Carry out Bayesian estimation and forecasting for a variety of stochastic mortality models using vague prior distributions. Models supported include numerous well-established approaches introduced in the actuarial and demographic literature, such as the Lee-Carter (1992) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1992.10475265>, the Cairns-Blake-Dowd (2009) <doi:10.1080/10920277.2009.10597538>, the Li-Lee (2005) <doi:10.1353/dem.2005.0021>, and the Plat (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2009.08.006> models. The package is designed to analyse stratified mortality data structured as a 3-dimensional array of dimensions p à A à T (strata à age à year). Stratification can represent factors such as cause of death, country, deprivation level, sex, geographic region, insurance product, marital status, socioeconomic group, or smoking behavior. While the primary focus is on analysing stratified data (p > 1), the package can also handle mortality data that are not stratified (p = 1). Model selection via the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) is supported.

Estimation of hierarchical Bayesian vector autoregressive models following Kuschnig & Vashold (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i14>. Implements hierarchical prior selection for conjugate priors in the fashion of Giannone, Lenza & Primiceri (2015) <doi:10.1162/REST_a_00483>. Functions to compute and identify impulse responses, calculate forecasts, forecast error variance decompositions and scenarios are available. Several methods to print, plot and summarise results facilitate analysis.

Interface to a high-performance implementation of k-medoids clustering described in Tiwari, Zhang, Mayclin, Thrun, Piech and Shomorony (2020) "BanditPAM: Almost Linear Time k-medoids Clustering via Multi-Armed Bandits" <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/73b817090081cef1bca77232f4532c5d-Paper.pdf>.

The proposed event-driven approach for Bayesian two-stage single-arm phase II trial design is a novel clinical trial design and can be regarded as an extension of the Simonâ s two-stage design with the time-to-event endpoint. This design is motivated by cancer clinical trials with immunotherapy and molecularly targeted therapy, in which time-to-event endpoint is often a desired endpoint.

Efficient simulation of Brownian semistationary (BSS) processes using the hybrid simulation scheme, as described in Bennedsen, Lunde, Pakkannen (2017) <arXiv:1507.03004v4>, as well as functions to fit BSS processes to data, and functions to estimate the stochastic volatility process of a BSS process.

This package implements optimal matching with near-fine balance in large observational studies with the use of optimal calipers to get a sparse network. The caliper is optimal in the sense that it is as small as possible such that a matching exists. The main functions in the bigmatch package are optcal() to find the optimal caliper, optconstant() to find the optimal number of nearest neighbors, and nfmatch() to find a near-fine balance match with a caliper and a restriction on the number of nearest neighbors. Yu, R., Silber, J. H., and Rosenbaum, P. R. (2020). <DOI:10.1214/19-sts699>.

Applies Beta Control Charts to defined values. The Beta Chart presents control limits based on the Beta probability distribution, making it suitable for monitoring fraction data from a Binomial distribution as a replacement for p-Charts. The Beta Chart has been applied in three real studies and compared with control limits from three different schemes. The comparative analysis showed that: (i) the Beta approximation to the Binomial distribution is more appropriate for values confined within the [0, 1] interval; and (ii) the proposed charts are more sensitive to the average run length (ARL) in both in-control and out-of-control process monitoring. Overall, the Beta Charts outperform the Shewhart control charts in monitoring fraction data. For more details, see à ngelo Márcio Oliveira Santâ Anna and Carla Schwengber ten Caten (2012) <doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.146>.

This package provides an interface to data provided by the Bank for International Settlements <https://www.bis.org>, allowing for programmatic retrieval of a large quantity of (central) banking data.

Stock, Options and Futures Trading Strategies for Traders and Investors with Bearish Outlook. The indicators, strategies, calculations, functions and all other discussions are for academic, research, and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment advice and come with absolutely no Liability. Guy Cohen (â The Bible of Options Strategies (2nd ed.)â , 2015, ISBN: 9780133964028). Juan A. Serur, Juan A. Serur (â 151 Trading Strategiesâ , 2018, ISBN: 9783030027919). Chartered Financial Analyst Institute ("Chartered Financial Analyst Program Curriculum 2020 Level I Volumes 1-6. (Vol. 5, pp. 385-453)", 2019, ISBN: 9781119593577). John C. Hull (â Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (11th ed.)â , 2022, ISBN: 9780136939979).

Calculates B-value and empirical equivalence bound. B-value is defined as the maximum magnitude of a confidence interval; and the empirical equivalence bound is the minimum B-value at a certain level. A new two-stage procedure for hypothesis testing is proposed, where the first stage is conventional hypothesis testing and the second is an equivalence testing procedure using the introduced empirical equivalence bound. See Zhao et al. (2019) "B-Value and Empirical Equivalence Bound: A New Procedure of Hypothesis Testing" <arXiv:1912.13084> for details.

