Implements data processing described in <doi:10.1126/sciadv.abk3283>
    to align modern differentially private data with formatting of older US Census
    data releases. The primary goal is to read in Census Privacy Protected Microdata
    Files data in a reproducible way. This includes tools for aggregating to relevant
    levels of geography by creating geographic identifiers which match the US Census
    Bureau's numbering. Additionally, there are tools for grouping race numeric
    identifiers into categories, consistent with OMB (Office of Management and Budget)
    classifications. Functions exist for downloading and linking to existing
    sources of privacy protected microdata.

An implementation of the one-step privacy-protecting method for estimating the overall and site-specific hazard ratios using inverse probability weighted Cox models in distributed data network studies, as proposed by Shu, Yoshida, Fireman, and Toh (2019) <doi: 10.1177/0962280219869742>. This method only requires sharing of summary-level riskset tables instead of individual-level data. Both the conventional inverse probability weights and the stabilized weights are implemented.

Implements the copula-based estimator for univariate long-range dependent processes, introduced in Pumi et al. (2023) <doi:10.1007/s00362-023-01418-z>. Notably, this estimator is capable of handling missing data and has been shown to perform exceptionally well, even when up to 70% of data is missing (as reported in <arXiv:2303.04754>) and has been found to outperform several other commonly applied estimators.

Toolkit for fitting point process models with sequences of LASSO penalties ("regularisation paths"), as described in Renner, I.W. and Warton, D.I. (2013) <doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01824.x>. Regularisation paths of Poisson point process models or area-interaction models can be fitted with LASSO, adaptive LASSO or elastic net penalties. A number of criteria are available to judge the bias-variance tradeoff.