance and exponential Shannon) alongside examples on how to display change over time. It also includes a sample subset of both the query and meta data, the full versions of which are freely available on the BioTIME website <https://biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk/home.php>.

Allows to compare the goodness of fit of Benford's and Blondeau Da Silva's digit distributions in a dataset. It is used to check whether the data distribution is consistent with theoretical distributions highlighted by Blondeau Da Silva or not (through the dat.distr() function): this ideal theoretical distribution must be at least approximately followed by the data for the use of Blondeau Da Silva's model to be well-founded. It also enables to plot histograms of digit distributions, both observed in the dataset and given by the two theoretical approaches (with the digit.ditr() function). Finally, it proposes to quantify the goodness of fit via Pearson's chi-squared test (with the chi2() function).

An implementation of the Bayesian version of the Mallows rank model (Vitelli et al., Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018 <https://jmlr.org/papers/v18/15-481.html>; Crispino et al., Annals of Applied Statistics, 2019 <doi:10.1214/18-AOAS1203>; Sorensen et al., R Journal, 2020 <doi:10.32614/RJ-2020-026>; Stein, PhD Thesis, 2023 <https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/195759>). Both Metropolis-Hastings and sequential Monte Carlo algorithms for estimating the models are available. Cayley, footrule, Hamming, Kendall, Spearman, and Ulam distances are supported in the models. The rank data to be analyzed can be in the form of complete rankings, top-k rankings, partially missing rankings, as well as consistent and inconsistent pairwise preferences. Several functions for plotting and studying the posterior distributions of parameters are provided. The package also provides functions for estimating the partition function (normalizing constant) of the Mallows rank model, both with the importance sampling algorithm of Vitelli et al. and asymptotic approximation with the IPFP algorithm (Mukherjee, Annals of Statistics, 2016 <doi:10.1214/15-AOS1389>).

This package provides a C++ library for Bayesian modeling, with an emphasis on Markov chain Monte Carlo. Although boom contains a few R utilities (mainly plotting functions), its primary purpose is to install the BOOM C++ library on your system so that other packages can link against it.

Simulating the sequential multi-arm multi-stage or platform trial with Bayesian approach using the rstan package, which provides the R interface for the Stan. This package supports fixed ratio and Bayesian adaptive randomization approaches for randomization. Additionally, it allows for the study of time trend problems in platform trials. There are demos available for a multi-arm multi-stage trial with two different null scenarios, as well as for Bayesian trial cutoff screening. The Bayesian adaptive randomisation approaches are described in: Trippa et al. (2012) <doi:10.1200/JCO.2011.39.8420> and Wathen et al. (2017) <doi:10.1177/1740774517692302>. The randomisation algorithm is described in: Zhao W <doi:10.1016/j.cct.2015.06.008>. The analysis methods of time trend effect in platform trial are described in: Saville et al. (2022) <doi:10.1177/17407745221112013> and Bofill Roig et al. (2022) <doi:10.1186/s12874-022-01683-w>.

This package creates plots showing scored HR experiments and plots of distribution of means of ranks of HR score from bootstrapping. Authors (2019) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.3374507>.

This package provides a system to build, visualise and evaluate Bayesian belief networks. The methods are described in Stafford et al. (2015) <doi:10.12688/f1000research.5981.1>.

This package provides functions to reconstruct, generate, and simulate synchronous, asynchronous, probabilistic, and temporal Boolean networks. Provides also functions to analyze and visualize attractors in Boolean networks <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq124>.