Performs causal mediation analysis under confounding or correlated errors. This package includes a single level mediation model, a two-level mediation model, and a three-level mediation model for data with hierarchical structures. Under the two/three-level mediation model, the correlation parameter is identifiable and is estimated based on a hierarchical-likelihood, a marginal-likelihood or a two-stage method. See Zhao, Y., & Luo, X. (2014), Estimating Mediation Effects under Correlated Errors with an Application to fMRI, <arXiv:1410.7217> for details.

To assist biological researchers in assembling taxonomically and marker focused molecular sequence data sets. 'MACER' accepts a list of genera as a user input and uses NCBI-GenBank and BOLD as resources to download and assemble molecular sequence datasets. These datasets are then assembled by marker, aligned, trimmed, and cleaned. The use of this package allows the publication of specific parameters to ensure reproducibility. The 'MACER' package has four core functions and an example run through using all of these functions can be found in the associated repository <https://github.com/rgyoung6/MACER_example>.

Meta-package for statistical and machine learning with a unified
    interface for model fitting, prediction, performance assessment, and
    presentation of results.  Approaches for model fitting and prediction of
    numerical, categorical, or censored time-to-event outcomes include
    traditional regression models, regularization methods, tree-based methods,
    support vector machines, neural networks, ensembles, data preprocessing,
    filtering, and model tuning and selection.  Performance metrics are provided
    for model assessment and can be estimated with independent test sets, split
    sampling, cross-validation, or bootstrap resampling.  Resample estimation
    can be executed in parallel for faster processing and nested in cases of
    model tuning and selection.  Modeling results can be summarized with
    descriptive statistics; calibration curves; variable importance; partial
    dependence plots; confusion matrices; and ROC, lift, and other performance
    curves.