This is the course package for the exercise portion of the "Ecological Data Collection and Processing" course.

Analytical methods to locate and characterise ecotones, ecosystems and environmental patchiness along ecological gradients. Methods are implemented for isolated sampling or for space/time series. It includes Detrended Correspondence Analysis (Hill & Gauch (1980) <doi:10.1007/BF00048870>), fuzzy clustering (De Cáceres et al. (2010) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1963.10500845>), biodiversity indices (Jost (2006) <doi:10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14714.x>), and network analyses (Epskamp et al. (2012) <doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i04>) - as well as tools to explore the number of clusters in the data. Functions to produce synthetic ecological datasets are also provided.

The EvoPER, Evolutionary Parameter Estimation for Individual-based Models is an extensible package providing optimization driven parameter estimation methods using metaheuristics and evolutionary computation techniques (Particle Swarm Optimization, Simulated Annealing, Ant Colony Optimization for continuous domains, Tabu Search, Evolutionary Strategies, ...) which could be more efficient and require, in some cases, fewer model evaluations than alternatives relying on experimental design. Currently there are built in support for models developed with Repast Simphony Agent-Based framework (<https://repast.github.io/>) and with NetLogo (<https://www.netlogo.org/>) which are the most used frameworks for Agent-based modeling.

Implementation of method for estimating excess mortality and other health related outcomes from weekly or daily count data described in Acosta and Irizarry (2021) "A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality".

Extracting desired data using the proper Census variable names can be time-consuming. This package takes the pain out of that process by providing functions to quickly locate variables and download labeled tables from the Census APIs (<https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html>).

We provide a non-parametric and a parametric approach to investigate the equivalence (or non-inferiority) of two survival curves, obtained from two given datasets. The test is based on the creation of confidence intervals at pre-specified time points. For the non-parametric approach, the curves are given by Kaplan-Meier curves and the variance for calculating the confidence intervals is obtained by Greenwood's formula. The parametric approach is based on estimating the underlying distribution, where the user can choose between a Weibull, Exponential, Gaussian, Logistic, Log-normal or a Log-logistic distribution. Estimates for the variance for calculating the confidence bands are obtained by a (parametric) bootstrap approach. For this bootstrap censoring is assumed to be exponentially distributed and estimates are obtained from the datasets under consideration. All details can be found in K.Moellenhoff and A.Tresch: Survival analysis under non-proportional hazards: investigating non-inferiority or equivalence in time-to-event data <arXiv:2009.06699>.

Computes the expectation of the number of transmissions and receptions considering an End-to-End transport model with limited number of retransmissions per packet. It provides theoretical results and also estimated values based on Monte Carlo simulations. It is also possible to consider random data and ACK probabilities.

Estimates coefficients of extended LASSO penalized linear regression and generalized linear models. Currently lasso and elastic net penalized linear regression and generalized linear models are considered. This package currently utilizes an accurate approximation of L1 penalty and then a modified Jacobi algorithm to estimate the coefficients. There is provision for plotting of the solutions and predictions of coefficients at given values of lambda. This package also contains functions for cross validation to select a suitable lambda value given the data. Also provides a function for estimation in fused lasso penalized linear regression. For more details, see Mandal, B. N.(2014). Computational methods for L1 penalized GLM model fitting, unpublished report submitted to Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.

This is a port of Fortran ETERNA 3.4 <http://igets.u-strasbg.fr/soft_and_tool.php> by H.G. Wenzel for calculating synthetic Earth tides using the Hartmann and Wenzel (1994) <doi:10.1029/95GL03324> or Kudryavtsev (2004) <doi:10.1007/s00190-003-0361-2> tidal catalogs.

Create encrypted html files that are fully self contained and do not require any additional software. Using the package you can encrypt arbitrary html files and also directly create encrypted rmarkdown html reports.

Variable selection methods have been extensively developed for analyzing highdimensional omics data within both the frequentist and Bayesian frameworks. This package provides implementations of the spike-and-slab quantile (group) LASSO which have been developed along the line of Bayesian hierarchical models but deeply rooted in frequentist regularization methods by utilizing Expectationâ Maximization (EM) algorithm. The spike-and-slab quantile LASSO can handle data irregularity in terms of skewness and outliers in response variables, compared to its non-robust alternative, the spike-and-slab LASSO, which has also been implemented in the package. In addition, procedures for fitting the spike-and-slab quantile group LASSO and its non-robust counterpart have been implemented in the form of quantile/least-square varying coefficient mixed effect models for high-dimensional longitudinal data. The core module of this package is developed in C++'.

Package computes and displays tables with support for SPSS'-style labels, multiple and nested banners, weights, multiple-response variables and significance testing. There are facilities for nice output of tables in knitr', Shiny', *.xlsx files, R and Jupyter notebooks. Methods for labelled variables add value labels support to base R functions and to some functions from other packages. Additionally, the package brings popular data transformation functions from SPSS Statistics and Excel': RECODE', COUNT', COUNTIF', VLOOKUP and etc. These functions are very useful for data processing in marketing research surveys. Package intended to help people to move data processing from Excel and SPSS to R.

The nonparametric trend and its derivatives in equidistant time series (TS) with long-memory errors can be estimated. The estimation is conducted via local polynomial regression using an automatically selected bandwidth obtained by a built-in iterative plug-in algorithm or a bandwidth fixed by the user. The smoothing methods of the package are described in Letmathe, S., Beran, J. and Feng, Y., (2023) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2023.2276049>.

