Posts from qaecologists- COVID-19 dynamics October 20, 2020
- Discover the beauties (and oddities) of the avian world, rate some birds and help science September 28, 2020
- Get Productive with an Easy Weekly Reset September 28, 2020
- COVID counterfactuals September 27, 2020
- PhD position modelling species range dynamics September 22, 2020
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Virtual #ISEC2020 June 22, 2020 Michael McCarthy
- QAECO’s favourite papers of 2018 April 12, 2019 qaecology
- What is HPC and why would I use it? April 4, 2019 qaecology
- Kickstarting the year with HGAMs February 25, 2019 qaecology
- Philosophical discussions in the lab: Žižek criticises ideological ecology June 5, 2018 qaecology
Category Archives: Statistics
Virtual #ISEC2020
Held every two years, the International Statistical Ecology Conference has shifted Down Under this year. But given COVID-19, it is running virtually. And it has just kicked off, and the organisers are to be commended for what appears to be … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, News, Statistics
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Kickstarting the year with HGAMs
To start off Reading Group for 2019, we dove headfirst into 43 brilliant pages on hierarchical generalised additive models (HGAMs) by Pederson et al. 2018, a pre-print titled “Hierarchical generalised additive models: an introduction with mgcv“. Although at first intimidated … Continue reading
Posted in generalised additive models, pre-print, Reading Group, Statistics
Tagged GAMs, hierarchical models, mgcv
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These are QAEco’s favourite R packages, what’s yours? #favRpackage
Are you an ecologist? What stats program did you use to analyse your data ten years ago? How about now? A recent paper by Justin Touchon and colleagues reviewed changes in the statistics and statistical programs used by ecologists over … Continue reading
Posted in Polls, Statistics
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Does More Data Mean Better Decisions?
We love more research and more data—but will they always mean better decisions? Interrogating this trade-off is at the heart of what much of Qaeco does. Over on the Methods Blog, recent PhD graduate Stefano Canessa discusses in detail The Value … Continue reading
Bogged down in the willows: making robust conservation decisions in the face of uncertainty
By Joslin Moore (This article was first published in the March 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) How much should we invest in learning as opposed to doing when it comes to conservation management? Keep in … Continue reading
Posted in Papers, Statistics
Tagged Bog, Bogong High Plains, Parks Victoria, salix, value of information, Willow
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Developing and interpreting species distribution models: a checklist of the basics
By Brendan Wintle (This article was first published in the March 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) Species distribution models (SDMs) combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with information about environmental variables to gain ecological insights … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Point, Statistics
Tagged Biology, SDM, Species distribution, Statistics
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How to link functional traits to species distribution models
Species distribution models turn up in on all sorts of papers these days, from those trying to explain speciation, to those predicting the outcome of climate change. The environmental variables used in such models are often assumed to relate to physiology somehow. But typically this … Continue reading
Posted in Papers, Qaecologists, Statistics
Tagged Ecography, Environment, Environment variable, Physiology, species, Species distribution
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What is the significance of this?
If you have ever done any scientific work that involved testing a null hypothesis, make sure you check out the discussion on this post over at the Journal of Ecology blog. Scroll down to the comments thread and you’ll find … Continue reading
