Category Archives: analogue

Monotonic deshrinking in weighted averaging models

Posted on January 5, 2013 by

Weighted averaging regression and calibration is the most widely used method for developing a palaeolimnological transfer function. Such models are used to reconstruct properties of the past lake environment such as pH, total phosphorus, and water temperature with, it has … Continue reading →

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A new version of analogue for a new year

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

Yesterday I rolled up a new version (0.10-0) of analogue, my R package for analysing palaeoecological data. It is now available from CRAN. There were lots of incremental changes to Stratiplot() to improve the quality of the stratigraphic diagrams produced … Continue reading →

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Quantitative palaeolimnology: my book chapters are finally out!

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Today I received confirmation that the delayed fifth volume in the Developments in Palaeoenvironmental Research series has been published. The book is titled Data Handling and Numerical methods, though it covers more of the latter and, IMHO, is far more interesting than … Continue reading →

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Course: Analysing Palaeolimnological Data with R

Posted on April 8, 2012 by

Update: As of 18 April 2012 the course is now fully subscribed. Should you wish to be placed on a waiting list please contact Steve Juggins. Analysing Palaeolimnological Data with R 16th — 20th August 2012, University Marine Biological Station … Continue reading →

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New version of analogue (0.8-0)

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Yesterday I pushed an update of my analogue package to CRAN. The new version is 0.8-0 and contains some new functions, several bug fixes and a major change arising from additions to R 2.14.x requiring all packages to have a … Continue reading →

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Stratigraphic diagrams using analogue

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

One of the routine tasks palaeoecologists do is plot data on species composition or geochemical proxies say along a sediment core or stratigraphic sequence. These diagrams are the canonical way of displaying stratigraphic data in this field. An example of … Continue reading →

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New version of analogue (0.7-0)

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

Last week I pushed an update of my analogue package to CRAN. The last release (0.6-23) was on CRAN sometime in Mar 2010 so an update was well overdue. This (0.7-0) is a major update to analogue containing lots of … Continue reading →

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