Estimation and inference for multiple kink quantile regression for longitudinal data and the i.i.d data. A bootstrap restarting iterative segmented quantile algorithm is proposed to estimate the multiple kink quantile regression model conditional on a given number of change points. The number of kinks is also allowed to be unknown. In such case, the backward elimination algorithm and the bootstrap restarting iterative segmented quantile algorithm are combined to select the number of change points based on a quantile BIC. For longitudinal data, we also develop the GEE estimator to incorporate the within-subject correlations. A score-type based test statistic is also developed for testing the existence of kink effect. The package is based on the paper, ``Wei Zhong, Chuang Wan and Wenyang Zhang (2022). Estimation and inference for multikink quantile regression, JBES and ``Chuang Wan, Wei Zhong, Wenyang Zhang and Changliang Zou (2022). Multi-kink quantile regression for longitudinal data with application to progesterone data analysis, Biometrics".

This package provides a unified mixture-of-experts (ME) modeling and estimation framework with several original and flexible ME models to model, cluster and classify heterogeneous data in many complex situations where the data are distributed according to non-normal, possibly skewed distributions, and when they might be corrupted by atypical observations. Mixtures-of-Experts models for complex and non-normal distributions ('meteorits') are originally introduced and written in Matlab by Faicel Chamroukhi. The references are mainly the following ones. The references are mainly the following ones. Chamroukhi F., Same A., Govaert, G. and Aknin P. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2009.06.040>. Chamroukhi F. (2010) <https://chamroukhi.com/FChamroukhi-PhD.pdf>. Chamroukhi F. (2015) <arXiv:1506.06707>. Chamroukhi F. (2015) <https://chamroukhi.com/FChamroukhi-HDR.pdf>. Chamroukhi F. (2016) <doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2016.7727580>. Chamroukhi F. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2016.03.002>. Chamroukhi F. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2017.05.044>.

This package provides functions to assess complex heterogeneity in the strength of a surrogate marker with respect to multiple baseline covariates, in either a randomized treatment setting or observational setting. For a randomized treatment setting, the functions assess and test for heterogeneity using both a parametric model and a semiparametric two-step model. More details for the randomized setting are available in: Knowlton, R., Tian, L., & Parast, L. (2025). "A General Framework to Assess Complex Heterogeneity in the Strength of a Surrogate Marker," Statistics in Medicine, 44(5), e70001 <doi:10.1002/sim.70001>. For an observational setting, functions in this package assess complex heterogeneity in the strength of a surrogate marker using meta-learners, with options for different base learners. More details for the observational setting will be available in the future in: Knowlton, R., Parast, L. (2025) "Assessing Surrogate Heterogeneity in Real World Data Using Meta-Learners." A tutorial for this package can be found at <https://www.laylaparast.com/cohetsurr>.

Perform variable selection for the spatial Poisson regression model under the adaptive elastic net penalty. Spatial count data with covariates is the input. We use a spatial Poisson regression model to link the spatial counts and covariates. For maximization of the likelihood under adaptive elastic net penalty, we implemented the penalized quasi-likelihood (PQL) and the approximate penalized loglikelihood (APL) methods. The proposed methods can automatically select important covariates, while adjusting for possible spatial correlations among the responses. More details are available in Xie et al. (2018, <arXiv:1809.06418>). The package also contains the Lyme disease dataset, which consists of the disease case data from 2006 to 2011, and demographic data and land cover data in Virginia. The Lyme disease case data were collected by the Virginia Department of Health. The demographic data (e.g., population density, median income, and average age) are from the 2010 census. Land cover data were obtained from the Multi-Resolution Land Cover Consortium for 2006.

Extending the functionalities of the VGAM package with additional functions and datasets. At present, VGAMextra comprises new family functions (ffs) to estimate several time series models by maximum likelihood using Fisher scoring, unlike popular packages in CRAN relying on optim(), including ARMA-GARCH-like models, the Order-(p, d, q) ARIMAX model (non- seasonal), the Order-(p) VAR model, error correction models for cointegrated time series, and ARMA-structures with Student-t errors. For independent data, new ffs to estimate the inverse- Weibull, the inverse-gamma, the generalized beta of the second kind and the general multivariate normal distributions are available. In addition, VGAMextra incorporates new VGLM-links for the mean-function, and the quantile-function (as an alternative to ordinary quantile modelling) of several 1-parameter distributions, that are compatible with the class of VGLM/VGAM family functions. Currently, only fixed-effects models are implemented. All functions are subject to change; see the NEWS for further details on the latest changes.

