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Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) are widely used in high-dimensional data analysis to synthesize the interaction between variables. In many applications, such as genomics or image analysis, graphical models rely on sparsity and clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Do Edmond Sanou , Christophe Ambroise , Geneviève Robin

The rebmix package provides R functions for random univariate and multivariate finite mixture model generation, estimation, clustering and classification. The paper is focused on multivariate normal mixture models with unrestricted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-29 Marko Nagode

This chapter provides an introduction to the analysis of relational event data (i.e., actions, interactions, or other events involving multiple actors that occur over time) within the R/statnet platform. We begin by reviewing the basics of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-01 Carter T. Butts , Christopher Steven Marcum

Generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) are widely used in research for their ability to model correlated outcomes with non-Gaussian conditional distributions. The proper selection of fixed and random effects is a critical part of the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-04-18 Hillary M. Heiling , Naim U. Rashid , Quefeng Li , Joseph G. Ibrahim

Gaussian processes (GPs) are sophisticated distributions to model functional data. Whilst theoretically appealing, they are computationally cumbersome except for small datasets. We implement two methods for scaling GP inference in Stan:…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-11 Till Hoffmann , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Network meta-analysis (NMA) synthesizes evidence for multiple treatments, but decisions on node formation can have important statistical implications including bias or inflated uncertainty. Existing data-driven methods often lack…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-30 Timothy Disher , Chris Cameron , Brian Hutton

Latent factor models that integrate data from multiple sources/studies or modalities have garnered considerable attention across various disciplines. However, existing methods predominantly focus either on multi-study integration or…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Wei Liu , Qingzhi Zhong

Background: Mathematical models based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are essential tools across various scientific disciplines, including biology, ecology, and healthcare informatics. They are used to simulate complex dynamic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-03 Hamed Karami , Amanda Bleichrodt , Ruiyan Luo , Gerardo Chowell

Bayesian latent space models offer a principled approach to network representation, but rely on correct specification of both geometry and link function. Real-world networks often violate these assumptions, exhibiting geometric mismatch and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Aldric Labarthe

Stochastic Process Model has many applications in analysis of longitudinal biodemographic data. Such data contain various physiological variables (sometimes known as covariates). It also can potentially contain genetic information available…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-31 Ilya Zhbannikov , Konstantin Arbeev , Anatoliy Yashin

We introduce an R package, PCMBase, to rapidly calculate the likelihood for multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods. The package is not specific to particular models but offers the user the functionality to very easily implement a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-13 Venelin Mitov , Krzysztof Bartoszek , Georgios Asimomitis , Tanja Stadler

The BayesBinMix package offers a Bayesian framework for clustering binary data with or without missing values by fitting mixtures of multivariate Bernoulli distributions with an unknown number of components. It allows the joint estimation…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-03 Panagiotis Papastamoulis , Magnus Rattray

Robust statistical data modelling under potential model mis-specification often requires leaving the parametric world for the nonparametric. In the latter, parameters are infinite dimensional objects such as functions, probability…

We develop a model-based methodology for integrating gene-set information with an experimentally-derived gene list. The methodology uses a previously reported sampling model, but takes advantage of natural constraints in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-02 Zhishi Wang , Qiuling He , Bret Larget , Michael A. Newton

The identification of sets of co-regulated genes that share a common function is a key question of modern genomics. Bayesian profile regression is a semi-supervised mixture modelling approach that makes use of a response to guide inference…

Phase I early-phase clinical studies aim at investigating the safety and the underlying dose-toxicity relationship of a drug or combination. While little may still be known about the compound's properties, it is crucial to consider…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-13 Christian Röver , Moreno Ursino , Tim Friede , Sarah Zohar

metasnf is an R package that enables users to apply meta clustering, a method for efficiently searching a broad space of cluster solutions by clustering the solutions themselves, to clustering workflows based on similarity network fusion…

The paper is motivated from clustering problem in high-throughput mixed datasets. Clustering of such datasets can provide much insight into biological associations. An open problem in this context is to simultaneously cluster…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-15 Chetkar Jha

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…

Computation · Statistics 2021-06-29 Chuji Luo , Michael J. Daniels

This paper develops an R package rMultiNet to analyze multilayer network data. We provide two general frameworks from recent literature, e.g. mixture multilayer stochastic block model(MMSBM) and mixture multilayer latent space model(MMLSM)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-10 Ting Li , Zhongyuan Lyu , Chenyu Ren , Dong Xia