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asbio (version 1.6-1)

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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Ken Aho

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January 12th, 2020

Functions in asbio (1.6-1)

BCI.count

Barro Colorado Island Tree Counts
ES.May

May's effective specialization index
PM2.5

PM 2.5 pollutant data from Pocatello Idaho.
ML.k

Maximum likelihood algorithm for determining the binomial dispersal coefficient
MC

Simple functions for MCMC demonstrations
PCB

PCBs and herring egg thickness
MS.test

Mack-Skillings test
Kullback

Kullback test for equal covariance matrices.
MC.test

Monte Carlo hypothesis testing for two samples.
Mode

Sample mode
G.mean

Geometric mean
Venn

Venn probability diagrams for an event with two outcomes
K

Soil potassium analyses from 8 laboratories
anm.coin

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

Agrostis variabilis cover measurements
Kappa

Calculates kappa statistic and other classification error statistics
bin2dec

Conversion of binary digits to decimal numbers
anm.geo.growth

Animated depictions of population growth
Glucose2

Glucose Levels Following Alcohol Ingestion
beetle

Wood boring beetle data.
caribou

Caribou count data
Semiconductor

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

R hat MCMC convergence statistic
anm.die

Animated depiction of six-sided die throws.
Preston.dist

Preston diversity analysis
anm.LV

Animated depictions of Lotka-Volterra competition and exploitation models
SexDeterm

Fern environmental sex determination data
asthma

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

Area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve
anm.mc.bvn

Animation of Markov Chain Monte Carlo walks in bivariate normal space
anm.ls.reg

Animated plot of the least squares function.
bromus

Bromus tectorum dataset
bplot

Barplots with error bars (including interval plots)
anm.cont.pdf

Animated demonstration of density for a continuous pdf
chronic

Chronic ailment counts for urban and rural women in Australia
aids

Aids and veterans dataset
anscombe

Anscombe's quartet
alfalfa.split.plot

An agricultural split plot design
anm.ci

Animation demonstrations of confidence intervals.
anm.samp.design

Animated demonstration of randomized sampling designs
HL.mean

Hodges-Lehman estimator of location
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
H.mean

Harmonic mean
anolis

Anolis lizard contingency table data
ant.dew

Ant honeydew data
ci.boot

Bootstrap confidence intervals
book.menu

Pulldown menus for 'asbio' interactive graphical functions
bayes.lm

Bayesian linear models with uniform priors
alpha.div

Functions for calculating alpha diversity.
crabs

Agresti crabs dataset
cuckoo

Tippett cuckoo egg data
anm.ExpDesign

Animated depiction of experimental designs
case0902

Dataset of mammal traits from Ramsey and Schaefer (1997)
ci.impt

Confidence interval for the product of two proportions
anm.ls

Animated plot of least squares function.
ci.median

Confidence interval for the median
baby.walk

Baby walking times experimental data
bear

Grizzly bear litter sizes
SM.temp.moist

Alpine soil temperature and moisture time series
ci.p

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

Bombus pollen data.
ci.prat

Confidence intervals for the ratio of binomial and multinomial proportions
boot.ci.M

Bootstrap CI of M-estimators differences of two samples
anm.loglik

Animated plots of log-likelihood functions
bone

Bone development data
ci.strat

Confidence intervals for stratified random samples.
ci.prat.ak

Confidence intervals for ratios of proportions when the denominator is known
deer.296

Mule deer telemetry data
deer

Maternal deer data
ci.mu.oneside

One sided confidence interval for mu.
ci.mu.z

Z and t confidence intervals for mu.
ci.sigma

Confidence interval for sigma squared.
bvn.plot

Make plots of bivariate normal distributions
bv.boxplot

Bivariate boxplots
cliff.env

Environmental data for the community dataset cliff.sp
bats

Bat forearm length as a function of bat age
grass

Agricultural factorial design
corn

Corn yield data
km

Kaplan-Meier survivorship.
one.sample.z

One sample z-test
loess.surf

Loess 2D and 3D smooth plots
drugs

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

Fire data from Yellowstone National Park
crab.weight

crab gill and body weight data
larrea

Creosote bush counts
magnets

Magnet pain relief data
dO2

Dissolved levels in locations above and below a town
ipomopsis

Ipomopsis fruit yield data
exercise.repeated

Repeated measures data for an exercise experiment.
death.penalty

Florida state death penalty data
panel.cor.res

Functions for customizing correlation matrices
montane.island

Mountain island biogeographic data
depression

Hamilton depression scores before and after drug treatment
enzyme

Enzymatic rate data for the phospholipase protein ExoU
heart

Heart rate data from Milliken and Johnson (2009)
facebook

Facebook performance metrics for data mining and machine learning
partial.R2

Partial correlations of determination in multiple regression
moose.sel

Datasets for resource use and availability
joint.ci.bonf

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

Fly sex and longevity
garments

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

Australian frog calls following fire
plot.pairw

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

A simple function for bootstrapping
life.exp

Mouse life expectancy data
goats

Mountain goat data from Yellowstone National Park
bound.angle

Angle of azimuth to a boundary.
paik

Paik diagrams
pseudo.v

Jacknife pseudo-values
prp

Perpendicularity
pika

Nitrogen content of soils under pika haypiles
plantTraits

Plant traits for 136 species
case1202

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

Chi plots for diagnosing multivariate independence.
plotAncova

Creates plots for one way ANCOVAs
cliff.sp

Yellowstone NP cliff community data
lm.select

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

prediction sum of squares
fruit

Fruit weight data from Littell et al. (2002)
e.cancer

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

Efficiency of a randomized block design compared to a CRD
g.test

Likelihood ratio test for tabular data
concrete

Concrete strength dataset for data mining
huber.mu

Huber M-estimator of location
huber.NR

Huber M-estimator iterative least squares algorithm
see.HW

Visualize the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
mcmc.norm.hier

