This package provides a set of functions for conducting cognitive diagnostic computerized adaptive testing applications (Chen, 2009) <DOI:10.1007/s11336-009-9123-2>). It includes different item selection rules such us the global discrimination index (Kaplan, de la Torre, and Barrada (2015) <DOI:10.1177/0146621614554650>) and the nonparametric selection method (Chang, Chiu, and Tsai (2019) <DOI:10.1177/0146621618813113>), as well as several stopping rules. Functions for generating item banks and responses are also provided. To guide item bank calibration, model comparison at the item level can be conducted using the two-step likelihood ratio test statistic by Sorrel, de la Torre, Abad and Olea (2017) <DOI:10.1027/1614-2241/a000131>.

When taking online surveys, participants sometimes respond to items without regard to their content. These types of responses, referred to as careless or insufficient effort responding, constitute significant problems for data quality, leading to distortions in data analysis and hypothesis testing, such as spurious correlations. The R package careless provides solutions designed to detect such careless / insufficient effort responses by allowing easy calculation of indices proposed in the literature. It currently supports the calculation of longstring, even-odd consistency, psychometric synonyms/antonyms, Mahalanobis distance, and intra-individual response variability (also termed inter-item standard deviation). For a review of these methods, see Curran (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.07.006>.

For Bayesian and classical inference and prediction with count-valued data, Simultaneous Transformation and Rounding (STAR) Models provide a flexible, interpretable, and easy-to-use approach. STAR models the observed count data using a rounded continuous data model and incorporates a transformation for greater flexibility. Implicitly, STAR formalizes the commonly-applied yet incoherent procedure of (i) transforming count-valued data and subsequently (ii) modeling the transformed data using Gaussian models. STAR is well-defined for count-valued data, which is reflected in predictive accuracy, and is designed to account for zero-inflation, bounded or censored data, and over- or underdispersion. Importantly, STAR is easy to combine with existing MCMC or point estimation methods for continuous data, which allows seamless adaptation of continuous data models (such as linear regressions, additive models, BART, random forests, and gradient boosting machines) for count-valued data. The package also includes several methods for modeling count time series data, namely via warped Dynamic Linear Models. For more details and background on these methodologies, see the works of Kowal and Canale (2020) <doi:10.1214/20-EJS1707>, Kowal and Wu (2022) <doi:10.1111/biom.13617>, King and Kowal (2023) <doi:10.1214/23-BA1394>, and Kowal and Wu (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2110.12316>.

Supports analysis of trends in climate change, ecological and crop modelling.

This package implements controlled interrupted time series (CITS) analysis for evaluating interventions in comparative time-series data. The package provides tools for preparing panel time-series datasets, fitting models using generalized least squares (GLS) with optional autoregressiveâ moving-average (ARMA) error structures, and computing fitted values and robust standard errors using cluster-robust variance estimators (CR2). Visualization functions enable clear presentation of estimated effects and counterfactual trajectories following interventions. Background on methods for causal inference in interrupted time series can be found in Linden and Adams (2011) <doi:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01504.x> and Lopez Bernal, Cummins, and Gasparrini (2018) <doi:10.1093/ije/dyy135>.

This package provides functions to carry out the most important crystallographic calculations for crystal structures made of 1d Gaussian-shaped atoms, especially useful for methods development. Main reference: E. Smith, G. Evans, J. Foadi (2017) <doi:10.1088/1361-6404/aa8188>.

This package provides tools for estimation and clustering of spherical data, seamlessly integrated with the flexmix package. Includes the necessary M-step implementations for both Poisson Kernel-Based Distribution (PKBD) and spherical Cauchy distribution. Additionally, the package provides random number generators for PKBD and spherical Cauchy distribution. Methods are based on Golzy M., Markatou M. (2020) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2020.1740713>, Kato S., McCullagh P. (2020) <doi:10.3150/20-bej1222> and Sablica L., Hornik K., Leydold J. (2023) <doi:10.1214/23-ejs2149>.

Uses non-linear regression to statistically compare two circadian rhythms. Groups are only compared if both are rhythmic (amplitude is non-zero). Performs analyses regarding mesor, phase, and amplitude, reporting on estimates and statistical differences, for each, between groups. Details can be found in Parsons et al (2020) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz730>.

Information on activities to promote scholarships in Brazil and abroad for international mobility programs, recorded in Capes computerized payment systems. The CAPES database refers to international mobility programs for the period from 2010 to 2019 <https://dadosabertos.capes.gov.br/dataset/>.

Model building, surrogate model based optimization and Efficient Global Optimization in combinatorial or mixed search spaces.

This package contains some commonly used categorical variable encoders, such as LabelEncoder and OneHotEncoder'. Inspired by the encoders implemented in Python sklearn.preprocessing package (see <http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/preprocessing.html>).

Identification of cardinal dates (begin, time of maximum, end of mass developments) in ecological time series using fitted Weibull functions.

Tool to assessing whether the results of a study could be influenced by collinearity. Simulations under a given hypothesized truth regarding effects of an exposure on the outcome are used and the resulting curves of lagged effects are visualized. A user's manual is provided, which includes detailed examples (e.g. a cohort study looking for windows of vulnerability to air pollution, a time series study examining the linear association of air pollution with hospital admissions, and a time series study examining the non-linear association between temperature and mortality). The methods are described in Basagana and Barrera-Gomez (2021) <doi:10.1093/ije/dyab179>.

