Use the following references when citing the ‘coin’ package in publications: Hothorn T, Hornik K, van de Wiel MA, Zeileis A (2006). “A Lego system for conditional inference.” _The American Statistician_, *60*(3), 257-263. doi:10.1198/000313006X118430 . A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Article{, title = {A {L}ego system for conditional inference}, author = {Torsten Hothorn and Kurt Hornik and Mark A. {van de Wiel} and Achim Zeileis}, journal = {The American Statistician}, year = {2006}, volume = {60}, number = {3}, pages = {257--263}, doi = {10.1198/000313006X118430}, } for the implemented theoretical framework and/or Hothorn T, Hornik K, van de Wiel MA, Zeileis A (2008). “Implementing a class of permutation tests: The coin package.” _Journal of Statistical Software_, *28*(8), 1-23. doi:10.18637/jss.v028.i08 . A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is @Article{, title = {Implementing a class of permutation tests: The {coin} package}, author = {Torsten Hothorn and Kurt Hornik and Mark A. {van de Wiel} and Achim Zeileis}, journal = {Journal of Statistical Software}, year = {2008}, volume = {28}, number = {8}, pages = {1--23}, doi = {10.18637/jss.v028.i08}, } for the implementation approach.