Implementation of the drift-diffusion mixed model for category learning as described in Paulon et al. (2021) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2020.1801448>.

Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based on symmetric lambda distribution
    framework is implemented for the study of return time-series in the financial
    market. Major features in the S&P500 index, such as regime identification,
    volatility clustering, and anti-correlation between return and volatility,
    can be extracted from HMM cleanly. Univariate symmetric lambda distribution
    is essentially a location-scale family of exponential power distribution.
    Such distribution is suitable for describing highly leptokurtic time series
    obtained from the financial market. It provides a theoretically solid foundation
    to explore such data where the normal distribution is not adequate. The HMM
    implementation follows closely the book: "Hidden Markov Models for Time Series",
    by Zucchini, MacDonald, Langrock (2016).

Provides access to the 'LDlink' API (<https://ldlink.nih.gov/?tab=apiaccess>)
    using the R console.  This programmatic access facilitates researchers who are 
    interested in performing batch queries in 1000 Genomes Project (2015) <doi:10.1038/nature15393> 
    data using 'LDlink'. 'LDlink' is an interactive and powerful suite of web-based tools for querying 
    germline variants in human population groups of interest. For more details, please see 
    Machiela et al. (2015) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv402>.

A single analysis path that includes distance-based ordination, global tests of any effect of the microbiome, and tests of the effects of individual taxa with false-discovery-rate (FDR) control. It accommodates both continuous and discrete covariates as well as interaction terms to be tested either singly or in combination, allows for adjustment of confounding covariates, and uses permutation-based p-values that can control for sample correlations. It can be applied to transformed data, and an omnibus test can combine results from analyses conducted on different transformation scales. It can also be used for testing presence-absence associations based on infinite number of rarefaction replicates, testing mediation effects of the microbiome, analyzing censored time-to-event outcomes, and for compositional analysis by fitting linear models to centered-log-ratio taxa count data.