Computes a confidence interval for a specified linear combination of the regression parameters in a linear regression model with iid normal errors with known variance when there is uncertain prior information that a distinct specified linear combination of the regression parameters takes a given value. This confidence interval, found by numerical nonlinear constrained optimization, has the required minimum coverage and utilizes this uncertain prior information through desirable expected length properties. This confidence interval has the following three practical applications. Firstly, if the error variance has been accurately estimated from previous data then it may be treated as being effectively known. Secondly, for sufficiently large (dimension of the response vector) minus (dimension of regression parameter vector), greater than or equal to 30 (say), if we replace the assumed known value of the error variance by its usual estimator in the formula for the confidence interval then the resulting interval has, to a very good approximation, the same coverage probability and expected length properties as when the error variance is known. Thirdly, some more complicated models can be approximated by the linear regression model with error variance known when certain unknown parameters are replaced by estimates. This confidence interval is described in Mainzer, R. and Kabaila, P. (2019) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2019-026>, and is a member of the family of confidence intervals proposed by Kabaila, P. and Giri, K. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2009.03.018>.

An interactive document on the topic of confusion matrix analysis using rmarkdown and shiny packages. Runtime examples are provided in the package function as well as at <https://predanalyticssessions1.shinyapps.io/ConfusionMatrixShiny/>.

This package provides tools for downloading, reading and analyzing the COVID19 National Household Sample Survey - PNAD COVID19, a household survey from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE. The data must be downloaded from the official website <https://www.ibge.gov.br/>. Further analysis must be made using package survey'.

Check digits are used like file hashes to verify that a number has been transcribed accurately. The functions provided by this package help to calculate and verify check digits according to various algorithms.

Collective matrix factorization (a.k.a. multi-view or multi-way factorization, Singh, Gordon, (2008) <doi:10.1145/1401890.1401969>) tries to approximate a (potentially very sparse or having many missing values) matrix X as the product of two low-dimensional matrices, optionally aided with secondary information matrices about rows and/or columns of X', which are also factorized using the same latent components. The intended usage is for recommender systems, dimensionality reduction, and missing value imputation. Implements extensions of the original model (Cortes, (2018) <arXiv:1809.00366>) and can produce different factorizations such as the weighted implicit-feedback model (Hu, Koren, Volinsky, (2008) <doi:10.1109/ICDM.2008.22>), the weighted-lambda-regularization model, (Zhou, Wilkinson, Schreiber, Pan, (2008) <doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68880-8_32>), or the enhanced model with implicit features (Rendle, Zhang, Koren, (2019) <arXiv:1905.01395>), with or without side information. Can use gradient-based procedures or alternating-least squares procedures (Koren, Bell, Volinsky, (2009) <doi:10.1109/MC.2009.263>), with either a Cholesky solver, a faster conjugate gradient solver (Takacs, Pilaszy, Tikk, (2011) <doi:10.1145/2043932.2043987>), or a non-negative coordinate descent solver (Franc, Hlavac, Navara, (2005) <doi:10.1007/11556121_50>), providing efficient methods for sparse and dense data, and mixtures thereof. Supports L1 and L2 regularization in the main models, offers alternative most-popular and content-based models, and implements functionality for cold-start recommendations and imputation of 2D data.

Convert MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory Words and Gestures scores to would-be scores on Words and Sentences, based on modeling from the Stanford Wordbank <https://wordbank.stanford.edu/>. See Day et al. (2025) <doi:10.1111/desc.70036>.

This package provides interface to the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem API <https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/analyse/apis>, mainly for searching the catalog of available data from Copernicus Sentinel missions and obtaining the images for just the area of interest based on selected spectral bands. The package uses the Sentinel Hub REST API interface <https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/analyse/apis/sentinel-hub> that provides access to various satellite imagery archives. It allows you to access raw satellite data, rendered images, statistical analysis, and other features. This package is in no way officially related to or endorsed by Copernicus.

This package provides functions for constructing simultaneous credible bands and identifying subsets via the "credible subsets" (also called "credible subgroups") method. Package documentation includes the vignette included in this package, and the paper by Schnell, Fiecas, and Carlin (2020, <doi:10.18637/jss.v094.i07>).

One of the strengths of R is its vast package ecosystem. Indeed, R packages extend from visualization to Bayesian inference and from spatial analyses to pharmacokinetics (<https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/>). There is probably not an area of quantitative research that isn't represented by at least one R package. At the time of this writing, there are more than 10,000 active CRAN packages. Because of this massive ecosystem, it is important to have tools to search and learn about packages related to your personal R needs. For this reason, we developed an RStudio addin capable of searching available CRAN packages directly within RStudio.

DNA methylation signatures are usually based on multivariate approaches that require hundreds of sites for predictions. CimpleG is a method for the detection of small CpG methylation signatures used for cell-type classification and deconvolution. CimpleG is time efficient and performs as well as top performing methods for cell-type classification of blood cells and other somatic cells, while basing its prediction on a single DNA methylation site per cell type (but users can also select more sites if they so wish). Users can train cell type classifiers ('CimpleG based, and others) and directly apply these in a deconvolution of cell mixes context. Altogether, CimpleG provides a complete computational framework for the delineation of DNAm signatures and cellular deconvolution. For more details see Maié et al. (2023) <doi:10.1186/s13059-023-03000-0>.

Process command line arguments, as part of a data analysis workflow. command makes it easier to construct a workflow consisting of lots of small, self-contained scripts, all run from a Makefile or shell script. The aim is a workflow that is modular, transparent, and reliable.