Calculating daily global solar radiation at horizontal surface using several well-known models (i.e. Angstrom-Prescott, Supit-Van Kappel, Hargreaves, Bristow and Campbell, and Mahmood-Hubbard), and model calibration based on ground-truth data, and (3) model auto-calibration. The FAO Penmann-Monteith equation to calculate evapotranspiration is also included.

Provides two main functionalities.
    1 - Given a system of simultaneous equation,
    it decomposes  the matrix of coefficients weighting the endogenous variables 
    into three submatrices: one includes the subset of coefficients that have a causal nature
    in the model, two include the subset of coefficients that have a interdependent nature
    in the model, either at systematic level or induced by the correlation between error terms.
    2 - Given a decomposed model,
    it tests for the significance of the interdependent relationships acting in the system, 
    via Maximum likelihood and Wald test, which can be built starting from the function output.
    For theoretical reference see Faliva (1992) <doi:10.1007/BF02589085> and 
    Faliva and Zoia (1994) <doi:10.1007/BF02589041>.

Performs hybrid multi-stage factor analytic procedure for controlling acquiescence in restricted solutions (Ferrando & Lorenzo-Seva, 2000 <https://www.uv.es/revispsi/articulos3.00/ferran7.pdf>).

We build an Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model where the rate of infection is the sum of the household rate and the community rate. We estimate the posterior distribution of the parameters using the Metropolis algorithm. Further details may be found in: F Scott Dahlgren, Ivo M Foppa, Melissa S Stockwell, Celibell Y Vargas, Philip LaRussa, Carrie Reed (2021) "Household transmission of influenza A and B within a prospective cohort during the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons" <doi:10.1002/sim.9181>.

Supplementary functions for item response models aiming
    to complement existing R packages. The functionality includes among others
    multidimensional compensatory and noncompensatory IRT models
    (Reckase, 2009, <doi:10.1007/978-0-387-89976-3>), 
    MCMC for hierarchical IRT models and testlet models
    (Fox, 2010, <doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0742-4>), 
    NOHARM (McDonald, 1982, <doi:10.1177/014662168200600402>), 
    Rasch copula model (Braeken, 2011, <doi:10.1007/s11336-010-9190-4>;
    Schroeders, Robitzsch & Schipolowski, 2014, <doi:10.1111/jedm.12054>),
    faceted and hierarchical rater models (DeCarlo, Kim & Johnson, 2011,
    <doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.2011.00143.x>),
    ordinal IRT model (ISOP; Scheiblechner, 1995, <doi:10.1007/BF02301417>), 
    DETECT statistic (Stout, Habing, Douglas & Kim, 1996, 
    <doi:10.1177/014662169602000403>), local structural equation modeling 
    (LSEM; Hildebrandt, Luedtke, Robitzsch, Sommer & Wilhelm, 2016,
    <doi:10.1080/00273171.2016.1142856>).