Functions to fit, via Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm, the Bessel and Beta regressions to a data set with a bounded continuous response variable. The Bessel regression is a new and robust approach proposed in the literature. The EM version for the well known Beta regression is another major contribution of this package. See details in the references Barreto-Souza, Mayrink and Simas (2022) <doi:10.1111/anzs.12354> and Barreto-Souza, Mayrink and Simas (2020) <arXiv:2003.05157>.

Posterior sampling for Spike-and-Slab LASSO prior in linear models from Nie and Rockova <arXiv:2011.14279>.

The blocked weighted bootstrap (BBW) is an estimation technique 
    for use with data from two-stage cluster sampled surveys in which either 
    prior weighting (e.g. population-proportional sampling or PPS as used in 
    Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions or SMART 
    surveys) or posterior weighting (e.g. as used in rapid assessment method or
    RAM and simple spatial sampling method or S3M surveys) is implemented. See 
    Cameron et al (2008) <doi:10.1162/rest.90.3.414> for application of 
    bootstrap to cluster samples. See Aaron et al (2016) 
    <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163176> and Aaron et al (2016) 
    <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162462> for application of the blocked weighted 
    bootstrap to estimate indicators from two-stage cluster sampled surveys.

Implementation of the BC3NET algorithm for gene regulatory network inference (de Matos Simoes and Frank Emmert-Streib, Bagging Statistical Network Inference from Large-Scale Gene Expression Data, PLoS ONE 7(3): e33624, <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033624>).

Implementing the Block Coordinate Ascent with One-Step Generalized Rosen (BCA1SG) algorithm on the semiparametric models for panel count data, interval-censored survival data, and degradation data. A comprehensive description of the BCA1SG algorithm can be found in Wang et al. (2020) <https://github.com/yudongstat/BCA1SG/blob/master/BCA1SG.pdf>. For details of the semiparametric models for panel count data, interval-censored survival data, and degradation data, please see Wellner and Zhang (2007) <doi:10.1214/009053607000000181>, Huang and Wellner (1997) <ISBN:978-0-387-94992-5>, and Wang and Xu (2010) <doi:10.1198/TECH.2009.08197>, respectively.