<p>I study political institutions, specializing in American courts. Most of my coding is related to statistical analysis for my research. R packages this has spawned that may be useful to others include:</p>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/duckmayr/RcppDist" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RcppDist</a>: A header-only C++ library with functions for additional statistical distributions that can be called from C++ when writing code using Rcpp or RcppArmadillo (link above is to GitHub; v 0.1.1 is <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=RcppDist" rel="nofollow noreferrer">on CRAN</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/duckmayr/bggum" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bggum</a>: R tools for a Bayesian approach to estimating Generalized Graded Unfolding Model (GGUM) (Roberts, Donoghue, and Laughlin 2000) parameters (link above is to GitHub; v 1.0.2 is <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=bggum" rel="nofollow noreferrer">on CRAN</a>)</li>
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