R Markdown Format for Flexible Dashboards

Format for converting an R Markdown document to a grid oriented dashboard. The dashboard flexibly adapts the size of it's components to the containing web page.

Bayesian Projection of Life Expectancy

Making probabilistic projections of life expectancy for all countries of the world, using a Bayesian hierarchical model . Subnational projections are also supported.

Total, Between-, and Within-Cluster Spearman Rank Correlations for Clustered Data

Estimates the total, between-, and within-cluster Spearman rank correlations for continuous and ordinal clustered data. See Tu et al. (2024) for details.

Kernel Machine Score Test for Semi-Competing Risks

Kernel Machine Score Test for Pathway Analysis in the Presence of Semi-Competing Risks. Method is detailed in: Neykov, Hejblum & Sinnott (2018) .

Tools for the 'qdap' Package

A collection of tools associated with the 'qdap' package that may be useful outside of the context of text analysis.

Multivariate Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Ranking Sports Teams

Maximum likelihood estimates are obtained via an EM algorithm with either a first-order or a fully exponential Laplace approximation as documented by Broatch and Karl (2018) , Karl, Yang, and Lohr (2014) , and by Karl (2012) . Karl and Zimmerman use this package to illustrate how the home field effect estimator from a mixed model can be biased under nonrandom scheduling.

Nonparametric Spearman's Correlation for Survival Data

Nonparametric estimation of Spearman's rank correlation with bivariate survival (right-censored) data as described in Eden, S.K., Li, C., Shepherd B.E. (2021), Nonparametric Estimation of Spearman's Rank Correlation with Bivariate Survival Data, Biometrics (under revision). The package also provides functions that visualize bivariate survival data and bivariate probability mass function.

Calculate Pesticide Risk Metric (PRM) Values from Multiple Pesticides...Calc Them All

Contains functions which can be used to calculate Pesticide Risk Metric values in aquatic environments from concentrations of multiple pesticides with known species sensitive distributions (SSDs). Pesticides provided by this package have all be validated however if the user has their own pesticides with SSD values they can append them to the pesticide_info table to include them in estimates.

Economics and Pricing Tools

Functions to aid in micro and macro economic analysis and handling of price and currency data. Includes extraction of relevant inflation and exchange rate data from World Bank API, data cleaning/parsing, and standardisation. Inflation adjustment calculations as found in Principles of Macroeconomics by Gregory Mankiw et al (2014). Current and historical end of day exchange rates for 171 currencies from the European Central Bank Statistical Data Warehouse (2020) < https://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/curConverter.do>.

Working with Sets the Tidy Way

Implements a class and methods to work with sets, doing intersection, union, complementary sets, power sets, cartesian product and other set operations in a "tidy" way. These set operations are available for both classical sets and fuzzy sets. Import sets from several formats or from other several data structures.