Provides access to curated American Community Survey (ACS) base tables via a wrapper
  to library(acs). Builds synthetic micro-datasets at any user-specified geographic level with
  ten default attributes; and, conducts spatial microsimulation modeling (SMSM) via simulated
  annealing.  SMSM is conducted in parallel by default. Lastly, we provide functionality for
  data-extensibility of micro-datasets <doi:10.18637/jss.v104.i07>.

Generate synthetic time series from commonly used statistical models, including linear, nonlinear and chaotic systems. Applications to testing methods can be found in Jiang, Z., Sharma, A., & Johnson, F. (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103430> and Jiang, Z., Sharma, A., & Johnson, F. (2020) <doi:10.1029/2019WR026962> associated with an open-source tool by Jiang, Z., Rashid, M. M., Johnson, F., & Sharma, A. (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104907>.

A critical first step in systematic literature reviews
  and mining of academic texts is to identify relevant texts from a range
  of sources, particularly databases such as 'Web of Science' or 'Scopus'.
  These databases often export in different formats or with different metadata
  tags. 'synthesisr' expands on the tools outlined by Westgate (2019)
  <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1374> to import bibliographic data from a range of formats
  (such as 'bibtex', 'ris', or 'ciw') in a standard way, and allows merging
  and deduplication of the resulting dataset.

Creation of an individual claims simulator which generates various
    features of non-life insurance claims. An initial set of test parameters,
    designed to mirror the experience of an Auto Liability portfolio, were set
    up and applied by default to generate a realistic test data set of
    individual claims (see vignette). The simulated data set then allows
    practitioners to back-test the validity of various reserving models and to
    prove and/or disprove certain actuarial assumptions made in claims
    modelling. The distributional assumptions used to generate this data set can
    be easily modified by users to match their experiences. Reference: Avanzi B,
    Taylor G, Wang M, Wong B (2020) "SynthETIC: an individual insurance claim
    simulator with feature control" <arXiv:2008.05693>.