Fri, 25 Dec 2015

Package ShapeSelectForest updated to version 1.2 with previous version 1.1 dated 2015-09-06

Title: Shape Selection for Landsat Time Series of Forest Dynamics
Description: Landsat satellites collect important data about global forest conditions. Documentation about Landsat's role in forest disturbance estimation is available at the site <http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=9513>. By constrained quadratic B-splines, this package delivers an optimal shape-restricted trajectory to a time series of Landsat imagery for the purpose of modeling annual forest disturbance dynamics to behave in an ecologically sensible manner assuming one of seven possible "shapes", namely, flat, decreasing, one-jump (decreasing, jump up, decreasing), inverted vee (increasing then decreasing), vee (decreasing then increasing), linear increasing, and double-jump (decreasing, jump up, decreasing, jump up, decreasing). The main routine selects the best shape according to the minimum Bayes information criterion (BIC) or the cone information criterion (CIC), which is defined as the log of the estimated predictive squared error. The package also provides parameters summarizing the temporal pattern including year(s) of inflection, magnitude of change, pre- and post-inflection rates of growth or recovery. In addition, it contains routines for converting a flat map of disturbance agents to time-series disturbance maps and a graphical routine displaying the fitted trajectory of Landsat imagery.
Author: Mary C. Meyer, Xiyue Liao, Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen G. Moisen
Maintainer: Xiyue Liao <xiyue@rams.colostate.edu>

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Package OutbreakTools updated to version 0.1-14 with previous version 0.1-13 dated 2015-03-23

Title: Basic Tools for the Analysis of Disease Outbreaks
Description: Implements basic tools for storing, handling and visualizing disease outbreak data, as well as simple analysis tools. OutbreakTools defines the new formal class obkData which can be used to store any case-base outbreak data, and provides summaries for these objects, alongside a range of functions for subsetting and data manipulation. It implements a range of graphics for visualising timelines, maps, contact networks and genetic analyses. It also includes a simple case-base outbreak simulation tool.
Author: The Hackout team (In alphabetic order: David Aanensen, Marc Baguelin, Paul Birrell, Simon Cauchemez, Anton Camacho, Caroline Colijn, Anne Cori, Xavier Didelot, Ken Eames, Christophe Fraser, Simon Frost, Niel Hens, Joseph Hugues, Thibaut Jombart, Lulla Opatowski, Oliver Ratmann, Samuel Soubeyrand, Marc Suchard, Jacco Wallinga, Rolf Ypma)
Maintainer: Thibaut Jombart <thibautjombart@gmail.com>

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New package TideHarmonics with initial version 0.1-0
Package: TideHarmonics
Version: 0.1-0
Date: 2016-01-04
Title: Harmonic Analysis of Tides
Author: Alec Stephenson.
Maintainer: Alec Stephenson <alec_stephenson@hotmail.com>
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
Description: Implements harmonic analysis of tidal and sea-level data. Over 400 harmonic tidal constituents can be estimated, all with daily nodal corrections. Time-varying mean sea-levels can also be used.
LazyData: yes
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2015-12-25 03:12:40 UTC; ste6an
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2015-12-25 14:27:19

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Package Matching updated to version 4.9-2 with previous version 4.8-3.4 dated 2013-10-29

Title: Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching with Balance Optimization
Description: Provides functions for multivariate and propensity score matching and for finding optimal balance based on a genetic search algorithm. A variety of univariate and multivariate metrics to determine if balance has been obtained are also provided.
Author: Jasjeet Singh Sekhon <sekhon@berkeley.edu>
Maintainer: Jasjeet Singh Sekhon <sekhon@berkeley.edu>

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Package evd updated to version 2.3-2 with previous version 2.3-0 dated 2012-08-30

Title: Functions for Extreme Value Distributions
Description: Extends simulation, distribution, quantile and density functions to univariate and multivariate parametric extreme value distributions, and provides fitting functions which calculate maximum likelihood estimates for univariate and bivariate maxima models, and for univariate and bivariate threshold models.
Author: Alec Stephenson. Function fbvpot by Chris Ferro.
Maintainer: Alec Stephenson <alec_stephenson@hotmail.com>

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