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This contribution presents a guide to the R package multilevLCA, which offers a complete and innovative set of technical tools for the latent class analysis of single-level and multilevel categorical data. We describe the available model…

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In this article, we introduce the BNPqte R package which implements the Bayesian nonparametric approach of Xu, Daniels and Winterstein (2018) for estimating quantile treatment effects in observational studies. This approach provides…

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We introduce the R package \CRANpkg{SIHR} for statistical inference in high-dimensional generalized linear models with continuous and binary outcomes. The package provides functionalities for constructing confidence intervals and performing…

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The empirical Bayes normal means (EBNM) model is important to many areas of statistics, including (but not limited to) multiple testing, wavelet denoising, and gene expression analysis. There are several existing software packages that can…

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Many recent statistical applications involve inference under complex models, where it is computationally prohibitive to calculate likelihoods but possible to simulate data. Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is devoted to these complex…

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Nonstationarity in spatial and spatio-temporal processes is ubiquitous in environmental datasets, but is not often addressed in practice, due to a scarcity of statistical software packages that implement nonstationary models. In this…

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The Neyman-Scott point process is a widely used point process model which is easily interpretable and easily extendable to include various types of inhomogeneity. The inference for such complex models is then complicated and fast methods,…

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This paper describes and illustrates new functionality for fitting spatially varying coefficients models in the spBayes (version 0.4-2) R package. The new spSVC function uses a computationally efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm…

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We focus on the development of diagnostic tools and an R package called MNB for a multivariate negative binomial (MNB) regression model for detecting atypical and influential subjects. The MNB model is deduced from a Poisson mixed model in…

The growing prevalence of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) has heightened the need for reliable techniques to determine whether a model has been fine-tuned from or is even identical to another. Existing…

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The sparsity-restricted maximum likelihood estimator (SMLE) has received considerable attention for feature screening in ultrahigh-dimensional regression. SMLE is a computationally convenient method that naturally incorporates the joint…

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This article explains the usage of R package CausalModels, which is publicly available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network. While packages are available for sufficiently estimating causal effects, there lacks a package that provides a…

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Bayesian statistics is an integral part of contemporary applied science. bayesics provides a single framework, unified in syntax and output, for performing the most commonly used statistical procedures, ranging from one- and two-sample…

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The brms package allows R users to easily specify a wide range of Bayesian single-level and multilevel models, which are fitted with the probabilistic programming language Stan behind the scenes. Several response distributions are…

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The family of stable distributions received extensive applications in many fields of studies since it incorporates both the skewness and heavy tails. In this paper, we introduce a package written in the R language called alphastable. The…

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Regression models that incorporate smooth functions of predictor variables to explain the relationships with a response variable have gained widespread usage and proved successful in various applications. By incorporating smooth functions…

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The R package BayesPPD (Bayesian Power Prior Design) supports Bayesian power and type I error calculation and model fitting after incorporating historical data with the power prior and the normalized power prior for generalized linear…

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Meta-analytical models are typically formulated as a mixed-effects model where the sampling variances of the effect sizes are treated as known. In principle, such models could be fitted with standard mixed-modelling software such as the…

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