Genome-wide gene insertion and deletion rates can be modelled in a maximum 
    likelihood framework with the additional flexibility of modelling potential missing 
    data using the models included within. These models simultaneously estimate insertion 
    and deletion (indel) rates of gene families and proportions of "missing" data for 
    (multiple) taxa of interest. The likelihood framework is utilized for parameter 
    estimation. A phylogenetic tree of the taxa and gene presence/absence patterns 
    (with data ordered by the tips of the tree) are required. See Dang et al.
    (2016) <doi:10.1534/genetics.116.191973> for more details.

Non-parametric tests of independence (mutual or serial) between some quantitative random vectors, as described in Bilodeau M. and Lafaye de Micheaux P. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2008.11.006>, in Beran R., Bilodeau M. and Lafaye de Micheaux P. (2007) <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2007.01.009> and in Fan Y., Lafaye de Micheaux P., Penev S. and Salopek D. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2016.09.014>.

Estimates weights to make a continuous-valued exposure statistically independent of a vector of pre-treatment covariates using the method proposed in Huling, Greifer, and Chen (2021) <arxiv:2107.07086>.

Implementations of the weighted Kozachenko-Leonenko entropy estimator and independence tests based on this estimator, (Kozachenko and Leonenko (1987) <http://mi.mathnet.ru/eng/ppi797>). Also includes a goodness-of-fit test for a linear model which is an independence test between covariates and errors.

Extract and replace elements using indices that start from zero (rather than one), as is common in mathematical notation and other programming languages.

Derivation of indexes for benchmarking purposes. A methodology with flexible number of constituents is implemented. Also functions for market capitalization and volume weighted indexes with fixed number of constituents are available. The main function of the package, indexComp(), provides the derived index, suitable for analysis purposes. The functions indexUpdate(), indexMemberSelection() and indexMembersUpdate() are components of indexComp() and enable one to construct and continuously update an index, e.g. for display on a website. The methodology behind the functions provided gets introduced in Trimborn and Haerdle (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.jempfin.2018.08.004>.