Create dummy variables from categorical data. This package can convert categorical data (factor and ordered) into dummy variables and handle multiple columns simultaneously. This package enables to select whether a dummy variable for base group is included (for principal component analysis/factor analysis) or excluded (for regression analysis) by an option. makedummies function accepts data.frame', matrix', and tbl (tibble) class (by tibble package). matrix class data is automatically converted to data.frame class.

Fit growth curves to various known microbial growth models automatically to estimate growth parameters. Growth curves can be plotted with their uncertainty band. Growth models are: modified Gompertz model (Zwietering et al. (1990) <doi:10.1128/aem.56.6.1875-1881.1990>), Baranyi model (Baranyi and Roberts (1994) <doi:10.1016/0168-1605%2894%2990157-0>), Rosso model (Rosso et al. (1993) <doi:10.1006/jtbi.1993.1099>) and linear model (Dantigny (2005) <doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2004.10.013>).

Estimates the sample size needed to detect microbial contamination in a lot with a user-specified detection probability and user-specified analytical sensitivity. Various patterns of microbial contamination are accounted for: homogeneous (Poisson), heterogeneous (Poisson-Gamma) or localized(Zero-inflated Poisson). Ida Jongenburger et al. (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.02.004> "Impact of microbial distributions on food safety". Leroy Simon (1963) <doi:10.1017/S0515036100001975> "Casualty Actuarial Society - The Negative Binomial and Poisson Distributions Compared".

Fits a geographically weighted regression model with different scales for each covariate. Uses the negative binomial distribution as default, but also accepts the normal, Poisson, or logistic distributions. Can fit the global versions of each regression and also the geographically weighted alternatives with only one scale, since they are all particular cases of the multiscale approach. Hanchen Yu (2024). "Exploring Multiscale Geographically Weighted Negative Binomial Regression", Annals of the American Association of Geographers <doi:10.1080/24694452.2023.2289986>. Fotheringham AS, Yang W, Kang W (2017). "Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)", Annals of the American Association of Geographers <doi:10.1080/24694452.2017.1352480>. Da Silva AR, Rodrigues TCV (2014). "Geographically Weighted Negative Binomial Regression - incorporating overdispersion", Statistics and Computing <doi:10.1007/s11222-013-9401-9>.

Display processing results using the GWR (Geographically Weighted Regression) method, display maps, and show the results of the Mixed GWR (Mixed Geographically Weighted Regression) model which automatically selects global variables based on variability between regions. This function refers to Yasin, & Purhadi. (2012). "Mixed Geographically Weighted Regression Model (Case Study the Percentage of Poor Households in Mojokerto 2008)". European Journal of Scientific Research, 188-196. <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hasbi-Yasin-2/publication/289689583_Mixed_geographically_weighted_regression_model_case_study_The_percentage_of_poor_households_in_Mojokerto_2008/links/58e46aa40f7e9bbe9c94d641/Mixed-geographically-weighted-regression-model-case-study-The-percentage-of-poor-households-in-Mojokerto-2008.pdf>.

Fits the Bayesian multinomial probit model via Markov chain Monte Carlo. The multinomial probit model is often used to analyze the discrete choices made by individuals recorded in survey data. Examples where the multinomial probit model may be useful include the analysis of product choice by consumers in market research and the analysis of candidate or party choice by voters in electoral studies. The MNP package can also fit the model with different choice sets for each individual, and complete or partial individual choice orderings of the available alternatives from the choice set. The estimation is based on the efficient marginal data augmentation algorithm that is developed by Imai and van Dyk (2005). "A Bayesian Analysis of the Multinomial Probit Model Using the Data Augmentation." Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 124, No. 2 (February), pp. 311-334. <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.02.002> Detailed examples are given in Imai and van Dyk (2005). "MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model." Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 14, No. 3 (May), pp. 1-32. <doi:10.18637/jss.v014.i03>.

Three algorithms for estimating a Markov random field structure.Two of them are an exact version and a simulated annealing version of a penalized maximum conditional likelihood method similar to the Bayesian Information Criterion. These algorithm are described in Frondana (2016) <doi:10.11606/T.45.2018.tde-02022018-151123>.The third one is a greedy algorithm, described in Bresler (2015) <doi:10.1145/2746539.2746631).

Interaction between a genetic variant (e.g., a single nucleotide polymorphism) and an environmental variable (e.g., physical activity) can have a shared effect on multiple phenotypes (e.g., blood lipids). We implement a two-step method to test for an overall interaction effect on multiple phenotypes. In first step, the method tests for an overall marginal genetic association between the genetic variant and the multivariate phenotype. The genetic variants which show an evidence of marginal overall genetic effect in the first step are prioritized while testing for an overall gene-environment interaction effect in the second step. Methodology is available from: A Majumdar, KS Burch, T Haldar, S Sankararaman, B Pasaniuc, WJ Gauderman, JS Witte (2020) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1083>.

This package implements a high dimensional mediation analysis algorithm using Local False Discovery Rates. The methodology is described in Roy and Zhang (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2402.13933>.

Diagnostic tools as residual analysis, global, local and total-local influence for the multivariate model from the random intercept Poisson generalized log gamma model are available in this package. Including also, the estimation process by maximum likelihood method, for details see Fabio, L. C; Villegas, C. L.; Carrasco, J.M.F and de Castro, M. (2023) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2021.1939380> and Fábio, L. C.; Villegas, C.; Mamun, A. S. M. A. and Carrasco, J. M. F. (2025) <doi:10.28951/bjb.v43i1.728>.

