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palaeoSig: Significance Tests for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions

Description

Significance tests for quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions derived from transfer functions. Functions from the autocorTF package are now included in palaeoSig.

Details

This package includes:

• significance tests for quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (randomTF, obs.cor)

• graphical methods to show autocorrelation in transfer functions (rne)

• null model test of transfer functions performance in a spatially autocorrelated environment - see vignette.

Several functions have from autocorTF version 1.0 and palaeoSig version 1.0 have been rewritten or replaced with more flexible or user friendly functions. See news(package="palaeoSig") for details.

See also my blog at https://quantpalaeo.wordpress.com/ for more information on the package and its functions.

Author(s)

Richard Telford [e-mail]

References

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2009) Evaluation of transfer functions in spatially structured environments. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 1309–1316. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.020")}

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2011) A novel method for assessing the statistical significance of quantitative reconstructions inferred from biotic assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1272–1278. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.002")}

See Also

Useful links:

• https://richardjtelford.github.io/palaeoSig/

• https://github.com/richardjtelford/palaeoSig

• Report bugs at https://github.com/richardjtelford/palaeoSig/issues

palaeoSig documentation built on Oct. 8, 2026, 1:09 a.m.