This package provides functions in this package provide solution to classical problem in survey methodology - an optimum sample allocation in stratified sampling. In this context, the optimum allocation is in the classical Tschuprow-Neyman's sense and it satisfies additional lower or upper bounds restrictions imposed on sample sizes in strata. There are few different algorithms available to use, and one them is based on popular sample allocation method that applies Neyman allocation to recursively reduced set of strata. This package also provides the function that computes a solution to the minimum cost allocation problem, which is a minor modification of the classical optimum sample allocation. This problem lies in the determination of a vector of strata sample sizes that minimizes total cost of the survey, under assumed fixed level of the stratified estimator's variance. As in the case of the classical optimum allocation, the problem of minimum cost allocation can be complemented by imposing upper-bounds constraints on sample sizes in strata.

Various cladogenesis-related calculations that are slow in pure R are implemented in C++ with Rcpp. These include the calculation of the probability of various scenarios for the inheritance of geographic range at the divergence events on a phylogenetic tree, and other calculations necessary for models which are not continuous-time markov chains (CTMC), but where change instead occurs instantaneously at speciation events. Typically these models must assess the probability of every possible combination of (ancestor state, left descendent state, right descendent state). This means that there are up to (# of states)^3 combinations to investigate, and in biogeographical models, there can easily be hundreds of states, so calculation time becomes an issue. C++ implementation plus clever tricks (many combinations can be eliminated a priori) can greatly speed the computation time over naive R implementations. CITATION INFO: This package is the result of my Ph.D. research, please cite the package if you use it! Type: citation(package="cladoRcpp") to get the citation information.

An implementation to reconstruct individual patient data from Kaplan-Meier (K-M) survival curves, visualize and assess the accuracy of the reconstruction, then perform secondary analysis on the reconstructed data. We involve a simple function to extract the coordinates form the published K-M curves. The function is developed based on Poisot T. â s digitize package (2011) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2011-004> . For more complex and tangled together graphs, digitizing software, such as DigitizeIt (for MAC or windows) or ScanIt'(for windows) can be used to get the coordinates. Additional information should also be involved to increase the accuracy, like numbers of patients at risk (often reported at 5-10 time points under the x-axis of the K-M graph), total number of patients, and total number of events. The package implements the modified iterative K-M estimation algorithm (modified-iKM) improved upon the approach proposed by Guyot (2012) <doi:10.1186/1471-2288-12-9> with some modifications.

We proposes a framework that provides real time support for early detection of anomalous series within a large collection of streaming time series data. By definition, anomalies are rare in comparison to a system's typical behaviour. We define an anomaly as an observation that is very unlikely given the forecast distribution. The algorithm first forecasts a boundary for the system's typical behaviour using a representative sample of the typical behaviour of the system. An approach based on extreme value theory is used for this boundary prediction process. Then a sliding window is used to test for anomalous series within the newly arrived collection of series. Feature based representation of time series is used as the input to the model. To cope with concept drift, the forecast boundary for the system's typical behaviour is updated periodically. More details regarding the algorithm can be found in Talagala, P. D., Hyndman, R. J., Smith-Miles, K., et al. (2019) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2019.1617160>.

Implementation of the classic Genz algorithm and a novel tile-low-rank algorithm for computing relatively high-dimensional multivariate normal (MVN) and Student-t (MVT) probabilities. References used for this package: Foley, James, Andries van Dam, Steven Feiner, and John Hughes. "Computer Graphics: Principle and Practice". Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Reading, Massachusetts (1987, ISBN:0-201-84840-6 1); Genz, A., "Numerical computation of multivariate normal probabilities," Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 1, 141-149 (1992) <doi:10.1080/10618600.1992.10477010>; Cao, J., Genton, M. G., Keyes, D. E., & Turkiyyah, G. M. "Exploiting Low Rank Covariance Structures for Computing High-Dimensional Normal and Student- t Probabilities," Statistics and Computing, 31.1, 1-16 (2021) <doi:10.1007/s11222-020-09978-y>; Cao, J., Genton, M. G., Keyes, D. E., & Turkiyyah, G. M. "tlrmvnmvt: Computing High-Dimensional Multivariate Normal and Student-t Probabilities with Low-Rank Methods in R," Journal of Statistical Software, 101.4, 1-25 (2022) <doi:10.18637/jss.v101.i04>.

