A set of techniques that can be used to develop, validate, and implement automated classifiers. A powerful tool for transforming raw data into meaningful information, 'ncodeR' (Shaffer, D. W. (2017) Quantitative Ethnography. ISBN: 0578191687) is designed specifically for working with big data: large document collections, logfiles, and other text data.

An efficient unified nonconvex penalized estimation algorithm for
    Gaussian (linear), binomial Logit (logistic), Poisson, multinomial Logit,
    and Cox proportional hazard regression models.
    The unified algorithm is implemented based on the convex concave procedure and
    the algorithm can be applied to most of the existing nonconvex penalties.
    The algorithm also supports convex penalty:
    least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO).
    Supported nonconvex penalties include
    smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD),
    minimax concave penalty (MCP), truncated LASSO penalty (TLP),
    clipped LASSO (CLASSO), sparse ridge (SRIDGE),
    modified bridge (MBRIDGE) and modified log (MLOG).
    For high-dimensional data (data set with many variables),
    the algorithm selects relevant variables producing a parsimonious regression model.
    Kim, D., Lee, S. and Kwon, S. (2018) <arXiv:1811.05061>,
    Lee, S., Kwon, S. and Kim, Y. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2015.08.019>,
    Kwon, S., Lee, S. and Kim, Y. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2015.07.001>.
    (This research is funded by Julian Virtue Professorship from Center for Applied Research at Pepperdine
    Graziadio Business School and the National Research Foundation of Korea.)

Provides functionality for performing Nearest Centroid (NC) Sampling. The NC sampling procedure was developed for forestry applications and selects plots for ground measurement so as to maximize the efficiency of imputation estimates. It uses multiple auxiliary variables and multivariate clustering to search for an optimal sample. Further details are given in Melville G. & Stone C. (2016) <doi:10.1080/00049158.2016.1218265>.