This project aims to enable the method of Path Analysis to infer causalities from data. For this we propose a hybrid approach, which uses Bayesian network structure learning algorithms from data to create the input file for creation of a PA model. The process is performed in a semi-automatic way by our intermediate algorithm, allowing novice researchers to create and evaluate their own PA models from a data set. The references used for this project are: Koller, D., & Friedman, N. (2009). Probabilistic graphical models: principles and techniques. MIT press. <doi:10.1017/S0269888910000275>. Nagarajan, R., Scutari, M., & Lèbre, S. (2013). Bayesian networks in r. Springer, 122, 125-127. Scutari, M., & Denis, J. B. <doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6446-4>. Scutari M (2010). Bayesian networks: with examples in R. Chapman and Hall/CRC. <doi:10.1201/b17065>. Rosseel, Y. (2012). lavaan: An R Package for Structural Equation Modeling. Journal of Statistical Software, 48(2), 1 - 36. <doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i02>.

This package provides probability computation, data generation, and model estimation for fully-visible Boltzmann machines. It follows the methods described in Nguyen and Wood (2016a) <doi:10.1162/NECO_a_00813> and Nguyen and Wood (2016b) <doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2015.2425898>.

Tool for quantitative research in scientometrics and bibliometrics. It implements the comprehensive workflow for science mapping analysis proposed in Aria M. and Cuccurullo C. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.joi.2017.08.007>. bibliometrix provides various routines for importing bibliographic data from SCOPUS', Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (<https://www.webofknowledge.com/>), Digital Science Dimensions (<https://www.dimensions.ai/>), OpenAlex (<https://openalex.org/>), Cochrane Library (<https://www.cochranelibrary.com/>), Lens (<https://lens.org>), and PubMed (<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>) databases, performing bibliometric analysis and building networks for co-citation, coupling, scientific collaboration and co-word analysis.

This package provides a client for retrieving data and metadata from major central bank APIs. It supports access to the Bundesbank SDMX Web Service API (<https://www.bundesbank.de/en/statistics/time-series-databases/help-for-sdmx-web-service/web-service-interface-data>), the Swiss National Bank Data Portal (<https://data.snb.ch/en>), the European Central Bank Data Portal API (<https://data.ecb.europa.eu/help/api/overview>), the Bank of England Interactive Statistical Database (<https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database>), the Banco de España API (<https://www.bde.es/webbe/en/estadisticas/recursos/api-estadisticas-bde.html>), the Bank for International Settlements SDMX Web Service (<https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v1/>), the Banque de France Web Service (<https://webstat.banque-france.fr/en/pages/guide-migration-api/>), the Norges Bank SDMX Web Service (<https://www.norges-bank.no/en/topics/Statistics/open-data/>), the Oesterreichische Nationalbank Web Service (<https://www.oenb.at/en/Statistics/User-Defined-Tables/webservice.html>), and Bank of Canada Valet API (<https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/docs>).

Estimating the average causal effect based on the Bayesian Adjustment for Confounding (BAC) algorithm.

This package provides tools to facilitate the access and processing of data from the Central Bank of Brazil API. The package allows users to retrieve economic and financial data, transforming them into usable tabular formats for further analysis. The data is obtained from the Central Bank of Brazil API: <https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.series_code/dados?formato=json&dataInicial=start_date&dataFinal=end_date>.

This package provides tools for working with BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) formatted neuroimaging datasets. The package provides functionality for reading and querying BIDS'-compliant projects, creating mock BIDS datasets for testing, and extracting preprocessed data from fMRIPrep derivatives. It supports searching and filtering BIDS files by various entities such as subject, session, task, and run to streamline neuroimaging data workflows. See Gorgolewski et al. (2016) <doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.44> for the BIDS specification.

Bindings to the blowfish password hashing algorithm <https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bcrypt-paper.pdf> derived from the OpenBSD implementation.

This package provides a collection of tools for regression analysis of non-negative data, including strictly positive and zero-inflated observations, based on the class of the Box-Cox symmetric (BCS) distributions and its zero-adjusted extension. The BCS distributions are a class of flexible probability models capable of describing different levels of skewness and tail-heaviness. The package offers a comprehensive regression modeling framework, including estimation and tools for evaluating goodness-of-fit.

This package provides tools designed to perform and evaluate cluster analysis (including Tocher's algorithm), discriminant analysis and path analysis (standard and under collinearity), as well as some useful miscellaneous tools for dealing with sample size and optimum plot size calculations. A test for seed sample heterogeneity is now available. Mantel's permutation test can be found in this package. A new approach for calculating its power is implemented. biotools also contains tests for genetic covariance components. Heuristic approaches for performing non-parametric spatial predictions of generic response variables and spatial gene diversity are implemented.

