Parallel and Memory-Efficient Ecological Diversity Metrics

Computes alpha and beta diversity metrics using concurrent 'C' threads. Metrics include 'UniFrac', Faith's phylogenetic diversity, Bray-Curtis dissimilarity, Shannon diversity index, and many others. Also parses newick trees into 'phylo' objects and rarefies feature tables.

Exploratory Data Analysis for the 'spatstat' Family

Functionality for exploratory data analysis and nonparametric analysis of spatial data, mainly spatial point patterns, in the 'spatstat' family of packages. (Excludes analysis of spatial data on a linear network, which is covered by the separate package 'spatstat.linnet'.) Methods include quadrat counts, K-functions and their simulation envelopes, nearest neighbour distance and empty space statistics, Fry plots, pair correlation function, kernel smoothed intensity, relative risk estimation with cross-validated bandwidth selection, mark correlation functions, segregation indices, mark dependence diagnostics, and kernel estimates of covariate effects. Formal hypothesis tests of random pattern (chi-squared, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Monte Carlo, Diggle-Cressie-Loosmore-Ford, Dao-Genton, two-stage Monte Carlo) and tests for covariate effects (Cox-Berman-Waller-Lawson, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, ANOVA) are also supported.

Random GO Database

The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium < https://geneontology.org/> organizes genes into hierarchical categories based on biological process (BP), molecular function (MF) and cellular component (CC, i.e., subcellular localization). Tools such as 'GoMiner' (see Zeeberg, B.R., Feng, W., Wang, G. et al. (2003) ) can leverage GO to perform ontological analysis of microarray and proteomics studies, typically generating a list of significant functional categories. The significance is traditionally determined by randomizing the input gene list to computing the false discovery rate (FDR) of the enrichment p-value for each category. We explore here the novel alternative of randomizing the GO database rather than the gene list.

Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Models for Network Evolution Based on Exponential-Family Random Graph Models

An integrated set of extensions to the 'ergm' package to analyze and simulate network evolution based on exponential-family random graph models (ERGM). 'tergm' is a part of the 'statnet' suite of packages for network analysis. See Krivitsky and Handcock (2014) and Carnegie, Krivitsky, Hunter, and Goodreau (2015) .

Create Random ADaM Datasets

A set of functions to create random Analysis Data Model (ADaM) datasets and cached dataset. ADaM dataset specifications are described by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Analysis Data Model Team.

Propensity Score Weighting for Causal Inference with Observational Studies and Randomized Trials

Supports propensity score weighting analysis of observational studies and randomized trials. Enables the estimation and inference of average causal effects with binary and multiple treatments using overlap weights (ATO), inverse probability of treatment weights (ATE), average treatment effect among the treated weights (ATT), matching weights (ATM) and entropy weights (ATEN), with and without propensity score trimming. These weights are members of the family of balancing weights introduced in Li, Morgan and Zaslavsky (2018) and Li and Li (2019) .

Bayesian Exponential Random Graph Models

Bayesian analysis for exponential random graph models using advanced computational algorithms. More information can be found at: < https://acaimo.github.io/Bergm/>.

The Beta Random Number and Dirichlet Random Vector Generating Functions

Contains functions to generate random numbers from the beta distribution and random vectors from the Dirichlet distribution.

A Universal Non-Uniform Random Number Generator

A universal non-uniform random number generator for quite arbitrary distributions with piecewise twice differentiable densities.

Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models by Bootstrapped Pseudolikelihood

Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (TERGM) estimated by maximum pseudolikelihood with bootstrapped confidence intervals or Markov Chain Monte Carlo maximum likelihood. Goodness of fit assessment for ERGMs, TERGMs, and SAOMs. Micro-level interpretation of ERGMs and TERGMs. The methods are described in Leifeld, Cranmer and Desmarais (2018), JStatSoft .