Materials from Biol 531 - linear models

Wk	Lecture	Activity	Reading
1	Intro, installing the software	Review of stats, intro to R part 1	G&H ch 1, 2
2	Stat review (t-tests, ANOVA, regression)	Review of stats, intro to R part 2
3	ANOVA and regression as GLM's	ANOVA and regression as GLM exercise	G&H ch. 3
4	Planned comparisons and post-hocs	Post-hocs exercise
5	More than one predictor – multiple regression	Multiple regression exercise	G&H ch 4
6	Experimental design, orthogonality, multicollinearity	Design exercise	G&H ch 5
7	Combining continuous and categorical data types	Combining data types exercise	G&H ch 6
8	Factorial experiments and interactions	Interactions exercise	G&H ch 7
9	Testing assumptions	Testing assumptions exercise	G&H ch 8, 9
10	Random effects and repeated measures	Random effects and repeated measures exercise
11	Classical model selection	Classical model selection exercise	G&H ch 10, 11
12	Criticisms of hypothesis testing, intro to likelihood	Likelihood exercise	Cohen 1994
13	Likelihood based inference, model selection	Model selection exercise	Stephens et al. 2005, Burnham and Anderson 2001