Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt
Today a new version (0.23.1) of the WRS package (Wilcox’ Robust Statistics) has been released. This package is the companion to his rather exhaustive book on robust statistics, “Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing” (Amazon Link de/us). For a Continue Reading …
Update Feb 17, 2014: WRS moved to Github – This installation procedure has been updated and still is valid Some users had trouble installing the WRS package from R-Forge. Here’s a method that should work automatically and fail-safe: [cc lang=”rsplus” Continue Reading …
Rand Wilcox constantly updates the functions accompanying his books on robust statistics. Recently, they have been updated to version 20. The functions are available in the WRS package for R – for installation simply type [cci]install.packages(“WRS”, repos=”http://R-Forge.R-project.org”, type=”source”)[/cci] Update: For Continue Reading …
Summary: A new function in the WRS package compares many quantiles of two distributions simultaneously while controlling the overall alpha error. When comparing data from two groups, approximately 99.6% of all psychological research compares the central tendency (that is a Continue Reading …
[Update Aug 2013: For a fail safe installation routine, see this up-to-date post: Installation of the WRS package] Recently I started to build a new package for R containing Wilcox’ collection of functions for robust statistics. Wilcox provides 700+ functions Continue Reading …