This package vignette is an update and extension of the papers published in the Journal of Statistical Software (special issue on Psychometrics, volume 20) and Psychology Science (Mair and Hatzinger 2007b,a). Since the publication of these papers, various extensions and additional features have been incorporated into the package. We start with a methodological introduction to extended Rasch mod...

State-trace analysis (Bamber, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 19, 137-181, 1979) is a graphical analysis that can determine whether one or more than one latent variable mediates an apparent dissociation between the effects of two experimental manipulations. State-trace analysis makes only ordinal assumptions and so, is not confounded by range effects that plague alternative methods, especia...

RFreak is an R package providing a framework for evolutionary computation. By enwrapping the functionality of an evolutionary algorithm kit written in Java, it offers an easy way to do evolutionary computation in R. In addition, application examples where an evolutionary approach is promising in computational statistics are included and described in this paper. The package is thus further suppo...

The FitAR R (R Development Core Team 2008) package that is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network is described. This package provides a comprehensive approach to fitting autoregressive and subset autoregressive time series. For long time series with complicated autocorrelation behavior, such as the monthly sunspot numbers, subset autoregression may prove more feasible and/or parsimoni...

The package fitdistrplus provides functions for fitting univariate distributions to different types of data (continuous censored or non-censored data and discrete data) and allowing different estimation methods (maximum likelihood, moment matching, quantile matching and maximum goodness-of-fit estimation). Outputs of fitdist and fitdistcens functions are S3 objects, for which kind generic metho...

The Wrapped package computes the probability density function, cumulative distribution function, quantile function and also generates random samples for many univariate wrapped distributions. It also computes maximum likelihood estimates, standard errors, confidence intervals and measures of goodness of fit for nearly fifty univariate wrapped distributions. Numerical illustrations of the packag...