Decision tree algorithm with a major feature added. Allows for users to define an ordering on the partitioning process.
    Resulting in Branch-Exclusive Splits Trees (BEST). Cedric Beaulac and Jeffrey S. Rosentahl (2019) <arXiv:1804.10168>.

The bestridge package is designed to provide a one-stand service for users to successfully carry out best ridge regression in various complex situations via the primal dual active set algorithm proposed by Wen, C., Zhang, A., Quan, S. and Wang, X. (2020) <doi:10.18637/jss.v094.i04>. This package allows users to perform the regression, classification, count regression and censored regression for (ultra) high dimensional data, and it also supports advanced usages like group variable selection and nuisance variable selection.

Provides a practical tool for estimating the burden of common communicable diseases in settlements of displaced populations. An online version of the tool can be found at <http://who-refugee-bod.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/shiny/app/>. Estimates of burden of disease aim to synthesize data about cause-specific morbidity and mortality through a systematic approach that enables evidence-based decisions and comparisons across settings. The focus of this tool is on four acute communicable diseases and syndromes, including Acute respiratory infections, Acute diarrheal diseases, Acute jaundice syndrome and Acute febrile illnesses.

Nonparametric detection of nonuniformity and dependence with Binary Expansion Testing (BET). See Kai Zhang (2019) BET on Independence, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114:528, 1620-1637, <DOI:10.1080/01621459.2018.1537921>, Kai Zhang, Wan Zhang, Zhigen Zhao, Wen Zhou. (2023). BEAUTY Powered BEAST, <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2103.00674>  and Wan Zhang, Zhigen Zhao, Michael Baiocchi, Yao Li, Kai Zhang. (2023) SorBET: A Fast and Powerful Algorithm to Test Dependence of Variables, Techinical report.

Provides a class of Bayesian beta regression models for the analysis of continuous data with support restricted to an unknown finite support. The response variable is modeled using a four-parameter beta distribution with the mean or mode parameter depending linearly on covariates through a link function. When the response support is known to be (0,1), the above class of models reduce to traditional (0,1) supported beta regression models. Model choice is carried out via the logarithm of the pseudo marginal likelihood (LPML), the deviance information criterion (DIC), and the Watanabe-Akaike information criterion (WAIC). See Zhou and Huang (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2021.107345>.