We propose a novel two-step procedure to combine epidemiological
    data obtained from diverse sources with the aim to quantify risk factors
    affecting the probability that an individual develops certain disease such as
    cancer. See  Hui Huang, Xiaomei Ma, Rasmus Waagepetersen, Theodore R. Holford,
    Rong Wang, Harvey Risch, Lloyd Mueller & Yongtao Guan (2014) A New Estimation Approach
    for Combining Epidemiological Data From Multiple Sources, Journal of the American Statistical
    Association, 109:505, 11-23,  <doi:10.1080/01621459.2013.870904>.

Predicts the occurrence times (in day-of-year) of spring phenological events. Three methods, including the accumulated degree days (ADD) method, the accumulated days transferred to a standardized temperature (ADTS) method, and the accumulated developmental progress (ADP) method, were used. See Shi et al. (2017a) <doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.04.001> and Shi et al. (2017b) <doi:10.1093/aesa/sax063> for details.

The developed package can be used to generate a spatial population for different
             levels of relationships among the dependent and auxiliary variables along with spatially
             varying model parameters. A spatial layout is designed as a [0,k-1]x[0,k-1] square region on which observations
             are collected at (k x k) lattice points with a unit distance between any two neighbouring points along the horizontal
             and vertical axes. For method details see Chao, Liu., Chuanhua, Wei. and Yunan, Su. (2018).<doi:10.1080/10485252.2018.1499907>.
             The generated spatial population can be utilized in Geographically Weighted Regression model based analysis for studying the 
             spatially varying relationships among the variables. Furthermore, various statistical analysis can be performed on this spatially 
             generated data.

Testing for Spatial Dependence of Qualitative Data in Cross Section. The list of functions includes join-count tests, Q test, spatial scan test, similarity test and spatial runs test. The methodology of these models can be found in <doi:10.1007/s10109-009-0100-1> and <doi:10.1080/13658816.2011.586327>.