The reliability of assessment tools is a crucial aspect of monitoring student performance in various educational settings. It ensures that the assessment outcomes accurately reflect a student's true level of performance. However, when assessments are combined, determining composite reliability can be challenging, especially for naturalistic and unbalanced datasets. This package provides an easy-to-use solution for calculating composite reliability for different assessment types. It allows for the inclusion of weight per assessment type and produces extensive G- and D-study results with graphical interpretations. Overall, our approach enhances the reliability of composite assessments, making it suitable for various education contexts.

Machine learning algorithms for predictor variables that are compositional data and the response variable is either continuous or categorical. Specifically, the Boruta variable selection algorithm, random forest, support vector machines and projection pursuit regression are included. Relevant papers include: Tsagris M.T., Preston S. and Wood A.T.A. (2011). "A data-based power transformation for compositional data". Fourth International International Workshop on Compositional Data Analysis. <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1106.1451> and Alenazi, A. (2023). "A review of compositional data analysis and recent advances". Communications in Statistics--Theory and Methods, 52(16): 5535--5567. <doi:10.1080/03610926.2021.2014890>.

Provides functions for the consistent analysis of compositional 
  data (e.g. portions of substances) and positive numbers (e.g. concentrations) 
  in the way proposed by J. Aitchison and V. Pawlowsky-Glahn.

Univariate feature selection and compound covariate methods under the Cox model with high-dimensional features (e.g., gene expressions).
 Available are survival data for non-small-cell lung cancer patients with gene expressions (Chen et al 2007 New Engl J Med) <DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa060096>,
 statistical methods in Emura et al (2012 PLoS ONE) <DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0047627>,
 Emura & Chen (2016 Stat Methods Med Res) <DOI:10.1177/0962280214533378>, and Emura et al (2019)<DOI:10.1016/j.cmpb.2018.10.020>.
 Algorithms for generating correlated gene expressions are also available.
 Estimation of survival functions via copula-graphic (CG) estimators is also implemented, which is useful for
 sensitivity analyses under dependent censoring (Yeh et al 2023) <DOI:10.3390/biomedicines11030797>.