Week 2

Day 1

Today

• Lecture: Probability

• Lecture Code: Probability.R

In Class Discussion Questions for Betts et al. 2022

• Is the use of hypotheses in the literature changing?
• When are hypotheses useful?
• When are hypotheses not useful?

In Class Discussion Questions for Dumelle et al. 2021 and Williams & Brown 2019

• What are the attributes and foundations of design-based sampling/inference?
• What are the attributes and foundations of model-based sampling/inference?
• How do you use these two ideas?
• Any concerns of using or not using these ideas?

Assigned

• Probabiltiy Quiz on Canvas

• Readings for next class:

  • Kery and Kellner Chapter 2 (sections 2.0-2.4)

• Background Reading (not required):

  • Hobbs & Hooten Ch. 3. Section 3.4.
  • Bolker 2007 Ch. 4.

Day 2 (lab)

Today

• Lecture: Continue with Probability

• Downloads: Files

Assigned

• Readings for next class:
  • Kery and Kellner Chapter 2 (sections 2.5-2.6)
  • Dushoff et al. 2019
  • Fieberg, Chapter 1.10
• Background Reading on the Likelihood and Optimization (not required):
  • Bolker Ch. 6
  • Bolker Ch. 7
  • Fieberg Ch. 10
• Background Reading on regression (not required):
  • Fieberg, Ch. 1
  • Zurr Ch. 2

Using Code from Stats4Ecologists

# You will need to install this package:
  remotes::install_github("jfieberg/Data4Ecologists")