Consider ambiguity in probabilistic descriptions by replacing a parametric probabilistic description of uncertainty by a non-parametric set of probability distributions in the form of a Density Ratio Class. This is of particular interest in Bayesian inference. The Density Ratio Class is particularly suited for this purpose as it is invariant under Bayesian inference, marginalization, and propagation through a deterministic model. Here, invariant means that the result of the operation applied to a Density Ratio Class is again a Density Ratio Class. In particular the invariance under Bayesian inference thus enables iterative learning within the same framework of Density Ratio Classes. The use of imprecise probabilities in general, and Density Ratio Classes in particular, lead to intervals of characteristics of probability distributions, such as cumulative distribution functions, quantiles, and means. The package is based on a sample of the distribution proportional to the upper bound of the class. Typically this will be a sample from the posterior in Bayesian inference. Based on such a sample, the package provides functions to calculate lower and upper class boundaries and lower and upper bounds of cumulative distribution functions, and quantiles. Rinderknecht, S.L., Albert, C., Borsuk, M.E., Schuwirth, N., Kuensch, H.R. and Reichert, P. (2014) "The effect of ambiguous prior knowledge on Bayesian model parameter inference and prediction." Environmental Modelling & Software. 62, 300-315, 2014. <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.08.020>. Sriwastava, A. and Reichert, P. "Robust Bayesian Estimation of Value Function Parameters using Imprecise Priors." Submitted. <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4973574>.

This package provides functions for fitting a Bayesian model for grouping binary dissimilarity matrices in homogeneous clusters. Currently, it includes methods only for binary data (<doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i16>).

Detection of runs of homozygosity and of heterozygosity in diploid genomes using two methods: sliding windows (Purcell et al (2007) <doi:10.1086/519795>) and consecutive runs (Marras et al (2015) <doi:10.1111/age.12259>).

Collection of functions to help retrieve U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water quality and hydrology data from web services.

Algorithms implementing populations of agents that interact with one another and sense their environment may exhibit emergent behavior such as self-organization and swarm intelligence. Here, a swarm system called Databionic swarm (DBS) is introduced which was published in Thrun, M.C., Ultsch A.: "Swarm Intelligence for Self-Organized Clustering" (2020), Artificial Intelligence, <DOI:10.1016/j.artint.2020.103237>. DBS is able to adapt itself to structures of high-dimensional data such as natural clusters characterized by distance and/or density based structures in the data space. The first module is the parameter-free projection method called Pswarm (Pswarm()), which exploits the concepts of self-organization and emergence, game theory, swarm intelligence and symmetry considerations. The second module is the parameter-free high-dimensional data visualization technique, which generates projected points on the topographic map with hypsometric tints defined by the generalized U-matrix (GeneratePswarmVisualization()). The third module is the clustering method itself with non-critical parameters (DBSclustering()). Clustering can be verified by the visualization and vice versa. The term DBS refers to the method as a whole. It enables even a non-professional in the field of data mining to apply its algorithms for visualization and/or clustering to data sets with completely different structures drawn from diverse research fields. The comparison to common projection methods can be found in the book of Thrun, M.C.: "Projection Based Clustering through Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence" (2018) <DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-20540-9>.

What is funnier than a dad joke? A dad joke in R! This package utilizes the API for <https://icanhazdadjoke.com> and returns dad jokes from several API endpoints.

This package provides a collection of supervised discretization algorithms. It can also be grouped in terms of top-down or bottom-up, implementing the discretization algorithms.

Easy-to-use and efficient interface for Bayesian inference of complex panel (time series) data using dynamic multivariate panel models by Helske and Tikka (2024) <doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100617>. The package supports joint modeling of multiple measurements per individual, time-varying and time-invariant effects, and a wide range of discrete and continuous distributions. Estimation of these dynamic multivariate panel models is carried out via Stan'. For an in-depth tutorial of the package, see (Tikka and Helske, 2025) <doi:10.18637/jss.v115.i05>.

This package provides a distributed framework for simulating and estimating skew factor models under various skewed and heavy-tailed distributions. The methods support distributed data generation, aggregation of local estimators, and evaluation of estimation performance via mean squared error, relative error, and sparsity measures. The distributed principal component (PC) estimators implemented in the package include IPC (Independent Principal Component),'PPC (Project Principal Component), SPC (Sparse Principal Component), and other related distributed PC methods. The methodological background follows Guo G. (2023) <doi:10.1007/s00180-022-01270-z>.

This package provides a convenient framework to simulate, test, power, and visualize data for differential expression studies with lognormal or negative binomial outcomes. Supported designs are two-sample comparisons of independent or dependent outcomes. Power may be summarized in the context of controlling the per-family error rate or family-wise error rate. Negative binomial methods are described in Yu, Fernandez, and Brock (2017) <doi:10.1186/s12859-017-1648-2> and Yu, Fernandez, and Brock (2020) <doi:10.1186/s12859-020-3541-7>.

Ingredient specific diagnostics for drug exposure records in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model.

