Quick Indexation

Quick indexation of any type of vector or of any combination of those. Indexation turns a vector into an integer vector going from 1 to the number of unique elements. Indexes are important building blocks for many algorithms. The method is described at < https://github.com/lrberge/indexthis/>.

Blinding Assessment Indexes for Randomized, Controlled, Clinical Trials

Generate the James Blinding Index, as described in James et al (1996) < https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8841652/> and the Bang Blinding Index, as described in Bang et al (2004) < https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15020033/>. These are measures to assess whether or not satisfactory blinding has been maintained in a randomized, controlled, clinical trial. These can be generated for trial subjects, research coordinators and principal investigators, based upon standardized questionnaires that have been administered, to assess whether or not they can correctly guess to which treatment arm (e.g. placebo or treatment) subjects were assigned at randomization.

Calculate Thermal Indexes

Calculates several thermal comfort indexes using temperature, wind speed and relative humidity values, calculating indexes such as Humidex, windchill, Discomfort Index and others.

Validation of Clustering Results

Statistical and biological validation of clustering results. This package implements Dunn Index, Silhouette, Connectivity, Stability, BHI and BSI. Further information can be found in Brock, G et al. (2008) .

Index Numbers in Social Sciences

We provide an R tool for teaching in Social Sciences. It allows the computation of index numbers. It is a measure of the evolution of a fixed magnitude for only a product of for several products. It is very useful in Social Sciences. Among others, we obtain simple index numbers (in chain or in serie), index numbers for not only a product or weighted index numbers as the Laspeyres index (Laspeyres, 1864), the Paasche index (Paasche, 1874) or the Fisher index (Lapedes, 1978).

Client for 'jq', a 'JSON' Processor

Client for 'jq', a 'JSON' processor (< https://jqlang.github.io/jq/>), written in C. 'jq' allows the following with 'JSON' data: index into, parse, do calculations, cut up and filter, change key names and values, perform conditionals and comparisons, and more.

Index Number Calculation

Computes bilateral and multilateral index numbers. It has support for many standard bilateral indexes as well as multilateral index number methods such as GEKS, GEKS-Tornqvist (or CCDI), Geary-Khamis and the weighted time product dummy (for details on these methods see Diewert and Fox (2020) ). It also supports updating of multilateral indexes using several splicing methods.

Generalized Price and Quantity Indexes

Tools to build and work with bilateral generalized-mean price indexes (and by extension quantity indexes), and indexes composed of generalized-mean indexes (e.g., superlative quadratic-mean indexes, GEKS). Covers the core mathematical machinery for making bilateral price indexes, computing price relatives, detecting outliers, and decomposing indexes, with wrappers for all common (and many uncommon) index-number formulas. Implements and extends many of the methods in Balk (2008, ), von der Lippe (2007, ), and the CPI manual (2020, ).

Price Index Aggregation

Most price indexes are made with a two-step procedure, where period-over-period elementary indexes are first calculated for a collection of elementary aggregates at each point in time, and then aggregated according to a price index aggregation structure. These indexes can then be chained together to form a time series that gives the evolution of prices with respect to a fixed base period. This package contains a collection of functions that revolve around this work flow, making it easy to build standard price indexes, and implement the methods described by Balk (2008, ), von der Lippe (2007, ), and the CPI manual (2020, ) and PPI manual (2004, ) for bilateral price indexes.

Objective General Index

Consider a data matrix of n individuals with p variates. The objective general index (OGI) is a general index that combines the p variates into a univariate index in order to rank the n individuals. The OGI is always positively correlated with each of the variates. More details can be found in Sei (2016) .