Check if a given package name is available to use. It checks the name's validity. Checks if it is used on GitHub', CRAN and Bioconductor'. Checks for unintended meanings by querying Wiktionary and Wikipedia.

Fit, interpret, and compute predictions with oblique random forests. Includes support for partial dependence, variable importance, passing customized functions for variable importance and identification of linear combinations of features. Methods for the oblique random survival forest are described in Jaeger et al., (2023) <DOI:10.1080/10618600.2023.2231048>.

Grafts the extinct bird species from the Avotrex database (Sayol et al., in review) on to the BirdTree phylogenies <https://birdtree.org>, using a set of different commands.

Compute an anomaly score for multivariate time series based on the k-nearest neighbors algorithm. Different computations of distances between time series are provided.

Functionality for working with virtual machines (VMs) in Microsoft's Azure cloud: <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/>. Includes facilities to deploy, startup, shutdown, and cleanly delete VMs and VM clusters. Deployment configurations can be highly customised, and can make use of existing resources as well as creating new ones. A selection of predefined configurations is provided to allow easy deployment of commonly used Linux and Windows images, including Data Science Virtual Machines. With a running VM, execute scripts and install optional extensions. Part of the AzureR family of packages.

Calculate robust measures of effect sizes using the bootstrap.

Fast Bayesian estimation and forecasting of age-specific rates, probabilities, and means, based on Template Model Builder'.

Subgroup analyses are routinely performed in clinical trial analyses. From a methodological perspective, two key issues of subgroup analyses are multiplicity (even if only predefined subgroups are investigated) and the low sample sizes of subgroups which lead to highly variable estimates, see e.g. Yusuf et al (1991) <doi:10.1001/jama.1991.03470010097038>. This package implements subgroup estimates based on Bayesian shrinkage priors, see Carvalho et al (2019) <https://proceedings.mlr.press/v5/carvalho09a.html>. In addition, estimates based on penalized likelihood inference are available, based on Simon et al (2011) <doi:10.18637/jss.v039.i05>. The corresponding shrinkage based forest plots address the aforementioned issues and can complement standard forest plots in practical clinical trial analyses.

This package provides tools for sampling from the PolyaGamma distribution based on Polson, Scott, and Windle (2013) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2013.829001>. Useful for logistic regression.

This package provides methods for detecting and visualizing cladogenic shifts in multivariate trait data on phylogenies. Implements penalized-likelihood multivariate generalized least squares models, enabling analyses of high-dimensional trait datasets and large trees via searchOptimalConfiguration(). Includes a greedy step-wise shift-search algorithm following approaches developed in Smith et al. (2023) <doi:10.1111/nph.19099> and Berv et al. (2024) <doi:10.1126/sciadv.adp0114>. Methods build on multivariate GLS approaches described in Clavel et al. (2019) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy045> and implemented in the mvgls() function from the mvMORPH package. Documentation and vignettes are available at <https://jakeberv.com/bifrost/>, including the introductory vignette at <https://jakeberv.com/bifrost/articles/jaw-shape-vignette.html>.

This package provides a fully Bayesian approach in order to estimate a general family of cure rate models under the presence of covariates, see Papastamoulis and Milienos (2024) <doi:10.1007/s11749-024-00942-w> and Papastamoulis and Milienos (2024b) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.10221>. The promotion time can be modelled (a) parametrically using typical distributional assumptions for time to event data (including the Weibull, Exponential, Gompertz, log-Logistic distributions), or (b) semiparametrically using finite mixtures of distributions. In both cases, user-defined families of distributions are allowed under some specific requirements. Posterior inference is carried out by constructing a Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler, which combines Gibbs sampling for the latent cure indicators and Metropolis-Hastings steps with Langevin diffusion dynamics for parameter updates. The main MCMC algorithm is embedded within a parallel tempering scheme by considering heated versions of the target posterior distribution.