Asymptotic efficient closed-form estimators (MLEces) are provided in this package for three multivariate distributions(gamma, Weibull and Dirichlet) whose maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) are not in closed forms. Closed-form estimators are strong consistent, and have the similar asymptotic normal distribution like MLEs. But the calculation of MLEces are much faster than the corresponding MLEs. Further details and explanations of MLEces can be found in. Jang, et al. (2023) <doi:10.1111/stan.12299>. Kim, et al. (2023) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2023.2179880>.

Measure quality of your tests. muttest introduces small changes (mutations) to your code and runs your tests to check if they catch the changes. If they do, your tests are good. If not, your assertions are not specific enough. muttest gives you percent score of how often your tests catch the changes.

This package provides functions for isotonic regression and classification when there are multiple independent variables. The functions solve the optimization problem using a projective Bayes approach with recursive sequential update algorithms, and are useful for situations with a relatively large number of covariates. Supports binary outcomes via a Beta-Binomial conjugate model ('miso', PBclassifier') and continuous outcomes via a Normal-Inverse-Chi-Squared conjugate model ('misoN'). Parallel computing wrappers ('mcmiso', mcPBclassifier', mcmisoN') are provided that run the down-up and up-down algorithms simultaneously and return whichever finishes first. The estimation method follows the projective Bayes solution described in Cheung and Diaz (2023) <doi:10.1093/jrsssb/qkad014>.

More data sets used for demonstrating or testing model-related packages are contained in this package. The data sets are downloaded and cached, allowing for more and bigger data sets.

Estimation of multivariate normal (MVN) and student-t data of arbitrary dimension where the pattern of missing data is monotone. See Pantaleo and Gramacy (2010) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.0907.2135>. Through the use of parsimonious/shrinkage regressions (plsr, pcr, lasso, ridge, etc.), where standard regressions fail, the package can handle a nearly arbitrary amount of missing data. The current version supports maximum likelihood inference and a full Bayesian approach employing scale-mixtures for Gibbs sampling. Monotone data augmentation extends this Bayesian approach to arbitrary missingness patterns. A fully functional standalone interface to the Bayesian lasso (from Park & Casella), Normal-Gamma (from Griffin & Brown), Horseshoe (from Carvalho, Polson, & Scott), and ridge regression with model selection via Reversible Jump, and student-t errors (from Geweke) is also provided.

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification involved in genomic stability, gene regulation, development and disease. DNA methylation occurs mainly through the addition of a methyl group to cytosines, for example to cytosines in a CpG dinucleotide context (CpG stands for a cytosine followed by a guanine). Tissue-specific methylation patterns lead to genomic regions with different characteristic methylation levels. E.g. in vertebrates CpG islands (regions with high CpG content) that are associated to promoter regions of expressed genes tend to be unmethylated. MethEvolSIM is a model-based simulation software for the generation and modification of cytosine methylation patterns along a given tree, which can be a genealogy of cells within an organism, a coalescent tree of DNA sequences sampled from a population, or a species tree. The simulations are based on an extension of the model of Grosser & Metzler (2020) <doi:10.1186/s12859-020-3438-5> and allows for changes of the methylation states at single cytosine positions as well as simultaneous changes of methylation frequencies in genomic structures like CpG islands.

Multivariate Analysis methods and data sets used in John Marden's book Multivariate Statistics: Old School (2015) <ISBN:978-1456538835>. This also serves as a companion package for the STAT 571: Multivariate Analysis course offered by the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ('UIUC').

Facilitates tidy calculation of popular quantitative marketing metrics. It also includes functions for doing analysis that will help marketers and data analysts better understand the drivers and/or trends of these metrics. These metrics include Customer Experience Index <https://go.forrester.com/analytics/cx-index/> and Net Promoter Score <https://www.netpromoter.com/know/>.

Some enhancements, extensions and additions to the facilities of the recommended MASS package that are useful mainly for teaching purposes, with more convenient default settings and user interfaces. Key functions from MASS are imported and re-exported to avoid masking conflicts. In addition we provide some additional functions mainly used to illustrate coding paradigms and techniques, such as Gramm-Schmidt orthogonalisation and generalised eigenvalue problems.

Fits the MESSI, hard constraint, and unconstrained models in Boss et al. (2023) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2306.17347> for mediation analyses with external summary-level information on the total effect.

Approximate node interaction parameters of Markov Random Fields graphical networks. Models can incorporate additional covariates, allowing users to estimate how interactions between nodes in the graph are predicted to change across covariate gradients. The general methods implemented in this package are described in Clark et al. (2018) <doi:10.1002/ecy.2221>.

This package provides tools specifically designed for analyzing longitudinal microbiome data. This tool integrates seven functional modules, providing a systematic framework for microbiome time-series analysis. For more details on inferences involving interspecies interactions see Fisher (2014) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102451>. Details on this package are also described in an unpublished manuscript.

Easy implementation of the MABAC multi-criteria decision method, that was introduced by PamuÄ ar and Ä iroviÄ in the work entitled: "The selection of transport and handling resources in logistics centers using Multi-Attributive Border Approximation area Comparison (MABAC)" - <doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.057> - which aimed to choose implements for logistics centers. This package receives data, preferably in a spreadsheet, reads it and applies the mathematical algorithms inherent to the MABAC method to generate a ranking with the optimal solution according to the established criteria, weights and type of criteria. The data will be normalized, weighted by the weights, the border area will be determined, the distances to this border area will be calculated and finally a ranking with the optimal option will be generated.

Computes efficient data distributions from highly inconsistent datasets with many missing values using multi-set intersections. Based upon hash functions, mulset can quickly identify intersections from very large matrices of input vectors across columns and rows and thus provides scalable solution for dealing with missing values. Tomic et al. (2019) <doi:10.1101/545186>.