Fits Bayesian time-course models for model-based network meta-analysis (MBNMA) that allows inclusion of multiple
  time-points from studies. Repeated measures over time are accounted for within studies by applying different time-course functions,
  following the method of Pedder et al. (2019) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1351>. 
  The method allows synthesis of studies with multiple follow-up measurements that can account for time-course for a single or multiple 
  treatment comparisons. Several general time-course functions are provided; others may be added 
  by the user. Various characteristics can be flexibly added to the models, such as correlation between time points and shared 
  class effects. The consistency of direct and indirect evidence in the network can be assessed using unrelated mean effects 
  models and/or by node-splitting.

Functional gradient descent algorithm
  (boosting) for optimizing general risk functions utilizing
  component-wise (penalised) least squares estimates or regression
  trees as base-learners for fitting generalized linear, additive
  and interaction models to potentially high-dimensional data.
  Models and algorithms are described in <doi:10.1214/07-STS242>,
  a hands-on tutorial is available from <doi:10.1007/s00180-012-0382-5>.
  The package allows user-specified loss functions and base-learners.

Mass-balance-adjusted Regression algorithm for streamflow reconstruction at sub-annual resolution (e.g., seasonal or monthly). The algorithm implements a penalty term to minimize the differences between the total sub-annual flows and the annual flow. The method is described in Nguyen et al (2020) <DOI:10.1002/essoar.10504791.1>.

Functions for model-based response dimension reduction. Usual dimension reduction methods in multivariate regression focus on the reduction of predictors, not responses.  The response dimension reduction is theoretically founded in Yoo and Cook (2008) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2008.07.029>. Later, three model-based response dimension reduction approaches are proposed in Yoo (2016) <doi:10.1080/02331888.2017.1410152> and Yoo (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.jkss.2019.02.001>. The method by Yoo and Cook (2008) is based on non-parametric ordinary least squares, but the model-based approaches are done through maximum likelihood estimation. For two model-based response dimension reduction methods called principal fitted response reduction and unstructured principal fitted response reduction, chi-squared tests are provided for determining the dimension of the response subspace.