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Develop skills and conceptual framework to effectively use data to solve practical problems. Topics include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, experimental design, exploratory data analysis, probability and uncertainty, time series analysis, and spatial stats. Emphasis of case studies from environmental problems. |
Syllabus
Data
| Date | Title |
| 6/6/2006 | alewife.csv |
| 6/5/2006 | apple.csv |
| 5/22/2006 |
SCflow2.xls |
| 5/1/2006 | Gasmarket2.csv |
| 5/1/2006 | Description of the gas market data |
| 4/26/2006 | Data from Bergstrom & Jansson (2006) Table 1 |
| 4/16/2006 | kelp1.csv |
| 4/12/2006 | Taxi mileage |
| 6/4/2005 |
NewCO2.xls |
| 6/2/2005 | limpet.csv |
| 6/2/2005 |
mercury.xls |
| 5/18/2005 |
emap.xls |
| 5/15/2005 |
TOWaterData.xls |
| 4/17/2005 | cars_1993.xls |
| 4/8/2005 |
npp.xls |
| 4/1/2005 | Description of cars_1993.sas7bdat |
| 6/3/2004 | fcIllinois.csv |
| 6/2/2004 | Norwegian lakes |
| 5/20/2004 | KermitAttitudes.csv |
| 5/18/2004 | RatTumors.csv |
| 5/18/2004 | SCflow.csv |
| 5/6/2004 | Trout data |
| 5/6/2004 | Exotic Species |
| 4/12/2004 | Lake eutrophication |
| 4/12/2004 | limpet.csv |
| 4/12/2004 | Herring_BC.csv |
| 4/5/2004 | TcCB concentration |
| 4/2/2004 | Data files for "Companion to Applied Regression" |
| 4/1/2004 |
Grizzly Bear population |
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Exams
| Date | Title |
| 6/5/2006 |
Mini-Exam 5 |
| 5/24/2006 |
Levin & Tolimieri (2001) |
| 5/24/2006 |
Mini-Exam 4 |
| 5/12/2006 |
Mini-Exam 3 |
| 5/2/2006 |
Mini-Exam 2 |
| 4/16/2006 |
Mini-Exam 1 |
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Homeworks
| Date | Title |
| 6/3/2006 |
Problem set 5 solutions |
| 5/31/2006 |
Problem set 5 |
| 5/20/2006 |
Problem set 4 solutions |
| 5/18/2006 |
Problem set 4 |
| 5/10/2006 |
Problem set 3 |
| 5/10/2006 |
Problem set 3 solutions |
| 5/1/2006 |
Problem set 2 |
| 5/1/2006 |
Problem set 2 solutions |
| 4/14/2006 |
Problem set 1 solutions, part 2 |
| 4/11/2006 |
Problem set 1 solutions, part 1 |
| 4/11/2006 |
Problem set 1 |
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Labs
| Date | Title |
| 6/6/2006 |
Nonlinear regression in JMP |
| 4/18/2006 |
Bootstrap analysis with PopTools |
| 4/18/2006 |
TcCB log-normal QQplot.xls |
| 4/18/2006 |
TcCB nonparametric bootstrap 2-sample t-test base.xls |
| 4/18/2006 |
TcCB parametric bootstrap CI base.xls |
| 4/13/2006 |
Lab2HypTstg |
| 4/5/2006 |
PopTools and simulations |
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Lectures
| Date | Title |
| 6/8/2006 |
Miscellaneous topics |
| 6/5/2006 |
Nonlinear least squares |
| 5/31/2006 |
JMP for the Categorical Dependent Variables lecture |
| 5/24/2006 |
Categorical dependent variables |
| 5/23/2006 |
Model selection and influential data |
| 5/23/2006 |
ANOVA |
| 5/18/2006 |
Revised impact assessment |
| 5/9/2006 |
Impact Assessment |
| 5/9/2006 |
Some OLS theory |
| 5/5/2006 |
OLS Assumptions |
| 5/5/2006 |
JMP for the OLS assumptions lecture |
| 5/1/2006 |
JMP for the regression lectures |
| 4/26/2006 |
OLS regression |
| 4/24/2006 | Bergstrom & Jansson, Atmospheric nitrogen deposition has caused nitrogen enrichment... |
| 4/24/2006 | Bosch et al, Effects of introduced salmonids on a montane population of Iberian frogs |
| 4/20/2006 |
Survey design |
| 4/12/2006 |
Hypohesis testing with JMP |
| 4/11/2006 |
Limits to theory, and the bootstrap |
| 4/6/2006 |
Power analysis and hypothesis testing with multiple samples |
| 4/4/2006 |
Class Introduction |
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Links
| Date | Title |
| 5/9/2005 |
Article on New Ecological Paradigm |
| 3/28/2005 |
Guidance for the Data Quality Objectives Process |
| 4/14/2004 | Link to class listserv |
| 4/12/2004 | Pictures of limpets |
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Readings
| Date | Title |
| 4/3/2006 |
ESM 206 Reader 2006 |
| 5/15/2005 |
Chapter 1 from "Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research" by McGarigal, Cushman & Stafford |
| 3/29/2005 |
Getting Started with JMP |
MESM