stam package  (Version 0.0-1; 2010-01-01)
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This is the beta version 0.0-1 for Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Modelling
distributed with our group's reserach developments.The author would like 
to thank those users who contributed generously their codes to this package,
pointed out errors, possible improvements and suggestions/help to optimize 
the code. 
Any further errors found should be reported to the author at the address 
below for possible correction in the next version.

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The package contains the following functions, all of which have online help available.
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DateConversion      Conversion between Different Date Format

stkde		        Spatio-Temporal Kernel Density Estimation with density contours

stkde.sig           Spatio-Temporal Kernel Density Estimation with Significant P-Value contours

UorL                Converting all the Letters of Character Variable into Uppercase or Lowercase

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#The package will also contains some items collected from website. 



Zhijie Zhang
Department of Epidemiology and BioStatistics
School of Public Health
Fudan University
Address: 138 Yi Xue Yuan Road, Shanghai,China
Postcode: 200032
Tel : 
Fax : 
email : epistat@gmail.com


OR

Department of Geography
Faculty of Arts and Science
Queen's University
Address: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Postcode: K7L 3N6

Tel : 613-533-6000-ext.75050
Fax : 
email : zhangzj@queensu.ca
