Feature screening is a powerful tool in processing ultrahigh dimensional data. It attempts to screen out most irrelevant features in preparation for a more elaborate analysis. Xu and Chen (2014)<doi:10.1080/01621459.2013.879531> proposed an effective screening method SMLE, which naturally incorporates the joint effects among features in the screening process. This package provides an efficient implementation of SMLE-screening for high-dimensional linear, logistic, and Poisson models. The package also provides a function for conducting accurate post-screening feature selection based on an iterative hard-thresholding procedure and a user-specified selection criterion.

Fitting the full likelihood proportional hazards model and
    extracting the residuals.

A pair of functions that allow for the generation and tracking of coordinate data clouds without a time dimension,
    primarily for use in super-resolution plant micro-tubule image segmentation.

Local Correlation Integral (LOCI) method for outlier identification is implemented here. The LOCI method developed here is invented in Breunig, et al. (2000), see <doi:10.1145/342009.335388>.

Performs parametric and non-parametric estimation and simulation for multi-state discrete-time semi-Markov processes. 
	For the parametric estimation, several discrete distributions are considered for the sojourn times: Uniform, Geometric, Poisson, Discrete Weibull and Negative Binomial. The non-parametric estimation concerns the sojourn time distributions, where no assumptions are done on the shape of distributions. 
	Moreover, the estimation can be done on the basis of one or several sample paths, with or without censoring at the beginning or/and at the end of the sample paths. The implemented methods are described in Barbu, V.S., Limnios, N. (2008) <doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73173-5>, Barbu, V.S., Limnios, N. (2008) <doi:10.1080/10485250701261913> and 
	Trevezas, S., Limnios, N. (2011) <doi:10.1080/10485252.2011.555543>. 
	Estimation and simulation of discrete-time k-th order Markov chains are also considered.