Lifertable 1.0.1

New features

• A new resampling technique has been added to obtain the confidence interval of the parameters: Bootstrap.

• The “LIFERTABLE” component (of the object) resulting from “lifertable()” now has a NEW COLUMN:

  • “hx”: Gross fecundity. Eggs produced per female of age x

• The “TOTAL.EGGS” component (of the object) resulting from “lifertable()” now displays the average number of eggs laid per female.

Minor improvements and fixes

• The appearance of some graphs has been improved:

  • “plotPseudoVals()” now displays the Boxplot.

  • “ploDistrovipos()” and “plotSurvivalCurve()” now show the time unit used.

• The bug that prevented printing the result with the desired digits when using “print(x, digits = …)” has been fixed.

• The argument “InitiationOfAdultStage” was renamed to “adultStage” for better display in the “lifertable()” function.

Lifertable 0.1.0

New features

• The “InitiationOfAdultStage” parameter from “lifertable()” now accepts a value or a vector of values, which can be within “data” or just concatenated with “c()”, one value for each group.

• The “LIFERTABLE” component (of the object) resulting from “lifertable()” now has TWO NEW COLUMNS:

  • “gx”: Age-Specific Survivorship. The probability that an individual who has already survived to age “x”” will survive to age “x + 1”.

  • “ex”: Life Expectancy. Is how much longer an individual of a given age can be expected to live beyond its present age. The expected number of time-intervals remaining to members of a given age.

Minor improvements and fixes

Some minor fixes were made:

• Data “Insects”: Group names have been changed to “Group1” and “Group2” to avoid confusion and improve understanding of examples that use it.

• The parameter “jackknife” has been renamed to “CI”. This is in order to make way for some other method to obtain the Confidence Interval (in a future update).