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...omial random variables) function available in the "emdbook"package written by Professor. Ben Bolker for my research study. I have no questions with this function. However, I am looking for the theoretical method/algorithm of the function "rbetabinom " . Morris (1997), American Naturalist 150:299-327 is given as the reference in the package, But I couldn't fund any theoretical methods to generate beta binomial random variables in this article. I would like to kind request you to suggest me any journal paper or document to study the methods of generating beta binomial random va...

Hello, Is it possible to include information about phylogenetic relatedness among species (when species are replicates for each study within a meta-analysis) in a meta-anlaysis in the metafor package? Alternatively, I wonder if the method f Lajeunesse 2009 American Naturalist has been adopted in R in any fashion? Thanks, Scott Chamberlain [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...difficulty with the very basics, i.e. a) defining time series using time as a natural number rather than a place in a table. I was also hoping b) someone might have built some of the diverse kinds of interpolation tools needed for irregular data on evolving systems to reconstruct their probable naturalistic fluctuation and turning points, making good representations of them compatible with other analytical tools. Is there any functionality for either a) or b)? I could be just lazy, but 'its' seems to require a calendar date format, and I'm interested in reading the unique developme...

Does anybody know of any R functions to perform chronological clustering as explained in: Legendre, P., S. Dallot & L. Legendre. 1985. Succession of species within a community: chronological clustering, with applications to marine and freshwater zooplankton. American Naturalist 125: 257-288. http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/BIOL/legendre/reprints/succession_of_species.pdf Thanks, Angel

...do it ourselves ... ? (We're not proud -- pointers to straightforward ways to this on other platforms [cough]SAS[cough] would be great too.) thanks, Ben Bolker Gaines, Steven D., and William R. Rice. 1990. Analysis of Biological Data When there are Ordered Expectations. The American Naturalist 135, no. 2:310-317. Rice, William R., and Steven D. Gaines. 1994a. Extending Nondirectional Heterogeneity Tests to Evaluate Simply Ordered Alternative Hypotheses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 91, no. 1:225-226. Rice, William R., and Steven D. Gai...

Hello, I am using logistic discriminant analysis to check whether a known classification Yobs can be predicted by few continuous variables X. What I do is to predict class probabilities with multinom() in nnet(), obtaining a predicted classification Ypred and then compute the percentage P(obs) of objects classified the same in Yobs and Ypred. My problem now is to figure out whether P(obs) is

Hello! I am doing an analysis on a questionnaire of hunters taken in 4 different districts of some mysterious foreign country. The aim of the study was to gather info on the factors that determine the hunting success of a peculiarly beautiful bird in that area. All variables are factors, i.e. they are variables such as "Use of Guns - yes / no", "Use of Dogs - yes / no" and