Package: SGP
Type: Package
Title: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student
Growth Percentiles.
Version: 0.5-0.0
Date: 2011-8-21
Authors@R: c(person("Damian", "Betebenner",
email="dbetebenner@nciea.org", role=c("aut", "cre")),
person("Adam", "Van Iwaarden",
email="Vaniwaarden@colorado.edu", role="aut"))
Author: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org> and Adam Van
Iwaarden <Vaniwaarden@colorado.edu> with contributions from Ben
Domingue, Jonathan Weeks, John Stewart, Jinnie Choi, Xin Wei,
and Hi Shin Shim. With special thanks to State Department of
Education analysts: Rebecca Gau (Arizona), Marie Huchton
(Colorado), Dr. Carissa Miller (Idaho), Dr. Wes Bruce
(Indiana), Robert Hochsegang (Indiana), Xuewen Sheng (Kansas),
Robert Lee (Massachusetts), Ken Thompson (Mississippi), Soo
Yeon Cho (Missouri), Jeff Halsell (Nevada), Selcuk Ozdemir
(Nevada), Deb Wiswell (New Hampshire), Katya Levitan-Reiner
(New Haven Public Schools), Ana Karantonis (Rhode Island), Dr.
Deborah Jonas (Virginia), Juan D'Brot (West Virginia), Nate
Hixson (West Virginia), Justin Meyer (Wisconsin), Joseph Newton
(Wisconsin), Dr. Philip Olsen (Wisconsin), Nick Stroud
(Wisconsin).
Maintainer: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>
Depends: R (>= 2.12), boot, colorspace, data.table (>= 1.6.4), foreach,
grid, gridBase, methods, plyr, randomNames (>= 0.0-3),
quantreg, splines
Suggests: multicore, pdf2, sn, snow
Description: Functions to calculate student growth percentiles and
percentile growth projections/trajectories for students using
large scale, longitudinal assessment data.  Functions use
quantile regression to estimate the conditional density
associated with each student's achievement history.  Percentile
growth projections/trajectories are calculated using the
coefficient matrices derived from the quantile regression
analyses and specify what percentile growth is required for
students to reach future achievement targets.
SystemRequirements: (PDF)LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) with
pdfpages package for studentGrowthPlot option in visualizeSGP
to bind together student growth plots into school catalogs.
URL: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SGP/,
https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/sgp/
LazyLoad: Yes
LazyData: Yes
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 US | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 + file LICENSE
Repository: CRAN
Packaged: 2011-08-25 10:47:19 UTC; damian
Date/Publication: 2011-08-25 12:16:41