Various statistical and mathematical ranking and rating methods with incomplete information are included. This package is initially designed for the scoring system in a high school project showcase to rank student research projects, where each judge can only evaluate a set of projects in a limited time period. See Langville, A. N. and Meyer, C. D. (2012), Who is Number 1: The Science of Rating and Ranking, Princeton University Press <doi:10.1515/9781400841677>, and Gou, J. and Wu, S. (2020), A Judging System for Project Showcase: Rating and Ranking with Incomplete Information, Technical Report.

An R implementation of the Reinert text clustering method. For more 
    details about the algorithm see the included vignettes or Reinert (1990) 
    <doi:10.1177/075910639002600103>.

Determination of rainfall-runoff erosivity factor.

An implementation of the RainFARM (Rainfall Filtered Autoregressive Model) stochastic precipitation downscaling method (Rebora et al. (2006) <doi:10.1175/JHM517.1>). Adapted for climate downscaling according to D'Onofrio et al. (2018) <doi:10.1175/JHM-D-13-096.1> and for complex topography as in Terzago et al. (2018) <doi:10.5194/nhess-18-2825-2018>. The RainFARM method is based on the extrapolation to small scales of the Fourier spectrum of a large-scale precipitation field, using a fixed logarithmic slope and random phases at small scales, followed by a nonlinear transformation of the resulting linearly correlated stochastic field. RainFARM allows to generate ensembles of spatially downscaled precipitation fields which conserve precipitation at large scales and whose statistical properties are consistent with the small-scale statistics of observed precipitation, based only on knowledge of the large-scale precipitation field.

Efficient CRUD interface for the 'Airtable' API <https://airtable.com/developers/web/api>, supporting batch requests and parallel encoding of large data sets.

A robust alternative to the aJIVE (angle based Joint and Individual Variation Explained) method (Feng et al 2018: <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2018.03.008>) for the estimation of joint and individual components in the presence of outliers in multi-source data. It decomposes the multi-source data into joint, individual and residual (noise) contributions. The decomposition is robust to outliers and noise in the data. The method is illustrated in Ponzi et al (2021) <arXiv:2101.09110>.