Gives access to data visualisation methods that are relevant from the data scientist's point of view. The flagship idea of DataVisualizations is the mirrored density plot (MD-plot) for either classified or non-classified multivariate data published in Thrun, M.C. et al.: "Analyzing the Fine Structure of Distributions" (2020), PLoS ONE, <DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0238835>. The MD-plot outperforms the box-and-whisker diagram (box plot), violin plot and bean plot and geom_violin plot of ggplot2. Furthermore, a collection of various visualization methods for univariate data is provided. In the case of exploratory data analysis, DataVisualizations makes it possible to inspect the distribution of each feature of a dataset visually through a combination of four methods. One of these methods is the Pareto density estimation (PDE) of the probability density function (pdf). Additionally, visualizations of the distribution of distances using PDE, the scatter-density plot using PDE for two variables as well as the Shepard density plot and the Bland-Altman plot are presented here. Pertaining to classified high-dimensional data, a number of visualizations are described, such as f.ex. the heat map and silhouette plot. A political map of the world or Germany can be visualized with the additional information defined by a classification of countries or regions. By extending the political map further, an uncomplicated function for a Choropleth map can be used which is useful for measurements across a geographic area. For categorical features, the Pie charts, slope charts and fan plots, improved by the ABC analysis, become usable. More detailed explanations are found in the book by Thrun, M.C.: "Projection-Based Clustering through Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence" (2018) <DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-20540-9>.

This package provides statistical functions to aid in the analysis of contemporary and historical corpora. These transparent functions may be useful to anyone, and were designed with the social sciences and humanities in mind. JSD (Jensen-Shannon Divergence) is a measure of the distance between two probability distributions. The JSD and Original JSD functions expand on existing functions, by calculating the JSD for distributions of words in text groups for all pairwise groups provided (Drost (2018) <doi:10.21105/joss.00765>). The Log Likelihood function is inspired by the work of digital historian Jo Guldi (Guldi (2022) <https://github.com/joguldi/digital-history>). Also includes helper functions that can count word frequency in each text grouping, and remove stop words.

This package provides a system for analyzing descriptive representation, especially for comparing the composition of a political body to the population it represents. Users can compute the expected degree of representation for a body under a random sampling model, the expected degree of representation variability, as well as representation scores from observed political bodies. The package is based on Gerring, Jerzak, and Oncel (2024) <doi:10.1017/S0003055423000680>.

This package provides a metric called Density-Based Clustering Validation index (DBCV) index to evaluate clustering results, following the <https://github.com/pajaskowiak/clusterConfusion/blob/main/R/dbcv.R> R implementation by Pablo Andretta Jaskowiak. Original DBCV index article: Moulavi, D., Jaskowiak, P. A., Campello, R. J., Zimek, A., and Sander, J. (April 2014), "Density-based clustering validation", Proceedings of SDM 2014 -- the 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (pp. 839-847), <doi:10.1137/1.9781611973440.96>. A more recent article on the DBCV index: Chicco, D., Sabino, G.; Oneto, L.; Jurman, G. (August 2025), "The DBCV index is more informative than DCSI, CDbw, and VIASCKDE indices for unsupervised clustering internal assessment of concave-shaped and density-based clusters", PeerJ Computer Science 11:e3095 (pp. 1-), <doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.3095>.

Data cleaning scripts typically contain a lot of if this change that type of statements. Such statements are typically condensed expert knowledge. With this package, such data modifying rules are taken out of the code and become in stead parameters to the work flow. This allows one to maintain, document, and reason about data modification rules as separate entities.

Estimates, predict and forecast dynamic models as well as Machine Learning metrics which assists in model selection for further analysis. The package also have capabilities to provide tools and metrics that are useful in machine learning and modeling. For example, there is quick summary, percent sign, Mallow's Cp tools and others. The ecosystem of this package is analysis of economic data for national development. The package is so far stable and has high reliability and efficiency as well as time-saving. The package is a variety but the following references are important guide to the major themes in the package (Hyndman & Athanasopoulos (2014 ISBN 978-0-9875071-0-5), Alkire & Santos (2014, doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.026)).

Computes the double bootstrap as discussed in McKnight, McKean, and Huitema (2000) <doi:10.1037/1082-989X.5.1.87>. The double bootstrap method provides a better fit for a linear model with autoregressive errors than ARIMA when the sample size is small.

This package provides a modular package for measuring disparity (multidimensional space occupancy). Disparity can be calculated from any matrix defining a multidimensional space. The package provides a set of implemented metrics to measure properties of the space and allows users to provide and test their own metrics. The package also provides functions for looking at disparity in a serial way (e.g. disparity through time) or per groups as well as visualising the results. Finally, this package provides several statistical tests for disparity analysis.

Simple functions to deflate nominal Brazilian Reais using several popular price indexes downloaded from the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research.

This package provides tools for wrapping DataSHIELD analyses into RO-Crate (Research Object Crate) objects. Provides functions to create structured metadata for federated data analysis projects, enabling governance tracking of data access, project membership, analysis execution and output validation across distributed data sources.

This package provides methods for fitting nonstationary Gaussian process models by spatial deformation, as introduced by Sampson and Guttorp (1992) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1992.10475181>, and by dimension expansion, as introduced by Bornn et al. (2012) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2011.646919>. Low-rank thin-plate regression splines, as developed in Wood, S.N. (2003) <doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00374>, are used to either transform co-ordinates or create new latent dimensions.

Secant acceleration applied to derivative-free Spectral Residual Methods for solving large-scale nonlinear systems of equations. The main reference follows: E. G. Birgin and J. M. Martinez (2022) <doi:10.1137/20M1388024>.

Time-varying coefficient models for interval censored and right censored survival data including 1) Bayesian Cox model with time-independent, time-varying or dynamic coefficients for right censored and interval censored data studied by Sinha et al. (1999) <doi:10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00585.x> and Wang et al. (2013) <doi:10.1007/s10985-013-9246-8>, 2) Spline based time-varying coefficient Cox model for right censored data proposed by Perperoglou et al. (2006) <doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.11.006>, and 3) Transformation model with time-varying coefficients for right censored data using estimating equations proposed by Peng and Huang (2007) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asm058>.