gpss: Gaussian Processes for Social Science

Provides Gaussian process (GP) regression tools for social science inference problems. GPs combine flexible nonparametric regression with principled uncertainty quantification: rather than committing to a single model fit, the posterior reflects lesser knowledge at the edge of or beyond the observed data, where other approaches become highly model-dependent. The package reduces user-chosen hyperparameters from three to zero and supplies convenience functions for regression discontinuity (gp_rdd()), interrupted time-series (gp_its()), and general GP fitting (gpss(), gp_train(), gp_predict()). Methods are described in Cho, Kim, and Hazlett (2026) <doi:10.1017/pan.2026.10032>.

Version: 1.0.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 1.0.14), Matrix, ggplot2, rlang
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Suggests: MASS, posterior, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-04-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gpss (may not be active yet)
Author: Soonhong Cho [aut], Doeun Kim ORCID iD [aut], Chad Hazlett [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Chad Hazlett <chazlett at ucla.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/doeun-kim/gpss/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://doeunkim.org/gpss/, https://github.com/doeun-kim/gpss
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: gpss results

Documentation:

Reference manual: gpss.html , gpss.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: gpss_1.0.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): gpss_1.0.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): gpss_1.0.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): gpss_1.0.3.tgz

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