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Occupancy Modeling Workshop

Website and materials associated with a 2-day workshop on occupancy modeling I co-led at the 2019 CECAM conference in Mérida, Yucatán. Materials include: lecture slides, R code for single- and multi-season models, and other resources.​
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Teaching Resources for Inference and Statistics

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"Everything is a Model"

Blog post to Rapid Ecology co-authored with Elizabeth Pansing.  We remind readers that all inference is based on models - yes even so-called "tests".
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Surprising Risk of Type I Errors 

Blog post walking through some of the math of Type I error rates.  Using simple probability rules, I show how making a Type I error might be more likely that most people think.
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The Normal Distribution

Lecture slides for teaching the Normal (Gaussian) distribution and Central Limit Theorem in introductory biostats with R code.
Markdown to generate/modify these slides here!

Software

pinpointreadR

R package to download and compile data from Lotek PinPoint archival GPS tags.

checkyourself

R package and vignettes containing code for stylized examples of pre-data collection simulation modeling.

betaGraphR

COMING SOON!
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R package containing tools for visualizing how to interpret the coefficients of linear models. Useful as a teaching tool.
You can also install any of these directly from an R session using the package devtools.  Simply run:
> devtools::install_github("syanco/[packagename]")
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