Aug 2015

1. Introductory statistics in R - what packages are most valuable?

   Entry #106

   10 Aug 2015

   10:11 am

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   There was an excellent blog post by Citizen-Statistician about teaching undergraduate statistics, and which R packages are among the top 10 or so most useful.  Balancing the steep learning curve and overwhelming complexity of R with the  desire to impress upon students the...

2. Being the turtle: agent-based modeling workshop at Humboldt State University

   Entry #105

   06 Aug 2015

   3:24 pm

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   What could bring ecologists, toxicologists, philosophers, and sociologists, Ph.D. students, professors, and federal agency scientists together, 300 miles from nowhere? Turtles. Yes, that's right... turtles.  Not the green, scaly kind... but the "turtles" that represent agents...