"Advancing in Statistical Modelling for evolutionary biologists and ecologists using R" Delivered by Dr. Luc Bussiere and Dr. Ane Timenes Laugen http://www.prstatistics.com/course/advancing-statistical-modelling-using-r-a... This course will run from 24th - 28th April 2017 at SCENE field station, Loch Lomond, Glasgow Course only and all inclusive packages are available. This course will provide an introduction to working with real-life data typical of those encountered in the field of evolutionary biology and ecology. The course will be delivered by Dr. Luc Bussiere and Dr. Ane Timenes Laugen who are both practicing academics in the field of ecology. This five day course will consist of series of modules (each lasting roughly half a day) covering model selection and simplification, generalised linear models, mixed effects models, and non-linear models. Along the way you will gain in depth experience in data ‘wrangling’, data and model visualisation and plotting, as well as exploring and understanding model diagnostics. Classes will comprises of a mixture of lectures and practicals designed to either build required skills for future modules or to perform a family of analyses that is frequently encountered in the biological literature. Course content is as follows Day 1 Course introduction • Techniques for data manipulation, aggregation, and visualisation; introduction to linear regression. Packages: {tidyr}, {dplyr}, {ggplot2} Day 2 Linear models • Diagnostics, collinearity, scaling, plotting fitted values); fitting and interpreting interaction terms; model selection and simplification; general linear models and ANCOVA. • Packages: {stats}, {car} Day 3 Generalized linear models • Logistic and Poisson regression; predicting using model objects and visualizing model fits. • Packages: {broom}, {visreg}, {ggplot2} Day 4 Mixed effects models • Theory and practice of mixed effect models; visualising fixed and random effects. • Packages: {lme4}, {broom}, {ggplot2}, {sjPlot} Day 5 Fitting nonlinear functions • Polynomial & Mechanistic models; brief introduction to more advanced topics & combining methods (e.g., generalised linear mixed effects, nonlinear mixed effects, and zero-inflated and zero-altered models). • Packages: {nlsTools}. • Afternoon to discuss own data if time permits Please email any inquiries to oliverhooker@prstatistics.com or visit our website www.prstatistics.com Please feel free to distribute this material anywhere you feel is suitable Our other courses 1. STABLE ISOTOPE MIXING MODELS USING SIAR, SIBER AND MIXSIAR #SIMM 28th Feb – 3rd Mar 2017, Scotland, Dr. Andrew Parnell, Dr. Andrew Jackson http://www.prstatistics.com/course/stable-isotope-mixing-models-using-r-simm... 2. NETWORK ANAYLSIS FOR ECOLOGISTS USING R #NTWA 6th – 10th March 2017, Scotland, Dr. Marco Scotti http://www.prstatistics.com/course/network-analysis-ecologists-ntwa01/ 3. ADVANCES IN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL ECOLOGICAL DATA USING R #MVSP 3rd – 7th April 2017, Scotland, Prof. Pierre Legendre, Dr. Olivier Gauthier http://www.prstatistics.com/course/advances-in-spatial-analysis-of-multivari... 4. ADVANCING IN STATISTICAL MODELLING FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS AND ECOLOGISTS USING R #ADVR 17th – 21st April 2017, Scotland, Dr. Luc Bussiere, Dr. Ane Timenes Laugen http://www.prstatistics.com/course/advancing-statistical-modelling-using-r-a... 5. CODING, DATA MANAGEMENT AND SHINY APPLICATIONS USING RSTUDIO FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS AND ECOLOGISTS #CDSR 15th - 19th May, Scotland Dr. Aline Quadros http://www.prstatistics.com/course/coding-data-management-and-shiny-applicat... 6. GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS USING R #GMMR 5th – 9th June 2017, Scotland, Prof. Dean Adams, Prof. Michael Collyer, Dr. Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou http://www.prstatistics.com/course/geometric-morphometrics-using-r-gmmr01/ 7. MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL ECOLOGICAL DATA #MASE 19th – 23rd June, Scotland, Prof. Subhash Lele, Dr. Peter Solymos http://www.prstatistics.com/course/multivariate-analysis-of-spatial-ecologic... 8. TIME SERIES MODELS FOR ECOLOGISTS USING R (JUNE 2017 #TSME 26th – 30th June, Canada, Dr. Andrew Parnell 9. BIOINFORMATICS FOR GENETICISTS AND BIOLOGISTS #BIGB 3rd – 7th July 2017, Scotland, Dr. Nic Blouin, Dr. Ian Misner http://www.prstatistics.com/course/bioinformatics-for-geneticists-and-biolog... 10. SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL DATA USING R #SPAE 7th – 12th August 2017, Scotland, Prof. Jason Matthiopoulos, Dr. James Grecian http://www.prstatistics.com/course/spatial-analysis-ecological-data-using-r-... 11. ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLINGUSING R #ENMR 16th – 20th October 2017, Scotland, Dr. Neftali Sillero http://www.prstatistics.com/course/ecological-niche-modelling-using-r-enmr01... 12. INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS USING LINUX #IBUL 16th – 20th October, Scotland, Dr. Martin Jones http://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-bioinformatics-using-linu... 13. GENETIC DATA ANALYSIS AND EXPLORATION USING R #GDAR 23rd – 27th October, Wales, Dr. Thibaut Jombart, Zhian Kavar http://www.prstatistics.com/course/genetic-data-analysis-exploration-using-r... 14. STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING FOR ECOLOGISTS AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS USING R #SEMR 23rd – 27th October, Wales, Prof Jarrett Byrnes, Dr. Jon Lefcheck 15. LANDSCAPE (POPULATION) GENETIC DATA ANALYSIS USING R #LNDG 6th – 10th November, Wales, Prof. Rodney Dyer http://www.prstatistics.com/course/landscape-genetic-data-analysis-using-r-l... 16. APPLIED BAYESIAN MODELLING FOR ECOLOGISTS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS #ABME 20th - 25th November 2017, Scotland, Prof. Jason Matthiopoulos, Dr. Matt Denwood http://www.prstatistics.com/course/applied-bayesian-modelling-ecologists-epi... 17. INTRODUCTION TO METHODS FOR REMOTE SENSING #IRMS 27th Nov – 1st Dec, Wales, Dr Duccio Rocchini, Dr. Luca Delucchi 18. INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON FOR BIOLOGISTS #IPYB 27th Nov – 1st Dec, Wales, Dr. Martin Jones http://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists-ipy... 19. DATA VISUALISATION AND MANIPULATION USING PYTHON #DVMP 11th – 15th December 2017, Wales, Dr. Martin Jones http://www.prstatistics.com/course/data-visualisation-and-manipulation-using... 20. ADVANCING IN STATISTICAL MODELLING USING R #ADVR 11th – 15th December 2017, Wales, Dr. Luc Bussiere, Dr. Tom Houslay, Dr. Ane Timenes Laugen, http://www.prstatistics.com/course/advancing-statistical-modelling-using-r-a... 21. INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELLING #IBHM 29th Jan – 2nd Feb, Scotland, Dr. Andrew Parnell http://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-bayesian-hierarchical-mod... 22. ANIMAL MOVEMENT ECOLOGY (February 2018) #ANME 23. AQUATIC TELEMENTRY DATA ANALYSIS USIR R (TBC) #ATDAR 24. PHYLOGENETIC DATA ANALYSIS USING R (TBC) #PHYL PR statistics 3/1 128 Brunswick Street Glasgow G1 1TF +44 (0) 7966500340 -- Oliver Hooker PhD. PR statistics 3/1 128 Brunswick Street Glasgow G1 1TF +44 (0) 7966500340 www.prstatistics.com www.prstatistics.com/organiser/oliver-hooker/