Construct message-passing style objects with types and features. Q7 types uses composition instead of inheritance in creating derived types, allowing defining any code segment as feature and associating any feature to any object. Compared to R6, Q7 is simpler and more flexible, and is more friendly in syntax.

Functions for descriptive statistics,
  data management, and data visualization.

A copula-based measure for quantifying asymmetry in dependence and associations. Documentation and theory about 'qad' is provided
    by the paper by Junker, Griessenberger & Trutschnig (2021, <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2020.107058>), and the paper by Trutschnig (2011, <doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2011.06.013>).

A tool for automatic generation of sibling items from a parent item model defined by
           the user. It is an implementation of the process automatic item generation (AIG) focused
           on generating quantitative multiple-choice type of items (see Embretson, Kingston
           (2018) <doi:10.1111/jedm.12166>).

Implements heuristics for the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). Although, the QAP was introduced as a combinatorial optimization problem for the facility location problem in operations research, it also has many applications in data analysis. The problem is NP-hard and the package implements a simulated annealing heuristic.

Estimates QAPE using bootstrap procedures. The residual, parametric and double bootstrap is used. The test of normality using Cholesky decomposition is added. Y pop is defined.

Calculates the right-tail probability of quadratic forms of Gaussian variables using the skewness-kurtosis ratio matching method, modified Liu-Tang-Zhang method and Satterthwaite-Welch method. The technical details can be found in Hong Zhang, Judong Shen and Zheyang Wu (2020) <arXiv:2005.00905>.

Implements the Bayesian quantile regression model for binary longitudinal data 
             (QBLD) developed in Rahman and Vossmeyer (2019) <DOI:10.1108/S0731-90532019000040B009>.
             The model handles both fixed and random effects and implements both a blocked
             and an unblocked Gibbs sampler for posterior inference.