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asbio (version 0.3-30)

A collection of statistical tools for biologists

Description

Contains functions from: "Foundational Statistics for Biologists; A Textbook Using R" (Under contract; CRC Press; Release: Spring 2012)

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install.packages('asbio')

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0.3-30

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GPL (>= 2)

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Ken Aho

Last Published

March 31st, 2011

Functions in asbio (0.3-30)

huber.NR

Huber M-estimator iterative least squares algorithm
partial.resid.plot

Partial residual plots for interpretation of multiple regression.
exercise.repeated

Repeated measures data for an exercise experiment.
beta.div

Beta diversity functions
Shep.comp

Shepard plot type comparisons for PCoA
bv.boxplot

Bivariate boxplots
rat

Rat glycogen data from Sokal and Rohlf (1995).
anm.samp.design

Animated demonstration of randomized sampling designs
trim.me

Trim data
G.mean

Geometric mean
HL.mean

Hodges-Lehman estimator of location
starkey

DEM data from the Starkey experimental forest in NE Oregon.
rankindex.new

Compares the efficacy of resemblance measures for a particular data scenario.
world.co2

World CO2 levels, by country, from 1980 to 2006
world.pop

Population levels in various countries since 1980
pseudo.v

Jacknife pseudo-values
anm.coin

Animated demonstration of frequentist binomial convergence of probability using a coin flip.
bootstrap

A simple function for bootstrapping
panel.cor.res

functions for customizing correlation matrices
samp.dist

Animated and/or snapshot representations of a statistic's sampling distribution
chi.plot

Chi plots for diagnosing multivariate independence.
km

Kaplan-Meier survivorship.
alfalfa.split.plot

An agricultural split plot design
asthma

Asthma repeated measures dataset from Littell et al. (2002)
one.sample.z

One sample z-test
modlevenes.test

Modified Levene's test
shade.norm.tck

GUI display of probability
get.dist

Calculates 26 possible resemblance measures.
MC.test

Monte Carlo hypothesis testing for two samples.
ci.mu.z

Z and t confidence intervals for mu.
e.cancer

Esophageal cancer data modified slightly to create a balanced three-way factorial design
cliff.env

Environmental data for the community dataset cliff.sp
alpha.div

Functions for calculating alpha diversity.
win

Winsorize data
H.mean

Harmonic mean
Preston.dist

Preston diversity analysis
anm.ExpDesign

Animated depiction of experimental designs
shade.norm

Shading functions for interpretation of pdf probabilities.
D.sq

Mahalanobis distance for two sites using a pooled covariance matrix
MS.test

Mack-Skillings test
Pairw.test

Conducts pairwise post hoc tests associated with an ANOVA.
power.z.test

Power analysis for a one sample z-test
Hotelling

Hotelling T-squared test
stan.error

Variance and standard error estimators for the sampling distribution of the sample mean
radiation.heatl

Radiation-heatload algorithm