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title: 'bean: Data Thinning of Species Occurrences in Environmental Space'
version: 0.2.1
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.bean
abstract: 'A suite of tools to mitigate sampling bias in species occurrence records
  by thinning data in the environmental space (E-space). This process can improve
  the accuracy and precision of species distribution models (SDM, also known as ecological
  niche models, ENM). The package offers a data-driven protocol to determine thinning
  parameters using kernel-density bandwidth selection. Two thinning methods are provided
  (stochastic and deterministic) to reduce over-sampled environmental conditions and
  down-weight outlier observations. The name ''bean'' reflects the core principle
  of the method: each ''pod'' (a grid cell in E-space) is allowed to contain only
  a limited number of ''beans'' (occurrence points). See Silverman (1986, ISBN:978-0-412-24620-3)
  and Rousseeuw and Leroy (2003, ISBN:978-0-471-48855-2) for the underlying statistical
  methods.'
authors:
- family-names: Paansri
  given-names: Paanwaris
  email: paanwaris@vt.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9992-098X
- family-names: Escobar
  given-names: Luis E.
  email: escobar1@vt.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5735-2750
repository: https://paanwaris.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/paanwaris/bean
commit: d3b41eb6e5177fa9c165917b9d8ce3df48fb4b31
url: https://paanwaris.github.io/bean/
date-released: '2026-06-08'
contact:
- family-names: Paansri
  given-names: Paanwaris
  email: paanwaris@vt.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9992-098X