This package provides functions for the evaluation of basket trial designs with binary endpoints. Operating characteristics of a basket trial design are assessed by simulating trial data according to scenarios, analyzing the data with Bayesian hierarchical models (BHMs), and assessing decision probabilities on stratum and trial-level based on Go / No-go decision making. The package is build for high flexibility regarding decision rules, number of interim analyses, number of strata, and recruitment. The BHMs proposed by Berry et al. (2013) <doi:10.1177/1740774513497539> and Neuenschwander et al. (2016) <doi:10.1002/pst.1730>, as well as a model that combines both approaches are implemented. Functions are provided to implement Bayesian decision rules as for example proposed by Fisch et al. (2015) <doi:10.1177/2168479014533970>. In addition, posterior point estimates (mean/median) and credible intervals for response rates and some model parameters can be calculated. For simulated trial data, bias and mean squared errors of posterior point estimates for response rates can be provided.

Enrichment analysis enables researchers to uncover mechanisms underlying a phenotype. However, conventional methods for enrichment analysis do not take into account protein-protein interaction information, resulting in incomplete conclusions. pathfindR is a tool for enrichment analysis utilizing active subnetworks. The main function identifies active subnetworks in a protein-protein interaction network using a user-provided list of genes and associated p values. It then performs enrichment analyses on the identified subnetworks, identifying enriched terms (i.e. pathways or, more broadly, gene sets) that possibly underlie the phenotype of interest. pathfindR also offers functionalities to cluster the enriched terms and identify representative terms in each cluster, to score the enriched terms per sample and to visualize analysis results. The enrichment, clustering and other methods implemented in pathfindR are described in detail in Ulgen E, Ozisik O, Sezerman OU. 2019. pathfindR': An R Package for Comprehensive Identification of Enriched Pathways in Omics Data Through Active Subnetworks. Front. Genet. <doi:10.3389/fgene.2019.00858>.

Paternal recombination rate and maternal linkage disequilibrium (LD) are estimated for pairs of biallelic markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from progeny genotypes and sire haplotypes. The implementation relies on paternal half-sib families. If maternal half-sib families are used, the roles of sire/dam are swapped. Multiple families can be considered. For parameter estimation, at least one sire has to be double heterozygous at the investigated pairs of SNPs. Based on recombination rates, genetic distances between markers can be estimated. Markers with unusually large recombination rate to markers in close proximity (i.e. putatively misplaced markers) shall be discarded in this derivation. A workflow description is attached as vignette. *A pipeline is available at GitHub* <https://github.com/wittenburg/hsrecombi> Hampel, Teuscher, Gomez-Raya, Doschoris, Wittenburg (2018) "Estimation of recombination rate and maternal linkage disequilibrium in half-sibs" <doi:10.3389/fgene.2018.00186>. Gomez-Raya (2012) "Maximum likelihood estimation of linkage disequilibrium in half-sib families" <doi:10.1534/genetics.111.137521>.

Fit survival data and perform dynamic prediction under joint frailty-copula models for tumour progression and death. Likelihood-based methods are employed for estimating model parameters, where the baseline hazard functions are modeled by the cubic M-spline or the Weibull model. The methods are applicable for meta-analytic data containing individual-patient information from several studies. Survival outcomes need information on both terminal event time (e.g., time-to-death) and non-terminal event time (e.g., time-to-tumour progression). Methodologies were published in Emura et al. (2017) <doi:10.1177/0962280215604510>, Emura et al. (2018) <doi:10.1177/0962280216688032>, Emura et al. (2020) <doi:10.1177/0962280219892295>, Shinohara et al. (2020) <doi:10.1080/03610918.2020.1855449>, Wu et al. (2020) <doi:10.1007/s00180-020-00977-1>, and Emura et al. (2021) <doi:10.1177/09622802211046390>. See also the book of Emura et al. (2019) <doi:10.1007/978-981-13-3516-7>. Survival data from ovarian cancer patients are also available.

