Dr. Nadia Osei

retentionr — open-source toolkit for forgetting curves

Author and maintainer · Open source · 2024 – present

An R package for fitting and comparing forgetting curves from repeated-measures learning data, built because every lab I worked in had its own half-broken script for the same job.

R packageOpen sourceStatisticsReproducibilityDocumentation

Overview

Impact

4,800+

Downloads

11

Papers using it

92%

Test coverage

Roughly 4,800 downloads and used in at least 11 published papers by other groups. Now a required tool in two graduate methods courses.

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Reviews

I teach my graduate methods seminar with this package now. The documentation is better than most commercial software I have paid for.

Dr. Lena Fischer

Methods instructor