Gibbs sampling of normal hierarchical models
modlevene.test

Modified Levene's test
mosquito

Mosquito wing length data
huber.one.step

Huber one step M-estimator
illusions

Visual illusions illustrating human perception errors.
near.bound

Nearest neighbor boundary coordinates
prostate

Prostate cancer data
rinvchisq

Random draws from a scaled inverse chi-square distribution
perm.fact.test

Permutation test for two and three way factorial designs
partial.resid.plot

Partial residual plots for interpretation of multiple regression.
portneuf

Portneuf River longitudinal N and P data
pairw.kw

Multiple pairwise comparison procedure to accompany a Kruskal-Wallis test
plotCI.reg

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

Jackknife standard error from a set of pseudovalues
qq.Plot

Normal quantile plots for single or multiple factor levels
r.bw

Biweight midvariance, and biweight midcorrelation.
pairw.oneway

Welch tests controlled for simultaneous inference
polyamine

Polyamine data from Hollander and Wolfe (1999)
one.sample.t

One sample t-test
sedum.ts

CO2 exchange time series data
see.M

Visualization of the M-estimation function
myeloma

Patient responses to myeloma drug treatments
r.dist

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

Potash/cotton strength data
see.logic

Interactive worksheet for logical and fallacious arguments
rmvm

A multivariate normal dataset for data mining
see.smooth.tck

Interactive smoother demonstrations
see.mixedII

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

Sample skewness and kurtosis
see.ttest.tck

Visualize t-tests
snore

Snoring and heart disease contingency data
r.pb

Percentage bend correlation
pairw.anova

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

DEM data from the Starkey experimental forest in NE Oregon
savage

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

del14C in the atmosphere from 1700-1950
see.norm.tck

Visualize pdfs
see.lmu.tck

Unbalanced and balanced linear models
shade.norm

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

Regression linear model derivation from linear algebra
see.nlm

Visualize important non-linear functions
trim.me

Trim data
shad

American gizzard shad data
world.pop

Population levels in various countries from 1980-2006
see.exppower.tck

Visualize exponential power functions
sc.twin

Matched pairs schizophrenia data
see.accPrec.tck

Interactive depiction of precision and accuracy
potato

Fisher's Rothamsted potato data
pairw.fried

Multiple pairwise comparison procedure to accompany a Friedman test.
see.lma.tck

ANOVA linear models
see.mnom.tck

Interactive depiction of the multinomial distribution
see.move

Interactive visualization of least squares regression.
trim.ranef.test

Robust test for random factors using trimmed means.
see.ancova.tck

Visualize ANCOVA mechanics
power.z.test

Power analysis for a one sample z-test
wash.rich

Species richness and environmental variables from Mt Washburn
webs

Spider web length data
so2.us.cities

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

Robust one way trimmed means test.
stan.error

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

Rat glycogen data from Sokal and Rohlf (2012)
tukey.add.test

Tukey's test of additivity.
wheat

Agricultural randomized block design
whickham

Whickham contingency table data for smokers and survivorship
see.power

Interactive depiction of type I and type II error and power
see.typeI_II

Interactive depiction of type I and II error
refinery

Refinery CO dataset
samp.dist.mech

Animated representation of sampling distribution basics
see.anova.tck

Interactive depiction of the ANOVA mechanism
see.regression.tck

Demonstration of regression mechanics
see.roc.tck

Interactive depiction of ROC curves
samp.dist

Animated and/or snapshot representations of a statistic's sampling distribution
see.cor.range.tck

Depict the effect of range on correlation
selftest.se.tck1

Interactive self-testing statistical questions
transM

Transition matrix analysis
wine

White wine quality data for data mining
world.co2

World CO2 levels, by country, from 1980 to 2006
trag

Salsify height dataset
see.rEffect.tck

Visualize random effects model
shade.norm.tck

GUI display of probability
simberloff

Compilations of genus and species counts from Simberloff (1970)
veneer

Veneer data from Littell et al. (2002)
vs

Scandinavian site by species community matrix
wildebeest

Wildebeest carcass categorical data
win

Winsorize data
AP.test

Agresti-Pendergrast test
DH.test

Doornik-Hansen test for multivariate normality.
Bayes.disc

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

Atmospheric carbon and D14C measurements
ConDis.matrix

Calculation and display of concordant and discordant pairs
D.sq

Mahalanobis distance for two sites using a pooled covariance matrix
BCI.plant

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

Brunner-Dette-Munk test