Publicly available data from Medicare frequently requires extensive
    initial effort to extract desired variables and merge them; this package
    formalizes the techniques I've found work best. More information on the 
    Medicare program, as well as guidance for the publicly available data this package 
    targets, can be found on CMS's website covering publicly available data. See <https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems.html>.

Prints a random quote from Marcus Aurelius' book Meditations.

Contains a dataset of morphological and structural features of 'Medicinal LEAves (MedLEA)'. The features of each species is recorded by manually viewing the medicinal plant repository available at (<http://www.instituteofayurveda.org/plants/>). You can also download repository of leaf images of 1099 medicinal plants in Sri Lanka.

Parses information from text files with specific utility aimed at pulling information from Med Associate's (MPC) files. These functions allow for further analysis of MPC files.

A collection of methods for large scale single mediator hypothesis
    testing. The six included methods for testing the mediation effect are Sobel's
    test, Max P test, joint significance test under the composite null hypothesis,
    high dimensional mediation testing, divide-aggregate composite null test,
    and Sobel's test under the composite null hypothesis. Du et al (2023) 
    <doi:10.1002/gepi.22510>.

Implements a model-based clustering method for categorical life-course sequences relying on mixtures of exponential-distance models introduced by Murphy et al. (2021) <doi:10.1111/rssa.12712>. A range of flexible precision parameter settings corresponding to weighted generalisations of the Hamming distance metric are considered, along with the potential inclusion of a noise component. Gating covariates can be supplied in order to relate sequences to baseline characteristics and sampling weights are also accommodated. The models are fitted using the EM algorithm and tools for visualising the results are also provided.