Funnel Plots for Comparing Institutional Performance

An implementation of methods presented by Spiegelhalter (2005) Funnel plots for comparing institutional performance, for standardised ratios, ratios of counts and proportions with additive overdispersion adjustment.

R Interface to 'TensorFlow'

Interface to 'TensorFlow' < https://www.tensorflow.org/>, an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more 'CPUs' or 'GPUs' in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single 'API'. 'TensorFlow' was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research, but the system is general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of other domains as well.

Non-Parametric Trend Tests and Change-Point Detection

The analysis of environmental data often requires the detection of trends and change-points. This package includes tests for trend detection (Cox-Stuart Trend Test, Mann-Kendall Trend Test, (correlated) Hirsch-Slack Test, partial Mann-Kendall Trend Test, multivariate (multisite) Mann-Kendall Trend Test, (Seasonal) Sen's slope, partial Pearson and Spearman correlation trend test), change-point detection (Lanzante's test procedures, Pettitt's test, Buishand Range Test, Buishand U Test, Standard Normal Homogeinity Test), detection of non-randomness (Wallis-Moore Phase Frequency Test, Bartels rank von Neumann's ratio test, Wald-Wolfowitz Test) and the two sample Robust Rank-Order Distributional Test.

Statistical Learning on Sparse Matrices

Implements many algorithms for statistical learning on sparse matrices - matrix factorizations, matrix completion, elastic net regressions, factorization machines. Also 'rsparse' enhances 'Matrix' package by providing methods for multithreaded matrix products and native slicing of the sparse matrices in Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) format. List of the algorithms for regression problems: 1) Elastic Net regression via Follow The Proximally-Regularized Leader (FTRL) Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), as per McMahan et al(, ) 2) Factorization Machines via SGD, as per Rendle (2010, ) List of algorithms for matrix factorization and matrix completion: 1) Weighted Regularized Matrix Factorization (WRMF) via Alternating Least Squares (ALS) - paper by Hu, Koren, Volinsky (2008, ) 2) Maximum-Margin Matrix Factorization via ALS, paper by Rennie, Srebro (2005, ) 3) Fast Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), Soft-Thresholded SVD, Soft-Impute matrix completion via ALS - paper by Hastie, Mazumder et al. (2014, ) 4) Linear-Flow matrix factorization, from 'Practical linear models for large-scale one-class collaborative filtering' by Sedhain, Bui, Kawale et al (2016, ISBN:978-1-57735-770-4) 5) GlobalVectors (GloVe) matrix factorization via SGD, paper by Pennington, Socher, Manning (2014, < https://aclanthology.org/D14-1162/>) Package is reasonably fast and memory efficient - it allows to work with large datasets - millions of rows and millions of columns. This is particularly useful for practitioners working on recommender systems.

Analysis and Mining of Multilayer Social Networks

Functions for the creation/generation and analysis of multilayer social networks .

Biased Urn Model Distributions

Statistical models of biased sampling in the form of univariate and multivariate noncentral hypergeometric distributions, including Wallenius' noncentral hypergeometric distribution and Fisher's noncentral hypergeometric distribution. See vignette("UrnTheory") for explanation of these distributions. Literature: Fog, A. (2008a). Calculation Methods for Wallenius' Noncentral Hypergeometric Distribution, Communications in Statistics, Simulation and Computation, 37(2) . Fog, A. (2008b). Sampling methods for Wallenius’ and Fisher’s noncentral hypergeometric distributions, Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 37(2) .

Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models

An implementation of about 6 major classes of statistical regression models. The central algorithm is Fisher scoring and iterative reweighted least squares. At the heart of this package are the vector generalized linear and additive model (VGLM/VGAM) classes. VGLMs can be loosely thought of as multivariate GLMs. VGAMs are data-driven VGLMs that use smoothing. The book "Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models: With an Implementation in R" (Yee, 2015) gives details of the statistical framework and the package. Currently only fixed-effects models are implemented. Many (100+) models and distributions are estimated by maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) or penalized MLE. The other classes are RR-VGLMs (reduced-rank VGLMs), quadratic RR-VGLMs, doubly constrained RR-VGLMs, quadratic RR-VGLMs, reduced-rank VGAMs, RCIMs (row-column interaction models)---these classes perform constrained and unconstrained quadratic ordination (CQO/UQO) models in ecology, as well as constrained additive ordination (CAO). Hauck-Donner effect detection is implemented. Note that these functions are subject to change; see the NEWS and ChangeLog files for latest changes.

A Test Environment for HTTP Requests

Testing and documenting code that communicates with remote servers can be painful. Dealing with authentication, server state, and other complications can make testing seem too costly to bother with. But it doesn't need to be that hard. This package enables one to test all of the logic on the R sides of the API in your package without requiring access to the remote service. Importantly, it provides three contexts that mock the network connection in different ways, as well as testing functions to assert that HTTP requests were---or were not---made. It also allows one to safely record real API responses to use as test fixtures. The ability to save responses and load them offline also enables one to write vignettes and other dynamic documents that can be distributed without access to a live server.

Test Helpers for 'httr2'

Testing and documenting code that communicates with remote servers can be painful. This package helps with writing tests for packages that use 'httr2'. It enables testing all of the logic on the R sides of the API without requiring access to the remote service, and it also allows recording real API responses to use as test fixtures. The ability to save responses and load them offline also enables writing vignettes and other dynamic documents that can be distributed without access to a live server.

Template Model Builder: A General Random Effect Tool Inspired by 'ADMB'

With this tool, a user should be able to quickly implement complex random effect models through simple C++ templates. The package combines 'CppAD' (C++ automatic differentiation), 'Eigen' (templated matrix-vector library) and 'CHOLMOD' (sparse matrix routines available from R) to obtain an efficient implementation of the applied Laplace approximation with exact derivatives. Key features are: Automatic sparseness detection, parallelism through 'BLAS' and parallel user templates.