R-Package "distrTEst"

Version: 2.8.2
Release Date: 2024-01-30
Authors: Peter Ruckdeschel, Matthias Kohl, Thomas Stabla, Florian Camphausen
Required R-Version:

>=3.4 for version 2.8.0
>=2.14 for version 2.5.0
>=2.6.0 for version 2.1,
>=2.2.0 for versions 1.6-2.0

Dependencies: requires package "setRNG" version >= 2006.2-1 by Paul Gilbert available from CRAN;
as well as packages "distr" version >= 1.9 and "distrSim" version >= 1.9 by the authors of this package,
and "startupmsg" by Peter Ruckdeschel also available from CRAN; it also suggests package "distrEx"
version >= 0.4-4 by the authors of this package;

What is "distrTEst" meant for?

The aim of package "distrTEst" is to bring together in one object all information about the data (from an object of class "Dataclass") and the corresponding statistical
procedure (estimator/test) as well as the results of a corresponding evaluation. (By now, only estimators are implemented)
To this end a class Evaluation is defined where we gather the results, the data, the call with which the object was filled, the estimator.
Objects of class Evaluation with identical data slots may be gathered in an objects of class Evaluationlist.
To generate an object of this class we use the method evaluate. Also special plot, print, show and summary methods are available;
all slots are accessed/modified by accessor/replacement functions.

Manual

for version prior to 1.8, a somewhat more detailed manual to this package in pdf-format is available here;
from version 1.8 on, we have converted this manual into a common vignette to packages distr, distrEx, distrSim, distrTEst, distrMod, distrTeach,
which is available in the mere documentation package distrDoc. To use it you may type

        require("distrDoc"); V<-vignette("distr"); print(V); edit(V)

License

This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE LGPL v3, confer http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html

Download

Windows

for version >= 2.0 use

install.packages("distrTEst", repos = "R-Forge.R-project.org")

as Win-Zip-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.9)
as Win-Zip-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.8)
as Win-Zip-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.7)
as Win-Zip-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.6)

to be installed by
- the R-gui File picker [Packages ->Install package(s) from local zip-files...] or
- ```
install.packages("distrTEst", <path to the file distr.zip in your File system>, NULL)
```
to be removed by
```
remove.packages("distrTEst")
```

to be used by

library("distrTEst")

or

require("distrTEst")

Linux

for version >= 2.0 use

install.packages("distrTEst", repos = "R-Forge.R-project.org")

as Linux-tar-gz-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.9)
as Linux-tar-gz-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.8)
as Linux-tar-gz-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.7)
as Linux-tar-gz-File for R >=2.2.0 (Version 1.6)

to be installed by
```
R CMD INSTALL distrTEst_1.x.tar.gz
```
to be removed by
```
R CMD REMOVE distrTEst
```
to be used as under Windows

Sources

included into the .tar.gz.file
for R version 1.7 see web-page to "distr"

Demos

also see demo("distr") and demo("distrTEst") --- after installation of "distr"/"distrSim"/"distrTEst"

A simulation example:
SimulateandEstimate.R

Version history:

Changes from distr 1.5 to distrTEst 1.7

additional "..." included into function evaluate

Changes from 1.7 to 1.8

evaluation method for class "Contsimulation"
extended/modified class definition for class "Evaluation":

slot result in "Evaluation" class now of class "DataframeorNULL"
slot call.ev in "Evaluation" class now of class "CallorNULL"
new slot Data of class "Dataclass", but which in turn, in case of simulations, has an empty Data-slot
(to be able to check whether all Data sets of an object of class "Evaluation List" coincide)

new class "EvaluationList" with slots name ("character") and Elist ("list")
to gather the results of several evaluations on the same data set
revised plot method for class "Evaluation" to account for multivariate results
print, plot, summary, show methods for "EvaluationList" with flexible optional arguments
Data() as an accessor to slot Data for "Evaluation" class and
to the common Data slot of "EvaluationList" class
savedata now allows for more flexible filenames, but retains the old convention
by default

Changes from 1.8 to 1.9

in demo, made calls to uniroot(), integrate(), optim(ize)() compliant to https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-May/045791.html l
cleaning up of source files:

adapted the naming of the .R files to the use of the (later written) extension packages
(and according to http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/03/22558.html)
checked all source file to adhere to the 80char's-per-line rule

mentioned in package-help: startup messages may now also be suppressed by
suppressPackageStartupMessages() (from package 'base')

Changes from 2.0 to 2.1

Rd-style:

several buglets detected with the fuzzier checking mechanism

cf [Rd] More intensive checking of R help files, Prof Brian Ripley, 09.01.2009 10:25)
[Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe? , Prof Brian Ripley

moved license to LGPL-3

Changes from 2.1 onwards

see NEWS file

Our plans for the next version:

see TOBEDONE file

This page is maintained by Peter Ruckdeschel and last updated on 2024-01-30.