After taking a year-off from organising the course last year, I and my teaching partners Florian Hartig and Jörn Pagel, are pleased to announce that this year we will be running the Bayesian Summer School from 25th-29th September this year. Once again, the course will take at the Heathland Centre on the beautiful island of…
The journey begins You've probably heard something about R from your professors, your friends, your colleagues. Maybe you've heard about this magical software that will make all your data management and analysis easier. Maybe you've heard about it from the curses issuing from people trying to learn how to use it. Whatever you've been hearing…
Over the last few years I have taught a number of courses teaching the R Statistical Platform to people at various stages of their careers. Often these courses are focused on training people to use R for particular statistical application rather than delving into a lot of all the features and functionality that R provides. …
Over the last five years Florian Hartig, Jörn Pagel, and myself (plus Björn Reineking in the early days) have organised an annual workshop on Bayesian modelling with ecological and environmental science applications being the principal focus. I am pleased to announce that we have finalised the details for this year’s course. We’ve always been blessed with…
Once again this year my colleagues Florian Hartig and Jörn Pagel, and I will be running the Bayesian Modelling summer school. Continuing our tradition of holding the course in amazing locations, this time we will be running the course on the beautiful island of Lygra in Western Norway from the 15th September to the 19th…
All ecologists will use some form of model in nearly every paper they write although we might not always realise it. Sometimes this might be a simple statistical model such as the families of linear models used to test the differences between different groups or to ascertain relationships between measurements made out in the field,…
The constant travel for workshops, meetings, and training courses has meant there’s been a bit a gap between the posts here: sorry about that. However, I am pleased to say that, despite repeated attempts by the British public transport infrastructure to thwart my attendance, I have arrived at the joint BES/INTECOL conference. This year is…
Some of you may be aware of an intense discussion surrounding a post by Professor David Warton on the wonderful Methods in Ecology and Evolution blog. In this post Professor Warton outlines a series of key findings in various papers but, in particular one of his own coauthored with Ian Renner, which confirms a mathematical…
After a great couple of summer schools in Bayreuth over the last couple of years my colleagues, Jörn Pagel and Florian Hartig, and I have announced our third. This time the summer school will take place at University of Freiburg in their beautifully situated UniHaus in the Black Forest. Here is a copy of the…
It has finally happened. After many months of colleagues commenting on my lack of online presence and more than a few comments of “you should really get your website sorted out”, I have finally succumbed to peer pressure. For someone forever complaining about the rather lackadaisical nature by which new and improved methods are sometimes…
Statistical Biogeography 