NADA
for R
R is a free and freely-available implementation of the
S-language for statistical computing originally developed by John
Chambers and others at Bell Labs. It has a Unix-like interface, but
compiled versions run under the Unix, Windows and Macintosh
operating systems. It is a powerful environment for statistical
computing -- newly-developed methods are frequently released with
an R implementation. R operates under the GNU license and
contributed packages are developed by volunteers worldwide.
NADA for R is a user-contributed package available from the CRAN
(Comprehensive R
Archive Network) site. It implements the procedures found in
the textbook Nondetects And Data
Analysis by Helsel (2005) and published by Wiley. Methods
are included for computing descriptive statistics, hypothesis
tests, correlation and regression for left-censored (nondetect)
data
NADA for R can be downloaded and installed from within R using the
install.packages
command. It is updated regularly, so check for and download the
most current version from within your R software. A user's guide to
NADA for R is available on our NADA downloads page. The guide is the handout
from our August 2006 NADA for R workshop for the American
Statistical Association. Through example exercises, the use of the
NADA for R package is demonstrated. Datasets used in the exercises
come with the NADA for R package, so you can perform each exercise
yourself to become familiar with all the NADA for R parametric and
nonparametric functions.
Go to the CRAN site (then click on "Packages" at
the left side)