Chapter 2 Schedule

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Also check itsLearning for details of other tasks/assignments/reading etc.

Part

Session

Type

Topic

Instructor

Intro

1

Lecture

Overview and philosophy

OJ

Intro

2

Lecture

Hypotheses and questions

OJ

Intro

3

Lecture

Getting acquainted with R

OJ

Intro

4

Practical

An R refresher

OJ

Data handling

5

Lecture

Data wrangling

OJ

Data handling

6

Practical

Data wrangling with dplyr

OJ

Data handling

7

Lecture

Data management

OJ

Data handling

8

Practical

Exercise: Wrangling the Amniote Life History Database

OJ

Data handling

9

Practical

Combining data sets

OJ

Data handling

10

Practical

Exercise: Temperature effects on egg laying dates

OJ

Data visualistion

11

Lecture

Visualising data with ggplot2

OJ

Data visualistion

12

Practical

Visualising data with ggplot2

OJ

Data visualistion

13

Lecture

Summary statistics, distributions and probability

OJ

Data visualistion

14

Practical

Distributions and summarising data; Exercise: Virtual dice

OJ

Data visualistion

15

Practical

Pimping your plots

OJ

Data visualistion

16

Practical

Pimping your plots

OJ

Statistics

17

Lecture

Randomisation tests

OJ

Statistics

18

Practical

Exercise: Sexual selection in Hercules beetles

OJ

Statistics

19

Practical

t-tests

OJ

Statistics

20

Practical

t-test in R (and exercises)

OJ

Statistics

21

Lecture

ANOVA

OJ

Statistics

22

Practical

ANOVA in R (and exercise Apple tree crop yield)

OJ

Statistics

23

Lecture

Linear Regression

OJ

Statistics

24

Practical

Linear Regression in R

OJ

Statistics

25

Lecture

ANCOVA and multiple regression

OJ

Statistics

26

Practical

ANCOVA : Linear models with categorical and continuous explanatory variables

OJ

Statistics

27

Lecture

Evaluating models

OJ

Statistics

28

Practical

n-way ANOVA: Linear models with >1 categorical explanatory variables

OJ

Statistics

29

Lecture

GLMs with count data

OJ

Statistics

30

Practical

Generalised linear models in R

OJ

Statistics

31

Lecture

GLMs with binomial data

OJ

Statistics

32

Practical

Binomial GLMs in R

OJ

Statistics

33

Lecture

Statistical power

OJ

Statistics

34

Practical

Power analysis by simulation

OJ

Statistics

35

Lecture

AI/ChatGPT workshop

OJ

Statistics

36

Practical

AI/ChatGPT workshop

OJ

Statistics

37

Lecture

Intro to Written Assignment

OJ

Statistics

38

Practical

Written Assignment 2

OJ

Assignment

39

Practical

Written Assignment 3

OJ

Assignment

40

Practical

Written Assignment 4

OJ

Assignment

41

Practical

Written Assignment 5

OJ

Assignment

42

Practical

Written Assignment 6

OJ

Assignment

43

Practical

Written Assignment 7

OJ

Assignment

44

Practical

Written Assignment 8

OJ

Exam

45

Exam

MCQ Exam

OJ

Exam

46

Exam

MCQ Exam

OJ