Effortless multicollinearity management in data frames with both numeric and categorical variables for statistical and machine learning applications. The package simplifies multicollinearity analysis by combining four robust methods: 1) target encoding for categorical variables (Micci-Barreca, D. 2001 <doi:10.1145/507533.507538>); 2) automated feature prioritization to prevent key variable loss during filtering; 3) pairwise correlation for all variable combinations (numeric-numeric, numeric-categorical, categorical-categorical); and 4) fast computation of variance inflation factors.

These functions implement collocation-inference
    for continuous-time and discrete-time stochastic processes.
    They provide model-based smoothing, gradient-matching,
    generalized profiling and forwards prediction error methods.

Markov chain Monte Carlo based inference routines for collapsed latent position cluster models or social networks, which includes searches over the model space (number of clusters in the latent position cluster model). The label switching algorithm used is that of Nobile and Fearnside (2007) <doi:10.1007/s11222-006-9014-7> which relies on the algorithm of Carpaneto and Toth (1980) <doi:10.1145/355873.355883>.

Weekly notified dengue cases and climate variables in Colombo district Sri Lanka from 2008/ week-52 to 2014/ week-21.

Performs the colocalisation tests described in
    Giambartolomei et al (2013) <doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004383>,
    Wallace (2020) <doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008720>,
    Wallace (2021) <doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1009440>.

Calculate the colocalization index, NSInC, in two different ways as described in the paper (Liu et al., 2019. Manuscript submitted for publication.) for multiple-species spatial data which contain the precise locations and membership of each spatial point. The two main functions are nsinc.d() and nsinc.z(). They provide the Pearson’s correlation coefficients of signal proportions in different memberships within a concerned proximity of every signal (or every base signal if single direction colocalization is considered) across all (base) signals using two different ways of normalization. The proximity sizes could be an individual value or a range of values, where the default ranges of values are different for the two functions.