This space will be used to communicate with students in the Introduction to Biological Statistics Course. Here, you will find copies of lecture materials, exercises and other relevant resources. For more information, contact Nathaniel Pope at npope@coa.edu, Spencer Fox at spncrfx@gmail.com, or Nichole Bennett at nichole.lynn.bennett@gmail.com. If you want to get weekly announcements about the course (weekly topics, software requirements, etc.) please sign up for the listserv here.
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Prerequisite R knowledge assumed for statistics topics lectures:
If you're attending any of the specific statistics topic lectures, we expect that you have a reasonable understanding of the material presented in the first few weeks of class. We also expect that you can do the following in R: access help files for functions, load data, and install R packages. If you need extra practice/instruction in loading data or installing packages, we have the following cheat sheets for you.
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Week | Date | R Topic | Statistical Topic | Instructor |
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1 | 9/4 | Introduction to R | Did we mention R? | Nate Pope/Spencer Fox/Nichole Bennett |
2 | 9/11 | Probability Distributions, Simulation | Probability and Likelihood | Nate Pope/Spencer Fox/Nichole Bennett |
3 | 9/18 | Functions, Flow Control | Hypothesis Testing | Nate Pope/Spencer Fox/Nichole Bennett |
4 | 9/25 | Model Fitting, Debugging | Linear Models | Nate Pope/Spencer Fox/Nichole Bennett |
5 | 10/2 | Model Building | Andrius Dagilis | |
6 | 10/9 | |||
7 | 10/16 | Spatial/Temporal statistics | Emlyn Resetarits | |
8 | 10/23 | Bayesian inference in JAGS | Bayesian Inference | Spencer Fox/Nate Pope |
10 | 11/6 | Package igraph | Networks | Amanda Perofsky |
11 | 11/13 | Package lme4, parametric bootstrap | Mixed/Hierchical Models | Nate Pope |
12 | 11/20 | TBD | TBD | Dennis Wylie |
13 | 12/4 | Best programming practices in R | R! | Nichole Bennett |
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