Studies that report shifts in species distributions may be biased by the shape of the study area. The main functionality of this package is to calculate the Latitudinal Bias Index (LBI) for any given shape. The LBI is bounded between +1 (100% probability to exclusively record latitudinal shifts, i.e., range shifts data sampled along a perfectly South-North oriented straight line) and -1 (100% probability to exclusively record longitudinal shifts, i.e., range shifts data sampled along a perfectly East-West oriented straight line).

Computes Logistic Knowledge Tracing ('LKT') which is a general method for tracking human learning in an educational software system. Please see Pavlik, Eglington, and Harrel-Williams (2021) <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9616435>. LKT is a method to compute features of student data that are used as predictors of subsequent performance. LKT allows great flexibility in the choice of predictive components and features computed for these predictive components. The system is built on top of LiblineaR', which enables extremely fast solutions compared to base glm() in R.

Convert Leaf Area Index (LAI) from the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) using available equations from literature. Detailed description of conversion equations in Bajocco et al. 2022 <doi:10.3390/rs14153554>.

Uses approximations to compute the natural logarithm of the Gamma function for large values.

Wrapper functions for the implementation of lagged weighted quantile sum regression, as per Gennings et al (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109529>.

Linear ridge regression coefficient's estimation and testing with different ridge related measures such as MSE, R-squared etc. REFERENCES i. Hoerl and Kennard (1970) <doi:10.1080/00401706.1970.10488634>, ii. Halawa and El-Bassiouni (2000) <doi:10.1080/00949650008812006>, iii. Imdadullah, Aslam, and Saima (2017), iv. Marquardt (1970) <doi:10.2307/1267205>.

Effectively simulates the discretization process inherent to Likert scales while minimizing distortion. It converts continuous latent variables into ordinal categories to generate Likert scale item responses. Particularly useful for accurately modeling and analyzing survey data that use Likert scales, especially when applying statistical techniques that require metric data.

Implementation of the methods described in Holzmann, Klar (2024) <doi: 10.1111/sjos.12733>. Lancaster correlation is a correlation coefficient which equals the absolute value of the Pearson correlation for the bivariate normal distribution, and is equal to or slightly less than the maximum correlation coefficient for a variety of bivariate distributions. Rank and moment-based estimators and corresponding confidence intervals are implemented, as well as independence tests based on these statistics.

Three methods are provided to estimate graphical models with latent variables: (1) Jin, Y., Ning, Y., and Tan, K. M. (2020) (preprint available); (2) Chandrasekaran, V., Parrilo, P. A. & Willsky, A. S. (2012) <doi:10.1214/11-AOS949>; (3) Tan, K. M., Ning, Y., Witten, D. M. & Liu, H. (2016) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asw050>.

An updated implementation of R package ranger by Wright et al, (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v077.i01> for training and predicting from random forests, particularly suited to high-dimensional data, and for embedding in Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) by van Buuren (2007) <doi:10.1177/0962280206074463>. Ensembles of classification and regression trees are currently supported. Sparse data of class dgCMatrix (R package Matrix') can be directly analyzed. Conventional bagged predictions are available alongside an efficient prediction for MICE via the algorithm proposed by Doove et al (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2013.10.025>. Trained forests can be written to and read from storage. Survival and probability forests are not supported in the update, nor is data of class gwaa.data (R package GenABEL'); use the original ranger package for these analyses.

Bayesian population size estimation using non parametric latent-class models.

Convenient aliases for common ways of misspelling the base R function length(). These include every permutation of the final three letters.

Efficient implementation of Friedman's boosting algorithm with l2-loss function and coordinate direction (design matrix columns) basis functions.

Adds standardized regression coefficients to objects created by lm'. Also extends the S3 methods print', summary and coef with additional boolean argument standardized and provides xtable'-support.

Fits sex-specific life-history models for fish and other taxa where some of the individuals have unknown sex.

This package provides string similarity calculations inspired by the Python thefuzz package. Compare strings by edit distance, similarity ratio, best matching substring, ordered token matching and set-based token matching. A range of edit distance measures are available thanks to the stringdist package.

Maximum likelihood estimation and likelihood ratio test are essential for modern statistics. This package supports in calculating likelihood based inference. Reference: Pawitan Y. (2001, ISBN:0-19-850765-8).

Dimensionality reduction techniques for binary data including logistic PCA.

This package provides a function that, as an alternative to base::list, allows default values to be inherited from another list.

Local Polynomial Regression with Ridging.

Shiny apps for the quantitative analysis of images from lateral flow assays (LFAs). The images are segmented and background corrected and color intensities are extracted. The apps can be used to import and export intensity data and to calibrate LFAs by means of linear, loess, or gam models. The calibration models can further be saved and applied to intensity data from new images for determining concentrations.

This package provides density, distribution and random generation functions for the Linear Ballistic Accumulation (LBA) model, a widely used choice response time model in cognitive psychology. The package supports model specifications, parameter estimation, and likelihood computation, facilitating simulation and statistical inference for LBA-based experiments. For details on the LBA model, see Brown and Heathcote (2008) <doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2007.12.002>.

This package provides an interface to the financial data platform <https://datahub.limex.com/>., enabling users to retrieve real-time and historical financial data. Functions within the package allow access to instruments, candlestick charts, fundamentals, news, events, models, and trading signals. Authentication is managed through user-specific API tokens, which are securely handled via environment variables.

This package provides methods for fitting log-link GLMs and GAMs to binomial data, including EM-type algorithms with more stable convergence properties than standard methods.