A toolbox for modeling manifest and latent group differences and moderation effects in various statistical network models.

Density evaluation and random number generation for the Matrix-Normal Inverse-Wishart (MNIW) distribution, as well as the the Matrix-Normal, Matrix-T, Wishart, and Inverse-Wishart distributions.  Core calculations are implemented in a portable (header-only) C++ library, with matrix manipulations using the 'Eigen' library for linear algebra.  Also provided is a Gibbs sampler for Bayesian inference on a random-effects model with multivariate normal observations.

Conducts moderated nonlinear factor analysis (e.g., Curran et al., 2014,
    <doi:10.1080/00273171.2014.889594>). 
    Regularization methods are implemented for assessing non-invariant items. 
    Currently, the package includes dichotomous items and unidimensional
    item response models. Extensions will be included in future package
    versions.

An interactive presentation on  the topic of Multinomial Logistic Regression. It is helpful to those who want to learn Multinomial Logistic Regression quickly and get a hands on experience. The presentation has a template for solving problems on Multinomial Logistic Regression. Runtime examples are provided in the package function as well as at  <https://jarvisatharva.shinyapps.io/MultinomPresentation>.

Multivariate tests, estimates and methods based on the identity score, spatial sign score and spatial rank score are provided. The methods include one and c-sample problems, shape estimation and testing, linear regression and principal components. The methodology is described in Oja (2010) <doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0468-3> and Nordhausen and Oja (2011) <doi:10.18637/jss.v043.i05>.

A data generator of multivariate non-normal data in R. It combines two different methods to generate non-normal data, one with user-specified multivariate skewness and kurtosis (more details can be found in the paper: Qu, Liu, & Zhang, 2019 <doi:10.3758/s13428-019-01291-5>), and the other with the given marginal skewness and kurtosis. The latter one is the widely-used Vale and Maurelli's method. It also contains a function to calculate univariate and multivariate (Mardia's Test) skew and kurtosis.