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Consider a Bayesian inference problem where a variable of interest does not take
values in a Euclidean space. These “non-standard” data structures are in reality fairly
common. They are frequently used in problems involving latent discrete factor…

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…

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…

This article introduces the R package evgam. The package provides functions for
fitting extreme value distributions. These include the generalized extreme value and
generalized Pareto distributions. The former can also be fitted through a point…

Actuaries model insurance claim amounts using heavy tailed probability distributions.
They routinely need to evaluate quantities related to these distributions such as quantiles
in the far right tail, moments or limited moments. Furthermore,…

UComp is a powerful library for building unobserved components models, useful for
forecasting and other important operations, such us de-trending, cycle analysis, seasonal
adjustment, signal extraction, etc. One of the most outstanding features…

This article presents a new implementation of hierarchical clustering for the R language
that allows one to apply spatial or temporal contiguity constraints during the clustering
process. The need for contiguity constraint arises, for instance,…

This paper introduces the R package exuber for testing and date-stamping periods of
mildly explosive dynamics (exuberance) in time series. The package computes test statistics for the supremum augmented Dickey-Fuller test (SADF) of Phillips, Wu, and…

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…

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,…