Package: SGP
Type: Package
Title: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student
Growth Percentiles & Percentile Growth Trajectories.
Version: 0.8-0.0
Date: 2012-1-9
Authors@R: c(person("Damian", "Betebenner",
email="dbetebenner@nciea.org", role=c("aut", "cre")),
person("Adam", "Van Iwaarden",
email="Vaniwaarden@colorado.edu", role="aut"), person("Ben",
"Domingue", email="ben.domingue@gmail.com", role="aut"))
Author: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>, Adam Van Iwaarden
<Vaniwaarden@colorado.edu> and Ben Domingue
<ben.domingue@gmail.com> with contributions from Jonathan
Weeks, John Stewart, Jinnie Choi, Xin Wei, and Hi Shin Shim.
With special thanks to State Department of Education analysts:
Dr. Sarah Polasky (Arizona), Rebecca Gau (Arizona), Marie
Huchton (Colorado), Ayaka Nukui (Idaho), 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), Jessica Brown (Rhode
Island), 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 (>= 1.7.5), foreach,
grid, gridBase, methods, plyr, randomNames (>= 0.0-4),
quantreg, splines, SGPdata
Suggests: doMC, doMPI, doSMP, doSNOW, doRedis, 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
Packaged: 2012-01-09 13:29:49 UTC; damian
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2012-01-10 07:25:55