Instructor: Dr. Carl Schwarz, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University.

Stats Refresher for Biologists in “R” software (April 26-28)
Course description

Many scientific studies are full of statistical jargon, tables of averages and other statistics, and results of statistical tests which purport to prove a certain hypothesis. The purpose of this course is to review some of the basic sampling and experiment designs used by ecologists and to understand exactly what can and cannot be extracted from a set of data. With the advent of modern statistical packages, the analysis of data is fairly easy, but it is far too easy to get nonsense results. This course will also review common pitfalls in the analysis of data.

Introduction to “R” software (April 25, afternoon)
Course description

New to R?
The purpose of this 1/2 day workshop is to give you an introduction to R/RStudio so that you can take full advantage of the subsequent 3 day course.

Topics

– R/Rstudio – mechanics of using

– Libraries

– Basic R syntax and concepts

– Basic input/output

– Basic data structures (Data frames)

– Basic ggplot (creating graphs)

– Basic model fitting (lm), getting output (method functions), plotting (ggplot)