This package provides advanced Bayesian methods to estimate abundance and run-timing from temporally-stratified Petersen mark-recapture experiments. Methods include hierarchical modelling of the capture probabilities and spline smoothing of the daily run size. Theory described in Bonner and Schwarz (2011) <doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01599.x>.

Boldness-recalibration maximally spreads out probability predictions while maintaining a user specified level of calibration, facilitated the brcal() function. Supporting functions to assess calibration via Bayesian and Frequentist approaches, Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) recalibration, Linear in Log Odds (LLO)-adjust via any specified parameters, and visualize results are also provided. Methodological details can be found in Guthrie & Franck (2024) <doi:10.1080/00031305.2024.2339266>.

Tests for a linear relationship in the log ratio between an observed and simulated series and an independent variable. Typically this the error in modelled streamflow at an annual time scale, and a rainfall input. The approach allows for multiple sites as random factors and for multiple replicates of the simulated values. The approach is outlined in Gibbs et al. (2026) in review.

Provide early termination phase II trial designs with a decreasingly informative prior (DIP) or a regular Bayesian prior chosen by the user. The program can determine the minimum planned sample size necessary to achieve the user-specified admissible designs. The program can also perform power and expected sample size calculations for the tests in early termination Phase II trials. See Wang C and Sabo RT (2022) <doi:10.18203/2349-3259.ijct20221110>; Sabo RT (2014) <doi:10.1080/10543406.2014.888441>.

Interface to the Python package BERTopic <https://maartengr.github.io/BERTopic/index.html> for transformer-based topic modeling. Provides R wrappers to fit BERTopic models, transform new documents, update and reduce topics, extract topic- and document-level information, and generate interactive visualizations. Python backends and dependencies are managed via the reticulate package.

Non-parametric hypothesis testing for populations of brain networks represented as graphs, following the L1-distance ANOVA framework of Fraiman and Fraiman (2018) <doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21688-0>. The package builds on this nonparametric graph-comparison framework, extending it with procedures for edge-level inference and identification of the specific connections driving group differences. In particular, it provides utilities to compute central (mean) graphs, pairwise Manhattan distances between adjacency matrices, the group test statistic T, and a fast permutation procedure to identify the critical edges that drive between-group differences. Helper functions to generate synthetic community-structured graphs and to visualise brain networks with communities are also included.

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.

Density, distribution function, quantile function random generation and estimation of bimodal GEV distribution given in Otiniano et al. (2023) <doi:10.1007/s10651-023-00566-7>. This new generalization of the well-known GEV (Generalized Extreme Value) distribution is useful for modeling heterogeneous bimodal data from different areas.

This package contains a split population survival estimator that models the misclassification probability of failure versus right-censored events. The split population survival estimator is described in Bagozzi et al. (2019) <doi:10.1017/pan.2019.6>.

Evaluate, fit, and analyze Hill dose response models (Goutelle et al., 2008 <doi:10.1111/j.1472-8206.2008.00633.x>), also sometimes referred to as four-parameter log-logistic models. Includes tools to invert Hill models, select models based on the Akaike information criterion (Akaike, 1974 <doi:10.1109/TAC.1974.1100705>) or Bayesian information criterion (Schwarz, 1978 <https://www.jstor.org/stable/2958889>), and construct bootstrapped confidence intervals both on the Hill model parameters and values derived from the Hill model parameters.

This package provides a random forest variant block forest ('BlockForest') tailored to the prediction of binary, survival and continuous outcomes using block-structured covariate data, for example, clinical covariates plus measurements of a certain omics data type or multi-omics data, that is, data for which measurements of different types of omics data and/or clinical data for each patient exist. Examples of different omics data types include gene expression measurements, mutation data and copy number variation measurements. Block forest are presented in Hornung & Wright (2019). The package includes four other random forest variants for multi-omics data: RandomBlock', BlockVarSel', VarProb', and SplitWeights'. These were also considered in Hornung & Wright (2019), but performed worse than block forest in their comparison study based on 20 real multi-omics data sets. Therefore, we recommend to use block forest ('BlockForest') in applications. The other random forest variants can, however, be consulted for academic purposes, for example, in the context of further methodological developments. Reference: Hornung, R. & Wright, M. N. (2019) Block Forests: random forests for blocks of clinical and omics covariate data. BMC Bioinformatics 20:358. <doi:10.1186/s12859-019-2942-y>.

