Functions for evaluating and visualizing
  ecological assessment procedures for surface waters
  containing physical, chemical and biological assessments
  in the form of value functions.

Implements various procedures for finding 
	     multiple change-points from Matteson D. et al (2013)
	     <doi:10.1080/01621459.2013.849605>, Zhang W. et al (2017) 
	     <doi:10.1109/ICDMW.2017.44>, Arlot S. et al (2019).
	     Two methods make use of dynamic  
	     programming and pruning, with no distributional 
	     assumptions other than the existence of certain absolute 
	     moments in one method. Hierarchical and exact search methods 
	     are included. All methods return the set of estimated change-
	     points as well as other summary information.

Computes the Extended Chen-Poisson (ecp) distribution, survival, 
    density, hazard, cumulative hazard and quantile functions. It also allows 
    to generate a pseudo-random sample from this distribution. The corresponding 
    graphics are available. Functions to obtain measures of skewness and 
    kurtosis, k-th raw moments, conditional k-th moments and mean 
    residual life function were added. For details about ecp distribution, see 
    Sousa-Ferreira, I., Abreu, A.M. & Rocha, C. (2023). 
    <doi:10.57805/revstat.v21i2.405>.

Framework for building evolutionary algorithms for both single- and multi-objective continuous or discrete optimization problems. A set of predefined evolutionary building blocks and operators is included. Moreover, the user can easily set up custom objective functions, operators, building blocks and representations sticking to few conventions. The package allows both a black-box approach for standard tasks (plug-and-play style) and a much more flexible white-box approach where the evolutionary cycle is written by hand.

Easy and rapid quantitative estimation of small terrestrial ectotherm temperature regulation effectiveness in R. ectotemp is built on classical formulas that evaluate temperature regulation by means of various indices, inaugurated by Hertz et al. (1993) <doi: 10.1086/285573>. Options for bootstrapping and permutation testing are included to test hypotheses about divergence between organisms, species or populations.