Biology 708, McMaster University

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Course information

• Course description
• Project information
• Information on assignments
• 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: TBD/TBA
• communication by e-mail (to bio708qmee@gmail.com) is preferred

Course schedule

Tues 11:30-12:20, Thurs 9:30-11:20. Class locations are posted on Mosaic, or ask the instructors.

There may also be some asynchronous content.

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

• Simulating data in statistics
• Contrasts

Faculty

• Jonathan Dushoff
• Ben Bolker
• Ian Dworkin for a bit

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