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This enables the sequential use of practically any significance test, as long as the underlying data can be simulated in advance to a reasonable approximation.\r\n\r\nFor how to use, see the vignettes linked below.\r\n\r\n### Installation in R\r\n\r\nTo install the stable version from [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=POSSA \"The Comprehensive R Archive Network\"), just run:\r\n\r\n```R\r\ninstall.packages(\"POSSA\")\r\n```\r\n\r\nThen load with: `library(\"POSSA\")`\r\n\r\nAlternatively, if you want to install the latest (and potentially unstable) version from this repository:\r\n\r\n```R\r\ninstall.packages(\"devtools\") # if \"devtools\" package is not yet installed\r\nlibrary(\"devtools\")\r\ninstall_github(\"gasparl/possa\")\r\n```\r\n\r\n### Usage\r\n\r\nPlease see the vignettes:\r\n\r\n1. [General introduction](https://gasparl.github.io/possa/vignettes/v_1_intro.html \"POSSA: Introduction\")\r\n2. [Multiple hypotheses](https://gasparl.github.io/possa/vignettes/v_2_multiple_hypotheses.html \"POSSA: Multiple hypotheses\")\r\n3. [Practical examples](https://gasparl.github.io/possa/vignettes/v_3_examples.html \"POSSA: Practical examples\") (unequal variances; ranked data; ANOVA; DeLong's test)\r\n\r\n(Less important: [Benchmarking](https://gasparl.github.io/possa/vignettes/v_4_benchmarking.html \"POSSA: Benchmarking\"))\r\n\r\nFor detailed information about each function and parameter, see [the manual](https://github.com/gasparl/possa/blob/master/POSSA.pdf \"POSSA manual\").\r\n\r\n### Support\r\n\r\n* If you run into an error despite carefully following the [documentation](https://github.com/gasparl/possa/blob/master/POSSA.pdf \"POSSA.pdf\"), [open a new issue](https://github.com/gasparl/possa/issues \"Issues\").\r\n* If you have sound reason to believe that some of the presented statistics or functions are not optimal and/or could be improved in some plausible way, [email me](mailto:lkcsgaspar@gmail.com).\r\n\r\n### Contributions\r\n\r\nGiven that this project is not part of my \"day job\", the [intended additional features](https://github.com/gasparl/possa/issues \"Issues\") grew beyond my capacity. Help would be most welcome; if you are up to it, feel free to [email me](mailto:lkcsgaspar@gmail.com) (or to reply to the relevant issue or open a new one; see details [here](https://github.com/gasparl/possa/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md \"CONTRIBUTING\")).\r\n\r\n### Etymology\r\n\r\nThe name \"POSSA\" refers not to the Italian meaning [\"power, strength\" (/ˈpɔs.sa/)](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/possa#Italian), but to the plural of [\"possum\" (/ˈpɑsə/)](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/possa#English).\r\n\r\n### Citation\r\n\r\nWhen you use POSSA in a publication, you can either cite the specific version you used (enter `citation(\"POSSA\")` in R), or the following paper:\r\n\r\nLukács, G. (2022). POSSA: Power simulation for sequential analyses and multiple hypotheses. _Journal of Open Source Software, 7_(76), 4643. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04643\r\n\r\n[![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04643/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04643) ![](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version-last-release/POSSA \"POSSA CRAN last version\") ![](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/POSSA?color=8585ad \"POSSA CRAN monthly download count\") [![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/gasparl/possa/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/gasparl/possa/actions) [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.6523855.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6523855) [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/gasparl/possa/branch/master/graph/badge.svg?token=YVA1OCIDD7)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/gasparl/possa)\r\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fgasparl%2Fpossa","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fgasparl%2Fpossa","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fgasparl%2Fpossa/lists"}