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  <dc:title>Statistical Inference and Sure Independence Screening via Ball
Statistics</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package Ball version 1.3.13</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Hypothesis tests and sure independence screening (SIS) procedure based on ball statistics, including ball divergence &lt;doi:10.1214/17-AOS1579&gt;, ball covariance &lt;doi:10.1080/01621459.2018.1543600&gt;, and ball correlation &lt;doi:10.1080/01621459.2018.1462709&gt;, are developed to analyze complex data in metric spaces, e.g, shape, directional, compositional and symmetric positive definite matrix data. The ball divergence and ball covariance based distribution-free tests are implemented to detecting distribution difference and association in metric spaces &lt;doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i06&gt;. Furthermore, several generic non-parametric feature selection procedures based on ball correlation, BCor-SIS and all of its variants, are implemented to tackle the challenge in the context of ultra high dimensional data. A fast implementation for large-scale multiple K-sample testing with ball divergence &lt;doi: 10.1002/gepi.22423&gt; is supported, which is particularly helpful for genome-wide association study.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 2.10)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: utils, gam, survival, mvtnorm</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Jin Zhu &lt;zhuj37@mail2.sysu.edu.cn&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Jin Zhu [aut, cre] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8550-5822&gt;),
  Wenliang Pan [aut],
  Yuan Tian [aut],
  Weinan Xiao [aut],
  Chengfeng Liu [aut],
  Ruihuang Liu [aut],
  Yue Hu [aut],
  Hongtu Zhu [aut],
  Heping Zhang [aut],
  Xueqin Wang [aut] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5205-9950&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2023-02-12</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Ball</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.Ball</dc:identifier>
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