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asbio (version 1.6-5)

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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Ken Aho

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June 29th, 2020

Functions in asbio (1.6-5)

K

Soil potassium analyses from 8 laboratories
G.mean

Geometric mean
ConDis.matrix

Calculation and display of concordant and discordant pairs
BDM.test

Brunner-Dette-Munk test
DH.test

Doornik-Hansen test for multivariate normality.
Kappa

Calculates kappa statistic and other classification error statistics
MC

Simple functions for MCMC demonstrations
PCB

PCBs and herring egg thickness
D.sq

Mahalanobis distance for two sites using a pooled covariance matrix
ES.May

May's effective specialization index
Bayes.disc

Bayesian graphical summaries for discrete or categorical data.
C.isotope

Atmospheric carbon and D14C measurements
BCI.plant

Tree presence/absence data from Barro Colorado island
AP.test

Agresti-Pendergrast test
SexDeterm

Fern environmental sex determination data
anm.coin

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

Sample mode
Kullback

Kullback test for equal covariance matrices.
MC.test

Monte Carlo hypothesis testing for two samples.
Rabino_CO2

CSIRO d13C-CO2 data from Rubino et al., A revised 1000 year atmospheric 13C-CO2 record from Law Dome and South Pole, Antarctica
PM2.5

PM 2.5 pollutant data from Pocatello Idaho.
anm.cont.pdf

Animated demonstration of density for a continuous pdf
alpha.div

Functions for calculating alpha diversity.
bayes.lm

Bayesian linear models with uniform priors
Semiconductor

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

Animated depiction of six-sided die throws.
Glucose2

Glucose Levels Following Alcohol Ingestion
MS.test

Mack-Skillings test
anm.ExpDesign

Animated depiction of experimental designs
SM.temp.moist

Alpine soil temperature and moisture time series
agrostis

Agrostis variabilis cover measurements
anm.ci

Animation demonstrations of confidence intervals.
Venn

Venn probability diagrams for an event with two outcomes
anm.geo.growth

Animated depictions of population growth
bin2dec

Conversion of binary digits to decimal numbers
ML.k

Maximum likelihood algorithm for determining the binomial dispersal coefficient
anm.LV

Animated depictions of Lotka-Volterra competition and exploitation models
anm.loglik

Animated plots of log-likelihood functions
best.agreement

Determine agreement of two classifications
anscombe

Anscombe's quartet
ci.p

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

Animated plot of least squares function.
H.mean

Harmonic mean
ci.mu.oneside

One sided confidence interval for mu.
beetle

Wood boring beetle data.
ant.dew

Ant honeydew data
BCI.count

Barro Colorado Island Tree Counts
bombus

Bombus pollen data.
anm.ls.reg

Animated plot of the least squares function.
book.menu

Pulldown menus for 'asbio' interactive graphical functions
bone

Bone development data
anm.mc.bvn

Animation of Markov Chain Monte Carlo walks in bivariate normal space
ci.prat

Confidence intervals for the ratio of binomial and multinomial proportions
ci.prat.ak

Confidence intervals for ratios of proportions when the denominator is known
bound.angle

