An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics in Ecology

7 - 9 February 2011 - CLOSED

Teacher:

Dr. Marc Kery (Swiss Ornithological Institute)

In collaboration with the Doctoral Program in Population Genomics

Organizer

Dr. Wayne Dawson (University of Bern)

Summary

Day 1:

- Soft intro Bayes stats
- WinBUGS as a standalone application
- WinBUGS run from R
- basics of the linear models: the design matrix (book chapter 6)

Day 2:

- linear and generalised linear models
- mixed models (one-way ANOVA)
- perhaps start general mixed models, such as "random-effects ANCOVA"

Day 3:

- more mixed models
- GLMMs

Bern

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General information

Type: course
Number of participants: maximum 20
Location: Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Bern
Schedule: 9:00 - 17:00

Contact

Nadia Bruydonckx
Coordinator of the Inter-University
Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution
Biophore building
University of Lausanne
Tel: +41 (0)21 692 4244
Fax: +41 (0)21 692 4165
E-mail: nadia.bruyndonckx(at)unil.ch

CLOSED

Priority is given to PhD students form the doctoral programs in Ecology & Evolution and Population Genomics until 25 January 2011. After this deadline, first-come, first-served!

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