Package: TKApprox
Title: A General Framework for Bayesian Estimation Using the
        'Tierney'-'Kadane' Approximation
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Shikhar", "Tyagi", email = "shikhar1093tyagi@gmail.com",
           role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1606-0844")),
    person("Arvind", "Pandey", email = "arvindmzu@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
    person("Bhupendra", "Singh", email = "bhupendra.rana@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
    person("Vrijesh", "Tripathi", email = "vrijesh.tripathi@uwi.edu", role = "aut"))
Description: Provides a distribution-independent framework for Bayesian
        estimation of arbitrary univariate probability models using the
        'Tierney'-'Kadane' approximation ('Tierney' & 'Kadane', 1986
        <doi:10.1080/01621459.1986.10478240>). Users specify the
        probability distribution, likelihood, prior distributions, and
        censoring mechanism, while the package automatically constructs
        the posterior distribution, computes posterior modes and
        Hessian matrices, approximates posterior expectations under
        several Bayesian loss functions, and returns Bayesian parameter
        estimates, posterior covariance matrices, credible intervals,
        diagnostic plots, and model comparison statistics. Supports
        complete, right-, left-, interval-, Type-I, Type-II,
        progressive Type-II, hybrid, and doubly censored data
        ('Lawless', 2003 <ISBN:978-0-471-37215-8>; 'Meeker' &
        'Escobar', 1998 <ISBN:978-0-471-14328-4>; 'Balakrishnan' &
        'Aggarwala', 2000 <ISBN:978-0-8176-4129-0>; 'Kundu' &
        'Pradhan', 2009 <doi:10.1198/TECH.2009.0019>), making it a
        flexible tool for Bayesian reliability, survival, and lifetime
        data analysis.
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Depends: R (>= 4.0.0)
Imports: checkmate, numDeriv, maxLik, rlang, stats, graphics,
        grDevices, utils, MASS
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown, ggplot2,
        gridExtra
VignetteBuilder: knitr
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-09-27 11:47:09 UTC; root
Author: Shikhar Tyagi [aut, cre] (ORCID:
        <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1606-0844>), Arvind Pandey [aut],
        Bhupendra Singh [aut], Vrijesh Tripathi [aut]
Maintainer: Shikhar Tyagi <shikhar1093tyagi@gmail.com>
Repository: https://shikhartyagi.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-08-07 20:00:02 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/TKApprox
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 238c54ce6fa41d40d88ed7d77202e7ec42cd01c9
