Calculates the relative growth rate (RGR) of a series of individuals by building a life table and solving the Lotka-Birch equation. (See Birch, L. C. 1948. The intrinsic rate of natural increase of an insect population. - Journal of Animal Ecology 17: 15-26) <doi:10.2307/1605>.

Functions for the construction of Petri Nets. Petri Nets can be replayed by firing enabled transitions.
     Silent transitions will be hidden by the execution handler. Also includes functionalities for the visualization of Petri Nets and
     export of Petri Nets to PNML (Petri Net Markup Language) files.

Reproducible, programmatic retrieval of survey datasets from the
    Pew Research Center.

Load the Just Another Gibbs Sampling (JAGS) module 'pexm'. The module provides the tools to work with the Piecewise Exponential (PE) distribution in a Bayesian model with the corresponding Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm (Gibbs Sampling) implemented via JAGS. Details about the module implementation can be found in Mayrink et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i08>.

Eco-phylogenetic and community phylogenetic analyses.
    Keeps community ecological and phylogenetic data matched up and
    comparable using 'comparative.comm' objects. Wrappers for common
    community phylogenetic indices ('pez.shape', 'pez.evenness',
    'pez.dispersion', and 'pez.dissimilarity' metrics). Implementation
    of Cavender-Bares (2004) correlation of phylogenetic and
    ecological matrices ('fingerprint.regression'). Phylogenetic
    Generalised Linear Mixed Models (PGLMMs; 'pglmm') following Ives &
    Helmus (2011) and Rafferty & Ives (2013). Simulation of null
    assemblages, traits, and phylogenies ('scape', 'sim.meta.comm').

Estimate the false discovery proportion (FDP) by Principal Factor Approximation method with general known and unknown covariance dependence.

Performs smoothed (and non-smoothed) principal/independent components analysis
  of functional data. Various functional pre-whitening approaches are implemented as 
  discussed in Vidal and Aguilera (2022) “Novel whitening approaches in functional 
  settings", <doi:10.1002/sta4.516>. Further whitening representations of functional 
  data can be derived in terms of a few principal components, providing an avenue 
  to explore hidden structures in low dimensional settings: see Vidal,
  Rosso and Aguilera (2021) “Bi-smoothed functional independent component 
  analysis for EEG artifact removal”, <doi:10.3390/math9111243>.