Provides elastic net penalized maximum likelihood estimator for structural equation models (SEM). The package implements `lasso` and `elastic net` (l1/l2) penalized SEM and estimates the model parameters with an efficient block coordinate ascent algorithm that maximizes the penalized likelihood of the SEM.  Hyperparameters are inferred from cross-validation (CV).  A Stability Selection (STS) function is also available to provide accurate causal effect selection. The software achieves high accuracy performance through a `Network Generative Pre-trained Transformer` (Network GPT) Framework with two steps: 1) pre-trains the model to generate a complete (fully connected) graph; and 2) uses the complete graph as the initial state to fit the `elastic net` penalized SEM.

Implements the SparseStep model for solving regression
    problems with a sparsity constraint on the parameters. The SparseStep
    regression model was proposed in Van den Burg, Groenen, and Alfons (2017)
    <arXiv:1701.06967>. In the model, a regularization term is added to the
    regression problem which approximates the counting norm of the parameters.
    By iteratively improving the approximation a sparse solution to the
    regression problem can be obtained.  In this package both the standard
    SparseStep algorithm is implemented as well as a path algorithm which uses
    golden section search to determine solutions with different values for the
    regularization parameter.

Functions for fitting, forecasting, and early detection of outbreaks in
    sparse surveillance count time series. Supports negative binomial (NB),
    self-exciting NB, generalise autoregressive moving average (GARMA) NB , zero-inflated NB (ZINB), self-exciting ZINB, generalise autoregressive moving average ZINB, and hurdle formulations. Climatic and environmental covariates
    can be included in the regression component and/or the zero-modified components.
    Includes outbreak-detection algorithms for NB, ZINB, and hurdle models, with
    utilities for prediction and diagnostics.