Nonparametric Methods for Cognitive Diagnosis

An array of nonparametric and parametric estimation methods for cognitive diagnostic models, including nonparametric classification of examinee attribute profiles, joint maximum likelihood estimation (JMLE) of examinee attribute profiles and item parameters, and nonparametric refinement of the Q-matrix, as well as conditional maximum likelihood estimation (CMLE) of examinee attribute profiles given item parameters and CMLE of item parameters given examinee attribute profiles. Currently the nonparametric methods in the package support both conjunctive and disjunctive models, and the parametric methods in the package support the DINA model, the DINO model, the NIDA model, the G-NIDA model, and the R-RUM model.

Read and Process 'Pamguard' Binary Data

Functions for easily reading and processing binary data files created by 'Pamguard' (< https://www.pamguard.org/>). All functions for directly reading the binary data files are based on 'MATLAB' code written by Michael Oswald.

Multi-Resolution Kriging Based on Markov Random Fields

Methods for the interpolation of large spatial datasets. This package uses a basis function approach that provides a surface fitting method that can approximate standard spatial data models. Using a large number of basis functions allows for estimates that can come close to interpolating the observations (a spatial model with a small nugget variance.) Moreover, the covariance model for this method can approximate the Matern covariance family but also allows for a multi-resolution model and supports efficient computation of the profile likelihood for estimating covariance parameters. This is accomplished through compactly supported basis functions and a Markov random field model for the basis coefficients. These features lead to sparse matrices for the computations and this package makes of the R spam package for sparse linear algebra. An extension of this version over previous ones ( < 5.4 ) is the support for different geometries besides a rectangular domain. The Markov random field approach combined with a basis function representation makes the implementation of different geometries simple where only a few specific R functions need to be added with most of the computation and evaluation done by generic routines that have been tuned to be efficient. One benefit of this package's model/approach is the facility to do unconditional and conditional simulation of the field for large numbers of arbitrary points. There is also the flexibility for estimating non-stationary covariances and also the case when the observations are a linear combination (e.g. an integral) of the spatial process. Included are generic methods for prediction, standard errors for prediction, plotting of the estimated surface and conditional and unconditional simulation. See the 'LatticeKrigRPackage' GitHub repository for a vignette of this package. Development of this package was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant 1417857 and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Nonlinear least squares examples from NIST

Datasets for testing nonlinear regression routines.

Vault Client for Secrets and Sensitive Data

Provides an interface to a 'HashiCorp' vault server over its http API (typically these are self-hosted; see < https://www.vaultproject.io>). This allows for secure storage and retrieval of secrets over a network, such as tokens, passwords and certificates. Authentication with vault is supported through several backends including user name/password and authentication via 'GitHub'.

Higher Order Inference for Nonlinear Heteroscedastic Models

Implements likelihood inference based on higher order approximations for nonlinear models with possibly non constant variance.

Nonlinear Regression for Agricultural Applications

Additional nonlinear regression functions using self-start (SS) algorithms. One of the functions is the Beta growth function proposed by Yin et al. (2003) . There are several other functions with breakpoints (e.g. linear-plateau, plateau-linear, exponential-plateau, plateau-exponential, quadratic-plateau, plateau-quadratic and bilinear), a non-rectangular hyperbola and a bell-shaped curve. Twenty eight (28) new self-start (SS) functions in total. This package also supports the publication 'Nonlinear regression Models and applications in agricultural research' by Archontoulis and Miguez (2015) , a book chapter with similar material and a publication by Oddi et. al. (2019) in Ecology and Evolution . The function 'nlsLMList' uses 'nlsLM' for fitting, but it is otherwise almost identical to 'nlme::nlsList'.In addition, this release of the package provides functions for conducting simulations for 'nlme' and 'gnls' objects as well as bootstrapping. These functions are intended to work with the modeling framework of the 'nlme' package. It also provides four vignettes with extended examples.

Sample Size for SMART Designs in Non-Surgical Periodontal Trials

Sample size calculation to detect dynamic treatment regime (DTR) effects based on change in clinical attachment level (CAL) outcomes from a non-surgical chronic periodontitis treatments study. The experiment is performed under a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) design. The clustered tooth (sub-unit) level CAL outcomes are skewed, spatially-referenced, and non-randomly missing. The implemented algorithm is available in Xu et al. (2019+) .

Reference Limits using QQ Methodology

A collection of routines for finding reference limits using, where appropriate, QQ methodology. All use a data vector X of cases from the reference population. The default is to get the central 95% reference range of the population, namely the 2.5 and 97.5 percentile, with optional adjustment of the range. Along with the reference limits, we want confidence intervals which, for historical reasons, are typically at 90% confidence. A full analysis provides six numbers: – the upper and the lower reference limits, and - each of their confidence intervals. For application details, see Hawkins and Esquivel (2024) .

Cohen's D_p Computation with Confidence Intervals

Computing Cohen's d_p in any experimental designs (between-subject, within-subject, and single-group design). Cousineau (2022) < https://github.com/dcousin3/CohensdpLibrary>; Cohen (1969, ISBN: 0-8058-0283-5).