Statistical Methods for Psychologists

Implements confidence interval and sample size methods that are especially useful in psychological research. The methods can be applied in 1-group, 2-group, paired-samples, and multiple-group designs and to a variety of parameters including means, medians, proportions, slopes, standardized mean differences, standardized linear contrasts of means, plus several measures of correlation and association. Confidence interval and sample size functions are given for single parameters as well as differences, ratios, and linear contrasts of parameters. The sample size functions can be used to approximate the sample size needed to estimate a parameter or function of parameters with desired confidence interval precision or to perform a variety of hypothesis tests (directional two-sided, equivalence, superiority, noninferiority) with desired power. For details see: Statistical Methods for Psychologists, Volumes 1 – 4, < https://dgbonett.sites.ucsc.edu/>.

Varying Coefficient Meta-Analysis

Implements functions for varying coefficient meta-analysis methods. These methods do not assume effect size homogeneity. Subgroup effect size comparisons, general linear effect size contrasts, and linear models of effect sizes based on varying coefficient methods can be used to describe effect size heterogeneity. Varying coefficient meta-analysis methods do not require the unrealistic assumptions of the traditional fixed-effect and random-effects meta-analysis methods. For details see: Statistical Methods for Psychologists, Volume 5, < https://dgbonett.sites.ucsc.edu/>.

Transformation Models

Formula-based user-interfaces to specific transformation models implemented in package 'mlt' (, ). Available models include Cox models, some parametric survival models (Weibull, etc.), models for ordered categorical variables, normal and non-normal (Box-Cox type) linear models, and continuous outcome logistic regression (Lohse et al., 2017, ). The underlying theory is described in Hothorn et al. (2018) . An extension to transformation models for clustered data is provided (Barbanti and Hothorn, 2022, ) and a tutorial explains applications in survival analysis (Siegfried et al., 2025, ). Multivariate conditional transformation models (Klein et al, 2022, ) and shift-scale transformation models (Siegfried et al, 2023, ) can be fitted as well. The package contains an implementation of a doubly robust score test, described in Kook et al. (2024, ).

Consistent Anonymisation Across Datasets

A simple function that anonymises a list of variables in a consistent way: anonymised factors are not recycled and the same original levels receive the same anonymised factor even if located in different datasets.

Import Professional Baseball Data from 'Retrosheet'

A collection of tools to import and structure the (currently) single-season event, game-log, roster, and schedule data available from < https://www.retrosheet.org>. In particular, the event (a.k.a. play-by-play) files can be especially difficult to parse. This package does the parsing on those files, returning the requested data in the most practical R structure to use for sabermetric or other analyses.

Regression with Interval-Censored Covariates

Provides functions to simulate and analyze data for a regression model with an interval censored covariate, as described in Morrison et al. (2021) .

Bayesian Linear Mixed-Effects Models

Maximum a posteriori estimation for linear and generalized linear mixed-effects models in a Bayesian setting, implementing the methods of Chung, et al. (2013) . Extends package 'lme4' (Bates, Maechler, Bolker, and Walker (2015) ).

Read and Process 'Pamguard' Binary Data

Functions for easily reading and processing binary data files created by 'Pamguard' (< https://www.pamguard.org/>). All functions for directly reading the binary data files are based on 'MATLAB' code written by Michael Oswald.

Computation and Plots of Influence Functions for Risk and Performance Measures

Computes the influence functions time series of the returns for the risk and performance measures as mentioned in Chen and Martin (2018) < https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3085672>, as well as in Zhang et al. (2019) < https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3415903>. Also evaluates estimators influence functions at a set of parameter values and plots them to display the shapes of the influence functions.

Multi-Resolution Kriging Based on Markov Random Fields

Methods for the interpolation of large spatial datasets. This package uses a basis function approach that provides a surface fitting method that can approximate standard spatial data models. Using a large number of basis functions allows for estimates that can come close to interpolating the observations (a spatial model with a small nugget variance.) Moreover, the covariance model for this method can approximate the Matern covariance family but also allows for a multi-resolution model and supports efficient computation of the profile likelihood for estimating covariance parameters. This is accomplished through compactly supported basis functions and a Markov random field model for the basis coefficients. These features lead to sparse matrices for the computations and this package makes of the R spam package for sparse linear algebra. An extension of this version over previous ones ( < 5.4 ) is the support for different geometries besides a rectangular domain. The Markov random field approach combined with a basis function representation makes the implementation of different geometries simple where only a few specific R functions need to be added with most of the computation and evaluation done by generic routines that have been tuned to be efficient. One benefit of this package's model/approach is the facility to do unconditional and conditional simulation of the field for large numbers of arbitrary points. There is also the flexibility for estimating non-stationary covariances and also the case when the observations are a linear combination (e.g. an integral) of the spatial process. Included are generic methods for prediction, standard errors for prediction, plotting of the estimated surface and conditional and unconditional simulation. See the 'LatticeKrigRPackage' GitHub repository for a vignette of this package. Development of this package was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant 1417857 and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.