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asbio (version 1.12-1)

A Collection of Statistical Tools for Biologists

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Contains functions from: Aho, K. (2014) Foundational and Applied Statistics for Biologists using R. CRC/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, ISBN: 978-1-4398-7338-0.

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GPL (>= 2)

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Ken Aho

Last Published

October 31st, 2025

Functions in asbio (1.12-1)

Monte Carlo hypothesis testing for two samples.

Hodges-Lehman estimator of location

Soil potassium analyses from 8 laboratories

Glucose Levels Following Alcohol Ingestion

Calculates kappa statistic and other classification error statistics

Frigatebird drumming frequency data

Simple functions for MCMC demonstrations

Kullback test for equal covariance matrices.

Alpine soil temperature and moisture time series

Maximum likelihood algorithm for determining the binomial dispersal coefficient

Split plot computer chip data from Littell et al. (2006)

PCBs and herring egg thickness

Preston diversity analysis

R hat MCMC convergence statistic

Functions for calculating alpha diversity.

Mack-Skillings test

PM 2.5 pollutant data from Pocatello Idaho

Aids and veterans dataset

Animated depictions of Lotka-Volterra competition and exploitation models

Fern environmental sex determination data

Animated depiction of experimental designs

Agrostis variabilis cover measurements

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

CSIRO d13C-CO2 data from Rubino et al., A revised 1000 year atmospheric 13C-CO2 record from Law Dome and South Pole, Antarctica

Venn probability diagrams for an event with two outcomes

alfalfa.split.plot

An agricultural split plot design

Animation demonstrations of confidence intervals.

Animated plot of least squares function.

Animation of Markov Chain Monte Carlo walks in bivariate normal space

Animated plot of the least squares function.

Animated depictions of population growth

Anscombe's quartet

Bayesian linear models with uniform priors

anm.samp.design

Animated demonstration of randomized sampling designs

Determine agreement of two classifications

Animated plots of log-likelihood functions

Area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve

Conversion between binary digits and decimal numbers

Animated demonstration of density for a continuous pdf

Ant honeydew data

Animated depiction of six-sided die throws.

Grizzly bear litter sizes

Wood boring beetle data

Bat forearm length as a function of bat age

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

Anolis lizard contingency table data

Baby walking times experimental data

Angle of azimuth to a boundary.

Make plots of bivariate normal distributions

Bootstrap CI of M-estimators differences of two samples

Pulldown menus for 'asbio' interactive graphical functions

Bivariate boxplots

Bromus tectorum dataset

Bombus pollen data.

Barplots with error bars (including interval plots)

Bone development data

A simple function for bootstrapping

Caribou count data

Dataset of salary attributes for male and female workers from Ramsey and Schafer (1997)

Confidence interval for the product of two proportions

Bootstrap confidence intervals

Dataset of mammal traits from Ramsey and Schaefer (1997)

Chi plots for diagnosing multivariate independence.

Chronic ailment counts for urban and rural women in Australia

Z and t confidence intervals for mu.

One sided confidence interval for mu.

Confidence interval for the median

Corn yield data

crab gill and body weight data

Environmental data for the community dataset cliff.sp

Yellowstone NP cliff community data

Confidence interval estimation for the binomial parameter pi using five popular methods.

Confidence intervals for the ratio of binomial and multinomial proportions

Concrete strength dataset for data mining

Confidence intervals for ratios of proportions when the denominator is known

Confidence intervals for stratified random samples.

Confidence interval for sigma squared.

Agresti crabs dataset

Florida state death penalty data

Contingency data for high school marijuana, alcohol, and cigarette use

Hamilton depression scores before and after drug treatment

Dissolved levels in locations above and below a town

Efficiency of a randomized block design compared to a CRD

Maternal deer data

Tippett cuckoo egg data

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

Mule deer telemetry data

Garment Latin square data from Littell et al. (2002)

Fruit weight data from Littell et al. (2002)

Enzymatic rate data for the phospholipase protein ExoU

Facebook performance metrics for data mining and machine learning

Australian frog calls following fire

Likelihood ratio test for tabular data

Fire data from Yellowstone National Park

exercise.repeated

Repeated measures data for an exercise experiment.

Mountain goat data from Yellowstone National Park

Fly sex and longevity

Huber M-estimator iterative least squares algorithm

Ipomopsis fruit yield data

Heart rate data from Milliken and Johnson (2009)

Huber M-estimator of location

Kaplan-Meier survivorship.

Creosote bush counts

Huber one step M-estimator

Visual illusions illustrating human perception errors.

