Useful functions for various DDI (Data Documentation Initiative)
    related inputs and outputs. Converts data files to and from DDI, SPSS,
    Stata, SAS, R and Excel, including user declared missing values.

Statistical inference for the regression coefficients in high-dimensional linear models with hidden confounders. The Doubly Debiased Lasso method was proposed in <arXiv:2004.03758>.

A set of three two-census methods to the estimate the degree of death registration coverage for a population. Implemented methods include the Generalized Growth Balance method (GGB), the Synthetic Extinct Generation method (SEG), and a hybrid of the two, GGB-SEG. Each method offers automatic estimation, but users may also specify exact parameters or use a graphical interface to guess parameters in the traditional way if desired.

Estimate common causal parameters using double/debiased machine 
    learning as proposed by Chernozhukov et al. (2018) <doi:10.1111/ectj.12097>. 
    'ddml' simplifies estimation based on (short-)stacking as discussed in 
    Ahrens et al. (2024) <doi:10.1177/1536867X241233641>, which leverages multiple base 
    learners to increase robustness to the underlying data generating process.

Outlier detection in multidimensional domains. Implementation of notable distance and density-based outlier algorithms. Allows users to identify local outliers by comparing observations to their nearest neighbors, reverse nearest neighbors, shared neighbors or natural neighbors. For distance-based approaches, see Knorr, M., & Ng, R. T. (1997) <doi:10.1145/782010.782021>, Angiulli, F., & Pizzuti, C. (2002) <doi:10.1007/3-540-45681-3_2>, Hautamaki, V., & Ismo, K. (2004) <doi:10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334558> and Zhang, K., Hutter, M. & Jin, H. (2009) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01307-2_84>. For density-based approaches, see Tang, J., Chen, Z., Fu, A. W. C., & Cheung, D. W. (2002) <doi:10.1007/3-540-47887-6_53>, Jin, W., Tung, A. K. H., Han, J., & Wang, W. (2006) <doi:10.1007/11731139_68>, Schubert, E., Zimek, A. & Kriegel, H-P. (2014) <doi:10.1137/1.9781611973440.63>, Latecki, L., Lazarevic, A. & Prokrajac, D. (2007) <doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73499-4_6>, Papadimitriou, S., Gibbons, P. B., & Faloutsos, C. (2003) <doi:10.1109/ICDE.2003.1260802>, Breunig, M. M., Kriegel, H.-P., Ng, R. T., & Sander, J. (2000) <doi:10.1145/342009.335388>, Kriegel, H.-P., Kröger, P., Schubert, E., & Zimek, A. (2009) <doi:10.1145/1645953.1646195>, Zhu, Q., Feng, Ji. & Huang, J. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2016.05.007>, Huang, J., Zhu, Q., Yang, L. & Feng, J. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2015.10.014>, Tang, B. & Haibo, He. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2017.02.039> and Gao, J., Hu, W., Zhang, X. & Wu, Ou. (2011) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20847-8_23>.