reproduce more examples/parts of text in the vignette

[mlamias]

Hi, Ibraglia,

I'm a statistician and would love to assist as time allows. How can I help/where should I start? I have the text and am able to recreate the examples. I am well versed in knitr as well.

[lbraglia]

Hi mlamias,

sorry for the delay (as you said, 'when time allows' :) ). Thanks for volounteering!

The vignette only executes aplore3 examples so, in order to contribute, you could send (eg via pull request (or in alternative via mail if you're not acquainted with git-github)) new examples: to do so, you need to modify roxygen doc in R subdir.

The best would be have all statistical models/algorithms presented in the book covered with the minimal number of examples needed (for minimal verbosity):

• most wanted :) are the statistical models/algorithms needed but not yet used: eg, only to give an idea, some time ago i started working on VGAM on lowbwt, trying to reproduce some tables for section 8.2 (Ordinal logistic regression models) but didn't succeded;
• from another point of view, reproducing an example that involves only a change in the formula (eg adding variables to control for potential cofounders) is not that needed IMHO.

Personally i do not prefer a package in particular over another, as far as results are equal (more or less) to those presented in the book; other things equal, it's better if the package comes from mainstream/known developers.

And finally if you keep consistent with already existing code/styles (eg tables number and pagec cited, graph with title indicating fig number ecc) it would be great!!

BTW, thanks again and let me know!

Best, Luca