Old Methods - UCF D4 Ecology Lab

Topic	PDFs	Data & Scripts	Exercises
Introduction	Syllabus (August, 2013)
			http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf	Instructions for exercises
Introduction to Probability			Exercise 1a
Random variables and Probability distributions	Probability distributions – R demo (1) Ellison and Dennis 2010 (1)		Exercise 1b
Managing and curating data	Managing and curating data – R demo (2) Burgman 2011 (2) Metadata Hypericum cumulicola	Hypericum cumulicola	Exercise 2
Experimental design
Summary Statistics and sampling	Law Large Numbers – R demo (3) Analysis of Averages – R demo (3) Hurlbert 1984 (3)	Hypericum cumulicola height Hypericum cumulicola population level	law large numbers Central limit theorem Analysis of Averages Exercise 3
Statistical models
Confidence intervals	Confidence intervals – R demo (4) Fidler et al 2006 (4)		Confidence intervals Exercise 4
Three Frameworks for Statistical Analysis	Three frameworks- R demo (5) Crowley 1992 (5)	Ant_Nests Ant Nest Data.txt	Exercise 5 Data for exercise 5
Simple linear Regression	Regression – R demo (6) Ellison 2004 (6)	Regression.R Regression_data	Exercise 6 Data for exercise 6
Transformations
Useful properties of the normal distribution	Normal distribution	t-distribution in R F-distribution in R
Exam 1	Exam 1 Questions	Birds Saxifraga	Return Date: October 9 @ 3:00 PM
Multiple Regression	Multiple regression – R demo (7) Stephens et al 2007 (7)	multiple regression R Data regression	Exercise 7
Model selection	Model Selection – R demo (8) Johnson & Omland 2008 (8)	Snake data Snake dat.txt	Linear vs. polynomial Exercise 8 Data for Exercise 8
Bibliography model selection	Arnod 2010 Doherty et al 2010 Hutto 2012 Lukacs et al 2010 Lukacs et al 2007 Burham & Anderson 2004 Plowright et al 2008 Stamps et al 2005
General linear models (ANOVA)	General linear models – R demo (9) Bolker et al 2008 (9)	ANOVA scrip ANOVA data	Exercise 9 Data for Exercise 9
Nested and Block designs	ANOVA block/nested – R demo	ANOVA block/nested script ANOVA block data ANOVA nested data	Exercise X Data for Exercise Data for Exercise
Factorial designs	ANOVA factorial – R demo	ANOVA factorial ANOVA data for R factorial design ANOVA excell factorial data	Exercise Y Data for Exercise
General linear models (ANCOVA)	ANCOVA – R demo (10) Hoenig and Heisey 2001 (10)	Ancova script Ancova data	Exercise 10 Data for Exercise 10
Regression of counts (Non-normal errors)		Snakes scriptSnakes data Mantis script Mantis data
Multiple Comparisons	Day and Quinn 1989 (11) Dunnett table	Multiple comparisons – R demo (11) Multiple comparisons data	Exercise 11 Data for Exercise 11
Logistic Regression	Logistic Regression – R demo (12) the logit transformation Colegrave and Ruxtom 2002 (12)	Logistic Regression – R demo (12) Hypericum survival	Exercise 12 Data for Exercise 12
Analysis of Categorical Data	Categorical analysis – R demo (13) Johnson 1999, 2005 (13)	Analysis of categorical data Bayesian – loglinear Sinclair	Exercise 13 Data for Exercise 13
Final Exam	Final Exam	Wiregrass	Return Date: December 6 @ 11:59 PM
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