Analysis of Chronological Patterns from Archaeological Count Data

A toolkit for absolute and relative dating and analysis of chronological patterns. This package includes functions for chronological modeling and dating of archaeological assemblages from count data. It provides methods for matrix seriation. It also allows to compute time point estimates and density estimates of the occupation and duration of an archaeological site.

Continuous Mapping of Genetic Diversity

Generate continuous maps of genetic diversity using moving windows with options for rarefaction, interpolation, and masking as described in Bishop et al. (2023) .

Estimation of Transmissibility in the Early Stages of a Disease Outbreak

Implements a simple, likelihood-based estimation of the reproduction number (R0) using a branching process with a Poisson likelihood. This model requires knowledge of the serial interval distribution, and dates of symptom onsets. Infectiousness is determined by weighting R0 by the probability mass function of the serial interval on the corresponding day. It is a simplified version of the model introduced by Cori et al. (2013) .

ICS via a Shiny Application

Performs Invariant Coordinate Selection (ICS) (Tyler, Critchley, Duembgen and Oja (2009) ) and especially ICS for multivariate outlier detection with application to quality control (Archimbaud, Nordhausen, Ruiz-Gazen (2018) ) using a shiny app.

Dynamic Model of Ammonia Emission from Field-Applied Manure

An implementation of the ALFAM2 dynamic emission model for ammonia volatilization from field-applied animal slurry (manure with dry matter below about 15%). The model can be used to predict cumulative emission and emission rate of ammonia following field application of slurry. Predictions may be useful for emission inventory calculations, fertilizer management, assessment of mitigation strategies, or research aimed at understanding ammonia emission. Default parameter sets include effects of application method, slurry composition, and weather. The model structure is based on a simplified representation of the physical-chemical slurry-soil-atmosphere system. See Hafner et al. (2018) for information on the model and Hafner et al. (2019) for more on the measurement data used for parameter development.

Tools for Tidy Vowel Normalization

An implementation of tidy speaker vowel normalization. This includes generic functions for defining new normalization methods for points, formant tracks, and Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients, as well as convenience functions implementing established normalization methods. References for the implemented methods are: Johnson, Keith (2020) Lobanov, Boris (1971) Nearey, Terrance M. (1978) < https://sites.ualberta.ca/~tnearey/Nearey1978_compressed.pdf> Syrdal, Ann K., and Gopal, H. S. (1986) Watt, Dominic, and Fabricius, Anne (2002) < https://www.latl.leeds.ac.uk/article/evaluation-of-a-technique-for-improving-the-mapping-of-multiple-speakers-vowel-spaces-in-the-f1-f2-plane/>.

Tools for Modeling Rate-Dependent Hysteretic Processes and Ellipses

Fit, summarize and plot sinusoidal hysteretic processes using: two-step simple harmonic least squares, ellipse-specific non-linear least squares, the direct method, geometric least squares or linear least squares. See Yang, F and A. Parkhurst, "Efficient Estimation of Elliptical Hysteresis with Application to the Characterization of Heat Stress" .

Bayesian Time-Stratified Population Analysis

Provides advanced Bayesian methods to estimate abundance and run-timing from temporally-stratified Petersen mark-recapture experiments. Methods include hierarchical modelling of the capture probabilities and spline smoothing of the daily run size. Theory described in Bonner and Schwarz (2011) .

Tandem Clustering with Invariant Coordinate Selection

Implementation of tandem clustering with invariant coordinate selection with different scatter matrices and several choices for the selection of components as described in Alfons, A., Archimbaud, A., Nordhausen, K.and Ruiz-Gazen, A. (2024) .

Estimation of Caribou Abundance Based on Radio Telemetry Data

Estimation of population size of migratory caribou herds based on large scale aggregations monitored by radio telemetry. It implements the methodology found in the article by Rivest et al. (1998) about caribou abundance estimation. It also includes a function based on the Lincoln-Petersen Index as applied to radio telemetry data by White and Garrott (1990).