A modular and computationally efficient R package for  
  parameterizing, simulating, and analyzing health economic simulation 
  models. The package supports cohort discrete time state transition models 
  (Briggs et al. 1998) <doi:10.2165/00019053-199813040-00003>,
  N-state partitioned survival models (Glasziou et al. 1990)
  <doi:10.1002/sim.4780091106>, and individual-level continuous 
  time state transition models (Siebert et al. 2012) <doi:10.1016/j.jval.2012.06.014>,
  encompassing both Markov (time-homogeneous and time-inhomogeneous) and 
  semi-Markov processes. Decision uncertainty from a cost-effectiveness analysis is 
  quantified with standard graphical and tabular summaries of a probabilistic 
  sensitivity analysis (Claxton et al. 2005, Barton et al. 2008) <doi:10.1002/hec.985>, 
  <doi:10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00358.x>. Use of C++ and data.table
  make individual-patient simulation, probabilistic sensitivity analysis, 
  and incorporation of patient heterogeneity fast.

Provides tools for estimating sample sizes primarily based on heritability, while also considering additional parameters such as statistical power and fold change. The package normalizes heritability values according to trait-specific heritability and classification to enhance accuracy in sample size estimation.

Distribution free heteroscedastic tests for functional data. 
    The following tests are included in this package: test of no main treatment or contrast
    effect and no simple treatment effect given in 
    Wang, Higgins, and Blasi (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.spl.2009.11.016>,
    no main time effect, and no interaction effect based on 
    original observations given in Wang and Akritas (2010a) 
    <doi:10.1080/10485250903171621>
    and tests based on ranks given in Wang and Akritas (2010b)
    <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2010.03.012>.

A method for estimating the correlation matrix of the Gaussian copula from the observed data. This package also contains a penalized estimation of the corresponding precision matrix, and enables to generate random vectors that are distributed according to a Gaussian copula.