"Advancing in Statistical Modelling using R"]

Delivered by Dr. Luc Bussiere and Dr. Tom Houslay

http://prstatistics.com/course/advancing-in-statistical-modelling-using-r-advr/

This course will run from 2nd – 6th May 2016 at Malhamtarn Field Station, North Yorkshire, England
This is an introduction to model selection and simplification, mixed effects models, generalised linear models and non-linear models.

The course is aimed at biologists with a basic to moderate knowledge in R. The course content is designed to bridge the gap between basic R coding and more advanced statistical modelling. This five day course will consist of series of modules, each lasting roughly half a day and comprised of lectures and practicals designed to either build required skills for future modules or to perform a family of analyses that is frequently encountered in the biological literature.

Course content is as follows
Day 1 Course introduction 
•	Techniques for data manipulation, aggregation, and visualisation; introduction to linear regression. Packages: {tidyr}, {dplyr}, {ggplot2}
Day 2 Linear models 
•	Diagnostics, collinearity, scaling, plotting fitted values); fitting and interpreting interaction terms; model selection and simplification; general linear models and ANCOVA. 
•	Packages: {stats}, {car}
Day 3 Generalized linear models 
•	Logistic and Poisson regression; predicting using model objects and visualizing model fits. 
•	Packages: {broom}, {visreg}, {ggplot2}
Day 4 Mixed effects models 
•	Theory and practice of mixed effect models; visualising fixed and random effects. 
•	Packages: {lme4}, {broom}, {ggplot2}, {sjPlot}
Day 5 Fitting nonlinear functions
•	Polynomial & Mechanistic models; brief introduction to more advanced topics & combining methods (e.g., generalised linear mixed effects, nonlinear mixed effects, and zero-inflated and zero-altered models). 
•	Packages: {nlsTools}.
•	Afternoon to discuss own data if time permits

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