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Agent-based and Individual-based Modeling: A Practical Introduction
03 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Steven F Railsback, Volker Grimm
From the authors website: "We designed this book to fill the need for an introductory text on agent-based modeling for scientists, for use both in university courses (graduate or upper level undergraduate) and by people teaching themselves. The book is not specific to any particular...
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An introduction to agent-based modeling.
02 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Marco A Janssen
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/849This is a textbook at an introductory level suitable for undergraduates, provided by Marco Janssen. From the book's Preface: This textbook...
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An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R
10 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani
This resource has been updated - find the current version here:https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/847From the book website:This book provides an introduction to statistical learning methods. It is aimed for upper level undergraduate students,...
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Assessment of Science Inquiry
19 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Sabra Lee, George E. Hein
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/313Different types of classroom assessment can give teachers different kinds of evaluation information. This chapter surveys the assessment methods available to teachers, and talks about the...
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Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design
24 Feb 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick
"What does social science tell us about how to make thriving online communities? Quite a lot, it turns out - but only if we listen very closely and, at times, employ a translator." - Kraut and Resnick 2012
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Cell Biology by the Numbers
21 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Ron Milo, Rob Phillips
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/819Vignettes that reveal how numbers serve as a sixth sense to understanding our cells.Sample figures:[[Slider(105-f3-ViralMeasuringTape-13.png,...
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Cookbook for R
10 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Winston Chang
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/780The goal of the cookbook is to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in analyzing data.
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Data Analysis for the Life Sciences
25 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Rafael A Irizarry, Michael I Love
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/841An online stats book written completely in R!From the authors:"Data analysis is now part of practically every research project in the life sciences. In this...
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Mathematics for Biologists Problem Workbook
27 Feb 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Juergen Gerlach
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/748This is a workbook of solved problems created by Dr. Juergen Gerlach at Radford University, for students in Math 119 - Mathematics for Biologists. He is...
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Mathematics for the Life Sciences
24 Feb 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Erin N. Bodine, Suzanne Lenhart, Lou Gross
From source site: "This website is designed to provide a variety of information about the text Mathematics for the Life Sciences. It provides some material that supplements the presentations in the text, and will be the primary method used by the authors to pass on new material related...
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Modeling: A Primer - The crafty art of making, exploring, extending, transforming, tweaking, bending, disassembling, questioning, and breaking models
26 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: William Wimsatt, Jeff Schank
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/346Explore how to use, analyze, and criticize some important and historically influential models in biology in this text only module.
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OpenIntro
24 Jan 2015 |
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/889OpenIntro was started with one goal in mind: create a free and open-source introductory textbook. The mission of OpenIntro is to make educational products that...
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Project MOSAIC
23 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Daniel Kaplan, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Nicholas Horton, Eric Marland, Randall Pruim
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/825From the project website: Project MOSAIC is a community of educators working to develop a new way to introduce mathematics, statistics, computation and modeling...
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The Analysis of Biological Data: textbook and website
23 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Michael Whitlock, Dolph Schluter
The Analysis of Biological Data is a new approach to teaching introductory statistics to biology students. To reach this unique audience, Whitlock and Schluter motivate learning with interesting biological and medical examples; they emphasize intuitive understanding; and they focus on real data....
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Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, A Bayesian Approach
25 Feb 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jim Albert, Allan Rossman
From the project website " Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, A Bayesian Approach, Key College Press; ISBN: 1930190123 (coauthored with Allan J. Rossman of Dickinson College) is a collection of classroom and homework activities designed to introduce the student to...