From brodgar@lists.highstat.com Sun Apr 30 17:40:27 2006 From: brodgar@lists.highstat.com (Highland Statistics Ltd.) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:40:27 +0100 Subject: [brodgar]A few things Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.0.20060430172815.01c22aa8@highstat.com> Dear Brodgar users, A few things: 1. The good news is that our book "Analysis of ecological data" by Zuur, Ieno and Smith is now finished and it "only" takes 6 months to publish. All the statistical background of the methods in Brodgar can be found in this book. 2. The book also has 3 spatial chapters with techniques like variograms, kriging and GAM models with spatial correlations. We will add them over the Summer to Brodgar and you will be able to download and use the updates. 3. Two open courses will be organised in 2007 and registration for Brodgar users is now open. You will have priority with reserving places, but don't wait too long. The first course is on GLM and GAM. The second course is on mixed modelling, GLS, GLMM and GAMM. The double M is not a mistake! These methods (GLMM and GAMM) can be used to analyse time series and spatial data. So..this is GAM for time series or spatial data. GLS allows for different variance components. The GLMM is for time series or nested data. We expect that this course will be very popular because (i) most data sets require this type of analysis and (ii) no other GLMM/GAMM courses design for biologists are around. All these methods will also be added to Brodgar during the Summer. Full info can be found at: http://www.brodgar.com/statscourse.htm Kind regards, Alain Zuur Dr. Alain F. Zuur Highland Statistics Ltd. 6 Laverock road UK - AB41 6FN Newburgh Tel: 0044 1358 788177 Email: highstat@highstat.com URL: www.highstat.com URL: www.brodgar.com Our statistics courses: 1. "Analysing biological and environmental data using univariate and multivariate methods". 2. "Analysing biological and environmental data using univariate methods" 3. "Analysing biological and environmental data using multivariate analysis and multivariate time series analysis" 4. "An introduction to R" Brodgar: Software for univariate and multivariate analysis and multivariate time series analysis Brodgar complies with R GNU GPL license Statistical consultancy, courses, data analysis and software