Summer School in Ecological Data Analysis - EcoDAR2017

SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT - Department of Environment
SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT - Department of Marine Sciences
10 Jul 2017 to 15 Jul 2017
Lesvos

Topics that will be covered in the Summer School include:

Topic 1: Introduction to R Software and Programming Language with Practicals.

Topic 2: Classic Statistical Methods (e.g. Hypothesis Testing, , Linear Regression) with Practicals.

Topic 3: Advanced Statistical Methods (e.g. Multivariate Data Analysis, GAMs, GLMMs, Mixed Effects Models,  Non-Linear Models) with Practicals.

Topics 4: Case-studies in Ecology. 

  

Programme 

 

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

9-10

R basics

(Besbeas)

Graphics in R

(Besbeas)

Field Trip

Hypothesis Testing & multi-model inference

(Gimenez)

Mixed Effects Models

(Gimenez)

Practicals –Multivariate Data Analysis

(Kavroudakis)

10-11

Data Objects: Vectors, Matrices, Lists

(Besbeas, Kokkoris)

Graphics in R

(Besbeas)

Field Trip

Hypothesis Testing & multi-model inference

(Gimenez)
 

Practicals – Mixed Effect Models

(Gimenez)

Practicals – Multivariate Data Analysis

(Kavroudakis)

 

Coffee break

Coffee break

 

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

11-12

Data Objects: Vectors, Matrices, Lists

(Besbeas, Kokkoris)

Linear Regression

(Besbeas)

Field Trip

Distributions, probabilities, and likelihoods

(Gimenez)

Practicals – Mixed Effect Models

(Gimenez)

Summer School evaluation questionnaire (Dimitrakopoulos, Kokkoris)

12-13

Data Input

(Besbeas, Fyllas)

Linear Regression (Besbeas)

Field Trip

Generalized Linear Models, (GLMs) (Gimenez)

Non-Linear Regression

(Besbeas)

Students’ Evaluation (Kokkrois, Besbeas)

13-14

Statistical Functions (Besbeas)

Practicals - Linear Regression (Besbeas)

Field Trip

Practicals – Generalized Linear Models, (GLMs)

(Gimenez)

Non-Linear Regression

(Besbeas)

Students’ Evaluation (Kokkoris, Gimenez)

14-15

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

End of Summer School

15-16

 

Statistical Functions (Besbeas)

Programming in R

(Tsirtsis)

Field Trip

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) (Gimenez, Besbeas)

Practicals – Non-Linear Regression

(Besbeas)

 

 

Coffee break

Coffee break

Field Trip

Coffee break

Coffee break

 

 

16-17

Data Analysis

(Besbeas)

Programming in R

(Tsirtsis)

 

Field Trip

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) (Gimenez)

Multivariate Data Analysis

(Kavroudakis)

 

 

17-18

Data Analysis

(Besbeas)

Programming in R

(Tsirtsis)

 

Field Trip

Practicals - Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) (Gimenez)

Multivariate Data Analysis

(Kavroudakis)