NEWS.md

In Lifertable: Life and Fertility Tables Specially for Insects

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).

Lifertable documentation built on April 12, 2025, 1:43 a.m.