Bayesian QTL Mapping Toolkit

QTL mapping toolkit for inbred crosses and recombinant inbred lines. Includes maximum likelihood and Bayesian tools.

Aster Models

Aster models are exponential family regression models for life history analysis. They are like generalized linear models except that elements of the response vector can have different families (e. g., some Bernoulli, some Poisson, some zero-truncated Poisson, some normal) and can be dependent, the dependence indicated by a graphical structure. Discrete time survival analysis, zero-inflated Poisson regression, and generalized linear models that are exponential family (e. g., logistic regression and Poisson regression with log link) are special cases. Main use is for data in which there is survival over discrete time periods and there is additional data about what happens conditional on survival (e. g., number of offspring). Uses the exponential family canonical parameterization (aster transform of usual parameterization). Unlike the aster package, this package does dependence groups (nodes of the graph need not be conditionally independent given their predecessor node), including multinomial and two-parameter normal as families. Thus this package also generalizes mark-capture-recapture analysis.

Simplify Connections to Database Sources

Connecting to databases requires boilerplate code to specify connection parameters and to set up sessions properly with the DBMS. This package provides a simple tool to fill two purposes: abstracting connection details, including secret credentials, out of your source code and managing configuration for frequently-used database connections in a persistent and flexible way, while minimizing requirements on the runtime environment.

Functions to Analyze Single System Data

Functions to visually and statistically analyze single system data.

'ViennaCL' C++ Header Files

'ViennaCL' is a free open-source linear algebra library for computations on many-core architectures (GPUs, MIC) and multi-core CPUs. The library is written in C++ and supports 'CUDA', 'OpenCL', and 'OpenMP' (including switches at runtime). I have placed these libraries in this package as a more efficient distribution system for CRAN. The idea is that you can write a package that depends on the 'ViennaCL' library and yet you do not need to distribute a copy of this code with your package.

Unmatched Monotone Regression

Unmatched regression refers to the regression setting where covariates and predictors are collected separately/independently and so are not paired together, as in the usual regression setting. Balabdaoui, Doss, and Durot (2021) study the unmatched regression setting where the univariate regression function is known to be monotone. This package implements methods for computing the estimator developed in Balabdaoui, Doss, and Durot (2021). The main method is an active-set-trust-region-based method.

Downscaling Species Occupancy

Uses species occupancy at coarse grain sizes to predict species occupancy at fine grain sizes. Ten models are provided to fit and extrapolate the occupancy-area relationship, as well as methods for preparing atlas data for modelling. See Marsh et. al. (2018) .

Partial Orders and Relations

Finds equivalence classes corresponding to a symmetric relation or undirected graph. Finds total order consistent with partial order or directed graph (so-called topological sort).

Advanced 'tryCatch()' and 'try()' Functions

Advanced tryCatch() and try() functions for better error handling (logging, stack trace with source code references and support for post-mortem analysis via dump files).

K-Means with Simultaneous Outlier Detection

An implementation of the 'k-means--' algorithm proposed by Chawla and Gionis, 2013 in their paper, "k-means-- : A unified approach to clustering and outlier detection. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM13)", and using 'ordering' described by Howe, 2013 in the thesis, Clustering and anomaly detection in tropical cyclones". Useful for creating (potentially) tighter clusters than standard k-means and simultaneously finding outliers inexpensively in multidimensional space.