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GLM tip getting non-linear with splines

September 20, 2019 | Bluecology blog

GLM tips: get non-linear with splines This tip is great for a quick non-linear test, before you go all the way with a GAM or parametric non-linear model. You’ll need the splines library, which comes shipped with R anyway. First, let’s make up a ... [Read more...]

R courses February 2020

August 11, 2019 | Bluecology blog

R courses February 2020 Our next series of R courses for professionals and graduate students is now open for registration. The courses include 1-day for absolute beginners, 3 days for intermediate material and 3 days for the advanced class. They are r... [Read more...]

Diary of becoming a Bayesian

March 17, 2019 | Bluecology blog

Diary of becoming a Bayesian Here’s my timeline of going from frequentist stats to becoming a fully fledged Bayesian eco-statistician. 2006 Read the Ecological Detective (Hilborn and Walters), the philosophy makes sense, the history of falsificatio... [Read more...]

A brief guide to data visuals in R in 2018

July 3, 2018 | Bluecology blog

Data visuals 2018 Supplementary notes for CJ Brown’s talks on dataviz in 2018 for Griffith University’s honours students and the UQ Winterschool in Bioinformatics. These notes run through some of the principles I present and also show R code for generating data visuals. If you want to take the dataviz ... [Read more...]

How do I interpret the AIC

April 12, 2018 | Bluecology blog

How do I interpret the AIC? My student asked today how to interpret the AIC (Akaike’s Information Criteria) statistic for model selection. We ended up bashing out some R code to demonstrate how to calculate the AIC for a simple GLM (general linear model). I always think if you ... [Read more...]

General Linear Models The Basics

January 18, 2018 | Bluecology blog

General Linear Models: The Basics General linear models are one of the most widely used statistical tool in the biological sciences. This may be because they are so flexible and they can address many different problems, that they provide useful output... [Read more...]
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