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To harness the full benefit of new computing platforms, it is necessary to develop software with parallel computing capabilities. This is no less true for statisticians than for astrophysicists. The R programming language, which is perhaps…
High-dimensional prediction considers data with more variables than samples. Generic research goals are to find the best predictor or to select variables. Results may be improved by exploiting prior information in the form of co-data,…
In network analysis, many community detection algorithms have been developed, however, their implementation leaves unaddressed the question of the statistical validation of the results. Here we present robin(ROBustness In Network), an R…
Cross-fitting is a key ingredient in many semiparametric estimation procedures, such as double/debiased machine learning (DML), enabling valid estimation of low-dimensional targets in the presence of high-dimensional nuisance functions by…
Explaining why the species lives at a particular location is important for understanding ecological systems and conserving biodiversity. However, existing ecological workflows are fragmented and often inaccessible to non-specialists. We…
Frequency-dependent selection reflects the interaction between different species as they battle for limited resources in their environment. In a stochastic evolutionary game the species relative fitnesses guides the evolutionary dynamics…
Convergent evolution provides a useful framework for testing whether independent origins of similar traits share common genetic mechanisms. Evolutionary Sparse Learning with Paired Species Contrast (ESL-PSC) is an approach to identify genes…
The properties of competition models where all individuals are identical are relatively well-understood; however, juveniles and adults can experience or generate competition differently. We study here less well-known structured competition…
The R package colorspace provides a flexible toolbox for selecting individual colors or color palettes, manipulating these colors, and employing them in statistical graphics and data visualizations. In particular, the package provides a…
The R package merlin performs flexible joint modelling of hierarchical multi-outcome data. Increasingly, multiple longitudinal biomarker measurements, possibly censored time-to-event outcomes and baseline characteristics are available.…
This paper presents an evaluation of several approaches of plants species distribution modeling based on spatial, environmental and co-occurrences data using machine learning methods. In particular, we re-evaluate the environmental…
Understanding complex interactions within microbiomes is essential for exploring their roles in health and disease. However, constructing reliable microbiome networks often poses a challenge due to variations in the output of different…
This paper draws on perspectives from co-design as an integrative and collaborative design activity and co-simulation as a supporting information system to advance engineering design methods for problems of societal significance. Design and…
Wilcoxon Rank-based tests are distribution-free alternatives to the popular two-sample and paired t-tests. For independent data, they are available in several R packages such as stats and coin. For clustered data, in spite of the recent…
Correlation among the observations in high-dimensional regression modeling can be a major source of confounding. We present a new open-source package, plmmr, to implement penalized linear mixed models in R. This R package estimates…
In order to understand the role of space in ecological communities where each species produces a certain type of resource and has varying abilities to exploit the resources produced by its own species and by the other species, we carry out…
As genomic scale datasets motivate research on species tree inference, simulators of the multispecies coalescent (MSC) process are essential for the testing and evaluation of new inference methods. However, the simulators themselves must be…
A tutorial-style introduction to the R-package robFitConGraph is given. The latter provides a robust goodness-of-fit test for Gaussian graphical models. Its use is demonstrated at a data example on music performance anxiety, which also…
A novel mathematical framework is proposed to describe the ecological and evolutionary consequences of consumer--resource interactions. Both the consumer and resource are assumed to consist of several (sub)species, which interact between…