Collection of utilities that improve using Databricks from R. Primarily functions that wrap specific Databricks APIs (<https://docs.databricks.com/api>), RStudio connection pane support, quality of life functions to make Databricks simpler to use.

This package implements the methodological developments found in Hermes, van Heerwaarden, and Behrouzi (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2408.10558>, and allows for the statistical modeling of multi-attribute pairwise comparison data.

Fork-safe, raw access to the Amazon Web Services ('AWS') SDK via the boto3 Python module, and convenient helper functions to query the Simple Storage Service ('S3') and Key Management Service ('KMS'), partial support for IAM', the Systems Manager Parameter Store and Secrets Manager'.

Full Bayesian estimation of Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model (MGGUM) using rstan (See Stan Development Team (2020) <https://mc-stan.org/>). Functions are provided for estimation, result extraction, model fit statistics, and plottings.

This package provides the C++ header-only library barry for use in R packages. barry is a C++ template library for counting sufficient statistics on binary arrays and building discrete exponential-family models. It provides tools for sparse arrays, user-defined count statistics, support set constraints, power set generation, and includes modules for Discrete Exponential Family Models (DEFMs) and network statistics. By placing these headers in this package, we offer an efficient distribution system for CRAN as replication of this code in the sources of other packages is avoided. This package follows the same approach as the BH package which provides Boost headers for R packages.

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>.

Some elementary matrix algebra tools are implemented to manage block matrices or partitioned matrix, i.e. "matrix of matrices" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_matrix). The block matrix is here defined as a new S3 object. In this package, some methods for "matrix" object are rewritten for "blockmatrix" object. New methods are implemented. This package was created to solve equation systems with block matrices for the analysis of environmental vector time series . Bugs/comments/questions/collaboration of any kind are warmly welcomed.

Model agnostic tool for decomposition of predictions from black boxes. Break Down Table shows contributions of every variable to a final prediction. Break Down Plot presents variable contributions in a concise graphical way. This package work for binary classifiers and general regression models.

Runs hierarchical linear Bayesian models. Samples from the posterior distributions of model parameters in JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler; Plummer, 2017, <http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net>). Computes Bayes factors for group parameters of interest with the Savage-Dickey density ratio (Wetzels, Raaijmakers, Jakab, Wagenmakers, 2009, <doi:10.3758/PBR.16.4.752>).

Bayesian approach to multidimensional scaling. The package consists of implementations of the methods of Oh and Raftery (2001) <doi:10.1198/016214501753208690>.

Dose-response modeling for negative-binomial distributed data with a variety of dose-response models. Covariate adjustment and Bayesian model averaging is supported. Functions are provided to easily obtain inference on the dose-response relationship and plot the dose-response curve.

Assume that a temporal process is composed of contiguous segments with differing slopes and replicated noise-corrupted time series measurements are observed. The unknown mean of the data generating process is modelled as a piecewise linear function of time with an unknown number of change-points. The package infers the joint posterior distribution of the number and position of change-points as well as the unknown mean parameters per time-series by MCMC sampling. A-priori, the proposed model uses an overfitting number of mean parameters but, conditionally on a set of change-points, only a subset of them influences the likelihood. An exponentially decreasing prior distribution on the number of change-points gives rise to a posterior distribution concentrating on sparse representations of the underlying sequence, but also available is the Poisson distribution. See Papastamoulis et al (2019) <doi:10.1515/ijb-2018-0052> for a detailed presentation of the method.

The blocked weighted bootstrap (BBW) is an estimation technique for use with data from two-stage cluster sampled surveys in which either prior weighting (e.g. population-proportional sampling or PPS as used in Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions or SMART surveys) or posterior weighting (e.g. as used in rapid assessment method or RAM and simple spatial sampling method or S3M surveys) is implemented. See Cameron et al (2008) <doi:10.1162/rest.90.3.414> for application of bootstrap to cluster samples. See Aaron et al (2016) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163176> and Aaron et al (2016) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162462> for application of the blocked weighted bootstrap to estimate indicators from two-stage cluster sampled surveys.

This package implements a wide variety of one- and two-parameter Bayesian CRM designs. The program can run interactively, allowing the user to enter outcomes after each cohort has been recruited, or via simulation to assess operating characteristics. See Sweeting et al. (2013): <doi:10.18637/jss.v054.i13>.