Interpreting Time Series and Autocorrelated Data Using GAMMs

GAMM (Generalized Additive Mixed Modeling; Lin & Zhang, 1999) as implemented in the R package 'mgcv' (Wood, S.N., 2006; 2011) is a nonlinear regression analysis which is particularly useful for time course data such as EEG, pupil dilation, gaze data (eye tracking), and articulography recordings, but also for behavioral data such as reaction times and response data. As time course measures are sensitive to autocorrelation problems, GAMMs implements methods to reduce the autocorrelation problems. This package includes functions for the evaluation of GAMM models (e.g., model comparisons, determining regions of significance, inspection of autocorrelational structure in residuals) and interpreting of GAMMs (e.g., visualization of complex interactions, and contrasts).

Prediction of Therapeutic Success

In personalized medicine, one wants to know, for a given patient and his or her outcome for a predictor (pre-treatment variable), how likely it is that a treatment will be more beneficial than an alternative treatment. This package allows for the quantification of the predictive causal association (i.e., the association between the predictor variable and the individual causal effect of the treatment) and related metrics. Part of this software has been developed using funding provided from the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement no 602552.

Collection of Utility Functions

A handy collection of utility functions designed to aid in package development, plotting and scientific research. Package development functionalities includes among others tools such as cross-referencing package imports with the description file, analysis of redundant package imports, editing of the description file and the creation of package badges for GitHub. Some of the other functionalities include automatic package installation and loading, plotting points without overlap, creating nice breaks for plots, overview tables and many more handy utility functions.

Mark-Recapture Analysis for Survival and Abundance Estimation

Functions for fitting various models to capture-recapture data including mixed-effects Cormack-Jolly-Seber(CJS) and multistate models and the multi-variate state model structure for survival estimation and POPAN structured Jolly-Seber models for abundance estimation. There are also Hidden Markov model (HMM) implementations of CJS and multistate models with and without state uncertainty and a simulation capability for HMM models.

Nuclear Decay Data for Dosimetric Calculations - ICRP 107

Nuclear Decay Data for Dosimetric Calculations from the International Commission on Radiological Protection from ICRP Publication 107. Ann. ICRP 38 (3). Eckerman, Keith and Endo, Akira 2008 < http://www.icrp.org/publication.asp?id=ICRP%20Publication%20107>. This is a database of the physical data needed in calculations of radionuclide-specific protection and operational quantities. The data is prescribed by the ICRP, the international authority on radiation dose standards, for estimating dose from the intake of or exposure to radionuclides in the workplace and the environment. The database contains information on the half-lives, decay chains, and yields and energies of radiations emitted in nuclear transformations of 1252 radionuclides of 97 elements.

Advanced Tensor Arithmetic with Named Indices

Provides convenience functions for advanced linear algebra with tensors and computation with datasets of tensors on a higher level abstraction. It includes Einstein and Riemann summing conventions, dragging, co- and contravariate indices, parallel computations on sequences of tensors.

Import 'OpenStreetMap' Data as Simple Features or Spatial Objects

Download and import of 'OpenStreetMap' ('OSM') data as 'sf' or 'sp' objects. 'OSM' data are extracted from the 'Overpass' web server and processed with very fast 'C++' routines for return to 'R'.

Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks

An integrated set of tools to analyze and simulate networks based on exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs). 'ergm' is a part of the Statnet suite of packages for network analysis.

Convenience Functions, Moving Window Statistics, and Graphics

Contains functions that do something convenient (e.g. create BMI categories), functions for calculating moving-window statistics efficiently, and functions for generating various figures (e.g. histograms with fitted probability mass/density function).

USA Presidential Elections Data

This includes a dataset on the outcomes of the USA presidential elections since 1920, and various predictors, as used in < http://vanderwalresearch.com/blog/15-elections>.