Efficient Estimation of Covariance and (Partial) Correlation

Implements a James-Stein-type shrinkage estimator for the covariance matrix, with separate shrinkage for variances and correlations. The details of the method are explained in Schafer and Strimmer (2005) and Opgen-Rhein and Strimmer (2007) . The approach is both computationally as well as statistically very efficient, it is applicable to "small n, large p" data, and always returns a positive definite and well-conditioned covariance matrix. In addition to inferring the covariance matrix the package also provides shrinkage estimators for partial correlations and partial variances. The inverse of the covariance and correlation matrix can be efficiently computed, as well as any arbitrary power of the shrinkage correlation matrix. Furthermore, functions are available for fast singular value decomposition, for computing the pseudoinverse, and for checking the rank and positive definiteness of a matrix.

Calibration of P-Values for Point Null Hypothesis Testing

Calibrate p-values under a robust perspective using the methods developed by Sellke, Bayarri, and Berger (2001) and obtain measures of the evidence provided by the data in favor of point null hypotheses which are safer and more straightforward to interpret.

A 'robots.txt' Parser and 'Webbot'/'Spider'/'Crawler' Permissions Checker

Provides functions to download and parse 'robots.txt' files. Ultimately the package makes it easy to check if bots (spiders, crawler, scrapers, ...) are allowed to access specific resources on a domain.

Adequacy of Probabilistic Models and General Purpose Optimization

The main application concerns to a new robust optimization package with two major contributions. The first contribution refers to the assessment of the adequacy of probabilistic models through a combination of several statistics, which measure the relative quality of statistical models for a given data set. The second one provides a general purpose optimization method based on meta-heuristics functions for maximizing or minimizing an arbitrary objective function.

Functional Data Analysis and Utilities for Statistical Computing

Routines for exploratory and descriptive analysis of functional data such as depth measurements, atypical curves detection, regression models, supervised classification, unsupervised classification and functional analysis of variance.

Treatment Effects with Multiple Periods and Groups

The standard Difference-in-Differences (DID) setup involves two periods and two groups -- a treated group and untreated group. Many applications of DID methods involve more than two periods and have individuals that are treated at different points in time. This package contains tools for computing average treatment effect parameters in Difference in Differences setups with more than two periods and with variation in treatment timing using the methods developed in Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021) . The main parameters are group-time average treatment effects which are the average treatment effect for a particular group at a a particular time. These can be aggregated into a fewer number of treatment effect parameters, and the package deals with the cases where there is selective treatment timing, dynamic treatment effects, calendar time effects, or combinations of these. There are also functions for testing the Difference in Differences assumption, and plotting group-time average treatment effects.

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.

Spatial Dependence: Weighting Schemes, Statistics

A collection of functions to create spatial weights matrix objects from polygon 'contiguities', from point patterns by distance and tessellations, for summarizing these objects, and for permitting their use in spatial data analysis, including regional aggregation by minimum spanning tree; a collection of tests for spatial 'autocorrelation', including global 'Morans I' and 'Gearys C' proposed by 'Cliff' and 'Ord' (1973, ISBN: 0850860369) and (1981, ISBN: 0850860814), 'Hubert/Mantel' general cross product statistic, Empirical Bayes estimates and 'Assunção/Reis' (1999) Index, 'Getis/Ord' G ('Getis' and 'Ord' 1992) and multicoloured join count statistics, 'APLE' ('Li 'et al.' ) , local 'Moran's I', 'Gearys C' ('Anselin' 1995) and 'Getis/Ord' G ('Ord' and 'Getis' 1995) , 'saddlepoint' approximations ('Tiefelsdorf' 2002) and exact tests for global and local 'Moran's I' ('Bivand et al.' 2009) and 'LOSH' local indicators of spatial heteroscedasticity ('Ord' and 'Getis') . The implementation of most of these measures is described in 'Bivand' and 'Wong' (2018) , with further extensions in 'Bivand' (2022) . 'Lagrange' multiplier tests for spatial dependence in linear models are provided ('Anselin et al'. 1996) , as are 'Rao' score tests for hypothesised spatial 'Durbin' models based on linear models ('Koley' and 'Bera' 2023) . A local indicators for categorical data (LICD) implementation based on 'Carrer et al.' (2021) and 'Bivand et al.' (2017) was added in 1.3-7. From 'spdep' and 'spatialreg' versions >= 1.2-1, the model fitting functions previously present in this package are defunct in 'spdep' and may be found in 'spatialreg'.

Quick and Easy Access Tax and Accounting Data of Brazil

Access tax and accounting data of Brazilian states and municipalities provided by the Brazilian Public Sector Accounting and Tax Information System.

Web Client/Wrapper to the 'Figma API'

An easy-to-use web client/wrapper for the 'Figma API' < https://www.figma.com/developers/api>. It allows you to bring all data from a 'Figma' file to your 'R' session. This includes the data of all objects that you have drawn in this file, and their respective canvas/page metadata.