Package: Blend
Type: Package
Title: Robust Bayesian Longitudinal Regularized Semiparametric Mixed
        Models
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026-02-16
Authors@R: c( person("Kun", "Fan", role = c("aut", "cre") , email = "kfan@ksu.edu"),
              person("Cen", "Wu", role = "aut"))
Description: Our recently developed fully robust Bayesian semiparametric mixed-effect model for high-dimensional longitudinal studies with heterogeneous observations can be implemented through this package. This model can distinguish between time-varying interactions and constant-effect-only cases to avoid model misspecifications. Facilitated by spike-and-slab priors, this model leads to superior performance in estimation, identification and statistical inference. In particular, robust Bayesian inferences in terms of valid Bayesian credible intervals on both parametric and nonparametric effects can be validated on finite samples. The Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms of the proposed and alternative models are efficiently implemented in 'C++'.
Depends: R (>= 4.2.0)
License: GPL-2
Encoding: UTF-8
URL: https://github.com/kunfa/Blend
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Imports: Rcpp, splines, stats, ggplot2
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-02-16 19:48:58 UTC; kunfan
Author: Kun Fan [aut, cre],
  Cen Wu [aut]
Maintainer: Kun Fan <kfan@ksu.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-02-16 20:00:02 UTC
Built: R 4.6.0; aarch64-apple-darwin23; 2026-04-26 06:09:00 UTC; unix
Archs: Blend.so.dSYM
