Package: SGP
Type: Package
Title: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student
        Growth Percentiles & Percentile Growth Trajectories.
Version: 0.9-9.0
Date: 2012-8-1
Authors@R: c(person("Damian", "Betebenner",
        email="dbetebenner@nciea.org", role=c("aut", "cre")),
        person("Adam", "Van Iwaarden",
        email="Vaniwaarden@colorado.edu", role="aut"), person("Ben",
        "Domingue", email="ben.domingue@gmail.com", role="aut"))
Author: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>, Adam Van Iwaarden
        <Vaniwaarden@colorado.edu> and Ben Domingue
        <ben.domingue@gmail.com> with contributions from Dr. Jonathan
        Weeks, John Stewart, Dr. Jinnie Choi, Dr. Xin Wei, and Hi Shin
        Shim. With special thanks to State Department of Education
        analysts: Dr. Sarah Polasky (Arizona), Rebecca Gau (Arizona),
        Dr. Bill Bonk (Colorado), Marie Huchton (Colorado), Dr. Allison
        Timberlake (Georgia), Dr. Melissa Fincher (Georgia), Kiran
        Athota (Georgia), Travis Allen (Georgia), Glenn Hirata
        (Hawaii), Glenn Nochi (Hawaii), Ayaka Nukui (Idaho), Dr.
        Carissa Miller (Idaho), Dr . Wes Bruce (Indiana), Robert
        Hochsegang (Indiana), Tony Moss (Kansas), Dr. Xuewen Sheng
        (Kansas), Dr. Kathy Flanagan (Massachusetts), Robert Lee
        (Massachusetts), Joe DeCastra (Mississippi), Ken Thompson
        (Mississippi), Soo Yeon Cho (Missouri), Jeff Halsell (Nevada),
        Dr. Selcuk Ozdemir (Nevada), Roger Silva (Nevada), Deb Wiswell
        (New Hampshire), Katya Levitan-Reiner (New Haven Public
        Schools), Jason Becker (Rhode Island), Dr. Jessica Brown (Rhode
        Island), Ana Karantonis (Rhode Island), Dr. Deborah Jonas
        (Virginia), Juan D'Brot (West Virginia), Nate Hixson (West
        Virginia), Daniel Bush (Wisconsin), Justin Meyer (Wisconsin),
        Joseph Newton (Wisconsin), Dr. Philip Olsen (Wisconsin), Nick
        Stroud (Wisconsin).
Maintainer: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>
Depends: R (>= 2.12), boot, colorspace, data.table (>= 1.8.0), foreach,
        grid, gridBase, methods, plyr, reshape2, randomNames (>=
        0.0-5), quantreg, splines, SGPdata (>= 2.0-0)
Suggests: doMC, doMPI, doParallel, doRedis, doSNOW, iterators,
        multicore, parallel, pdf2, RSQLite, sn, snow
Description: Functions to calculate student growth percentiles and
        percentile growth projections/trajectories for students using
        large scale, longitudinal assessment data.  Functions use
        quantile regression to estimate the conditional density
        associated with each student's achievement history.  Percentile
        growth projections/trajectories are calculated using the
        coefficient matrices derived from the quantile regression
        analyses and specify what percentile growth is required for
        students to reach future achievement targets.
SystemRequirements: (PDF)LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) with
        pdfpages package for studentGrowthPlot option in visualizeSGP
        to bind together student growth plots into school catalogs.
URL: https://github.com/StudentGrowthPercentiles/SGP,
        http://studentgrowthpercentiles.github.com/SGP/,
        http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SGP/
LazyLoad: Yes
LazyData: Yes
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 US | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 + file LICENSE
Packaged: 2012-07-31 11:07:47 UTC; damian
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2012-07-31 12:39:01
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