Fits mixed Poisson regression models (Poisson-Inverse Gaussian or Negative-Binomial) on data sets with response variables being count data. The models can have varying precision parameter, where a linear regression structure (through a link function) is assumed to hold on the precision parameter. The Expectation-Maximization algorithm for both these models (Poisson Inverse Gaussian and Negative Binomial) is an important contribution of this package. Another important feature of this package is the set of functions to perform global and local influence analysis. See Barreto-Souza and Simas (2016) <doi:10.1007/s11222-015-9601-6> for further details.

Performs maximum likelihood estimation for finite mixture models for families including Normal, Weibull, Gamma and Lognormal by using EM algorithm, together with Newton-Raphson algorithm or bisection method when necessary. It also conducts mixture model selection by using information criteria or bootstrap likelihood ratio test. The data used for mixture model fitting can be raw data or binned data. The model fitting process is accelerated by using R package 'Rcpp'.

Provides supplemental functions for the 'mixRasch'
    package (Willse, 2014), <https://cran.r-project.org/package=mixRasch/mixRasch.pdf> including a 
    plotting function to compare item parameters for multiple
    class models and a function that provides average theta values for each class in
    a mixture model.

It offers random-forest-based functions to impute clustered
    incomplete data. The package is tailored for but not limited to imputing
    multitissue expression data, in which a gene's expression is measured on the
    collected tissues of an individual but missing on the uncollected tissues.

The current version of the 'MixSAL' package allows users to generate data from a multivariate SAL distribution or a mixture of multivariate SAL distributions, evaluate the probability density function of a multivariate SAL distribution or a mixture of multivariate SAL distributions, and fit a mixture of multivariate SAL distributions using the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm (see Franczak et. al, 2014, <doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2013.216>, for details).