Enable users to evaluate long-term trends using a Generalized Additive Modeling (GAM) approach. The model development includes selecting a GAM structure to describe nonlinear seasonally-varying changes over time, incorporation of hydrologic variability via either a river flow or salinity, the use of an intervention to deal with method or laboratory changes suspected to impact data values, and representation of left- and interval-censored data. The approach has been applied to water quality data in the Chesapeake Bay, a major estuary on the east coast of the United States to provide insights to a range of management- and research-focused questions. Methodology described in Murphy (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.03.027>.

This package provides functions for generating tables required for drawing and calculating hypsometric curves and hypsometric integrals. These functions accept as input the DEM of the region of interest (your watershed) and a spatial data frame file specifying delineation of sub-catchments within the watershed. They then generate output in the form of PNG images and HTML files contained in a folder named "HYPSO_OUTPUT" created in the current directory. S. K. Sharma, S. Gajbhiye, et al. (2018) <doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5801-1_19>. Omvir Singh, A. Sarangi, and Milap C. Sharma (2006) <doi:10.1007/s11269-008-9242-z>. James A. Vanderwaal and Herbert Ssegane (2013) <doi:10.1111/jawr.12089>.

Fits Bayesian dose-response model-based network meta-analysis (MBNMA) that incorporate multiple doses within an agent by modelling different dose-response functions, as described by Mawdsley et al. (2016) <doi:10.1002/psp4.12091>. By modelling dose-response relationships this can connect networks of evidence that might otherwise be disconnected, and can improve precision on treatment estimates. Several common dose-response functions are provided; others may be added by the user. Various characteristics and assumptions can be flexibly added to the models, such as shared class effects. The consistency of direct and indirect evidence in the network can be assessed using unrelated mean effects models and/or by node-splitting at the treatment level.

This package provides functions used to fit and test the phenology of species based on counts. Based on Girondot, M. (2010) <doi:10.3354/esr00292> for the phenology function, Girondot, M. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.05.063> for the convolution of negative binomial, Girondot, M. and Rizzo, A. (2015) <doi:10.2993/etbi-35-02-337-353.1> for Bayesian estimate, Pfaller JB, ..., Girondot M (2019) <doi:10.1007/s00227-019-3545-x> for tag-loss estimate, Hancock J, ..., Girondot M (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.04.013> for nesting history, Laloe J-O, ..., Girondot M, Hays GC (2020) <doi:10.1007/s00227-020-03686-x> for aggregating several seasons.

Dual Scaling, developed by Professor Shizuhiko Nishisato (1994, ISBN: 0-9691785-3-6), is a fundamental technique in multivariate analysis used for data scaling and correspondence analysis. Its utility lies in its ability to represent multidimensional data in a lower-dimensional space, making it easier to visualize and understand underlying patterns in complex data. This technique has been implemented to handle various types of data, including Contingency and Frequency data (CF), Multiple-Choice data (MC), Sorting data (SO), Paired-Comparison data (PC), and Rank-Order data (RO), providing users with a powerful tool to explore relationships between variables and observations in various fields, from sociology to ecology, enabling deeper and more efficient analysis of multivariate datasets.

This package implements two estimations related to the foundations of info metrics applied to ecological inference. These methodologies assess the lack of disaggregated data and provide an approach to obtaining disaggregated territorial-level data. For more details, see the following references: Fernández-Vázquez, E., Dà az-Dapena, A., Rubiera-Morollón, F. et al. (2020) "Spatial Disaggregation of Social Indicators: An Info-Metrics Approach." <doi:10.1007/s11205-020-02455-z>. Dà az-Dapena, A., Fernández-Vázquez, E., Rubiera-Morollón, F., & Vinuela, A. (2021) "Mapping poverty at the local level in Europe: A consistent spatial disaggregation of the AROPE indicator for France, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom." <doi:10.1111/rsp3.12379>.

Package for training interpretable machine learning models. Historically, the most interpretable machine learning models were not very accurate, and the most accurate models were not very interpretable. Microsoft Research has developed an algorithm called the Explainable Boosting Machine (EBM) which has both high accuracy and interpretable characteristics. EBM uses machine learning techniques like bagging and boosting to breathe new life into traditional GAMs (Generalized Additive Models). This makes them as accurate as random forests and gradient boosted trees, and also enhances their intelligibility and editability. Details on the EBM algorithm can be found in the paper by Rich Caruana, Yin Lou, Johannes Gehrke, Paul Koch, Marc Sturm, and Noemie Elhadad (2015, <doi:10.1145/2783258.2788613>).

The Piece-wise exponential (Additive Mixed) Model (PAMM; Bender and others (2018) <doi: 10.1177/1471082X17748083>) is a powerful model class for the analysis of survival (or time-to-event) data, based on Generalized Additive (Mixed) Models (GA(M)Ms). It offers intuitive specification and robust estimation of complex survival models with stratified baseline hazards, random effects, time-varying effects, time-dependent covariates and cumulative effects (Bender and others (2019)), as well as support for left-truncated data as well as competing risks, recurrent events and multi-state settings. pammtools provides tidy workflow for survival analysis with PAMMs, including data simulation, transformation and other functions for data preprocessing and model post-processing as well as visualization.

