Spatial Temporal Analysis of Moving Polygons

Perform spatial temporal analysis of moving polygons; a longstanding analysis problem in Geographic Information Systems. Facilitates directional analysis, distance analysis, and some other simple functionality for examining spatial-temporal patterns of moving polygons.

Weighted Portmanteau Tests for Time Series Goodness-of-Fit

An implementation of the Weighted Portmanteau Tests described in "New Weighted Portmanteau Statistics for Time Series Goodness-of-Fit Testing" published by the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 107, Issue 498, pages 777-787, 2012.

Gradient Boosting for Generalized Additive Mixed Models

Provides a novel framework to estimate mixed models via gradient boosting. The implemented functions are based on the 'mboost' and 'lme4' packages, and the family range is therefore determined by 'lme4'. A correction mechanism for cluster-constant covariates is implemented, as well as estimation of the covariance of random effects. These methods are described in the accompanying publication; see for details.

Overdispersion in Count Data Multiple Regression Analysis

Detection of overdispersion in count data for multiple regression analysis. Log-linear count data regression is one of the most popular techniques for predictive modeling where there is a non-negative discrete quantitative dependent variable. In order to ensure the inferences from the use of count data models are appropriate, researchers may choose between the estimation of a Poisson model and a negative binomial model, and the correct decision for prediction from a count data estimation is directly linked to the existence of overdispersion of the dependent variable, conditional to the explanatory variables. Based on the studies of Cameron and Trivedi (1990) and Cameron and Trivedi (2013, ISBN:978-1107667273), the overdisp() command is a contribution to researchers, providing a fast and secure solution for the detection of overdispersion in count data. Another advantage is that the installation of other packages is unnecessary, since the command runs in the basic R language.

Spectral Modularity Clustering

Implements the network clustering algorithm described in Newman (2006) . The complete iterative algorithm comprises of two steps. In the first step, the network is expressed in terms of its leading eigenvalue and eigenvector and recursively partition into two communities. Partitioning occurs if the maximum positive eigenvalue is greater than the tolerance (10e-5) for the current partition, and if it results in a positive contribution to the Modularity. Given an initial separation using the leading eigen step, 'rSpectral' then continues to maximise for the change in Modularity using a fine-tuning step - or variate thereof. The first stage here is to find the node which, when moved from one community to another, gives the maximum change in Modularity. This node’s community is then fixed and we repeat the process until all nodes have been moved. The whole process is repeated from this new state until the change in the Modularity, between the new and old state, is less than the predefined tolerance. A slight variant of the fine-tuning step, which can improve speed of the calculation, is also provided. Instead of moving each node into each community in turn, we only consider moves of neighbouring nodes, found in different communities, to the community of the current node of interest. The two steps process is repeatedly applied to each new community found, subdivided each community into two new communities, until we are unable to find any division that results in a positive change in Modularity.

Companion Software for the Coursera Statistics with R Specialization

Data and functions to support Bayesian and frequentist inference and decision making for the Coursera Specialization "Statistics with R". See < https://github.com/StatsWithR/statsr> for more information.

This is a Collection of Functions to Analyse Gender Differences

Implementation of functions, which combines binomial calculation and data visualisation, to analyse the differences in publishing authorship by gender described in Day et al. (2020) . It should only be used when self-reported gender is unavailable.

Spatial Analysis and Data Mining for Field Ecologists

Set of tools for reading, writing and transforming spatial and seasonal data, model selection and specific statistical tests for ecologists. It includes functions to interpolate regular positions of points between landmarks, to discretize polylines into regular point positions, link distant observations to points and convert a bounding box in a spatial object. It also provides miscellaneous functions for field ecologists such as spatial statistics and inference on diversity indexes, writing data.frame with Chinese characters.

Fit the Gambin Model to Species Abundance Distributions

Fits unimodal and multimodal gambin distributions to species-abundance distributions from ecological data, as in in Matthews et al. (2014) . 'gambin' is short for 'gamma-binomial'. The main function is fit_abundances(), which estimates the 'alpha' parameter(s) of the gambin distribution using maximum likelihood. Functions are also provided to generate the gambin distribution and for calculating likelihood statistics.

Hydrologic Model Evaluation and Time-Series Tools

Facilitates the analysis and evaluation of hydrologic model output and time-series data with functions focused on comparison of modeled (simulated) and observed data, period-of-record statistics, and trends.