Help and demo in Spanish of the orloca package. Ayuda y demo en espanol del paquete orloca. Objetos y metodos para manejar y resolver el problema de localizacion de suma minima, tambien conocido como problema de Fermat-Weber. El problema de localizacion de suma minima busca un punto tal que la suma ponderada de las distancias a los puntos de demanda se minimice. Vease "The Fermat-Weber location problem revisited" por Brimberg, Mathematical Programming, 1, pag. 71-76, 1995. <DOI: 10.1007/BF01592245>. Se usan algoritmos generales de optimizacion global para resolver el problema, junto con el metodo especifico Weiszfeld, vease "Sur le point pour lequel la Somme des distance de n points donnes est minimum", por Weiszfeld, Tohoku Mathematical Journal, First Series, 43, pag. 355-386, 1937 o "On the point for which the sum of the distances to n given points is minimum", por E. Weiszfeld y F. Plastria, Annals of Operations Research, 167, pg. 7-41, 2009. <DOI:10.1007/s10479-008-0352-z>.

This package performs automatic creation of short forms of scales with an ant colony optimization algorithm and a Tabu search. As implemented in the package, the ant colony algorithm randomly selects items to build a model of a specified length, then updates the probability of item selection according to the fit of the best model within each set of searches. The algorithm continues until the same items are selected by multiple ants a given number of times in a row. On the other hand, the Tabu search changes one parameter at a time to be either free, constrained, or fixed while keeping track of the changes made and putting changes that result in worse fit in a "tabu" list so that the algorithm does not revisit them for some number of searches. See Leite, Huang, & Marcoulides (2008) <doi:10.1080/00273170802285743> for an applied example of the ant colony algorithm, and Marcoulides & Falk (2018) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2017.1409074> for an applied example of the Tabu search.

This package provides a tool for comprehensive transcriptomic data analysis, with a focus on transcript-level data preprocessing, expression profiling, differential expression analysis, and functional enrichment. It enables researchers to identify key biological processes, disease biomarkers, and gene regulatory mechanisms. TransProR is aimed at researchers and bioinformaticians working with RNA-Seq data, providing an intuitive framework for in-depth analysis and visualization of transcriptomic datasets. The package includes comprehensive documentation and usage examples to guide users through the entire analysis pipeline. The differential expression analysis methods incorporated in the package include limma (Ritchie et al., 2015, <doi:10.1093/nar/gkv007>; Smyth, 2005, <doi:10.1007/0-387-29362-0_23>), edgeR (Robinson et al., 2010, <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp616>), DESeq2 (Love et al., 2014, <doi:10.1186/s13059-014-0550-8>), and Wilcoxon tests (Li et al., 2022, <doi:10.1186/s13059-022-02648-4>), providing flexible and robust approaches to RNA-Seq data analysis. For more information, refer to the package vignettes and related publications.

The advent of genomic technologies has enabled the generation of two-dimensional or even multi-dimensional high-throughput data, e.g., monitoring multiple changes in gene expression in genome-wide siRNA screens across many different cell types (E Robert McDonald 3rd (2017) <doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.005> and Tsherniak A (2017) <doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.010>) or single cell transcriptomics under different experimental conditions. We found that simple computational methods based on a single statistical criterion is no longer adequate for analyzing such multi-dimensional data. We herein introduce ZetaSuite', a statistical package initially designed to score hits from two-dimensional RNAi screens.We also illustrate a unique utility of ZetaSuite in analyzing single cell transcriptomics to differentiate rare cells from damaged ones (Vento-Tormo R (2018) <doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0698-6>). In ZetaSuite', we have the following steps: QC of input datasets, normalization using Z-transformation, Zeta score calculation and hits selection based on defined Screen Strength.

FamSKAT-RC is a family-based association kernel test for both rare and common variants. This test is general and several special cases are known as other methods: famSKAT, which only focuses on rare variants in family-based data, SKAT, which focuses on rare variants in population-based data (unrelated individuals), and SKAT-RC, which focuses on both rare and common variants in population-based data. When one applies famSKAT-RC and sets the value of phi to 1, famSKAT-RC becomes famSKAT. When one applies famSKAT-RC and set the value of phi to 1 and the kinship matrix to the identity matrix, famSKAT-RC becomes SKAT. When one applies famSKAT-RC and set the kinship matrix (fullkins) to the identity matrix (and phi is not equal to 1), famSKAT-RC becomes SKAT-RC. We also include a small sample synthetic pedigree to demonstrate the method with. For more details see Saad M and Wijsman EM (2014) <doi:10.1002/gepi.21844>.

