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asbio (version 0.3-34)

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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0.3-34

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Ken Aho

Last Published

May 16th, 2011

Functions in asbio (0.3-34)

panel.cor.res

functions for customizing correlation matrices
starkey

DEM data from the Starkey experimental forest in NE Oregon.
samp.dist

Animated and/or snapshot representations of a statistic's sampling distribution
asthma

Asthma repeated measures dataset from Littell et al. (2002)
alfalfa.split.plot

An agricultural split plot design
MC.test

Monte Carlo hypothesis testing for two samples.
MS.test

Mack-Skillings test
get.dist

Calculates 26 possible resemblance measures.
one.sample.z

One sample z-test
radiation.heatl

Radiation-heatload algorithm
world.pop

Population levels in various countries since 1980
G.mean

Geometric mean
Pairw.test

Conducts pairwise post hoc tests associated with an ANOVA.
Shep.comp

Shepard plot type comparisons for PCoA
partial.resid.plot

Partial residual plots for interpretation of multiple regression.
modlevenes.test

Modified Levene's test
rankindex.new

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

Rat glycogen data from Sokal and Rohlf (1995).
alpha.div

Functions for calculating alpha diversity.
exercise.repeated

Repeated measures data for an exercise experiment.
bv.boxplot

Bivariate boxplots
e.cancer

Esophageal cancer data modified slightly to create a balanced three-way factorial design
trim.me

Trim data
cliff.env

Environmental data for the community dataset cliff.sp
Hotelling

Hotelling T-squared test
stan.error

Variance and standard error estimators for the sampling distribution of the sample mean
pseudo.v

Jacknife pseudo-values
Preston.dist

Preston diversity analysis
anm.ExpDesign

Animated depiction of experimental designs
km

Kaplan-Meier survivorship.
beta.div

Beta diversity functions
anm.samp.design

Animated demonstration of randomized sampling designs
win

Winsorize data
world.co2

World CO2 levels, by country, from 1980 to 2006
HL.mean

Hodges-Lehman estimator of location
shade.norm

Shading functions for interpretation of pdf probabilities.
D.sq

Mahalanobis distance for two sites using a pooled covariance matrix
ci.mu.z

Z and t confidence intervals for mu.
anm.coin

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

A simple function for bootstrapping
power.z.test

Power analysis for a one sample z-test
H.mean

Harmonic mean
shade.norm.tck

GUI display of probability
chi.plot

Chi plots for diagnosing multivariate independence.
huber.NR

Huber M-estimator iterative least squares algorithm