Package: breakaway
Type: Package
Title: Species richness estimation and modelling
Version: 1.0
Date: 2014-08-03
Author: Amy Willis and John Bunge
Maintainer: Amy Willis <adw96@cornell.edu>
Description: breakaway estimates and models total (observed plus unobserved) species richness. It is applicable to any situation where an unknown number of classes is to be estimated, but is especially suited to the microbial context. Microbial diversity datasets are characterized by a large number of rare species and a small number of highly abundant species. The class of models implemented by breakaway is flexible enough to model both these features. In the event that the practitioner does not believe or trust their singleton count, the procedure breakaway_nof1 estimates diversity in a way that does not require a singleton count. betta_basic runs a regression-type analysis of estimated total diversity, thus permitting accounting for unobserved taxa while also incorporating available covariate information. betta_basic does not enforce use of breakaway for diversity estimation. 
License: GPL-2
Packaged: 2014-08-04 00:19:43 UTC; amywillis
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-08-04 08:15:18
Built: R 3.1.1; ; 2014-08-05 11:21:36 UTC; unix
