A database interface definition for communication between R
    and relational database management systems.  All classes in this
    package are virtual and need to be extended by the various R/DBMS
    implementations.

A helper that tests DBI back ends for conformity to the
    interface.

Doubly censored data, as described in Chang and Yang (1987) <doi: 10.1214/aos/1176350608>), are commonly seen in many fields. We use EM algorithm to compute the non-parametric MLE (NPMLE) of the cummulative probability function/survival function and the two censoring distributions. One can also specify a constraint F(T)=C, it will return the constrained NPMLE and the -2 log empirical likelihood ratio for this constraint. This can be used to test the hypothesis about the constraint and, by inverting the test, find confidence intervals for probability or quantile via empirical likelihood ratio theorem. Influence functions of hat F may also be calculated, but currently, the it may be slow.

It contains functions to apply blockmodeling of signed (positive and negative weights are assigned to the links), one-mode  and valued one-mode and two-mode (two sets of nodes are considered, e.g. employees and organizations) networks (Brusco et al. (2019) <doi:10.1111/bmsp.12192>).

Trains logistic regression model by discretizing continuous variables via gradient boosting approach. The proposed method tries to achieve a tradeoff between interpretation and prediction accuracy for logistic regression by discretizing the continuous variables. The variable binning is accomplished in a supervised fashion. The model trained by this package is still a single 
  logistic regression model, but not a sequence of logistic regression models. The fitted model
  object returned from the model training consists of two tables. One table is used to give the
  boundaries of bins for each continuous variable as well as the corresponding coefficients,
  and the other one is used for discrete variables. This package can also be used for binning
  continuous variables for other statistical analysis.