Biology 708, McMaster University

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Course information

• Course description
• Information on assignments
• Project information
• Course material is in three places:
  • here
  • you can find the ‘source code’ for any material here on the GitHub repository
  • venues/forums for online discussion: Teams channel
• Or reach us by e-mail to bio708qmee@gmail.com

Course schedule

Tues 8:30-10:20, Fri 9:30-10:20. Class locations are posted on Mosaic, or ask the instructors.

Lecture recordings should be available via Echo360: please e-mail us to request access.

Foundations

• Introduction to R
• Data management
• Visualization
• Statistical philosophy
• Meaningful, interpretable and comparable

Statistics

• Permutations and Linear models
• Generalized linear models (additional)
• Mixed models (additional)
• Bayesian statistics

Additional topics

Open for discussion; let us know if you have suggestions.

Faculty

• Jonathan Dushoff
• Ben Bolker

data directory