Angle of azimuth to a boundary.
cliff.env

Environmental data for the community dataset cliff.sp
case0902

Dataset of mammal traits from Ramsey and Schaefer (1997)
case1202

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

Area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve
asthma

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

A simple function for bootstrapping
cuckoo

Tippett cuckoo egg data
cliff.sp

Yellowstone NP cliff community data
HL.mean

Hodges-Lehman estimator of location
boot.ci.M

Bootstrap CI of M-estimators differences of two samples
dO2

Dissolved levels in locations above and below a town
ci.boot

Bootstrap confidence intervals
chi.plot

Chi plots for diagnosing multivariate independence.
pairw.oneway

Welch tests controlled for simultaneous inference
ci.impt

Confidence interval for the product of two proportions
goats

Mountain goat data from Yellowstone National Park
deer

Maternal deer data
modlevene.test

Modified Levene's test
huber.mu

Huber M-estimator of location
bplot

Barplots with error bars (including interval plots)
montane.island

Mountain island biogeographic data
polyamine

Polyamine data from Hollander and Wolfe (1999)
eff.rbd

Efficiency of a randomized block design compared to a CRD
Preston.dist

Preston diversity analysis
depression

Hamilton depression scores before and after drug treatment
grass

Agricultural factorial design
huber.one.step

Huber one step M-estimator
panel.cor.res

Functions for customizing correlation matrices
R.hat

R hat MCMC convergence statistic
portneuf

Portneuf River longitudinal N and P data
aids

Aids and veterans dataset
magnets

Magnet pain relief data
rat

Rat glycogen data from Sokal and Rohlf (2012)
chronic

Chronic ailment counts for urban and rural women in Australia
rmvm

A multivariate normal dataset for data mining
r.pb

Percentage bend correlation
partial.R2

Partial correlations of determination in multiple regression
mcmc.norm.hier

Gibbs sampling of normal hierarchical models
bear

Grizzly bear litter sizes
samp.dist

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

Enzymatic rate data for the phospholipase protein ExoU
see.lmu.tck

Unbalanced and balanced linear models
alfalfa.split.plot

An agricultural split plot design
concrete

Concrete strength dataset for data mining
anm.samp.design

Animated demonstration of randomized sampling designs
partial.resid.plot

Partial residual plots for interpretation of multiple regression.
see.logic

Interactive worksheet for logical and fallacious arguments
larrea

Creosote bush counts
fire

Fire data from Yellowstone National Park
plantTraits

Plant traits for 136 species
life.exp

Mouse life expectancy data
fly.sex

Fly sex and longevity
see.norm.tck

Visualize pdfs
plot.pairw

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

Power analysis for a one sample z-test
see.power

Interactive depiction of type I and type II error and power
lm.select

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

Creates plots for one way ANCOVAs
bvn.plot

Make plots of bivariate normal distributions
loess.surf

Loess 2D and 3D smooth plots
prostate

Prostate cancer data
anolis

Anolis lizard contingency table data
caribou

Caribou count data
corn

Corn yield data
prp

Perpendicularity
press

prediction sum of squares
baby.walk

Baby walking times experimental data
snore

Snoring and heart disease contingency data
plotCI.reg

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

Jackknife standard error from a set of pseudovalues
bromus

Bromus tectorum dataset
g.test

Likelihood ratio test for tabular data
garments

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

Visualize ANCOVA mechanics
heart

Heart rate data from Milliken and Johnson (2009)
bats

Bat forearm length as a function of bat age
sc.twin

Matched pairs schizophrenia data
bv.boxplot

Bivariate boxplots
ci.median

Confidence interval for the median
see.lma.tck

ANOVA linear models
see.lmr.tck

Regression linear model derivation from linear algebra
crab.weight

crab gill and body weight data
ci.sigma

Confidence interval for sigma squared.
trim.test

Robust one way trimmed means test.
ci.mu.z

Z and t confidence intervals for mu.
huber.NR

Huber M-estimator iterative least squares algorithm
ci.strat

Confidence intervals for stratified random samples.
so2.us.cities

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

Interactive visualization of least squares regression.
pairw.fried

Multiple pairwise comparison procedure to accompany a Friedman test.
trim.ranef.test

Robust test for random factors using trimmed means.
crabs

Agresti crabs dataset
pairw.kw

Multiple pairwise comparison procedure to accompany a Kruskal-Wallis test
exercise.repeated

Repeated measures data for an exercise experiment.
death.penalty

Florida state death penalty data
deer.296

Mule deer telemetry data
facebook

Facebook performance metrics for data mining and machine learning
see.ttest.tck

Visualize t-tests
perm.fact.test

Permutation test for two and three way factorial designs
drugs

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

Nitrogen content of soils under pika haypiles
see.nlm

Visualize important non-linear functions
pseudo.v

Jacknife pseudo-values
qq.Plot

Normal quantile plots for single or multiple factor levels
joint.ci.bonf

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

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

Interactive depiction of the ANOVA mechanism
see.roc.tck

Interactive depiction of ROC curves
transM

Transition matrix analysis
see.typeI_II

Interactive depiction of type I and II error
rinvchisq

Random draws from a scaled inverse chi-square distribution
km

Kaplan-Meier survivorship.
refinery

Refinery CO dataset
see.smooth.tck

Interactive smoother demonstrations
see.mixedII

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

Winsorize data
moose.sel

Datasets for resource use and availability
mosquito

Mosquito wing length data
see.mnom.tck

Interactive depiction of the multinomial distribution
simberloff

Compilations of genus and species counts from Simberloff (1970)
trim.me

Trim data
world.co2

World CO2 levels, by country, from 1980 to 2006
one.sample.t

One sample t-test
skew

Sample skewness and kurtosis
world.pop

Population levels in various countries from 1980-2006
frog

Australian frog calls following fire
fruit

Fruit weight data from Littell et al. (2002)
tukey.add.test

Tukey's test of additivity.
myeloma

Patient responses to myeloma drug treatments
wine

White wine quality data for data mining
ipomopsis

Ipomopsis fruit yield data
illusions

Visual illusions illustrating human perception errors.
r.bw

Biweight midvariance, and biweight midcorrelation.
one.sample.z

One sample z-test
veneer

Veneer data from Littell et al. (2002)
r.dist

Visualize the sampling distribution of Pearson's product moment correlation
webs

Spider web length data
wheat

Agricultural randomized block design
sedum.ts

CO2 exchange time series data
near.bound

Nearest neighbor boundary coordinates
see.HW

Visualize the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
see.accPrec.tck

Interactive depiction of precision and accuracy
see.M

Visualization of the M-estimation function
see.rEffect.tck

Visualize random effects model
paik

Paik diagrams
pairw.anova

Conducts pairwise post hoc and planned comparisons associated with an ANOVA
potash

Potash/cotton strength data
potato

Fisher's Rothamsted potato data
selftest.se.tck1

Interactive self-testing questions
see.regression.tck

Demonstration of regression mechanics
samp.dist.mech

Animated representation of sampling distribution basics
see.cor.range.tck

Depict the effect of range on correlation
savage

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

American gizzard shad data
stan.error

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

Scandinavian site by species community matrix
wash.rich

Species richness and environmental variables from Mt Washburn
starkey

DEM data from the Starkey experimental forest in NE Oregon
see.exppower.tck

Visualize exponential power functions
shade.norm

Shading functions for interpretation of pdf probabilities.
shade.norm.tck

GUI display of probability
suess

del14C in the atmosphere from 1700-1950
trag

Salsify height dataset
whickham

Whickham contingency table data for smokers and survivorship
wildebeest

Wildebeest carcass categorical data