Detect the number and locations of change points. The locations can be either exact or in terms of ranges, 
            depending on the available computational resource. The method is based on Jie Ding, Yu Xiang, Lu Shen, Vahid Tarokh (2017) <doi:10.1109/TSP.2017.2711558>.

Extend the 'tidymodels' ecosystem <https://www.tidymodels.org/> to
    enable the creation of predictive models with offset terms. Models with 
    offsets are most useful when working with count data or when fitting an
    adjustment model on top of an existing model with a prior expectation. 
    The former situation is common in insurance where data is often weighted by
    exposures. The latter is common in life insurance where industry mortality 
    tables are often used as a starting point for setting assumptions.

Offers a gene-based meta-analysis test with filtering to detect gene-environment interactions (GxE) with association data, proposed by Wang et al. (2018) <doi:10.1002/gepi.22115>. It first conducts a meta-filtering test to filter out unpromising SNPs by combining all samples in the consortia data. It then runs a test of omnibus-filtering-based GxE meta-analysis (ofGEM) that combines the strengths of the fixed- and random-effects meta-analysis with meta-filtering. It can also analyze data from multiple ethnic groups.

Consider a data matrix of n individuals with p variates. The objective general index (OGI)
    is a general index that combines the p variates into a univariate index in order to rank the n
    individuals. The OGI is always positively correlated with each of the variates.
    More details can be found in Sei (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2016.02.005>.

Ordered models such as ordered probit and ordered logit presume that the error variance is constant across observations. In the case that this assumption does not hold estimates of marginal effects are typically biased (Weiss (1997)). This package allows for generalization of ordered probit and ordered logit models by allowing the user to specify a model for the variance. Furthermore, the package includes functions to calculate the marginal effects. Wrapper functions to estimate the standard limited dependent variable models are also included.