Novel responsive tools for developing R based 'Shiny' dashboards and applications. The scripts and style sheets are based on 'jQuery' <https://jquery.com/> and 'Bootstrap' <https://getbootstrap.com/>.

Exploration and analysis of compositional data in the
    framework of Aitchison (1986, ISBN: 978-94-010-8324-9). This package
    provides tools for chemical fingerprinting and source tracking of
    ancient materials.

Indices, heuristics and strategies to help determine the number of factors/components to retain:
                1. Acceleration factor (af with or without Parallel Analysis);
                2. Optimal Coordinates (noc with or without Parallel Analysis);
                3. Parallel analysis (components, factors and bootstrap);
                4. lambda > mean(lambda) (Kaiser, CFA and related);
                5. Cattell-Nelson-Gorsuch (CNG);
                6. Zoski and Jurs multiple regression (b, t and p);
                7. Zoski and Jurs standard error of the regression coeffcient (sescree);
                8. Nelson R2;
                9. Bartlett khi-2;
               10. Anderson khi-2;
               11. Lawley khi-2 and
               12. Bentler-Yuan khi-2.

Commodity pricing models are (systems of) stochastic differential equations that are utilized for the valuation and hedging of commodity contingent claims (i.e. derivative products on the commodity) and other commodity related investments. Commodity pricing models that capture market dynamics are of great importance to commodity market participants in order to exercise sound investment and risk-management strategies. Parameters of commodity pricing models are estimated through maximum likelihood estimation, using available term structure futures data of a commodity. 'NFCP' (n-factor commodity pricing) provides a framework for the modeling, parameter estimation, probabilistic forecasting, option valuation and simulation of commodity prices through state space and Monte Carlo methods, risk-neutral valuation and Kalman filtering. 'NFCP' allows the commodity pricing model to consist of n correlated factors, with both random walk and mean-reverting elements. The n-factor commodity pricing model framework was first presented in the work of Cortazar and Naranjo (2006) <doi:10.1002/fut.20198>. Examples presented in 'NFCP' replicate the two-factor crude oil commodity pricing model presented in the prolific work of Schwartz and Smith (2000) <doi:10.1287/mnsc.46.7.893.12034> with the approximate term structure futures data applied within this study provided in the 'NFCP' package.