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asbio (version 0.3-42)

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 2013)

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GPL (>= 2)

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Ken Aho

Last Published

July 8th, 2012

Functions in asbio (0.3-42)

bootstrap

A simple function for bootstrapping
huber.NR

Huber M-estimator iterative least squares algorithm
alfalfa.split.plot

An agricultural split plot design
MS.test

Mack-Skillings test
anm.ExpDesign

Animated depiction of experimental designs
one.sample.z

One sample z-test
H.mean

Harmonic mean
modlevenes.test

Modified Levene's test
get.dist

Calculates 26 possible resemblance measures.
Pairw.test

Conducts pairwise post hoc tests associated with an ANOVA.
PM2.5

PM 2.5 pollutant data from Pocatello Idaho.
stan.error

Variance and standard error estimators for the sampling distribution of the sample mean
anm.coin

Animated demonstration of frequentist binomial convergence of probability using a coin flip.
panel.cor.res

functions for customizing correlation matrices
asthma

Asthma repeated measures dataset from Littell et al. (2002)
anm.samp.design

Animated demonstration of randomized sampling designs
radiation.heatl

Radiation-heatload algorithm
trim.me

Trim data
rankindex.new

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

Hodges-Lehman estimator of location
partial.resid.plot

Partial residual plots for interpretation of multiple regression.
power.z.test

Power analysis for a one sample z-test
world.co2

World CO2 levels, by country, from 1980 to 2006
D.sq

Mahalanobis distance for two sites using a pooled covariance matrix
Preston.dist

Preston diversity analysis
chi.plot

Chi plots for diagnosing multivariate independence.
beta.div

Beta diversity functions
starkey

DEM data from the Starkey experimental forest in NE Oregon.
world.pop

Population levels in various countries since 1980
rat

Rat glycogen data from Sokal and Rohlf (1995).
pseudo.v

Jacknife pseudo-values
cuckoo

Tippett cuckoo egg data
ci.mu.z

Z and t confidence intervals for mu.
portneuf

Portneuf River longitudinal N and P data.
samp.dist

Animated and/or snapshot representations of a statistic's sampling distribution
Shep.comp

Shepard plot type comparisons for PCoA
km

Kaplan-Meier survivorship.
Hotelling

Hotelling T-squared test
MC.test

Monte Carlo hypothesis testing for two samples.
alpha.div

Functions for calculating alpha diversity.
e.cancer

Esophageal cancer data modified slightly to create a balanced three-way factorial design
shade.norm.tck

GUI display of probability
shade.norm

Shading functions for interpretation of pdf probabilities.
exercise.repeated

Repeated measures data for an exercise experiment.
cliff.env

Environmental data for the community dataset cliff.sp
bv.boxplot

Bivariate boxplots
G.mean

Geometric mean
win

Winsorize data