Functions to 'numericise' 'R' objects (coerce to numeric
    objects), summarise 'MCMC' (Monte Carlo Markov Chain) samples and
    calculate deviance residuals as well as 'R' translations of some
    'BUGS' (Bayesian Using Gibbs Sampling), 'JAGS' (Just Another Gibbs
    Sampler), 'STAN' and 'TMB' (Template Model Builder) functions.

Contains additional miscellaneous steps for the 'recipes' package.
    These steps are useful, but doesn't have a good home in other 'recipes'
    packages or its extensions.

The basic use of this package is with 3 sequential functions. First to generate a cell mean matrix. In case of a repeated measurements design also generate correlation and covariance matrices. This is followed by iterative experiment simulation. Finally, power is calculated from the simulated data. Features that may be considered in the model are interaction, measure correlation, non-normal and unbalanced designs distributions.

Finding life outside the planet Earth several is the ultimate goal of an astrobiologist. Using known astronomical measurements and assumptions the probability of extraterrestrial life existence could be estimated. Equations such as the Drake equation (1961) as stated in the paper of Molina (2019) <arXiv:1912.01783>, Seager (2013) <https://www.space.com/22648-drake-equation-alien-life-seager.html> and Foucher et al, (2017) <doi:10.3390/life7040040> are included in the 'extraterrestrial' package.

Maximum likelihood estimation of an extended class of row-column (RC) association models for two-dimensional contingency tables, which are formulated by a condition of reduced rank on a matrix of extended association parameters; see Forcina (2019) <arXiv:1910.13848>. These parameters are defined by choosing the logit type for the row and column variables among four different options and a transformation derived from suitable divergence measures.

A set of procedures for parametric and non-parametric modelling of the dependence structure of multivariate extreme-values is provided. The statistical inference is performed with non-parametric estimators, likelihood-based estimators and Bayesian techniques. It adapts the methodologies of Beranger and Padoan (2015) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1508.05561>, Marcon et al. (2016) <doi:10.1214/16-EJS1162>, Marcon et al. (2017) <doi:10.1002/sta4.145>, Marcon et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2016.10.004> and Beranger et al. (2021) <doi:10.1007/s10687-019-00364-0>. This package also allows for the modelling of spatial extremes using flexible max-stable processes. It provides simulation algorithms and fitting procedures relying on the Stephenson-Tawn likelihood as per Beranger at al. (2021) <doi:10.1007/s10687-020-00376-1>.