This package provides tools for econometric analysis and economic modelling with the traditional two-input Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) function and with nested CES functions with three and four inputs. The econometric estimation can be done by the Kmenta approximation, or non-linear least-squares using various gradient-based or global optimisation algorithms. Some of these algorithms can constrain the parameters to certain ranges, e.g. economically meaningful values. Furthermore, the non-linear least-squares estimation can be combined with a grid-search for the rho-parameter(s). The estimation methods are described in Henningsen et al. (2021) <doi:10.4337/9781788976480.00030>.

Framework for the Item Response Theory analysis of dichotomous and ordinal polytomous outcomes under the assumption of within-item multidimensionality and discreteness of the latent traits. The fitting algorithms allow for missing responses and for different item parametrizations and are based on the Expectation-Maximization paradigm. Individual covariates affecting the class weights may be included in the new version together with possibility of constraints on all model parameters.

Mixture model with overlapping clusters for binary actor-event data. Parameters are estimated in a Bayesian framework. Model and inference are described in Ranciati, Vinciotti, Wit (2017) Modelling actor-event network data via a mixture model under overlapping clusters. Submitted.

R Client for the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech REST API, including voice synthesis. A valid account must be registered at the Microsoft Cognitive Services website <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/> in order to obtain a (free) API key. Without an API key, this package will not work properly.

In the context of multistate models, which are popular in sociology, demography, and epidemiology, Markov chain with rewards calculations can help to refine transition timings and so obtain more accurate estimates. The package code accommodates up to nine transient states and irregular age (time) intervals. Traditional demographic life tables result as a special case. Formulas and methods involved are explained in detail in the accompanying article: Schneider / Myrskyla / van Raalte (2021): Flexible Transition Timing in Discrete-Time Multistate Life Tables Using Markov Chains with Rewards, MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-002.

Create vectors with sticky flags for elements that should not be displayed. Numeric vectors have basic subset and arithmetic methods implemented.

Estimates the multivariate skew-t and nested models, as described in the articles Liseo, B., Parisi, A. (2013). Bayesian inference for the multivariate skew-normal model: a population Monte Carlo approach. Comput. Statist. Data Anal. <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2013.02.007> and in Parisi, A., Liseo, B. (2017). Objective Bayesian analysis for the multivariate skew-t model. Statistical Methods & Applications <doi: 10.1007/s10260-017-0404-0>.

Causal moderated mediation analysis using the methods proposed by Qin and Wang (2023) <doi:10.3758/s13428-023-02095-4>. Causal moderated mediation analysis is crucial for investigating how, for whom, and where a treatment is effective by assessing the heterogeneity of mediation mechanism across individuals and contexts. This package enables researchers to estimate and test the conditional and moderated mediation effects, assess their sensitivity to unmeasured pre-treatment confounding, and visualize the results. The package is built based on the quasi-Bayesian Monte Carlo method, because it has relatively better performance at small sample sizes, and its running speed is the fastest. The package is applicable to a treatment of any scale, a binary or continuous mediator, a binary or continuous outcome, and one or more moderators of any scale.

This package provides sample data sets that are used in statistics and data science courses at the Münster School of Business. The datasets refer to different business topics but also other domains, e.g. sports, traffic, etc.

Support JSON flattening in a long data frame way, where the nesting keys will be stored in the absolute path. It also provides an easy way to summarize the basic description of a JSON list. The idea of mojson is to transform a JSON object in an absolute serialization way, which means the early key-value pairs will appear in the heading rows of the resultant data frame. mojson also provides an alternative way of comparing two different JSON lists, returning the left/inner/right-join style results.

Multisite causal mediation analysis using the methods proposed by Qin and Hong (2017) <doi:10.3102/1076998617694879>, Qin, Hong, Deutsch, and Bein (2019) <doi:10.1111/rssa.12446>, and Qin, Deutsch, and Hong (2021) <doi:10.1002/pam.22268>. It enables causal mediation analysis in multisite trials, in which individuals are assigned to a treatment or a control group at each site. It allows for estimation and hypothesis testing for not only the population average but also the between-site variance of direct and indirect effects transmitted through one single mediator or two concurrent (conditionally independent) mediators. This strategy conveniently relaxes the assumption of no treatment-by-mediator interaction while greatly simplifying the outcome model specification without invoking strong distributional assumptions. This package also provides a function that can further incorporate a sample weight and a nonresponse weight for multisite causal mediation analysis in the presence of complex sample and survey designs and non-random nonresponse, to enhance both the internal validity and external validity. The package also provides a weighting-based balance checking function for assessing the remaining overt bias.

Discrete event simulation using both R and C++ (Karlsson et al 2016; <doi:10.1109/eScience.2016.7870915>). The C++ code is adapted from the SSIM library <https://www.inf.usi.ch/carzaniga/ssim/>, allowing for event-oriented simulation. The code includes a SummaryReport class for reporting events and costs by age and other covariates. The C++ code is available as a static library for linking to other packages. A priority queue implementation is given in C++ together with an S3 closure and a reference class implementation. Finally, some tools are provided for cost-effectiveness analysis.