A workflow is an object that can bundle together your pre-processing, modeling, and post-processing requests. For example, if you have a recipe and parsnip model, these can be combined into a workflow. The advantages are:

1. You don’t have to keep track of separate objects in your workspace.

2. The recipe prepping and model fitting can be executed using a single call to fit().

3. If you have custom tuning parameter settings, these can be defined using a simpler interface when combined with tune.

4. In the future, workflows will be able to add post-processing operations, such as modifying the probability cutoff for two-class models.

This package provides a toolbox to facilitate the calculation of political system indicators for researchers. This package offers a variety of basic indicators related to electoral systems, party systems, elections, and parliamentary studies, as well as others. Main references are: Loosemore and Hanby (1971) <doi:10.1017/S000712340000925X>; Gallagher (1991) <doi:10.1016/0261-3794(91)90004-C>; Laakso and Taagepera (1979) <doi:10.1177/001041407901200101>; Rae (1968) <doi:10.1177/001041406800100305>; HirschmaÅ (1945) <ISBN:0-520-04082-1>; Kesselman (1966) <doi:10.2307/1953769>; Jones and Mainwaring (2003) <doi:10.1177/13540688030092002>; Rice (1925) <doi:10.2307/2142407>; Pedersen (1979) <doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1979.tb01267.x>; SANTOS (2002) <ISBN:85-225-0395-8>.

This package provides methods for the computation of surface/image texture indices using a geostatistical based approach (Trevisani et al. (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108838>). It provides various functions for the computation of surface texture indices (e.g., omnidirectional roughness and roughness anisotropy), including the ones based on the robust MAD estimator. The kernels included in the software permit also to calculate the surface/image texture indices directly from the input surface (i.e., without de-trending) using increments of order 2. It also provides the new radial roughness index (RRI), representing the improvement of the popular topographic roughness index (TRI). The framework can be easily extended with ad-hoc surface/image texture indices.

Survival analysis is employed to model the time it takes for events to occur. Survival model examines the relationship between survival and one or more predictors, usually termed covariates in the survival-analysis literature. To this end, Cox-proportional (Cox-PH) hazard rate model introduced in a seminal paper by Cox (1972) <doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1972.tb00899.x>, is a broadly applicable and the most widely used method of survival analysis. This package can be used to estimate the effect of fixed and time-dependent covariates and also to compute the survival probabilities of the lactation of dairy animal. This package has been developed using algorithm of Klein and Moeschberger (2003) <doi:10.1007/b97377>.

Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are state variables with dimensions on time, space, and biological organization that document biodiversity change. Freely available ecosystem remote sensing products (ERSP) are downloaded and integrated with data for national or regional domains to derive indicators for EBV in the class ecosystem structure (Pereira et al., 2013) <doi:10.1126/science.1229931>, including horizontal ecosystem extents, fragmentation, and information-theory indices. To process ERSP, users must provide a polygon or geographic administrative data map. Downloadable ERSP include Global Surface Water (Peckel et al., 2016) <doi:10.1038/nature20584>, Forest Change (Hansen et al., 2013) <doi:10.1126/science.1244693>, and Continuous Tree Cover data (Sexton et al., 2013) <doi:10.1080/17538947.2013.786146>.

Process GPS and accelerometry data to generate walk bouts. A walk bout is a period of activity with accelerometer movement matching the patterns of walking with corresponding GPS measurements that confirm travel. The inputs of the walkboutr package are individual-level accelerometry and GPS data. The outputs of the model are walk bouts with corresponding times, duration, and summary statistics on the sample population, which collapse all personally identifying information. These bouts can be used to measure walking both as an outcome of a change to the built environment or as a predictor of health outcomes such as a cardioprotective behavior. Kang B, Moudon AV, Hurvitz PM, Saelens BE (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.trd.2017.09.026>.

Computes and integrates daily potential evapotranspiration (PET) and a soil water balance model. It allows users to estimate and predict the wet season calendar, including onset, cessation, and duration, based on an agroclimatic approach for a specified period. This functionality helps in managing agricultural water resources more effectively. For detailed methodologies, users can refer to Allen et al. (1998, ISBN:92-5-104219-5); Allen (2005, ISBN:9780784408056); Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975, ISBN:9251002797); Guo et al. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.12.019>; Hargreaves and Samani (1985) <doi:10.13031/2013.26773>; Priestley and Taylor (1972) <https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/18/7/1520-0450_1979_018_0898_tptema_2_0_co_2.xml>.

Fit (generalized) linear regression models in each leaf node of a tree. The tree is constructed using clinical variables only. The linear regression models are constructed using (high-dimensional) omics variables only. The leaf-node-specific regression models are estimated using the penalized likelihood including a standard ridge (L2) penalty and a fusion penalty that links the leaf-node-specific regression models to one another. The intercepts of the leaf nodes reflect the effects of the clinical variables and are left unpenalized. The tree, fitted with the clinical variables only, should be constructed outside of the package with the rpart R package. See Goedhart and others (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2411.02396> for details on the method.

