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One of the exercises in Ecological Statistics fits a species area curve to data from the Galapogos Islands. I ask students to compare …
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Many years ago I started making videos of my lectures for my ecological statistics course. I still use those early videos, now on …
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In a comment Jacob E. asked “Also, you mention using VIF for testing multi-collinearity. Is there a cutoff score you recommend for …
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I teach my students to check the assumptions of their models by making various diagnostic plots of residuals. One of the niftiest is …
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One of the exercises I make Ecological Statistics students do is work backwards from a given value of the dependent variable in a …
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SOMEBODY READ MY BLOG! And had a question, even better: I’m reading your latest entyrely too much post and I can’t help wondering, is …
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Over the past few weeks outbreaks centered around meat processing facilities hit the news. I started wondering how these would impact …
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I was excited to see a plot of future cases in Nebraska with prediction limits! I had questions. I couldn’t find any answers. The first …
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A screenshot of a plot from Fox News went somewhat viral among some segments of society. The y-axis is funky, apparently changing …
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FiveThirtyEight is reporting on a project generating consensus predictions from experts. The consensus prediction of total cases in the …
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