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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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Week 1 |
2/24 |
Administrivia<br/>
Statistics review<br/>
R introduction
<br/><br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Do RINTRO.pdf<br/>
Johnson (1999) [highly recommended]<br/>
Assignment 1 (due 3/3 1pm) |
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Week 2 |
3/03 |
Questions and hypotheses<br/>
R programming
<br/>
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<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Ruxton and Colegrave (2006) Chapter 2 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 2 (due 3/10 1pm)
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Week 3 |
3/10 |
Between individual variation, replication, and sampling<br/>
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<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Ruxton and Colegrave (2006) Chapter 3 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Hurlbert (1984) [highly recommended]<br/>
Oksanen (2001) [recommended]<br/>
Hurlbert and Hurlbert (2004) [recommended]<br/>
Assignment 3 (due 3/17 1pm) |
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Week 4 |
3/17 |
Different experimental designs<br/>
<br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Ruxton and Colegrave (2006) Chapter 4 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 4 (due 3/24 1pm) |
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Week 5 |
3/24 |
Taking measurements<br/>
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<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Ruxton and Colegrave (2006) Chapter 5 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 5 (due 3/31 1pm) |
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Week 6 |
3/31 |
Review
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<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Ruxton and Colegrave (2006) Chapter 6 [highly recommended]<br/>
Assignment 6 (due 4/7 1pm)
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<b>References</b><br/>
Dalgaard (2008)<br/>
Ruxton (2006)<br/>
<font color="blue">The entire Dalgaard (2008) book is electronically available for NTU students (access the URL below from NTU domain --- or use VPN from off-campus).</font><br/>
<font color="#FF0000">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79054-1</font> |
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Week 7 |
4/07 |
Exam 1 |
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Week 8 |
4/14 |
Sum of squares<br/>
Bootstrap
<br/><br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Hilborn and Mangel (1997) Chapter 5 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 7 (due 4/21 1pm) |
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Week 9 |
4/21 |
Maximum likelihood
<br/><br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Hilborn and Mangel (1997) Chapter 7 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 8 (due 4/28 1pm) |
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Week 10 |
4/28 |
Generalized linear models (Poisson)
<br/><br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Dalgaard (2008) Chapter 15 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 9 (due 5/5 1pm) |
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Week 11 |
5/05 |
Generalized linear models (Binomial)
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<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Dalgaard (2008) Chapter 13 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 10 (due 5/12 1pm) |
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Week 12 |
5/12 |
Overdispersion
<br/><br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
O'Hara and Kotze (2010) [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 11 (due 5/19 1pm) |
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Week 13 |
5/19 |
Working with zeros
<br/><br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Zuur et al. (2009) Chapter 11 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Martin et al. (2005) [Recommended]<br/>
Assignment 12 (due 5/26 1pm)<br/>
<font color="blue">The entire Zuur et al. (2009) book is electronically available for NTU students (access the URL below from NTU domain --- or use VPN from off-campus).</font><br/>
<font color="#FF0000">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87458-6</font> |
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Week 14 |
5/26 |
Dealing with heterogeneity <br/>
Significance tests and model selection revisited
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<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Zuur et al. (2009) Chapter 4 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Whittingham et al. (2006) [REQUIRED]<br/>
Johnson and Omland (2004) [REQUIRED]<br/>
Assignment 13 (due 6/2 1pm) |
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Week 15 |
6/02 |
Generalized linear mixed model
<br/><br/>
<b>Assignments</b><br/>
Bolker et al. (2008) [REQUIRED]<br/>
Zuur et al. (2009) Chapter 5 [REQUIRED]<br/>
Crawley (2007) Chapter 19<br/>
Pinheiro and Bates (2000) Chapter 1 [because explicit models are given, easier to understand]<br/>
Assignment 14 (due 6/9 1pm)<br/>
<font color="blue">The entire Crawley (2007) and Pinheiro and Bates (2000) books are electronically available for NTU students (access the URLs below from NTU domain --- or use VPN from off-campus).</font><br/>
<font color="#FF0000">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470515075</font><br/>
<font color="#FF0000">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b98882</font>
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Week 16 |
6/09 |
Review |
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Week 17 |
6/16 |
Final exam |