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  <dc:title>Spatial Designs for Ecological and Environmental Surveys</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MBHdesign version 2.3.15</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: ExperimentalDesign (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=ExperimentalDesign)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: OfficialStatistics (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=OfficialStatistics)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Spatial (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Spatial)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Provides spatially survey balanced designs using the quasi-random number method described Robinson et al. (2013) &lt;doi:10.1111/biom.12059&gt; and adjusted in Robinson et al. (2017) &lt;doi:10.1016/j.spl.2017.05.004&gt;. Designs using MBHdesign can: 1) accommodate, without substantial detrimental effects on spatial balance, legacy sites (Foster et al., 2017 &lt;doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12782&gt;); 2) be based on points or transects (foster et al. 2020 &lt;doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13321&gt; and produce clustered samples (Foster et al. (in press). Additional information about the package use itself is given in Foster (2021) &lt;doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13535&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: mgcv, geometry, randtoolbox, mvtnorm, stats, class, parallel,
grDevices, graphics, terra</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: spsurvey, MASS, fields, knitr</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Scott Foster &lt;scott.foster@data61.csiro.au&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Scott D. Foster</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2023-09-25</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MBHdesign</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MBHdesign</dc:identifier>
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