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  <dc:title>Analysis of Elliptical Tubes Under the Relative Curvature
Condition</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package ETRep version 1.2.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Analysis of elliptical tubes with applications in biological modeling. The package is based on the references: Taheri, M., Pizer, S. M., &amp; Schulz, J. (2024) "The Mean Shape under the Relative Curvature Condition." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics &lt;doi:10.1080/10618600.2025.2535600&gt; and arXiv &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2404.01043&gt;. Mohsen Taheri Shalmani (2024) "Shape Statistics via Skeletal Structures", PhD Thesis, University of Stavanger, Norway &lt;doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.34500.23685&gt;. Key features include constructing discrete elliptical tubes, calculating transformations, validating structures under the Relative Curvature Condition (RCC), computing means, and generating simulations. Supports intrinsic and non-intrinsic mean calculations and transformations, size estimation, plotting, and random sample generation based on a reference tube. The intrinsic approach relies on the interior path of the original non-convex space, incorporating the RCC, while the non-intrinsic approach uses a basic robotic arm transformation that disregards the RCC.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: rgl, shapes, Morpho, matlib, RSpincalc, rotations, Rvcg,
fields, truncnorm, htmlwidgets</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Mohsen Taheri Shalmani &lt;MohsenTaheriShalmani@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Mohsen Taheri Shalmani [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4044-8507&gt;),
  Jörn Schulz [aut],
  Stephen M. Pizer [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ETRep/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-09-27</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ETRep</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.ETRep</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
