Tools for Deriving Income Inequality Estimates from Grouped Income Data

Provides two methods of estimating income inequality statistics from binned income data, such as the income data provided in the Census. These methods use different interpolation techniques to infer the distribution of incomes within income bins. One method is an implementation of Jargowsky and Wheeler's mean-constrained integration over brackets (MCIB). The other method is based on a new technique, Lorenz interpolation, which estimates income inequality by constructing an interpolated Lorenz curve based on the binned income data. These methods can be used to estimate three income inequality measures: the Gini (the default measure returned), the Theil, and the Atkinson's index. Jargowsky and Wheeler (2018) .

Discrete Boosting Logistic Regression

Trains logistic regression model by discretizing continuous variables via gradient boosting approach. The proposed method tries to achieve a tradeoff between interpretation and prediction accuracy for logistic regression by discretizing the continuous variables. The variable binning is accomplished in a supervised fashion. The model trained by this package is still a single logistic regression model, but not a sequence of logistic regression models. The fitted model object returned from the model training consists of two tables. One table is used to give the boundaries of bins for each continuous variable as well as the corresponding coefficients, and the other one is used for discrete variables. This package can also be used for binning continuous variables for other statistical analysis.

Model Agnostic Prediction Intervals

Provides tools for estimating model-agnostic prediction intervals using conformal prediction, bootstrapping, and parametric prediction intervals. The package is designed for ease of use, offering intuitive functions for both binned and full conformal prediction methods, as well as parametric interval estimation with diagnostic checks. Currently only working for continuous predictions. For details on the conformal and bin-conditional conformal prediction methods, see Randahl, Williams, and Hegre (2024) .

WOE Transformation and Scorecard Builder

Performs all steps in the credit scoring process. This package allows the user to follow all the necessary steps for building an effective scorecard. It provides the user functions for coarse binning of variables, Weights of Evidence (WOE) transformation, variable clustering, custom binning, visualization, and scaling of logistic regression coefficients. The results will generate a scorecard that can be used as an effective credit scoring tool to evaluate risk. For complete details on the credit scoring process, see Siddiqi (2005, ISBN:047175451X).

Inference for Optimal Transport

Sample from the limiting distributions of empirical Wasserstein distances under the null hypothesis and under the alternative. Perform a two-sample test on multivariate data using these limiting distributions and binning.

Simplifies Plotting Data Inside Databases

Leverages 'dplyr' to process the calculations of a plot inside a database. This package provides helper functions that abstract the work at three levels: outputs a 'ggplot', outputs the calculations, outputs the formula needed to calculate bins.

Tools for Data Diagnosis, Exploration, Transformation

A collection of tools that support data diagnosis, exploration, and transformation. Data diagnostics provides information and visualization of missing values, outliers, and unique and negative values to help you understand the distribution and quality of your data. Data exploration provides information and visualization of the descriptive statistics of univariate variables, normality tests and outliers, correlation of two variables, and the relationship between the target variable and predictor. Data transformation supports binning for categorizing continuous variables, imputes missing values and outliers, and resolves skewness. And it creates automated reports that support these three tasks.

Metropolis Sampler and Supporting Functions for Estimating Animal Movement from Archival Tags and Satellite Fixes

Data handling and estimation functions for animal movement estimation from archival or satellite tags. Helper functions are included for making image summaries binned by time interval from Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations.

The Manhattan++ Plot

This plot integrates annotation into a manhattan plot. The plot is implemented as a heatmap, which is binned using -log10(p-value) and chromosome position. Annotation currently supported is minor allele frequency and gene function high impact variants.

Functions to Handle and Preprocess Infrared Spectra

Functions to import and handle infrared spectra (import from '.csv' and Thermo Galactic's '.spc', baseline correction, binning, clipping, interpolating, smoothing, averaging, adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying, atmospheric correction, 'tidyverse' methods, plotting).