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New version of palaeoSig

A new version of my R package palaeoSig has been approved by CRAN! It always feels like a major achievement to get everything working and pass all the tests. The package provides some diagnostics to test whether quantitiative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions based … Continue reading

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New version of palaeoSig

A new version of palaeoSig (1-1.2) has been uploaded onto CRAN (many thanks to the CRAN volunteers who processed it so quickly). This R package includes functions to test the statistical significance of palaeoecological reconstructions made using calibration (transfer) functions, … Continue reading

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Testing the significance of Random Forest reconstructions

Telford and Birks (2011) introduce a method for testing the statistical significance of a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from biotic assemblages. The palaeoSig package (Telford, 2012) for R will run the significance tests using any of the reconstruction methods in the rioja … Continue reading

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