Package: flexBART
Type: Package
Title: A More Flexible BART Model
Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2026-02-09
Authors@R: c(
  person(given = "Sameer K.", family = "Deshpande", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "sameer.deshpande@wisc.edu", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4116-5533")),
  person(given = "George", family = "Perrett", role = c("aut"), email = "gp77@nyu.edu", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1930-2581")),
  person(given = "Ryan", family = "Yee", role = c("aut"), email = "ryee2@wisc.edu", comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0005-5691-4009")),
  person(given = "Cecilia", family = "Balocchi", role = c("aut"), email = "cecilia.balocchi@ed.ac.uk", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1234-6063")),
  person(given = "Jennifer", family = "Hill", role = c("aut"), email = "jennifer.hill@nyu.edu", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4983-2206")))
Description: Implements a faster and more expressive version of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees that, at a high level, approximates unknown functions as a weighted sum of binary regression tree ensembles. Supports fitting (generalized) linear varying coefficient models that posits a linear relationship between the inverse link and some covariates but allows that relationship to change as a function of other covariates. Additionally supports fitting heteroscedastic BART models, in which both the mean and log-variance are approximated with separate regression tree ensembles. A formula interface allows for different splitting variables to be used in each ensemble. For more details see Deshpande (2025) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2024.2431072> and Deshpande et al. (2024) <doi:10.1214/24-BA1470>.
License: GPL (>= 3)
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Imports: Rcpp (>= 1.0.12), glmnet (>= 4.0), methods
Suggests: igraph, knitr, quarto
URL: https://skdeshpande91.github.io/flexBART/
Config/Needs/website: rmarkdown, quarto, BART, igraph, glmnet,
        colorBlindness, knitr
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-02-10 01:39:10 UTC; sameer
Author: Sameer K. Deshpande [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4116-5533>),
  George Perrett [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1930-2581>),
  Ryan Yee [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5691-4009>),
  Cecilia Balocchi [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-6063>),
  Jennifer Hill [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4983-2206>)
Maintainer: Sameer K. Deshpande <sameer.deshpande@wisc.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-02-12 08:00:15 UTC
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