Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

A set of easy-to-use functions for computing the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).

An Implementation of the Stratification Index

An implementation of the stratification index proposed by Zhou (2012) . The package provides two functions, srank, which returns stratum-specific information, including population share and average percentile rank; and strat, which returns the stratification index and its approximate standard error. When a grouping factor is specified, strat also provides a detailed decomposition of the overall stratification into between-group and within-group components.

Repertoire Dissimilarity Index

Methods for calculation and visualization of the Repertoire Dissimilarity Index. Citation: Bolen and Rubelt, et al (2017) .

Single-Index Models with a Surface-Link

An implementation of a single-index regression for optimizing individualized dose rules from an observational study. To model interaction effects between baseline covariates and a treatment variable defined on a continuum, we employ two-dimensional penalized spline regression on an index-treatment domain, where the index is defined as a linear combination of the covariates (a single-index). An unspecified main effect for the covariates is allowed, which can also be modeled through a parametric model. A unique contribution of this work is in the parsimonious single-index parametrization specifically defined for the interaction effect term. We refer to Park, Petkova, Tarpey, and Ogden (2020) (for the case of a discrete treatment) and Park, Petkova, Tarpey, and Ogden (2021) "A single-index model with a surface-link for optimizing individualized dose rules" for detail of the method. The model can take a member of the exponential family as a response variable and can also take an ordinal categorical response. The main function of this package is simsl().

Pacific Decadal Oscillation Index Data

Monthly Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) index values from January 1900 to September 2018. Superseded by 'rsoi' package which includes the historical and most recent monthly PDO index values together with related climate indices.

Compute Uniform Error Index

Uniform Error Index is the weighted average of different error measures. Uniform Error Index utilizes output from different error function and gives more robust and stable error values. This package has been developed to compute Uniform Error Index from ten different loss function like Error Square, Square of Square Error, Quasi Likelihood Error, LogR-Square, Absolute Error, Absolute Square Error etc. The weights are determined using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm of Yeasin and Paul (2024) .

Constrained Groupwise Additive Index Models

Fits constrained groupwise additive index models and provides functions for inference and interpretation of these models. The method is described in Masselot, Chebana, Campagna, Lavigne, Ouarda, Gosselin (2022) "Constrained groupwise additive index models" .

Calculates the Wavelet-Based Organization Index

Calculates the wavelet-based organization index following Brune et al (2018) (), the modified wavelet-based organization index and the local wavelet-based organization index of an arbitrary 2D array using Wavelet Transforms of the LS2W package by Eckley et al (2010) () and Eckley and Nason (2011) (). In Version 1.0.3 the calculation of LW is added.

Particle Learning of Gaussian Processes

Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) inference for fully Bayesian Gaussian process (GP) regression and classification models by particle learning (PL) following Gramacy & Polson (2011) . The sequential nature of inference and the active learning (AL) hooks provided facilitate thrifty sequential design (by entropy) and optimization (by improvement) for classification and regression models, respectively. This package essentially provides a generic PL interface, and functions (arguments to the interface) which implement the GP models and AL heuristics. Functions for a special, linked, regression/classification GP model and an integrated expected conditional improvement (IECI) statistic provide for optimization in the presence of unknown constraints. Separable and isotropic Gaussian, and single-index correlation functions are supported. See the examples section of ?plgp and demo(package="plgp") for an index of demos.

Analysis of Selection Index in Plant Breeding

The aim of most plant breeding programmes is simultaneous improvement of several characters. An objective method involving simultaneous selection for several attributes then becomes necessary. It has been recognised that most rapid improvements in the economic value is expected from selection applied simultaneously to all the characters which determine the economic value of a plant, and appropriate assigned weights to each character according to their economic importance, heritability and correlations between characters. So the selection for economic value is a complex matter. If the component characters are combined together into an index in such a way that when selection is applied to the index, as if index is the character to be improved, most rapid improvement of economic value is expected. Such an index was first proposed by Smith (1937 ) based on the Fisher's (1936 ) "discriminant function" Dabholkar (1999 < https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mlFtumAXQ0oC&lpg=PA4&ots=Xgxp1qLuxS&dq=elements%20of%20biometrical%20genetics&lr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false>). In this package selection index is calculated based on the Smith (1937) selection index method.