BKP: Beta Kernel Process Modeling

Implements the Beta Kernel Process (BKP) for nonparametric modeling of spatially varying binomial probabilities, together with its extension, the Dirichlet Kernel Process (DKP), for categorical or multinomial data. The package provides functions for model fitting, predictive inference with uncertainty quantification, posterior simulation, and visualization in one-and two-dimensional input spaces. Multiple kernel functions (Gaussian, Matern 5/2, and Matern 3/2) are supported, with hyperparameters optimized through multi-start gradient-based search. For more details, see Zhao, Qing, and Xu (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2508.10447>.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: gridExtra, lattice, optimx, tgp
Suggests: knitr, mlbench, rmarkdown, rticles, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tinytex
Published: 2025-08-19
Author: Jiangyan Zhao [cre, aut], Kunhai Qing [aut], Jin Xu [aut]
Maintainer: Jiangyan Zhao <zhaojy2017 at 126.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Jiangyan-Zhao/BKP/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/Jiangyan-Zhao/BKP
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: BKP citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: BKP results

Documentation:

Reference manual: BKP.html , BKP.pdf
Vignettes: BKP: An R Package for Beta Kernel Process Modeling (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: BKP_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: BKP_0.1.0.zip, r-release: BKP_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: BKP_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): BKP_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): BKP_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): BKP_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): BKP_0.1.0.tgz
Old sources: BKP archive

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