Description: Stein control variates can be used to improve Monte Carlo estimates of expectations when the derivatives of the log target are available. This package implements a variety of such methods, including zero-variance control variates (ZV-CV, Mira et al. (2013) <doi:10.1007/s11222-012-9344-6>), regularised ZV-CV (South et al., 2018 <arXiv:1811.05073>), control functionals (CF, Oates et al. (2017) <doi:10.1111/rssb.12185>) and semi-exact control functionals (SECF, South et al., 2020 <arXiv:2002.00033>). ZV-CV is a parametric approach that is exact for (low order) polynomial integrands with Gaussian targets. CF is a non-parametric alternative that offers better than the standard Monte Carlo convergence rates. SECF has both a parametric and a non-parametric component and it offers the advantages of both for an additional computational cost. Functions for applying ZV-CV and CF to two estimators for the normalising constant of the posterior distribution in Bayesian statistics are also supplied in this package. The basic requirements for using the package are a set of samples, derivatives and function evaluations.
Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.11.0), glmnet, abind, mvtnorm, stats, Rlinsolve,

Title: ZeBook - Working with dynamic models for agriculture and
Author: Francois Brun (ACTA) \email{francois.brun@acta.asso.fr}, David
Makowski (INRA), Daniel Wallach (INRA), James W. Jones (U.of
Description: R package accompanying the book "Working with dynamic
models for agriculture and environment", by Daniel Wallach
(INRA), David Makowski (INRA), James W. Jones (U.of Florida),
Francois Brun (ACTA), in preparation for June 2013.

Title: ZeBook Working with dynamic models for agriculture and
Author: Francois Brun (ACTA), David Makowski (INRA), Daniel Wallach
Description: R package accompanying the book Working with dynamic
models for agriculture and environment, by Daniel Wallach

Depends: triangle, deSolve, R(>= 2.10.0)

Title: Working with Dynamic Models for Agriculture and Environment
Author: Francois Brun (ACTA), David Makowski (INRA), Daniel Wallach (INRA), James W. Jones (U.of Florida).
Description: R package accompanying the book Working with dynamic models for agriculture and environment, by Daniel Wallach (INRA), David Makowski (INRA), James W. Jones (U.of Florida), Francois Brun (ACTA). New version in preparation for April 2018.
Imports: triangle, deSolve, stats, graphics