Workshop on Spatial Modelling with inlabru
26-30th March, 2018 – University of St Andrews, Scotland
Statisticians from the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, will be holding a a 5-day workshop on fitting geostatistical and spatial point process models to spatial survey data, at Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling in St Andrews.
The workshop will cover methods for fitting geostatistical and spatial point process models to data obtained from surveys on which the whole region or population of interest is observed, as well as surveys on which observations are available only in a spatial sample from the region of interest, and surveys on which members of the population of interest are missed with some unknown probability. Inference for this last class of surveys will focus on distance sampling survey methods. The workshop covers methods for spatial modelling problems in general, although the examples and exercises in the workshop will focus on ecological surveys.
Participants will be instructed in the use of the R package “inlabru”, developed by researchers at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, which is available here: http://www.inlabru.org/
This package provides a flexible and convenient interface for spatial inference with the R-INLA package, without having to be familiar with the details of R-INLA syntax and structures, as well as a means of doing spatial inference when detection probability is not known.
Participants will be instructed in the use of the software on example datasets, with approximately half the workshop time being devoted to practical computer exercises in which participants use the software.
The course instructors are:
David Borchers, Janine Illian (University of St Andrews)
Finn Lindgren (University of Edinburgh)
Further details on the course and registration are available here:
https://creem2.st-andrews.ac.uk/workshop-on-spatial-modelling-with-inlabru/
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