Mediation analysis is one of the most widely used statistical techniques in the social,
behavioral, and medical sciences. Mediation models allow to study how an independent
variable affects a dependent variable indirectly through one or more…
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of massive mobility datasets, such as
tracks generated by GPS devices, call detail records, and geo-tagged posts from social
media platforms. These datasets have fostered a vast scientific production on…
This paper describes and illustrates functionality of the spNNGP R package. The
package provides a suite of spatial regression models for Gaussian and non-Gaussian pointreferenced outcomes that are spatially indexed. The package implements several…
Effective processing of character strings is required at various stages of data analysis
pipelines: from data cleansing and preparation, through information extraction, to report
generation. Pattern searching, string collation and sorting,…