Geostatistical analysis of continuous and count data.
  Implements stationary Gaussian processes with Matérn correlation for spatial prediction,
  as described in Diggle and Giorgi (2019, ISBN: 978-1-138-06102-7).

Facilities for assessing R packages against a number of metrics to 
    help quantify their robustness.

Fast design of risk parity portfolios for financial investment.
    The goal of the risk parity portfolio formulation is to equalize or distribute
    the risk contributions of the different assets, which is missing if we simply
    consider the overall volatility of the portfolio as in the mean-variance
    Markowitz portfolio. In addition to the vanilla formulation, where the risk
    contributions are perfectly equalized subject to no shortselling and budget
    constraints, many other formulations are considered that allow for box
    constraints and shortselling, as well as the inclusion of additional
    objectives like the expected return and overall variance. See vignette for
    a detailed documentation and comparison, with several illustrative examples.
    The package is based on the papers:
    Y. Feng, and D. P. Palomar (2015). SCRIP: Successive Convex Optimization Methods
    for Risk Parity Portfolio Design. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 63,
    no. 19, pp. 5285-5300. <doi:10.1109/TSP.2015.2452219>.
    F. Spinu (2013), An Algorithm for Computing Risk Parity Weights.
    <doi:10.2139/ssrn.2297383>.
    T. Griveau-Billion, J. Richard, and T. Roncalli (2013). A fast algorithm for computing
    High-dimensional risk parity portfolios. <arXiv:1311.4057>.

Collection of functions designed to compute risk-based portfolios as described 
    in Ardia et al. (2017) <doi:10.1007/s10479-017-2474-7> and Ardia et al. (2017) <doi:10.21105/joss.00171>.

Assessing and comparing risk prediction rules for clustered data. The method is based on the paper: Rosner B, Qiu W, and Lee MLT.(2013) <doi: 10.1007/s10985-012-9240-6>.

Implementation of the following methods for event history analysis.
    Risk regression models for survival endpoints also in the presence of competing
    risks are fitted using binomial regression based on a time sequence of binary
    event status variables. A formula interface for the Fine-Gray regression model
    and an interface for the combination of cause-specific Cox regression models.
    A toolbox for assessing and comparing performance of risk predictions (risk
    markers and risk prediction models). Prediction performance is measured by the
    Brier score and the area under the ROC curve for binary possibly time-dependent
    outcome. Inverse probability of censoring weighting and pseudo values are used
    to deal with right censored data. Lists of risk markers and lists of risk models
    are assessed simultaneously. Cross-validation repeatedly splits the data, trains
    the risk prediction models on one part of each split and then summarizes and
    compares the performance across splits.