c(person(given="Marco D.",family="Visser", role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "marco.d.visser@gmail.com"))
A set of radiative transfer models to quantitatively describe the absorption, reflectance and transmission of solar energy in vegetation, and model remotely sensed spectral signatures of vegetation at distinct spatial scales (leaf,canopy and stand). The main principle behind ccrtm is that many radiative transfer models can form a coupled chain, basically models that feed into each other in a linked chain (from leaf, to canopy, to stand, to atmosphere). It allows the simulation of spectral datasets in the solar spectrum (400-2500nm) using leaf models as PROSPECT5, 5b, and D which can be coupled with canopy models as 'FLIM', 'SAIL' and 'SAIL2'. Currently, only a simple atmospheric model ('skyl') is implemented. Jacquemoud et al 2008 provide the most comprehensive overview of these models <doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.026>.
graphics, grDevices, stats, testthat, Rcpp (>= 1.0.3), expint,
pracma

Draws systematic samples from a population that follows linear trend. The function returns a matrix comprising of the required samples as its column vectors. The samples produced are highly efficient and the inter sampling variance is minimum. The scheme will be useful in various field like Bioinformatics where the samples are expensive and must be precise in reflecting the population by possessing least sampling variance.
graphics, grDevices, stats, utils, R(>= 2.10)

Tools for the Continuous Convolution Trick in Nonparametric
Estimation
person("Thomas", "Nagler", , "thomas.nagler@tum.de", c("aut", "cre"))
Implements the uniform scaled beta distribution and
the continuous convolution kernel density estimator.

c(person("Rebecca", "Steorts", email= "beka@stat.duke.edu", role=c("aut", "cre")), person("Andee", "Kaplan", email= "andrea.kaplan@duke.edu", role="aut"), person("Srini.", "Sunil", email="srinivas.sunil@duke.edu", role="aut"))
Duplicated music data (pre-processed and formatted) for entity resolution. The total size of the data set is 9763. There are respective gold standard records that are labeled and can be considered as a unique identifier.
Rebecca Steorts [aut, cre],
Andee Kaplan [aut],
Srini. Sunil [aut]