Unsupervised, multivariate, binary clustering for meaningful annotation of data, taking into account the uncertainty in the data. A specific constructor for trajectory analysis in movement ecology yields behavioural annotation of trajectories based on estimated local measures of velocity and turning angle, eventually with solar position covariate as a daytime indicator, ("Expectation-Maximization Binary Clustering for Behavioural Annotation").

Enhanced False Discovery Rate (EFDR) is a tool to detect anomalies in an image. The image is first transformed into the wavelet domain in order to decorrelate any noise components, following which the coefficients at each resolution are standardised. Statistical tests (in a multiple hypothesis testing setting) are then carried out to find the anomalies. The power of EFDR exceeds that of standard FDR, which would carry out tests on every wavelet coefficient: EFDR choose which wavelets to test based on a criterion described in Shen et al. (2002). The package also provides elementary tools to interpolate spatially irregular data onto a grid of the required size. The work is based on Shen, X., Huang, H.-C., and Cressie, N. Nonparametric hypothesis testing for a spatial signal. Journal of the American Statistical Association 97.460 (2002): 1122-1140.

Bayesian quantile-regression routines for dynamic state-space models and static regression under the extended asymmetric Laplace (exAL) error distribution. The dynamic state-space models are extended dynamic quantile linear models (exDQLMs). The package combines dynamic exDQLM inference via LDVB, MCMC, and legacy ISVB with static exAL regression via LDVB and MCMC, reduced AL/DQLM paths through fixed skewness, component builders for trend/seasonality/regression blocks, static shrinkage priors including ridge, regularized horseshoe, and rhs_ns', evidence lower bound diagnostics, optional C++ accelerators, and posterior predictive synthesis across separately fitted quantiles through quantileSynthesis()'. Dynamic exDQLM methods are described in Barata et al. (2020) <doi:10.1214/21-AOAS1497>.

Analysis of experimental results and automatic report generation in both interactive HTML and LaTeX. This package ships with a rich interface for data modeling and built in functions for the rapid application of statistical tests and generation of common plots and tables with publish-ready quality.

Prints out information about the R working environment (system, R version,loaded and attached packages and versions) from a single function "env_doc()". Optionally adds information on git repository, tags, commits and remotes (if available).

This package provides a tool for the preparation and enrichment of health datasets for analysis (Toner et al. (2023) <doi:10.1093/gigascience/giad030>). Provides functionality for assessing data quality and for improving the reliability and machine interpretability of a dataset. eHDPrep also enables semantic enrichment of a dataset where metavariables are discovered from the relationships between input variables determined from user-provided ontologies.

This package provides statistical methods for estimating bivariate dependency (correlation) from marginal summary statistics across multiple studies. The package supports three modules of bivariate joint distribution estimated from marginal summary data: (1) two binary, (2) two continuous, (3) one binary and one continuous These methods enable privacy-preserving joint estimation when individual-level data are unavailable. The approaches are detailed in Shang, Tsao, and Zhang (2025a) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.03995> and Shang, Tsao, and Zhang (2025b) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2508.02057>.

The remit of the European Clinical Trials Data Base (EudraCT <https://eudract.ema.europa.eu/> ), or ClinicalTrials.gov <https://clinicaltrials.gov/>, is to provide open access to summaries of all registered clinical trial results; thus aiming to prevent non-reporting of negative results and provide open-access to results to inform future research. The amount of information required and the format of the results, however, imposes a large extra workload at the end of studies on clinical trial units. In particular, the adverse-event-reporting component requires entering: each unique combination of treatment group and safety event; for every such event above, a further 4 pieces of information (body system, number of occurrences, number of subjects, number exposed) for non-serious events, plus an extra three pieces of data for serious adverse events (numbers of causally related events, deaths, causally related deaths). This package prepares the required statistics needed by EudraCT and formats them into the precise requirements to directly upload an XML file into the web portal, with no further data entry by hand.

This package provides a set of procedures for estimating risks related to extreme events via risk measures such as Expectile, Value-at-Risk, etc. is provided. Estimation methods for univariate independent observations and temporal dependent observations are available. The methodology is extended to the case of independent multidimensional observations. The statistical inference is performed through parametric and non-parametric estimators. Inferential procedures such as confidence intervals, confidence regions and hypothesis testing are obtained by exploiting the asymptotic theory. Adapts the methodologies derived in Padoan and Stupfler (2022) <doi:10.3150/21-BEJ1375>, Davison et al. (2023) <doi:10.1080/07350015.2022.2078332>, Daouia et al. (2018) <doi:10.1111/rssb.12254>, Drees (2000) <doi:10.1214/aoap/1019487617>, Drees (2003) <doi:10.3150/bj/1066223272>, de Haan and Ferreira (2006) <doi:10.1007/0-387-34471-3>, de Haan et al. (2016) <doi:10.1007/s00780-015-0287-6>, Padoan and Rizzelli (2024) <doi:10.3150/23-BEJ1668>, Daouia et al. (2024) <doi:10.3150/23-BEJ1632>.

Computes empirical Bayes confidence estimators and confidence intervals in a normal means model. The intervals are robust in the sense that they achieve correct coverage regardless of the distribution of the means. If the means are treated as fixed, the intervals have an average coverage guarantee. The implementation is based on Armstrong, Kolesár and Plagborg-Møller (2020) <arXiv:2004.03448>.

Estimate the effective reproduction number from wastewater and clinical data sources.