Computational topology, which enables topological data analysis (TDA), makes pervasive use of abstract mathematical objects called simplicial complexes; see Edelsbrunner and Harer (2010) <doi:10.1090/mbk/069>. Several R packages and other software libraries used through an R interface construct and use data structures that represent simplicial complexes, including mathematical graphs viewed as 1-dimensional complexes. This package provides coercers (converters) between these data structures. Currently supported structures are complete lists of simplices as used by TDA'; the simplex trees of Boissonnat and Maria (2014) <doi:10.1007/s00453-014-9887-3> as implemented in simplextree and in Python GUDHI (by way of reticulate'); and the graph classes of igraph and network', by way of the intergraph package.

Random forests are a statistical learning method widely used in many areas of scientific research essentially for its ability to learn complex relationships between input and output variables and also its capacity to handle high-dimensional data. However, current random forests approaches are not flexible enough to handle longitudinal data. In this package, we propose a general approach of random forests for high-dimensional longitudinal data. It includes a flexible stochastic model which allows the covariance structure to vary over time. Furthermore, we introduce a new method which takes intra-individual covariance into consideration to build random forests. The method is fully detailled in Capitaine et.al. (2020) <doi:10.1177/0962280220946080> Random forests for high-dimensional longitudinal data.

This package provides a collection of parametric and nonparametric methods for the analysis of survival data. Parametric families implemented include Gompertz-Makeham, exponential and generalized Pareto models and extended models. The package includes an implementation of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator for arbitrary truncation and censoring pattern based on Turnbull (1976) <doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1976.tb01597.x>, along with graphical goodness-of-fit diagnostics. Parametric models for positive random variables and peaks over threshold models based on extreme value theory are described in Rootzén and Zholud (2017) <doi:10.1007/s10687-017-0305-5>; Belzile et al. (2021) <doi:10.1098/rsos.202097> and Belzile et al. (2022) <doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-040120-025426>.

This package provides visual citations containing the metadata of a scientific paper and a QR code. A visual citation is a banner containing title, authors, journal and year of a publication. This package can create such banners based on BibTeX and BibLaTeX references or call the reference metadata from Crossref'-API. The banners include a QR code pointing to the DOI'. The resulting HTML object or PNG image can be included in a presentation to point the audience to good resources for further reading. Styling is possible via predefined designs or via custom CSS'. This package is not intended as replacement for proper reference manager packages, but a tool to enrich scientific presentation slides and conference posters.

Sankey diagrams are a powerfull and visually attractive way to visualize the flow of conservative substances through a system. They typically consists of a network of nodes, and fluxes between them, where the total balance in each internal node is 0, i.e. input equals output. Sankey diagrams are typically used to display energy systems, material flow accounts etc. Unlike so-called alluvial plots, Sankey diagrams also allow for cyclic flows: flows originating from a single node can, either direct or indirect, contribute to the input of that same node. This package, named after the Greek aphorism Panta Rhei (everything flows), provides functions to create publication-quality diagrams, using data in tables (or spread sheets) and a simple syntax.

Extraction, preparation, visualisation and analysis of TERN AusPlots ecosystem monitoring data. Direct access to plot-based data on vegetation and soils across Australia, including physical sample barcode numbers. Simple function calls extract the data and merge them into species occurrence matrices for downstream analysis, or calculate things like basal area and fractional cover. TERN AusPlots is a national field plot-based ecosystem surveillance monitoring method and dataset for Australia. The data have been collected across a national network of plots and transects by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN - <https://www.tern.org.au>), an Australian Government NCRIS-enabled project, and its Ecosystem Surveillance platform (<https://www.tern.org.au/tern-land-observatory/ecosystem-surveillance-and-environmental-monitoring/>).

This package provides a collection of functions for top-down exploratory data analysis of spectral data including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR), Raman, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and other similar types of spectroscopy. Includes functions for plotting and inspecting spectra, peak alignment, hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), principal components analysis (PCA) and model-based clustering. Robust methods appropriate for this type of high-dimensional data are available. ChemoSpec is designed for structured experiments, such as metabolomics investigations, where the samples fall into treatment and control groups. Graphical output is formatted consistently for publication quality plots. ChemoSpec is intended to be very user friendly and to help you get usable results quickly. A vignette covering typical operations is available.

Latent Class Analysis of phenotypic measurements in pedigrees and model selection based on one of two methods: likelihood-based cross-validation and Bayesian Information Criterion. Computation of individual and triplet child-parents weights in a pedigree is performed using an upward-downward algorithm. The model takes into account the familial dependence defined by the pedigree structure by considering that a class of a child depends on his parents classes via triplet-transition probabilities of the classes. The package handles the case where measurements are available on all subjects and the case where measurements are available only on symptomatic (i.e. affected) subjects. Distributions for discrete (or ordinal) and continuous data are currently implemented. The package can deal with missing data.