When & Where: Mon & Wed, 1-2:20 in BIO Rm. 305
Who: Dave Jenkins & Lina Sanchez
Recorded lectures are available on youtube
Schedule:
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Week |
Videos etc. (before class) |
Reading (before class) |
In-Class Topics |
Assignments |
| 1 (22-24 Aug) |
swirlstats.com |
R is still hot and getting hotter Hector Ch. 1 & Appendix |
Course overview & goals
The new statistics |
Install software
Make a plot in R. Any plot. |
| 2 (29-31 Aug) | Data basics (youtube)
or read it |
Hypotheses 1 , 2 , 3 | Readings discussion
Baby names data (DB) |
Homework #1
(Due 7 Sep) |
| 3 (5-7 Sep) | LABOR DAY – – – – | – – – –
Quinn & Keough excerpt (DB) Aho et al (2014) (DB) |
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Designing research for model selection (DB) |
Homework #2
(Due 12 Sep) |
| 4 (12-14 Sep) | Study design & model selection | Helicopter experiment | Design & conduct helicopter expt. | Homework #3
(Due 19 Sep) |
| 5 (19-21 Sep) | Graphing A (youtube) | Getting Started with Charts in R | Graphing lab I | Homework #4
(Due 26 Sep) |
| 6 (26-28 Sep) | Probability (youtube) | Testing parametric assumptions | Testing Normality & Variance | Homework #5
(Due 3 Oct) |
| 7 (3-5 Oct) | z- and t-tests (youtube) | Hector (2015) Ch. 2 & 3 | Doing t-tests | Homework #6
(Due 10 Oct) |
| 8 (10-12 Oct) | ANOVAs II (youtube) | Hector (2015) Ch. 6
Anderson et al. (2000) (DB) Anderson & Burnham (2002) (DB) |
ANOVAs II
Readings discussion |
Homework #7
(Due 17 Oct) |
| 9 (17-19 Oct) | boxplot, SD, SE, or CI? | Hector (2015) Ch. 5 | CIs etc. | Homework #8
(Due 25 Oct) |
| 10 (24-26 Oct) | Bivariate Regressions (youtube) | Hector (2015) Ch. 4
Warton et al. (2002) (DB) |
Linear Regressions | Homework #9
(Due 31 Oct) |
| 11 (31 Oct – 2
Nov) |
ANCOVAs (youtube) | Hector (2015) Ch. 7 | ANCOVAs | Homework #10
(Due 7 Nov) |
| 12 (7-9 Nov) | Generalized Linear Models I (youtube) | [Hector (2015) Ch. 8, 9 | GLMs I (DB) | Homework #11
(Due 14 Nov) |
| 13 (14-16 Nov) | Intro to mixed effects models (youtube) | Hector (2015) Ch. 10 | Mixed-Effect ANOVAs | Homework #12
(Due 28 Nov) |
| 14 (21-23 Nov) | Logistic regressions
THANKSGIVING |
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Logistic Regressions | |
| 15 (28-30 Nov) | – – – – |
Review above
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Practice 1
Cumulative Final Exam to you 30th |
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| 16 (5-7 Dec) | Finals Week | Finals Week | Finals Week | Final DUE 7th |
- R – follow links and instructions for your operating system. Install this before RStudio.
- RStudio – follow links and instructions for your operating system.
- VLC for Windows or Mac – or other software (e.g., this one) for mp4 files (online lectures)
- Dropbox – install and see the PCB6466 folder. Files will be added here as the semester progresses.
Other R Resources
Miscellany of Interest:
- A new way to judge regressions
- Touchon & McCoy (2016) – “bye bye to p-values and R is where its at”
- Textbook at allbookstores.com (a metasearch among bookstores)
- Analytical flowchart (from Samuels & Witmer 1999)
- Central Limit Theorem java applet
- An interview with Ben Bolker on appropriate use of stats for ecologists