Implements two-sample tests for paired data with missing values (Fong, Huang, Lemos and McElrath 2018, Biostatics, <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxx039>) and modified Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney two sample location test, also known as the Fligner-Policello test.

Methods for aggregating ranked lists, especially lists of
    genes. It implements the Robust Rank Aggregation Kolde et al (2012)
    <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr709> and some other simple algorithms 
    for the task. RRA method uses a probabilistic model for aggregation that 
    is robust to noise and also facilitates the calculation of significance
    probabilities for all the elements in the final ranking.

A collection of functions to compute the Rao-Stirling diversity index
	(Porter and Rafols, 2009) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-008-2197-2> and its extension to
	acknowledge missing data (i.e.,	uncategorized references) by calculating its
	interval of uncertainty using	mathematical optimization as proposed in Calatrava
	et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-016-1842-4>.
	The Rao-Stirling diversity index is a well-established bibliometric indicator
	to measure the interdisciplinarity of scientific publications. Apart from the
	obligatory dataset of publications with their respective references and	a
	taxonomy of disciplines that categorizes references as well as a measure of
	similarity between the disciplines, the Rao-Stirling diversity index requires
	a complete categorization of all references of a publication into disciplines.
	Thus, it fails for a incomplete categorization; in this case, the robust
	extension has to be used, which encodes the uncertainty caused by missing
	bibliographic data as an uncertainty interval.
	Classification / ACM - 2012: Information systems ~ Similarity measures,
	Theory of computation ~ Quadratic	programming, Applied computing ~ Digital
	libraries and archives.

Linear regression functions using Huber and bisquare psi functions. Optimal weights are calculated using IRLS algorithm.

Functions for Robust Bayesian Small Area Estimation.