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 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.
The goal of this workshop is to provide graduate students early in their studies with a broad set of practical statistical knowledge and tools for their research projects. The workshop focuses on statistical analysis in R, and we provide basic R instruction that assumes no prior familiarity with R. Past workshops have included broad overviews and workable examples of the following types of analysis: linear models and model fitting, time series analysis, spatial statistics, phylogenetics, population genetics, population dynamics and principal components analysis. This workshop is not meant replace formal course work in statistics. Instead, it provides participants with a foundation of knowledge that can be built upon by future study.
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