Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications

Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) interface for data manipulation and visualization. Read/write 'las' and 'laz' files, computation of metrics in area based approach, point filtering, artificial point reduction, classification from geographic data, normalization, individual tree segmentation and other manipulations.

Open Source OCR Engine

Bindings to 'Tesseract': a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) engine that supports over 100 languages. The engine is highly configurable in order to tune the detection algorithms and obtain the best possible results.

DIF and DDF Detection by Non-Linear Regression Models

Detection of differential item functioning (DIF) among dichotomously scored items and differential distractor functioning (DDF) among unscored items with non-linear regression procedures based on generalized logistic regression models (Hladka & Martinkova, 2020, ).

Analyses of Text using Transformers Models from HuggingFace, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Link R with Transformers from Hugging Face to transform text variables to word embeddings; where the word embeddings are used to statistically test the mean difference between set of texts, compute semantic similarity scores between texts, predict numerical variables, and visual statistically significant words according to various dimensions etc. For more information see < https://www.r-text.org>.

Signal Detection Analysis

Exploring time series for signal detection. It is specifically designed to detect possible outbreaks using infectious disease surveillance data at the European Union / European Economic Area or country level. Automatic detection tools used are presented in the paper "Monitoring count time series in R: aberration detection in public health surveillance", by Salmon (2016) . The package includes: - Signal Detection tool, an interactive 'shiny' application in which the user can import external data and perform basic signal detection analyses; - An automated report in HTML format, presenting the results of the time series analysis in tables and graphs. This report can also be stratified by population characteristics (see 'Population' variable). This project was funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Spatiotemporal Boundary Detection Model for Areal Unit Data

Implements a spatiotemporal boundary detection model with a dissimilarity metric for areal data with inference in a Bayesian setting using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The response variable can be modeled as Gaussian (no nugget), probit or Tobit link and spatial correlation is introduced at each time point through a conditional autoregressive (CAR) prior. Temporal correlation is introduced through a hierarchical structure and can be specified as exponential or first-order autoregressive. Full details of the package can be found in the accompanying vignette. Furthermore, the details of the package can be found in "Diagnosing Glaucoma Progression with Visual Field Data Using a Spatiotemporal Boundary Detection Method", by Berchuck et al (2018), . The paper is in press at the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Event Detection Framework

Detect events in time-series data. Combines multiple well-known R packages like 'forecast' and 'neuralnet' to deliver an easily configurable tool for multivariate event detection.

Agent-Based Bird Point Count Simulator

A highly scientific and utterly addictive bird point count simulator to test statistical assumptions, aid survey design, and have fun while doing it (Solymos 2024 ). The simulations follow time-removal and distance sampling models based on Matsuoka et al. (2012) , Solymos et al. (2013) , and Solymos et al. (2018) , and sound attenuation experiments by Yip et al. (2017) .

Dimension Reduction for Outlier Detection

A dimension reduction technique for outlier detection. DOBIN: a Distance based Outlier BasIs using Neighbours, constructs a set of basis vectors for outlier detection. This is not an outlier detection method; rather it is a pre-processing method for outlier detection. It brings outliers to the fore-front using fewer basis vectors (Kandanaarachchi, Hyndman 2020) .

Joint Change Point Detection

Procedures for joint detection of changes in both expectation and variance in univariate sequences. Performs a statistical test of the null hypothesis of the absence of change points. In case of rejection performs an algorithm for change point detection. Reference - Bivariate change point detection - joint detection of changes in expectation and variance, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, DOI 10.1111/sjos.12547.