Implements the Robust Scoring Equations estimator to fit linear
    mixed effects models robustly.
    Robustness is achieved by modification of the scoring equations
    combined with the Design Adaptive Scale approach.

Robust covariance estimation for matrix-valued data and data with Kronecker-covariance structure using the Matrix Minimum Covariance Determinant (MMCD) estimators and outlier explanation using and Shapley values.

Robust inference methods for fixed-effect and random-effects models of meta-analysis are implementable. The robust methods are developed using the density power divergence that is a robust estimating criterion developed in machine learning theory, and can effectively circumvent biases and misleading results caused by influential outliers. The density power divergence is originally introduced by Basu et al. (1998) <doi:10.1093/biomet/85.3.549>, and the meta-analysis methods are developed by Noma et al. (2022) <forthcoming>.

Implements two-sample tests for paired data with missing values (Fong, Huang, Lemos and McElrath 2018, Biostatics, <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxx039>) and modified Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney two sample location test, also known as the Fligner-Policello test.

Methods for aggregating ranked lists, especially lists of
    genes. It implements the Robust Rank Aggregation Kolde et al (2012)
    <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr709> and some other simple algorithms 
    for the task. RRA method uses a probabilistic model for aggregation that 
    is robust to noise and also facilitates the calculation of significance
    probabilities for all the elements in the final ranking.

A collection of functions to compute the Rao-Stirling diversity index
	(Porter and Rafols, 2009) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-008-2197-2> and its extension to
	acknowledge missing data (i.e.,	uncategorized references) by calculating its
	interval of uncertainty using	mathematical optimization as proposed in Calatrava
	et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-016-1842-4>.
	The Rao-Stirling diversity index is a well-established bibliometric indicator
	to measure the interdisciplinarity of scientific publications. Apart from the
	obligatory dataset of publications with their respective references and	a
	taxonomy of disciplines that categorizes references as well as a measure of
	similarity between the disciplines, the Rao-Stirling diversity index requires
	a complete categorization of all references of a publication into disciplines.
	Thus, it fails for a incomplete categorization; in this case, the robust
	extension has to be used, which encodes the uncertainty caused by missing
	bibliographic data as an uncertainty interval.
	Classification / ACM - 2012: Information systems ~ Similarity measures,
	Theory of computation ~ Quadratic	programming, Applied computing ~ Digital
	libraries and archives.