This package provides a collection of miscellaneous basic statistic functions and convenience wrappers for efficiently describing data. The author's intention was to create a toolbox, which facilitates the (notoriously time consuming) first descriptive tasks in data analysis, consisting of calculating descriptive statistics, drawing graphical summaries and reporting the results. The package contains furthermore functions to produce documents using MS Word (or PowerPoint) and functions to import data from Excel. Many of the included functions can be found scattered in other packages and other sources written partly by Titans of R. The reason for collecting them here, was primarily to have them consolidated in ONE instead of dozens of packages (which themselves might depend on other packages which are not needed at all), and to provide a common and consistent interface as far as function and arguments naming, NA handling, recycling rules etc. are concerned. Google style guides were used as naming rules (in absence of convincing alternatives). The BigCamelCase style was consequently applied to functions borrowed from contributed R packages as well.

This package provides a collection of functions to construct A-optimal block designs for comparing test treatments with one or more control(s). Mainly A-optimal balanced treatment incomplete block designs, weighted A-optimal balanced treatment incomplete block designs, A-optimal group divisible treatment designs and A-optimal balanced bipartite block designs can be constructed using the package. The designs are constructed using algorithms based on linear integer programming. To the best of our knowledge, these facilities to construct A-optimal block designs for comparing test treatments with one or more controls are not available in the existing R packages. For more details on designs for tests versus control(s) comparisons, please see Hedayat, A. S. and Majumdar, D. (1984) <doi:10.1080/00401706.1984.10487989> A-Optimal Incomplete Block Designs for Control-Test Treatment Comparisons, Technometrics, 26, 363-370 and Mandal, B. N. , Gupta, V. K., Parsad, Rajender. (2017) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2015.1071394> Balanced treatment incomplete block designs through integer programming. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 46(8), 3728-3737.

Automatic generation and selection of spatial predictors for spatial regression with Random Forest. Spatial predictors are surrogates of variables driving the spatial structure of a response variable. The package offers two methods to generate spatial predictors from a distance matrix among training cases: 1) Moran's Eigenvector Maps (MEMs; Dray, Legendre, and Peres-Neto 2006 <DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.02.015>): computed as the eigenvectors of a weighted matrix of distances; 2) RFsp (Hengl et al. <DOI:10.7717/peerj.5518>): columns of the distance matrix used as spatial predictors. Spatial predictors help minimize the spatial autocorrelation of the model residuals and facilitate an honest assessment of the importance scores of the non-spatial predictors. Additionally, functions to reduce multicollinearity, identify relevant variable interactions, tune random forest hyperparameters, assess model transferability via spatial cross-validation, and explore model results via partial dependence curves and interaction surfaces are included in the package. The modelling functions are built around the highly efficient ranger package (Wright and Ziegler 2017 <DOI:10.18637/jss.v077.i01>).

Missing values often occur in financial data due to a variety of reasons (errors in the collection process or in the processing stage, lack of asset liquidity, lack of reporting of funds, etc.). However, most data analysis methods expect complete data and cannot be employed with missing values. One convenient way to deal with this issue without having to redesign the data analysis method is to impute the missing values. This package provides an efficient way to impute the missing values based on modeling the time series with a random walk or an autoregressive (AR) model, convenient to model log-prices and log-volumes in financial data. In the current version, the imputation is univariate-based (so no asset correlation is used). In addition, outliers can be detected and removed. The package is based on the paper: J. Liu, S. Kumar, and D. P. Palomar (2019). Parameter Estimation of Heavy-Tailed AR Model With Missing Data Via Stochastic EM. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 2159-2172. <doi:10.1109/TSP.2019.2899816>.

We provide a toolbox to estimate the time delay between the brightness time series of gravitationally lensed quasar images via Bayesian and profile likelihood approaches. The model is based on a state-space representation for irregularly observed time series data generated from a latent continuous-time Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Our Bayesian method adopts scientifically motivated hyper-prior distributions and a Metropolis-Hastings within Gibbs sampler, producing posterior samples of the model parameters that include the time delay. A profile likelihood of the time delay is a simple approximation to the marginal posterior distribution of the time delay. Both Bayesian and profile likelihood approaches complement each other, producing almost identical results; the Bayesian way is more principled but the profile likelihood is easier to implement. A new functionality is added in version 1.0.9 for estimating the time delay between doubly-lensed light curves observed in two bands. See also Tak et al. (2017) <doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1027>, Tak et al. (2018) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2017.1415911>, Hu and Tak (2020) <arXiv:2005.08049>.