This package implements v2 of the B.L.S. API for requests of survey information and time series data through 3-tiered API that allows users to interact with the raw API directly, create queries through a functional interface, and re-shape the data structures returned to fit common uses. The API definition is located at: <https://www.bls.gov/developers/api_signature_v2.htm>.

This package implements Roy's bivariate geometric model (Roy (1993) <doi:10.1006/jmva.1993.1065>): joint probability mass function, distribution function, survival function, random generation, parameter estimation, and more.

The four functions svdcp() ('cp for column partitioned), svdbip() or svdbip2() ('bip for bipartitioned), and svdbips() ('s for a simultaneous optimization of a set of r solutions), correspond to a singular value decomposition (SVD) by blocks notion, by supposing each block depending on relative subspaces, rather than on two whole spaces as usual SVD does. The other functions, based on this notion, are relative to two column partitioned data matrices x and y defining two sets of subsets x_i and y_j of variables and amount to estimate a link between x_i and y_j for the pair (x_i, y_j) relatively to the links associated to all the other pairs. These methods were first presented in: Lafosse R. & Hanafi M.,(1997) <https://eudml.org/doc/106424> and Hanafi M. & Lafosse, R. (2001) <https://eudml.org/doc/106494>.

Compute bounds for the treatment effect after adjusting for the presence of omitted variables in linear econometric models, according to the method of Basu (2022) <arXiv:2203.12431>. You supply the data, identify the outcome and treatment variables and additional regressors. The main functions will compute bounds for the bias-adjusted treatment effect. Many plot functions allow easy visualization of results.

This package implements an S3 class based on data.table to store and process efficiently ethomics (high-throughput behavioural) data.

Bayesian inference under log-normality assumption must be performed very carefully. In fact, under the common priors for the variance, useful quantities in the original data scale (like mean and quantiles) do not have posterior moments that are finite (Fabrizi et al. 2012 <doi:10.1214/12-BA733>). This package allows to easily carry out a proper Bayesian inferential procedure by fixing a suitable distribution (the generalized inverse Gaussian) as prior for the variance. Functions to estimate several kind of means (unconditional, conditional and conditional under a mixed model) and quantiles (unconditional and conditional) are provided.

This package provides a fast and intuitive batch effect removal tool for single-cell data. BBKNN is originally used in the scanpy python package, and now can be used with Seurat seamlessly.

Classical Boson Sampling using the algorithm of Clifford and Clifford (2017) <arXiv:1706.01260>. Also provides functions for generating random unitary matrices, evaluation of matrix permanents (both real and complex) and evaluation of complex permanent minors.

Component-wise gradient boosting for analysis of multiply imputed datasets. Implements the algorithm Boosting after Multiple Imputation (MIBoost), which enforces uniform variable selection across imputations and provides utilities for pooling. Includes a cross-validation workflow that first splits the data into training and validation sets and then performs imputation on the training data, applying the learned imputation models to the validation data to avoid information leakage. Supports Gaussian and logistic loss. Methods relate to gradient boosting and multiple imputation as in Buehlmann and Hothorn (2007) <doi:10.1214/07-STS242>, Friedman (2001) <doi:10.1214/aos/1013203451>, and van Buuren (2018, ISBN:9781138588318) and Groothuis-Oudshoorn (2011) <doi:10.18637/jss.v045.i03>; see also Kuchen (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.21807>.

Design dose escalation using Bayesian logistic regression modeling in Phase I oncology trial.

Binford's hunter-gatherer data includes more than 200 variables coding aspects of hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility, and social organization for 339 ethnographically documented groups of hunter-gatherers.

Extend the bigmemory package with various analytics. Functions bigkmeans and binit may also be used with native R objects. For tapply'-like functions, the bigtabulate package may also be helpful. For linear algebra support, see bigalgebra'. For mutex (locking) support for advanced shared-memory usage, see synchronicity'.

Twelve confidence intervals for one binomial proportion or a vector of binomial proportions are computed. The confidence intervals are: Jeffreys, Wald, Wald corrected, Wald, Blyth and Still, Agresti and Coull, Wilson, Score, Score corrected, Wald logit, Wald logit corrected, Arcsine and Exact binomial. References include, among others: Vollset, S. E. (1993). "Confidence intervals for a binomial proportion". Statistics in Medicine, 12(9): 809-824. <doi:10.1002/sim.4780120902>.

An R interface for the Brown Dog which allows researchers to leverage Brown Dog Services that provides modules to identify the conversion options for a file, to convert file to appropriate format, or to extract data from a file. See <http://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/> for more information.