plotbiomes: Bootstrap network indices
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plotbiomes

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Bootstrap network indices

Description

R package for resampling network metrics/indices (bootstrapping without replacement). It wraps around the bipartite package functions networklevel and specieslevel.

Assuming a network/web like Safariland from the bipartite package, one can sample interactions without replacement from the network until all interactions have been used. The sampling procedure starts with a small sample size to which interactions are added until all are consumed. Every time we sample interactions, a smaller version of the entire network can be built and a network index/metric can be computed. The sampling procedure can be repeated as many times as needed, giving the possibility to compute mean values with quantile-based confidence intervals. The mean values across sample sizes can be plotted and indices of different networks can be visually compared. See examples at README