Four methods for mediation analysis with missing data: Listwise deletion, Pairwise deletion, Multiple imputation, and Two Stage Maximum Likelihood algorithm. For MI and TS-ML, auxiliary variables can be included. Bootstrap confidence intervals for mediation effects are obtained. The robust method is also implemented for TS-ML. Since version 1.4, bmem adds the capability to conduct power analysis for mediation models. Details about the methods used can be found in these articles. Zhang and Wang (2003) <doi:10.1007/s11336-012-9301-5>. Zhang (2014) <doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0424-0>.

Decision tree algorithm with a major feature added. Allows for users to define an ordering on the partitioning process. Resulting in Branch-Exclusive Splits Trees (BEST). Cedric Beaulac and Jeffrey S. Rosentahl (2019) <arXiv:1804.10168>.

Bayesian Generalized Linear Regression.

Following Arroyo-Maté-Roque (2006), the function calculates the distance between rows or columns of the dataset using the generalized Minkowski metric as described by Ichino-Yaguchi (1994). The distance measure gives more weight to differences between quartiles than to differences between extremes, making it less sensitive to outliers. Further,the function calculates the silhouette width (Rousseeuw 1987) for different numbers of clusters and selects the number of clusters that maximizes the average silhouette width, unless a specific number of clusters is provided by the user. The approach implemented in this package is based on the following publications: Rousseeuw (1987) <doi:10.1016/0377-0427(87)90125-7>; Ichino-Yaguchi (1994) <doi:10.1109/21.286391>; Arroyo-Maté-Roque (2006) <doi:10.1007/3-540-34416-0_7>.

The kernelSmoothing() function allows you to square and smooth geolocated data. It calculates a classical kernel smoothing (conservative) or a geographically weighted median. There are four major call modes of the function. The first call mode is kernelSmoothing(obs, epsg, cellsize, bandwidth) for a classical kernel smoothing and automatic grid. The second call mode is kernelSmoothing(obs, epsg, cellsize, bandwidth, quantiles) for a geographically weighted median and automatic grid. The third call mode is kernelSmoothing(obs, epsg, cellsize, bandwidth, centroids) for a classical kernel smoothing and user grid. The fourth call mode is kernelSmoothing(obs, epsg, cellsize, bandwidth, quantiles, centroids) for a geographically weighted median and user grid. Geographically weighted summary statistics : a framework for localised exploratory data analysis, C.Brunsdon & al., in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems C.Brunsdon & al. (2002) <doi:10.1016/S0198-9715(01)00009-6>, Statistical Analysis of Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns, Third Edition, Diggle, pp. 83-86, (2003) <doi:10.1080/13658816.2014.937718>.

This package implements Bayesian inference to detect signal from blinded clinical trial when total number of adverse events of special concerns and total risk exposures from all patients are available in the study. For more details see the article by Mukhopadhyay et. al. (2018) titled Bayesian Detection of Potential Risk Using Inference on Blinded Safety Data', in Pharmaceutical Statistics (to appear).

This package provides tools to estimate soil organic carbon stocks and sequestration rates in blue carbon ecosystems. BlueCarbon contains functions to estimate and correct for core compaction, estimate sample thickness, estimate organic carbon content from organic matter content, estimate organic carbon stocks and sequestration rates, and visualize the error of carbon stock extrapolation.

This package provides a hodgepodge of hopefully helpful functions. Two of these perform shrinkage estimation: one using a simple weighted method where the user can specify the degree of shrinkage required, and one using James-Stein shrinkage estimation for the case of unequal variances.

These data contain morphological image measurements for dried beans from Koklu and Ozkan (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.compag.2020.105507>.

Several tools for analyzing diagnostic tests and 2x2 contingency tables are provided. In particular, positive and negative predictive values for a diagnostic tests can be calculated from prevalence, sensitivity and specificity values. For contingency tables, relative risk and odds ratio measures are estimated. Furthermore, confidence intervals are provided.

Data about the bakers, challenges, and ratings for "The Great British Bake Off", from Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_British_Bake_Off>.

This package provides functions to create and select graphical themes for the base plotting system. Contains: 1) several custom pre-made themes 2) mechanism for creating new themes by making persistent changes to the graphical parameters of base plots.

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.