Functions that facilitate the elaboration of population pyramids.

Implements the Bayesian hierarchical model described by Wheldon, Raftery, Clark and Gerland (see: <doi:10.1080/01621459.2012.737729>) for simultaneously estimating age-specific population counts, fertility rates, mortality rates and net international migration flows, at the national level.

The use of overparameterization is proposed with combinatorial analysis to test a broader spectrum of possible ARIMA models.
    In the selection of ARIMA models, the most traditional methods such as correlograms or others, do not usually cover many alternatives to define the number of coefficients to be estimated in the model, which represents an estimation method that is not the best.
    The popstudy package contains several tools for statistical analysis in demography and time series based in Shryock research (Shryock et. al. (1980) <https://books.google.co.cr/books?id=8Oo6AQAAMAAJ>).

Functions to estimate and plot smooth or linear population trends, or population indices, 
    from animal or plant count survey data.

Run population simulations using an Individual-Based Model (IBM) compiled in C.

Fit linear splines to species time series to detect population growth scenarios based on Hyndman, R J and Mesgaran, M B and Cousens, R D (2015) <doi:10.1007/s10530-015-0962-8>.

Run simulations to assess the impact of various designs features
    and the underlying biological behaviour on the outcome of a Patient Derived
    Xenograft (PDX) population study. This project can either be deployed to a
    server as a 'shiny' app or installed locally as a package and run the app
    using the command 'populationPDXdesignApp()'.

Given a 
    set of source zone polygons such as
    census tracts or city blocks alongside with population counts and a 
    target zone of incogruent yet superimposed polygon features (such as
    individual buildings) populR transforms population counts from the 
    former to the latter using Areal Interpolation methods.