Dear colleagues,
Registration is open for the Transmitting Science course "Model-Based Statistical Inference in Evolutionary Biogeography".
Dates and Schedule: January 4th-8th. Monday to Friday (GMT+1, Spanish time zone): 08:00 to 12:00 am (online live lessons). The rest of the time will be taught through assignments, to be done between the live sessions.
Instructor: Nick Matzke (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Preliminary program
Intro to R and phylogenies
How to read and use phylogenies
A short history of historical biogeography methods and assumptions
Likelihood-based statistical model choice
Phylogenetic biogeography
New probabilistic models for historical biogeography in BioGeoBEARS.
Using BioGeoBEARS and interpreting results.
Biogeographical stochastic mapping.
Including geographical and environmental distance in models.
Integrating biogeography with traits - trait-dependent dispersal
Running analyses over multiPhylo objects (posterior distribution) and interpreting results.
State-dependent Speciation/Extinction models (SSE) basics in R
State-dependent Speciation/Extinction models (SSE) for large biogeography problems in Julia
Integrating GIS & paleogeography data (e.g. Gplates)
Help session for student projects.
Wrap-up.
More information and registration: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/model-based-statistical-inference-evolutionary-biogeography-2
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