Calculates joint confidence intervals for parameters in linear models using a Bonferroni procedure.

Agricultural factorial design

Patient responses to myeloma drug treatments

Nearest neighbor boundary coordinates

Gibbs sampling of normal hierarchical models

Magnet pain relief data

Mountain island biogeographic data

Datasets for resource use and availability

AIC, AICc, BIC, Mallow's Cp, and PRESS evaluation of linear models

Mouse life expectancy data

Modified Levene's test

Mosquito wing length data

Partial correlations of determination in multiple regression

Multiple pairwise comparison procedure to accompany a Kruskal-Wallis test

One sample t-test

Welch tests controlled for simultaneous inference

One sample z-test

Multiple pairwise comparison procedure to accompany a Friedman test.

Conducts pairwise post hoc and planned comparisons associated with an ANOVA

partial.resid.plot

Partial residual plots for interpretation of multiple regression.

Functions for customizing correlation matrices

Polyamine data from Hollander and Wolfe (1999)

Plant traits for 136 species

Permutation test for two and three way factorial designs

Nitrogen content of soils under pika haypiles

Creates plots for one way ANCOVAs

Potash/cotton strength data

Power analysis for a one sample z-test

Normal quantile plots for single or multiple factor levels

Perpendicularity

Plots confidence intervals and/or bars with letters indicating significant differences for objects from class pairw

Plots a simple linear regression along with confidence and prediction intervals.

Prostate cancer data

prediction sum of squares

Biweight midvariance, and biweight midcorrelation.

Jacknife pseudo-values

Rat glycogen data from Sokal and Rohlf (2012)

Fisher's Rothamsted potato data

Visualize the sampling distribution of Pearson's product moment correlation

Portneuf River longitudinal N and P data

Percentage bend correlation

Random draws from a scaled inverse chi-square distribution

Mammalian BMR and biomass data from Savage et al. (2004)

Jackknife standard error from a set of pseudovalues

A multivariate normal dataset for data mining

Refinery CO dataset

Matched pairs schizophrenia data

Animated representation of sampling distribution basics

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

CO2 exchange time series data

Visualize the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium

Visualization of the M-estimation function

see.exppower.tck

Visualize exponential power functions

Interactive worksheet for logical and fallacious arguments

see.accPrec.tck

Interactive depiction of precision and accuracy

Unbalanced and balanced linear models

see.cor.range.tck

Depict the effect of range on correlation

Regression linear model derivation from linear algebra

ANOVA linear models

Interactive depiction of type I and type II error and power

Visualize ANCOVA mechanics

Interactive depiction of the ANOVA mechanism

Interactive depiction of ROC curves

Interactive smoother demonstrations

Interactive depiction of the multinomial distribution

see.rEffect.tck

Visualize random effects model

Depiction of the effect of random level selection on inferences concerning fixed effects

see.regression.tck

Demonstration of regression mechanics

Interactive visualization of least squares regression.

Visualize important non-linear functions

Compilations of genus and species counts from Simberloff (1970)

Interactive depiction of type I and II error

American gizzard shad data

Snoring and heart disease contingency data

SO2 data for 32 US cities with respect to 6 explanatory variables

Sample skewness and kurtosis

selftest.se.tck1

Interactive self-testing questions

Shading functions for interpretation of pdf probabilities.

Robust one way trimmed means test.

Visualize t-tests

GUI display of probability

DEM data from the Starkey experimental forest in NE Oregon

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

Transition matrix analysis

Salsify height dataset

del14C in the atmosphere from 1700-1950

Veneer data from Littell et al. (2002)

trim.ranef.test

Robust test for random factors using trimmed means.

Tukey's test of additivity.

World CO2 levels, by country, from 1980 to 2006

world.emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions from Our World in Data

White wine quality data for data mining

Wildebeest carcass categorical data

Whickham contingency table data for smokers and survivorship

Scandinavian site by species community matrix

Spider web length data

Agricultural randomized block design

Species richness and environmental variables from Mt Washburn

Population levels in various countries from 1980-2006

Barro Colorado Island Tree Counts

Mahalanobis distance for two sites using a pooled covariance matrix

Atmospheric carbon and D14C measurements

Doornik-Hansen test for multivariate normality.

May's effective specialization index

Calculation and display of concordant and discordant pairs

Brunner-Dette-Munk test

Tree presence/absence data from Barro Colorado island

Agresti-Pendergrast test

Bayesian graphical summaries for discrete or categorical data.