Estimating Causal Dose Response Functions

Functions and data to estimate causal dose response functions given continuous, ordinal, or binary treatments. A description of the methods is given in Galagate (2016) < https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/18170>.

Microeconomic Analysis and Modelling

Various tools for microeconomic analysis and microeconomic modelling, e.g. estimating quadratic, Cobb-Douglas and Translog functions, calculating partial derivatives and elasticities of these functions, and calculating Hessian matrices, checking curvature and preparing restrictions for imposing monotonicity of Translog functions.

The Ramer-Douglas-Peucker Algorithm

Pretty fast implementation of the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm for reducing the number of points on a 2D curve. Urs Ramer (1972), "An iterative procedure for the polygonal approximation of plane curves" . David H. Douglas and Thomas K. Peucker (1973), "Algorithms for the Reduction of the Number of Points Required to Represent a Digitized Line or its Caricature" .

Access the Speechs and Speaker's Informations of House of Representatives of Brazil

Scrap speech text and speaker informations of speeches of House of Representatives of Brazil, and transform in a cleaned tibble.

Approximate Conditional Inference for Logistic and Loglinear Models

Implements higher order likelihood-based inference for logistic and loglinear models.

Supplementary Item Response Theory Models

Supplementary functions for item response models aiming to complement existing R packages. The functionality includes among others multidimensional compensatory and noncompensatory IRT models (Reckase, 2009, ), MCMC for hierarchical IRT models and testlet models (Fox, 2010, ), NOHARM (McDonald, 1982, ), Rasch copula model (Braeken, 2011, ; Schroeders, Robitzsch & Schipolowski, 2014, ), faceted and hierarchical rater models (DeCarlo, Kim & Johnson, 2011, ), ordinal IRT model (ISOP; Scheiblechner, 1995, ), DETECT statistic (Stout, Habing, Douglas & Kim, 1996, ), local structural equation modeling (LSEM; Hildebrandt, Luedtke, Robitzsch, Sommer & Wilhelm, 2016, ).

Statistical Methods for Psychologists

Implements confidence interval and sample size methods that are especially useful in psychological research. The methods can be applied in 1-group, 2-group, paired-samples, and multiple-group designs and to a variety of parameters including means, medians, proportions, slopes, standardized mean differences, standardized linear contrasts of means, plus several measures of correlation and association. Confidence interval and sample size functions are given for single parameters as well as differences, ratios, and linear contrasts of parameters. The sample size functions can be used to approximate the sample size needed to estimate a parameter or function of parameters with desired confidence interval precision or to perform a variety of hypothesis tests (directional two-sided, equivalence, superiority, noninferiority) with desired power. For details see: Statistical Methods for Psychologists, Volumes 1 – 4, < https://dgbonett.sites.ucsc.edu/>.

Varying Coefficient Meta-Analysis

Implements functions for varying coefficient meta-analysis methods. These methods do not assume effect size homogeneity. Subgroup effect size comparisons, general linear effect size contrasts, and linear models of effect sizes based on varying coefficient methods can be used to describe effect size heterogeneity. Varying coefficient meta-analysis methods do not require the unrealistic assumptions of the traditional fixed-effect and random-effects meta-analysis methods. For details see: Statistical Methods for Psychologists, Volume 5, < https://dgbonett.sites.ucsc.edu/>.

Regression with Interval-Censored Covariates

Provides functions to simulate and analyze data for a regression model with an interval censored covariate, as described in Morrison et al. (2021) .

Transformation Models

Formula-based user-interfaces to specific transformation models implemented in package 'mlt' (, ). Available models include Cox models, some parametric survival models (Weibull, etc.), models for ordered categorical variables, normal and non-normal (Box-Cox type) linear models, and continuous outcome logistic regression (Lohse et al., 2017, ). The underlying theory is described in Hothorn et al. (2018) . An extension to transformation models for clustered data is provided (Barbanti and Hothorn, 2022, ) and a tutorial explains applications in survival analysis (Siegfried et al., 2025, ). Multivariate conditional transformation models (Klein et al, 2022, ) and shift-scale transformation models (Siegfried et al, 2023, ) can be fitted as well. The package contains an implementation of a doubly robust score test, described in Kook et al. (2024, ).