Our methods paper describing how to use our new R package LoLinR to estimate monotonic biological rates using Local Linear Regression has just been accepted at the Journal of Experimental Biology! (see package and reproduce the paper here).

Olito, C., C. W. White, D. J. Marshall, and D. M. Barneche. 2016. Estimating monotonic biological rates using local linear regression. J. Exp. Biol. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.148775. GitHub.