MBHdesign: Spatial Designs for Ecological and Environmental Surveys

Provides spatially survey balanced designs. Information about the package itself is given in Foster (2021) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13535>. Designs using MBHdesign can: 1) accommodate, without substantial detrimental effects on spatial balance, legacy sites (Foster et al., 2017 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12782>); 2) be based on points or transects (foster et al. 2020 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13321> and produce clustered samples (Foster et al. (in press). The base idea that these designs stem from is the quasi-random number method described Robinson et al. (2013) <doi:10.1111/biom.12059> and adjusted in Robinson et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.spl.2017.05.004>.

Version:	2.3.22
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	mgcv, geometry, randtoolbox, mvtnorm, stats, class, parallel, grDevices, graphics, terra
Suggests:	spsurvey, MASS, fields, knitr
Published:	2026-09-11
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.MBHdesign
Author:	Scott D. Foster [aut], Scott Foster [cre]
Maintainer:	Scott Foster <scott.foster at csiro.au>
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	NEWS
In views:	ExperimentalDesign, OfficialStatistics, Spatial
CRAN checks:	MBHdesign results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	MBHdesign.html , MBHdesign.pdf
Vignettes:	An Introduction to MBHdesign (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	MBHdesign_2.3.22.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: MBHdesign_2.3.22.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): MBHdesign_2.3.15.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): MBHdesign_2.3.22.tgz, r-release (x86_64): MBHdesign_2.3.22.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): MBHdesign_2.3.22.tgz
Old sources:	MBHdesign archive

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