Toolbox and shiny application to help researchers design movement ecology studies, focusing on two key objectives: estimating home range areas, and estimating fine-scale movement behavior, specifically speed and distance traveled. It provides interactive simulations and methodological guidance to support study planning and decision-making. The application is described in Silva et al. (2023) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14153>.

Framework for the Item Response Theory analysis of dichotomous and ordinal polytomous outcomes under the assumption of multidimensionality and discreteness of the latent traits. The fitting algorithms allow for missing responses and for different item parameterizations and are based on the Expectation-Maximization paradigm. Individual covariates affecting the class weights may be included in the new version (since 2.1).

Comprehensively identifying states and state-like actors is difficult. This package provides data on states and state-like entities in the international system across time. The package combines and cross-references several existing datasets consistent with the aims and functions of the manydata package. It also includes functions for identifying state references in text, and for generating fictional state names.

Instant access to harmonized National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data spanning 1999-2023. Retrieve pre-processed datasets from reliable cloud storage with automatic type reconciliation and integrated search tools for variables and datasets. Simplifies NHANES data workflows by handling cycle management and maintaining data consistency across survey waves. Data is sourced from <https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/>.

Wraps the nametag library <https://github.com/ufal/nametag>, allowing users to find and extract entities (names, persons, locations, addresses, ...) in raw text and build your own entity recognition models. Based on a maximum entropy Markov model which is described in Strakova J., Straka M. and Hajic J. (2013) <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~straka/papers/2013-tsd_ner.pdf>.

This package provides a wrapper for optim for nonlinear regression problems; see Nocedal J and Write S (2006, ISBN: 978-0387-30303-1). Performs ordinary least squares (OLS), iterative re-weighted least squares (IRWLS), and maximum likelihood (MLE). Also includes the robust outlier detection (ROUT) algorithm; see Motulsky, H and Brown, R (2006) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-123>.

Handle data from evolve and resequence experiments. Measured allele frequencies (e.g., from variants called from high-throughput sequencing data) are compared using an update of the PsiSeq algorithm (Earley, Eric and Corbin Jones (2011) <doi:10.1534/genetics.111.129445>). Functions for saving and loading important files are also included, as well as functions for basic data visualization.

The probaverse is a suite of packages designed to facilitate creating advanced statistical models through probability distributions. These packages work best when loaded together because they share a common design philosophy and focus on different aspects of developing statistical models. Inspired by the tidyverse package, the probaverse package makes it easy to load the entire suite of probaverse packages together.

The welfare's synthetic indicator provides an ideal tool for measuring multi-dimensional concepts such as welfare, development, living standards, etc. It enables information from the various indicators to be aggregated into a single synthetic measure. The method was proposed by Pena (1977, ISBN:9788426001788) and further developed by Zarzosa and Somarriba (2012) <doi:10.1007/s11205-012-0005-0>.

R functions to access provenance information collected by rdt or rdtLite'. The information is stored inside a ProvInfo object and can be accessed through a collection of functions that will return the requested data. The exact format of the JSON created by rdt and rdtLite is described in <https://github.com/End-to-end-provenance/ExtendedProvJson>.

This package provides a set of tools for determining the necessary sample size in order to identify the optimal dynamic treatment regime in a sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART). Utilizes multiple comparisons with the best methodology to adjust for multiple comparisons. Designed for an arbitrary SMART design. Please see Artman (2018) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxy064> for more details.

CopywriteR extracts DNA copy number information from targeted sequencing by utilizing off-target reads. It allows for extracting uniformly distributed copy number information, can be used without reference, and can be applied to sequencing data obtained from various techniques including chromatin immunoprecipitation and target enrichment on small gene panels. Thereby, CopywriteR constitutes a widely applicable alternative to available copy number detection tools.

This package contains the helper files that are required to run the Bioconductor package CopywriteR. It contains pre-assembled 1kb bin GC-content and mappability files for the reference genomes hg18, hg19, hg38, mm9 and mm10. In addition, it contains a blacklist filter to remove regions that display copy number variation. Files are stored as GRanges objects from the GenomicRanges Bioconductor package.

This package provides a wrapper for the homologene database by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It allows searching for gene homologs across species. The package also includes an updated version of the homologene database where gene identifiers and symbols are replaced with their latest (at the time of submission) version and functions to fetch latest annotation data to keep updated.

This package provides functionality to compute various node centrality measures on networks. Included are functions to compute betweenness centrality (by utilizing Madduri and Bader's SNAP library), implementations of Burt's constraint and effective network size (ENS) metrics, Borgatti's algorithm to identify key players, and Valente's bridging metric. The betweenness, Key Players, and bridging implementations are parallelized with OpenMP.

This gem provides beautiful console logging for Ruby applications. It implements fast, buffered log output and has the following features:

• Thread safe global logger with per-fiber context

• Carry along context with nested loggers

• Enable/disable log levels per class

• Detailed logging of exceptions

• Beautiful logging to the terminal or structured logging using JSON.

This package is a tool to predict the power of CyTOF experiments in the context of differential state analyses. The package provides a shiny app with two options to predict the power of an experiment: i. generation of in-sicilico CyTOF data, using users input ii. browsing in a grid of parameters for which the power was already precomputed.

The CTexploreR package re-defines the list of Cancer Testis/Germline (CT) genes. It is based on publicly available RNAseq databases (GTEx, CCLE and TCGA) and summarises CT genes main characteristics. Several visualisation functions allow to explore their expression in different types of tissues and cancer cells, or to inspect the methylation status of their promoters in normal tissues.

This package builds on existing tools and adds some simple but extremely useful capabilities for working wth ChIP-Seq data. The focus is on detecting differential binding windows/regions. One set of functions focusses on set-operations retaining mcols for GRanges objects, whilst another group of functions are to aid visualisation of results. Coercion to tibble objects is also implemented.

"LipidTrend" is an R package that implements a permutation-based statistical test to identify significant differences in lipidomic features between groups. The test incorporates Gaussian kernel smoothing of region statistics to improve stability and accuracy, particularly when dealing with small sample sizes. This package also includes two plotting functions for visualizing significant tendencies in 1D and 2D feature data, respectively.

This package provides tools to measure connection and independence between variables without relying on linear models. Includes functions to compute Eta squared, Chi-squared, and Cramer V. The main advantage of this package is that it works without requiring parametric assumptions. The methods implemented are based on educational material and statistical decomposition techniques, not directly on previously published software or articles.

This package provides a simple approach to measure political sophistication based on open-ended survey responses. Discursive sophistication captures the complexity of individual attitude expression by quantifying its relative size, range, and constraint. For more information on the measurement approach see: Kraft, Patrick W. 2023. "Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication." American Political Science Review (forthcoming).

It contains functions for dose calculation for different routes, fitting data to probability distributions, random number generation (Monte Carlo simulation) and calculation of systemic and carcinogenic risks. For more information see the publication: Barrio-Parra et al. (2019) "Human-health probabilistic risk assessment: the role of exposure factors in an urban garden scenario" <doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.02.005>.

This package provides empirically strong allometric predictions of the home-range size of most vertebrate species. Based on inputs of mean body size, taxonomic class, and optional classifications of environment and trophic level or foraging mode, HomeRangeR predicts home-range size using the most appropriate model for the species selected from a collection of empirically derived vertebrate home-range allometries.