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asbio (version 1.3-4)

A Collection of Statistical Tools for Biologists

Description

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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install.packages('asbio')

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1.3-4

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Ken Aho

Last Published

July 20th, 2016

Functions in asbio (1.3-4)

baby.walk

Baby walking times experimental data
bear

Grizzly bear litter sizes
chi.plot

Chi plots for diagnosing multivariate independence.
anm.coin

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

Z and t confidence intervals for mu.
caribou

Caribou count data
alpha.div

Functions for calculating alpha diversity.
anm.samp.design

Animated demonstration of randomized sampling designs
asthma

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

An agricultural split plot design
cuckoo

Tippett cuckoo egg data
D.sq

Mahalanobis distance for two sites using a pooled covariance matrix
cliff.env

Environmental data for the community dataset cliff.sp
corn

Corn yield data
H.mean

Harmonic mean
G.mean

Geometric mean
e.cancer

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

Hodges-Lehman estimator of location
exercise.repeated

Repeated measures data for an exercise experiment.
huber.NR

Huber M-estimator iterative least squares algorithm
K

Soil potassium analyses from 8 laboratories
moose.sel

Datasets for resource use and availability
modlevene.test

Modified Levene's test
MC.test

Monte Carlo hypothesis testing for two samples.
MS.test

Mack-Skillings test
km

Kaplan-Meier survivorship.
pairw.anova

Conducts pairwise post hoc and planned comparisons associated with an ANOVA
life.exp

Mouse life expectancy data.
pairw.oneway

Welch tests controlled for simultaneous inference
one.sample.z

One sample z-test
panel.cor.res

Functions for customizing correlation matrices
pseudo.v

Jacknife pseudo-values
potash

Potash/cotton strength data
portneuf

Portneuf River longitudinal N and P data.
PM2.5

PM 2.5 pollutant data from Pocatello Idaho.
qq.Plot

Normal quantile plots for single or multiple factor levels
savage

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

Rat glycogen data from Sokal and Rohlf (2012).
power.z.test

Power analysis for a one sample z-test
Preston.dist

Preston diversity analysis
SexDeterm

Fern environmental sex determination data
shade.norm

Shading functions for interpretation of pdf probabilities.
see.ttest.tck

Visualize t-tests
simberloff

Compilations of genus and species counts from Simberloff (1970)
shade.norm.tck

GUI display of probability
sedum.ts

CO2 exchange time series data
starkey

DEM data from the Starkey experimental forest in NE Oregon.
stan.error

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

Snoring and heart disease contingency data
SM.temp.moist

Alpine soil temperature and moisture time series
trim.me

Trim data
win

Winsorize data
bv.boxplot

Bivariate boxplots
ci.impt

Confidence interval for the product of two proportions
ci.prat.ak

Confidence intervals for ratios of proportions when the denominator is known
world.co2

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

Population levels in various countries since 1980