Contains an implementation of the
	     d-variable Hilbert Schmidt independence criterion
	     and several hypothesis tests based on it, as described
	     in Pfister et al. (2017) <doi:10.1111/rssb.12235>.

A set of utilities for calculating the Deficit (frailty) Index (DI) in gerontological studies. 
             The deficit index was first proposed by Arnold Mitnitski and Kenneth Rockwood 
             and represents a proxy measure of aging and also can be served as
             a sensitive predictor of survival. For more information, see 
             (i)"Accumulation of Deficits as a Proxy Measure of Aging" 
             by Arnold B. Mitnitski et al. (2001), 
             The Scientific World Journal 1, <DOI:10.1100/tsw.2001.58>;
             (ii) "Frailty, fitness and late-life mortality in relation to chronological and biological age" 
             by Arnold B Mitnitski et al. (2001), 
             BMC Geriatrics2002 2(1), <DOI:10.1186/1471-2318-2-1>.

Fast functions for effective sample size, weighted multivariate 
    mean, variance, and quantile computation, and weight diagnostic plot for 
    generic importance sampling type or other probability weighted samples.

Diagnostics for linear L1 regression (also known as LAD - Least Absolute Deviations), including: estimation, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses, measures of leverage, methods of diagnostics for L1 regression, special diagnostics graphs and measures of leverage. The algorithms are based in Dielman (2005)  <doi:10.1080/0094965042000223680>, Elian et al. (2000) <doi:10.1080/03610920008832518> and Dodge (1997) <doi:10.1006/jmva.1997.1666>. This package builds on the 'quantreg' package, which is a well-established package for tuning quantile regression models. There are also tests to verify if the errors have a Laplace distribution based on the work of Puig and Stephens (2000) <doi:10.2307/1270952>.

Provides methods by Steinhauser et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1186/s12874-016-0196-1> for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with several cutpoints.