Simulate forest hydrology, forest function and dynamics over landscapes [De Caceres et al. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.012>]. Parallelization is allowed in several simulation functions and simulations may be conducted including spatial processes such as lateral water transfer and seed dispersal.

This package provides tools for phase-type distributions including the following variants: continuous, discrete, multivariate, in-homogeneous, right-censored, and regression. Methods for functional evaluation, simulation and estimation using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm are provided for all models. The methods of this package are based on the following references. Asmussen, S., Nerman, O., & Olsson, M. (1996). Fitting phase-type distributions via the EM algorithm, Olsson, M. (1996). Estimation of phase-type distributions from censored data, Albrecher, H., & Bladt, M. (2019) <doi:10.1017/jpr.2019.60>, Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1111/sjos.12505>, Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2022.08.001>, Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1080/03461238.2022.2097019>, Bladt, M. (2022) <doi:10.1017/asb.2021.40>, Bladt, M. (2023) <doi:10.1080/10920277.2023.2167833>, Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., & Mueller, A. (2023) <doi:10.1515/demo-2022-0153>, Bladt, M. & Yslas, J. (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2023.02.008>.

This package provides a procedure for comparing multivariate samples associated with different groups. It uses principal component analysis to convert multivariate observations into a set of linearly uncorrelated statistical measures, which are then compared using a number of statistical methods. The procedure is independent of the distributional properties of samples and automatically selects features that best explain their differences, avoiding manual selection of specific points or summary statistics. It is appropriate for comparing samples of time series, images, spectrometric measures or similar multivariate observations. This package is described in Fachada et al. (2016) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2016-055>.

Extends the mlr3 package with a connector to the package batchtools'. This allows to run large-scale benchmark experiments on scheduled high-performance computing clusters.

Calculate morphine milligram equivalents (MME) for opioid dose comparison using standardized methods. Can directly call the NIH HEAL MME Online Calculator <https://research-mme.wakehealth.edu/api> API or replicate API calculations on the user's local machine from the comfort of R'. Creation of the NIH HEAL MME Online Calculator and the MME calculations implemented in this package are described in Adams MCB, Sward KA, Perkins ML, Hurley RW (2025) <doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003529>.

An implementation of a taxonomy of models of restricted diffusion in biological tissues parametrized by the tissue geometry (axis, diameter, density, etc.). This is primarily used in the context of diffusion magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to model the MR signal attenuation in the presence of diffusion gradients. The goal is to provide tools to simulate the MR signal attenuation predicted by these models under different experimental conditions. The package feeds a companion shiny app available at <https://midi-pastrami.apps.math.cnrs.fr> that serves as a graphical interface to the models and tools provided by the package. Models currently available are the ones in Neuman (1974) <doi:10.1063/1.1680931>, Van Gelderen et al. (1994) <doi:10.1006/jmrb.1994.1038>, Stanisz et al. (1997) <doi:10.1002/mrm.1910370115>, Soderman & Jonsson (1995) <doi:10.1006/jmra.1995.0014> and Callaghan (1995) <doi:10.1006/jmra.1995.1055>.

This package provides a multi action button for usage in shiny applications.

This package provides a declarative language for specifying multilevel models, solving for population parameters based on specified variance-explained effect size measures, generating data, and conducting power analyses to determine sample size recommendations. The specification allows for any number of within-cluster effects, between-cluster effects, covariate effects at either level, and random coefficients. Moreover, the models do not assume orthogonal effects, and predictors can correlate at either level and accommodate models with multiple interaction effects.

Two pipelines are provided to study microbial turnover along a gradient, including the beta diversity and microbial abundance change. The betaturn class consists of the steps of community dissimilarity matrix generation, matrix conversion, differential test and visualization. The workflow of taxaturn class includes the taxonomic abundance calculation, abundance transformation, abundance change summary, statistical analysis and visualization. Multiple statistical approaches can contribute to the analysis of microbial turnover.

To test whether the missing data mechanism, in a set of incompletely observed data, is one of missing completely at random (MCAR). For detailed description see Jamshidian, M. Jalal, S., and Jansen, C. (2014). "MissMech: An R Package for Testing Homoscedasticity, Multivariate Normality, and Missing Completely at Random (MCAR)", Journal of Statistical Software, 56(6), 1-31. <https://www.jstatsoft.org/v56/i06/> <doi:10.18637/jss.v056.i06>.

Information of the centroids and geographical limits of the regions, departments, provinces and districts of Peru.

Performing multiple-class cluster correspondence analysis(MCCCA). The main functions are create.MCCCAdata() to create a list to be applied to MCCCA, MCCCA() to apply MCCCA, and plot.mccca() for visualizing MCCCA result. Methods used in the package refers to Mariko Takagishi and Michel van de Velden (2022)<doi:10.1080/10618600.2022.2035737>.