[brodgar]A few things

[Highland Statistics Ltd.]

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
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