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Dates
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Subject
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Reading (in text or on website)
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Assignment
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M 1/5
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Housekeeping and Introductions (people and software). Course overview. Introduction
to R. R
reference card.
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Get or bring thumb
drive!
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W 1/7
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Data
adjustments: transformations, relativizations, etc
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Ch. 7-9; Menges
et al 1993
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Receive Assignment
#1
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M 1/12
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Matrix
algebra
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Ch.
1, Appendix 1; Gotelli
& Ellison 2004 (Appendix)
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Select TBD topics
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W 1/14
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Distance
measures
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Ch.
6 [add another reading next time]
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Assignment #1 due; Receive Assignment #2 [add
another Assignment next time]
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M 1/19
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No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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W 1/21
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Group
Comparisons I: Mantel tests and ANOSIM
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Ch.
23, 27; Parra
et al. 2006
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Receive Assignment #1 notes; Project: Overview
due
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F 1/23
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Group
Comparisons II: MRPP and Permutational MANOVA.
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Ch.
24, 28; Anderson
2001
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M 1/26
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Group
Comparisons III: Choice
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Walters
& Coen 2006
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Assignment #2 due; Receive Assignment #3
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W 1/28
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Ordinations
I: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
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Ch. 13-14; Summerville
et al 2006
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M 2/2
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Ordinations
Ia: PCA example
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Assignment #3 due |
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W 2/4
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Ordinations
II: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and Variants (DCA, CCA). Lecture09 Excel example
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Ch. 19-21
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M 2/9
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Ordinations
III: Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMS)
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Ch.15-16; Clarke 1993 (p. 117-126)
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W 2/11
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Ordinations IV: Choice, Visualization, and Interpretation
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Ch.
13, 15, 22
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Receive Assignment #4 |
| M 2/16 |
No School - Presidents' Day
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W 2/18
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Indicator Species Analysis
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Ch. 25; McGeoch & Chown 1998 (optional: Dufrene & Legendre 1997)
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Project: Analytical
methods due
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F 2/20
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Diversity Measures
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Ch. 4; Gotelli & Colwell 2001
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Assignment #4 due |
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M 2/23
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Identifying
Groups I: Cluster Analysis
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Ch. 10-11; McCune et al. 2000
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W 2/25
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Identifying
Groups II: Discriminant Analysis
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Ch.
26
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M 3/2
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Creating Ordinations
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W 3/4
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Identifying Groups III: Regression Trees |
Ch. 29; De'ath & Fabricius 2000
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Project: Draft
report due
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M 3/9
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Project questions
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W 3/11
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Project Presentations in AND 022
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W 3/18
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Project Presentations in AND 022 (during final exam slot - 8:30 to
10:20 am)
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Project: Final
report due
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