EEOB 634 Ecological Analysis

 

HOMEWORK

 

 

Schedule

Date

Presenter

Topic

 

 

 

5-Sep

Dyer

Introduction

12-Sep

Dyer

Statistics review – Stats as principled argument

19-Sep

Dyer

Statistics review – Stats as principled argument

26-Sep

Dyer

SAS - brief introduction; assignment posted on web

3-Oct

 

Office hours

10-Oct

Dyer

Assignment due; discussion

24-Oct

Schoof; del Bianco

Chapters 2; Chapter 3

31-Oct

Connahs; Michel

Chapters 4,5; Chapters 6,8

7-Nov

Massad; Lenz

Chapter 11; Chapters 15,16

14-Nov

Sesser; King

Chapters 7,14; Chapter 13

21-Nov

McCormick; Rodriguez

Chapter 17; Chapter 18

28-Nov

Bernik; Childers

Data presentation; Dytham/Gotelli&Ellison

 

 

Childers’ Stats Key

5-Dec

Dyer

Structural Equation Modeling (Chapter 12+)

 

 

Selected References (links to pdf)

 

Role of chance in baseball

Regression vs. ANOVA

Iron claw

False Discovery Rate

Null hypotheses are bad I

Null hypotheses are bad II

ANCOVA

Example of MANOVA and Profile Analysis in a paper

 

 

Course objectives

·         Introduce EEB students to underutilized, yet powerful techniques for designing ecological investigations and analyzing ecological data sets.

·         Provide students more practical experience with the use of statistics in ecology.

·         Examine inappropriately analyzed data sets in the literature.