scholarly journals OasisR: An R Package to Bring Some Order to the World of Segregation Measurement

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Tivadar
Keyword(s):  
R Package ◽  
The World ◽  
Segregation Measurement

scholarly journals BioRssay: An R Package for Analyses of Bioassays and Probit Graphs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piyal Karunarathne ◽  
Nicolas Pocquet ◽  
Pierrick Labbé ◽  
Pascal Milesi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Software Package ◽  
R Package ◽  
World Health ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Exposure Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract Dose-response relationships reflect the effects of a substance on organisms, and are widely used in broad research areas, from medicine and physiology, to vector control and pest management in agronomy. Furthermore, reporting on the response of organisms to stressors is an essential component of many public policies (e.g. public health, environment), and assessment of xenobiotic responses is an integral part of the World Health Organization recommendations. Building upon an R script that we previously made available, and considering its popularity, we have now developed a software package in the R environment, BioRssay, to efficiently analyze dose-response relationships. It has more user-friendly functions, more flexibility, and proposes an easy interpretation of the results. The functions in the BioRssay package are built on robust statistical analyses to compare the dose/exposure-response of various bioassays and effectively visualize them in probit-graphs.

scholarly journals WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roeland Kindt
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
R Package ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
The World ◽  
Fuzzy Matching ◽  
Timber Tree

ABSTRACTPremise of the studyStandardization of plant names is a critical step in various fields of biology including biodiversity, biogeography and vegetation research. WorldFlora matches lists of plant names with a static copy from World Flora Online (WFO), an ongoing global effort of completing an online flora of all known vascular plants and bryophytes by 2020.Methods and resultsBased on direct and fuzzy matching, WorldFlora inserts matching cases from the WFO to a submitted data set of with taxa. Results of selecting the expected best single matches are presented for four data sets, including a working list of commercial timber tree species, a subset from GlobalTreeSearch and 2 data sets used in previous comparisons of software tools for correcting taxon names. The success rate of credible matches varied from 94.7 (568 taxa) to 99.9 (1740 taxa) percent.ConclusionsWorldFlora offers a straightforward pipeline for semi-automatic plant name checking.

scholarly journals Prediction of COVID-19 Confirmed Cases in Indo-Pak Sub-Continent

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 382-388
Author(s):  
Faheem Aslam ◽  
Tahir Mumtaz Awan ◽  
Ruqia Khan ◽  
Maira Aslam ◽  
Yasir Tariq Mohmand
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
R Package ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

Introduction: The global COVID-19 pandemic originated from the Chinese city of Wuhan and gradually reached every end of the world. It has adversely affected economies of developed as well as underdeveloped countries, the subcontinent has been hit badly by the negative consequences of deadliest coronavirus. People are getting affected by the virus in large numbers and cases in growing on daily bases. Methodology: The present study employs Automatic ARIMA through R package “forecast”, to predict the growing number of cases for upcoming 14 days starting on 1st July 2020 and ending on 14 July 2020. Using 107 daily observations of the confirmed cases of COVID-19, it seems an important concern to predict the cases to help governments of the region plan accordingly. Results: The outcomes of the study indicate that ARIMA applied on the sample rationally predicts the confirmed cases of coronavirus for next 14 days in the subcontinent. An increased trend is observed for Pakistan and India with constant cases for Bangladesh in the coming 14 days. Conclusions: Pakistan is having the highest predicted growth rate in terms of cases followed by India. Therefore, the governments need to build adequate policies in order to contain the spread of the virus.

scholarly journals Analysis of spatial networks from bipartite projections using the R backbone package

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Neal ◽  
Rachel Domagalski ◽  
Bruce Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
R Package ◽  
World City ◽  
Spatial Networks ◽  
World City Network ◽  
The World ◽  
Location Patterns ◽  
City Network ◽  
Key Features

Bipartite projections have become a common way to measure spatial networks. They are now used in many subfields of geography, and are among the most common ways to measure the world city network, where intercity links are inferred from firm co-location patterns. Bipartite projections are attractive because a network can be indirectly inferred from readily available data. However, spatial bipartite projections are difficult to analyze because the links in these networks are weighted, and larger weights do not necessarily indicate stronger or more important connections. Methods for extracting the backbone of bipartite projections offer a solution by using statistical models for identifying the links that have statistically significant weights. In this paper, we introduce the open-source backbone R package, which implements several backbone models, and demonstrate its key features by using it to measure a world city network.

scholarly journals prisonbrief: An R package that returns tidy data from the World Prison Brief website

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (22) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Danilo Freire ◽  
Robert Myles McDonnell
Keyword(s):  
R Package ◽  
The World

scholarly journals arakno - An R package for effective spider nomenclature, distribution and trait data retrieval from online resources

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Cardoso ◽  
Stano Pekar
Keyword(s):  
Large Data ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
R Package ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Global Databases ◽  
Data Manipulation ◽  
The World ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Online open databases are increasing in number, usefulness, and ease of use. There are currently two main global databases exclusive for spiders, the World Spider Catalogue (WSC) and the World Spider Trait (WST) database. Both are regularly used by thousands of researchers. Computational tools that allow effective processing of large data are now part of the workflow of any researcher and R is becoming a de facto standard for data manipulation, analysis, and presentation. Here we present an R package, arakno, that allows interface with the two databases. Implemented tools include checking species names against nomenclature of the WSC, obtaining and mapping data on distribution of species from both WST and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and downloading trait data from the WST. A set of tools are also provided to prepare data for further statistical analysis.

scholarly journals whoishRisk – an R package to calculate WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk scores for all epidemiological subregions of the world

F1000Research ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 2522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Collins ◽  
Joseph Lee ◽  
Niklas Bobrovitz ◽  
Constantinos Koshiaris ◽  
Alison Ward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
R Package ◽  
World Health ◽  
Risk Scores ◽  
Cvd Risk ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
The World

The World Health Organisation and International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment charts have been implemented in many low- and middle-income countries as part of the WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease (PEN) Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource settings. Evaluation of the WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts and their use is a key priority and since they only existed in paper or PDF formats, we developed an R implementation of the charts for all epidemiological subregions of the world. The main strengths of this implementation are that it is built in a free, open-source, coding language with simple syntax, can be downloaded from github as a package (“whoishRisk”), and can be used with a standard computer.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

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