When?
May 5 to 13, 2013
Where?
Gault Nature Reserve, Mont St-Hilaire
Offered by Bill Shipley, QCBS member researcher
Ecologists often pose cause-and-effect hypotheses involving several variables in systems for which controlled randomised experiments are not possible. When this occurs one must use a set of statistical methods called “structural equations modelling” or “path analysis”. In this intensive five-day course you will learn the basics of these methods and how to apply them in your ecological research. Theoretical sessions will be interspersed with practical sessions using the free R software. You are encouraged to use your own data sets whenever possible. Both courses (ECL 705, ECL 805) involve an exam. The content of these two courses is identical (they are given together) except that the PhD level course requires a written report, to be handed in one month following the end of classes. A maximum of 24 people can take this course.
Since the summer school targets an international audience, the language of instruction is English but questions in French are welcome. The course is given in the beautiful Gault Nature Reserve of McGill University in Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec in association with the Centre for Forest Studies (CEF) and the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS). Scholarships are available to student members of these two research centres; see the respective web sites for more details.
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Note: QCBS student members can apply for an Excellence Award to attend this class.
