Package: DNNSIM
Type: Package
Title: Single-Index Neural Network for Skewed Heavy-Tailed Data
Version: 0.2.1
Authors@R: c(
    person("Qingyang", "Liu", email = "rh8liuqy@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3265-6330")),
    person("Shijie", "Wang", email = "shijiew.usc@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
    person("Ray", "Bai", email = "rbai@mailbox.sc.edu", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7190-7844")),
    person("Dipankar", "Bandyopadhyay", email = "dbandyop@vcu.edu", role = "aut"))
Maintainer: Qingyang Liu <rh8liuqy@gmail.com>
Description: Provides a deep neural network model with a monotonic increasing single index function tailored for periodontal disease studies. The residuals are assumed to follow a skewed T distribution, a skewed normal distribution, or a normal distribution. More details can be found at Liu, Wang, Bai and Bandyopadhyay (2026) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxag040>.
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
RdMacros: Rdpack
SystemRequirements: Python (>= 3.8.0); PyTorch (https://pytorch.org/);
        NumPy (https://numpy.org/); SciPy (https://scipy.org/); sklearn
        (https://scikit-learn.org/stable/);
Imports: reticulate (>= 1.37.0), stats (>= 4.3.0), Rdpack (>= 2.6)
NeedsCompilation: no
Author: Qingyang Liu [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3265-6330>),
  Shijie Wang [aut],
  Ray Bai [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7190-7844>),
  Dipankar Bandyopadhyay [aut]
Repository: CRAN
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.1
Packaged: 2026-10-15 02:59:16 UTC; liuqingyang
Date/Publication: 2026-10-15 07:10:08 UTC
