Laterality (version 0.9.5)

Functions to Calculate Common Laterality Statistics in Primatology

Description

Calculates and plots Handedness index (HI), absolute HI, mean HI and z-score which are commonly used indexes for the study of hand preference (laterality) in non-human primates.

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install.packages('Laterality')

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0.9.5

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GPL (>= 2.0)

Maintainer

Antony Borel

Last Published

July 23rd, 2024

Functions in Laterality (0.9.5)

lateradata

lateradata: data.frame for later-package examples

laterAFCM

laterAFCM: this function calculates disjunctive table, Burt table and contributions for multiple correspondence analysis (MCA).

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later

later: this function calculates handedness index (HI) and z-score.

HImeanindabs

HImeanindabs: this function calculates the absolute mean Handedness Index of each individual.

HImeanact

HImeanact: this function calculates the mean Handedness Index for each activity.

laterdata

laterdata: data.frame for later-package examples

HImeanind

HImeanind: this function calculates the mean Handedness Index of each individual.

lvisAFCM

lvisAFCM: this function calculates disjonctive table, blurt table and contributions for AFCM and plots the corresponding graphs.

HIndivabs

HIndivabs: this function calculates the absolute Handedness Index of each individual for each activity and plots the corresponding histogram.

visAFCM

visAFCM: this function plots multiple correspondence analysis graphs based on ade4 package functions.

HImeanactabs

HImeanactabs: this function calculates the absolute mean Handedness Index for each activity.

HIndiv

HIndiv: this function calculates the Handedness Index of each individual for each activity and plots the corresponding histogram.

laterhist

laterhist: this function plots an histogram of the different type of grasp (Left, right, bimanual...) for each kind of activity.