Dear all,
A short course will be held in the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM), University of St Andrews, 17th-19th January 2012.
Integrated nested Laplacian approximation (INLA) facilitates the fitting of a large range of complex statistical models by dramatically reducing computation time.
This three day workshop discusses how spatial models may be fitted with INLA using the package R-INLA. We cover a wide range of different types of spatial models, in particular complex spatial models, spatial point process models and hierarchical models. Data examples will mainly be related to ecological studies but the course is equally relevant to researchers from other fields and in-depth knowledge of ecology is not expected.
Teaching will be a combination of lectures, computer sessions and discussions. Participants are encouraged to discuss their own data sets with the instructors.
Instructors
Janine Illian, (University of St. Andrews)
Håvard Rue, (University of Trondheim, Norway)
Sigrunn H. Sørbye, (University of Tromsø, Norway)
For enquiries please contact:
Rhona Rodger
Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling
University of St Andrews
The Observatory, Buchanan Gardens
St. Andrews
Scotland KY16 9LZ
Tel:+44 1334 461842
Fax: +44 1334 461800
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Further details on the course may be found on the webpage:
http://www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/workshops/INLA/INLAoverview.html
and further information on INLA may be found here:
http://www.r-inla.org/
We will regularly up-date the course webpage with further details. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions- for contact details see the webpage.
Best wishes
Janine
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Dr Janine B Illian [log in to unmask]
RCUK academic fellow
Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling
The Observatory, University of St Andrews, Scotland KY16 9LZ
Tel: (0)1334-461803 Fax: (0)1334-461800
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