Microbial Community Ecology Data Analysis

A series of statistical and plotting approaches in microbial community ecology based on the R6 class. The classes are designed for data preprocessing, taxa abundance plotting, alpha diversity analysis, beta diversity analysis, differential abundance test, null model analysis, network analysis, machine learning, environmental data analysis and functional analysis.

Null Model Analysis for Ecological Networks

Null models to analyse ecological networks (e.g. food webs, flower-visitation networks, seed-dispersal networks) and detect resource preferences or non-random interactions among network nodes. Tools are provided to run null models, test for and plot preferences, plot and analyse bipartite networks, and export null model results in a form compatible with other network analysis packages. The underlying null model was developed by Agusti et al. (2003) Molecular Ecology and the full application to ecological networks by Vaughan et al. (2018) econullnetr: an R package using null models to analyse the structure of ecological networks and identify resource selection. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, .

Integrating Data Exchange and Analysis for Networks ('ideanet')

A suite of convenient tools for social network analysis geared toward students, entry-level users, and non-expert practitioners. ‘ideanet’ features unique functions for the processing and measurement of sociocentric and egocentric network data. These functions automatically generate node- and system-level measures commonly used in the analysis of these types of networks. Outputs from these functions maximize the ability of novice users to employ network measurements in further analyses while making all users less prone to common data analytic errors. Additionally, ‘ideanet’ features an R Shiny graphic user interface that allows novices to explore network data with minimal need for coding.

Spatial Analysis on Network

Perform spatial analysis on network. Implement several methods for spatial analysis on network: Network Kernel Density estimation, building of spatial matrices based on network distance ('listw' objects from 'spdep' package), K functions estimation for point pattern analysis on network, k nearest neighbours on network, reachable area calculation, and graph generation References: Okabe et al (2019) ; Okabe et al (2012, ISBN:978-0470770818);Baddeley et al (2015, ISBN:9781482210200).

Analysis of the International Trade Network

Functions to clean and process international trade data into an international trade network (ITN) are provided. It then provides a set a functions to undertake analysis and plots of the ITN (extract the backbone, centrality, blockmodels, clustering). Examining the key players in the ITN and regional trade patterns.

Rank in Network Meta-Analysis

A supportive collection of functions for gathering and plotting treatment ranking metrics after network meta-analysis.

Network-Valued Data Analysis

A flexible statistical framework for network-valued data analysis. It leverages the complexity of the space of distributions on graphs by using the permutation framework for inference as implemented in the 'flipr' package. Currently, only the two-sample testing problem is covered and generalization to k samples and regression will be added in the future as well. It is a 4-step procedure where the user chooses a suitable representation of the networks, a suitable metric to embed the representation into a metric space, one or more test statistics to target specific aspects of the distributions to be compared and a formula to compute the permutation p-value. Two types of inference are provided: a global test answering whether there is a difference between the distributions that generated the two samples and a local test for localizing differences on the network structure. The latter is assumed to be shared by all networks of both samples. References: Lovato, I., Pini, A., Stamm, A., Vantini, S. (2020) "Model-free two-sample test for network-valued data" ; Lovato, I., Pini, A., Stamm, A., Taquet, M., Vantini, S. (2021) "Multiscale null hypothesis testing for network-valued data: Analysis of brain networks of patients with autism" .

Analysis of Queueing Networks and Models

It provides versatile tools for analysis of birth and death based Markovian Queueing Models and Single and Multiclass Product-Form Queueing Networks. It implements M/M/1, M/M/c, M/M/Infinite, M/M/1/K, M/M/c/K, M/M/c/c, M/M/1/K/K, M/M/c/K/K, M/M/c/K/m, M/M/Infinite/K/K, Multiple Channel Open Jackson Networks, Multiple Channel Closed Jackson Networks, Single Channel Multiple Class Open Networks, Single Channel Multiple Class Closed Networks and Single Channel Multiple Class Mixed Networks. Also it provides a B-Erlang, C-Erlang and Engset calculators. This work is dedicated to the memory of D. Sixto Rios Insua.

Sensitivity Analysis of Neural Networks

Analysis functions to quantify inputs importance in neural network models. Functions are available for calculating and plotting the inputs importance and obtaining the activation function of each neuron layer and its derivatives. The importance of a given input is defined as the distribution of the derivatives of the output with respect to that input in each training data point .

Twitter Conversation Networks and Analysis

Collects tweets and metadata for threaded conversations and generates networks.