The course took place 9-13 January 2017 at the University of Kent and was run by SE@K’s Diana, Eleni, and Rachel and DICE’s Richard Griffiths with the help of SE@K PhD students \u00a0Alex, Anita, Marina and Ming.<\/p>\n
30 participants travelled from all around the UK for the course which involved lectures, R practicals, talks by Humphrey Crick from Natural England and Rufus Howard from IEMA, round table discussions on ecological challenges and the role of statistical modelling in dealing with some of these challenges and 1-1 sessions with the course organisers for all participants who wanted to discuss their studies and data.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday Richard kicked off the day\u00a0by discussing the types of population data that we need in conservation <\/b>practice. Humphrey \u00a0then went on to discuss problems in modern conservation and the role of statistical modelling. Finally Rufus Howard talked about Big Data (Gaps) in EIA. A round table discussion then\u00a0 focused on obstacles to incorporating statistical models and priorities of ecologists.<\/p>\n
The rest of the week focused on statistical methods used in statistical ecology including abundance estimation, capture-recapture, occupancy modeling, distance sampling, citizen science data, modelling movement, species interaction models, spatial models and integrated modelling.<\/p>\n
The course was successful at introducing complex statistical ideas, exposing participants to a wide range of statistical techniques and discussing state-of-the-art statistical methods. Below is a list of comments received about the course:<\/p>\n
\u201cAttending the course has enabled me to see how my data can be utilised in a better way..\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cGreat materials and trainers\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere were difficult concepts but it was very well presented and very accessible\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cTraining was fantastic throughout\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cGood course and definitely beneficial\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cGreat comprehensive course addressing many scenarios and how to deal with different datasets\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI really appreciated the level of explanation given by all of the speakers\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIncredibly well presented\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cReally great overview of the topics and great practical session\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201c1-1 meetings were a great idea\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI thought all lecturers were really very good and explained things very clearly and simply with good repetition\u201d.<\/p>\n
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