This package implements Friedman's gradient descent boosting algorithm for modeling longitudinal response using multivariate tree base learners. Longitudinal response could be continuous, binary, nominal or ordinal. A time-covariate interaction effect is modeled using penalized B-splines (P-splines) with estimated adaptive smoothing parameter. Although the package is design for longitudinal data, it can handle cross-sectional data as well. Implementation details are provided in Pande et al. (2017), Mach Learn <DOI:10.1007/s10994-016-5597-1>.

Select balanced and spatially balanced probability samples in multi-dimensional spaces with any prescribed inclusion probabilities. It contains fast (C++ via Rcpp) implementations of the included sampling methods. The local pivotal method by Grafström, Lundström and Schelin (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01699.x> and spatially correlated Poisson sampling by Grafström (2012) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2011.07.003> are included. Also the cube method (for balanced sampling) and the local cube method (for doubly balanced sampling) are included, see Grafström and Tillé (2013) <doi:10.1002/env.2194>.

Fast, dependency free, and vectorized base32 encoding and decoding. b32 supports the Crockford, Z, RFC 4648 lower, hex, and lower hex alphabets.

This package provides a modular framework for standardized analysis of thermal imaging data in animal experimentation. The package integrates thermographic data import (FLIR, raw, CSV), automated region of interest (ROI) segmentation based on EBImage (Pau et al., 2010 <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq046>), interactive ROI refinement, and high-throughput batch processing.

This package provides fast and efficient procedures for Bayesian estimation and forecasting using state-of-the-art Vector Autoregressions. This package includes the model proposed by Chan (2020) <doi:10.1080/07350015.2018.1451336>, that is, a Bayesian Vector Autoregression with Minnesota priors and a flexible structure of the error term specification. The latter includes: conditional multivariate normal or Studentâ s t distributions, as well as homoskedastic or heteroskedastic specifications with a common volatility modelled by centred or non-centred Stochastic Volatility. Additionally, the package facilitates predictive analyses using density forecasting and forecast-error variance decompositions. All this is complemented by simple workflows, useful plots and summary functions, and comprehensive documentation. The bvars package aligns with R packages bsvars by Woźniak (2024) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bsvars>, bsvarSIGNs by Wang & Woźniak (2025) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bsvarSIGNs>, and bpvars by Woźniak (2025) <doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bpvars> regarding objects, workflows, and code structure, and they constitute an integrated toolset.

Jointly models the multivariate longitudinal responses and multiple covariates and time using gradient boosting approach.

An aid for manipulating data associated with biomonitoring and bioassessment. Calculations include metric calculation, marking of excluded taxa, subsampling, and multimetric index calculation. Targeted communities are benthic macroinvertebrates, fish, periphyton, and coral. As described in the Revised Rapid Bioassessment Protocols (Barbour et al. 1999) <https://archive.epa.gov/water/archive/web/html/index-14.html>.

Estimate fish length-at-age models using MCMC analysis with rstan models. This package allows a multimodel approach to growth fitting to be applied to length-at-age data and is supported by further analyses to determine model selection and result presentation. The core methods of this package are presented in Smart and Grammer (2021) "Modernising fish and shark growth curves with Bayesian length-at-age models". PLOS ONE 16(2): e0246734 <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246734>.

Collection of procedures to perform Bayesian analysis on a variety of factor models. Currently, it includes: "Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis" (befa) from G. Conti, S. Frühwirth-Schnatter, J.J. Heckman, R. Piatek (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.06.008>, an approach to dedicated factor analysis with stochastic search on the structure of the factor loading matrix. The number of latent factors, as well as the allocation of the manifest variables to the factors, are not fixed a priori but determined during MCMC sampling.

Binomial Haar-Fisz transforms for Gaussianization as in Nunes and Nason (2009).

This package provides a cross-platform representation of models as sets of equations that facilitates modularity in model building and allows users to harness modern techniques for numerical integration and data visualization. Documentation is provided by several vignettes included in this package; also see Lochocki et al. (2022) <doi:10.1093/insilicoplants/diac003>.

This package provides a system to facilitate brand identity management using the brand.yml standard, providing functions to consistently access and apply brand colors, typography, and other visual elements across your R projects.

Adjusts longitudinal regression models using Bayesian methodology for covariance structures of composite symmetry (SC), autoregressive ones of order 1 AR (1) and autoregressive moving average of order (1,1) ARMA (1,1).