Non-negative Matrix Factorization(NMF) is a powerful tool for identifying the key features of microbial communities and a dimension-reduction method. When we are interested in the differences between the structures of two groups of communities, supervised NMF(Yun Cai, Hong Gu and Tobby Kenney (2017),<doi:10.1186/s40168-017-0323-1>) provides a better way to do this, while retaining all the advantages of NMF -- such as interpretability, and being based on a simple biological intuition.

Scale invariant version of the original PNN proposed by Specht (1990) <doi:10.1016/0893-6080(90)90049-q> with the added functionality of allowing for smoothing along multiple dimensions while accounting for covariances within the data set. It is written in the R statistical programming language. Given a data set with categorical variables, we use this algorithm to estimate the probabilities of a new observation vector belonging to a specific category. This type of neural network provides the benefits of fast training time relative to backpropagation and statistical generalization with only a small set of known observations.

Fits univariate Bayesian spatial regression models for large datasets using Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes (NNGP) detailed in Finley, Datta, Banerjee (2022) <doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i05>, Finley, Datta, Cook, Morton, Andersen, and Banerjee (2019) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1537924>, and Datta, Banerjee, Finley, and Gelfand (2016) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2015.1044091>.

A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources,
    including Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF'), 'iNaturalist',
    'eBird', Integrated Digitized 'Biocollections' ('iDigBio'), 'VertNet', 
    Ocean 'Biogeographic' Information System ('OBIS'), and 
    Atlas of Living Australia ('ALA'). Includes functionality for retrieving
    species occurrence data, and combining those data.

Fits single-species, multi-species, and integrated non-spatial and spatial occupancy models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Models are fit using Polya-Gamma data augmentation detailed in Polson, Scott, and Windle (2013) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2013.829001>. Spatial models are fit using either Gaussian processes or Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes (NNGP) for large spatial datasets. Details on NNGP models are given in Datta, Banerjee, Finley, and Gelfand (2016) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2015.1044091> and Finley, Datta, and Banerjee (2022) <doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i05>. Provides functionality for data integration of multiple single-species occupancy data sets using a joint likelihood framework. Details on data integration are given in Miller, Pacifici, Sanderlin, and Reich (2019) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13110>. Details on single-species and multi-species models are found in MacKenzie, Nichols, Lachman, Droege, Royle, and Langtimm (2002) <doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2248:ESORWD]2.0.CO;2> and Dorazio and Royle <doi:10.1198/016214505000000015>, respectively.