pda: Privacy-Preserving Distributed Algorithms

A collection of privacy-preserving distributed algorithms (PDAs) for conducting federated statistical learning across multiple data sites. The PDA framework includes models for various tasks such as regression, trial emulation, causal inference, design-specific analysis, and clustering. The PDA algorithms run on a lead site and only require summary statistics from collaborating sites, with one or few iterations. The package can be used together with the online data transfer system (<https://pda-ota.pdamethods.org/>) for safe and convenient collaboration. For more information, please visit our software websites: <https://github.com/Penncil/pda>, and <https://pdamethods.org/>.

Version: 1.3.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 0.12.19), stats, httr, rvest, jsonlite, data.table, cobalt, EmpiricalCalibration, survival, minqa, glmnet, MASS, numDeriv, metafor, Matrix, ordinal, plyr, tidyr, tibble, dplyr, geex, data.tree
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppEigen
Suggests: lme4
Published: 2025-11-17
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.pda
Author: Chongliang Luo [cre], Rui Duan [aut], Mackenzie Edmondson [aut], Jiayi Tong [aut], Xiaokang Liu [aut], Kenneth Locke [aut], Jie Hu [aut], Bingyu Zhang [aut], Yicheng Shen [aut], Yudong Wang [aut], Yiwen Lu [aut], Lu Li [aut], Yong Chen [aut], Penn Computing Inference Learning (PennCIL) lab [cph]
Maintainer: Chongliang Luo <luocl3009 at gmail.com>
License: Apache License 2.0
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: pda results

Documentation:

Reference manual: pda.html , pda.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: pda_1.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: pda_1.2.8.zip, r-release: pda_1.2.8.zip, r-oldrel: pda_1.2.8.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): pda_1.2.8.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pda_1.2.8.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pda_1.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pda_1.3.0.tgz
Old sources: pda archive

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