choleness / informal_biostats_course_2014

The goal of this workshop is to provide graduate students early in their studies with a broad set of statistical tools which can be applied to future research problems. The workshop focuses on statistical analysis in R, and we provide basic R instruction for beginners. Past workshops have included broad overviews and workable examples of the following types of analysis: linear models and model fitting, time series analysis, spatial statistics, phylogenetics, population genetics, population dynamics and principal components analysis. This workshop is not meant replace formal course work in statistics. Instead, it provides participants with a foundation of knowledge that can be built upon by future study.