THURSDAY, March 8
9:30-11:00 (Session A - SM)
Testing of hypothesis (using R)
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Concepts: type-I error, type-II error, p-value, test statistic, confidence intervals
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Tests: z-test, t-test, F-test, paired t-test (lower tail, upper tail, two tailed), test for population proportions
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ANOVA, Non-normal data, Checking for normality, permutation test (aov, multcomp, qqnorm, qqline)
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Case studies from ecology
Day 2
11:30-13:00 (Session B - SM, BC)
Tutorial session (In groups)
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Statistical Distribution for Ecologists (Tutorial – IIA)
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Testing of hypothesis (Tutorial – IIB)
14:30-16:00 (Session C - SM)
Model building in R – I (Simple Linear Regression)
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Train and test partition of data (sample, sample.split)
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Simple Linear Regression (Concepts, Assumptions, Understanding R outputs) (lm, summary)
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Correlation (cor, corr.test)
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Checking model assumptions and associated plots (boxcox)
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Regression diagnostics and associated plots (influential points, high-leverage points, non-constant variance or error, correlation of errors, possible nonlinearity)
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Prediction using model for new data
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Measures of Model accuracy (R2, Adjusted R2, AIC, BIC, Mallow’s Cp)
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Important package: MASS,car
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Important functions: outlierTest, qqPlot, leveragePlots, influencePlot, ncvTest
16:30-18:00 (Session D - ARB)
Tutorial session (In groups)
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Model building in R (Tutorial – IID)
9:00-9:30 (Session 0)
Tutorial session
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Data manipulation exercises (Tutorial – IC)
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Statistical Distribution for Ecologists (Tutorial – ID)
