Statistics courses 

Nearly every second week we give a statistics course somewhere in the world. We have been in almost every country in Europe, and also in more exotic places like the Middle East, New Zealand, and South and Central America. Some of our courses are part of post-graduate education programmes funded by the EU or UNESCO. Information on course content, how to run one of these courses at your institute, or participate in an open course can be found on the course website. Our course material is based on various statistical textbooks that we have published.

Upcoming open courses:

• Online 'Beginner's Guide to R' course. With audio and video files.
• Data exploration, regression, GLM and GAM course in R. With introduction to R. August 2013. Edmonton. Canada.
• Online follow-up course for participants who have attended our data exploration, regression, GLM & GAM course in R. With on-demand video presentation of the solutions.
• Data exploration, regression, GLM and GAM course in R. With introduction to R. University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. February 2014
• Mixed effects modelling course in R. SIM. & The Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences, University of  Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. February 2014.
• Introduction to linear mixed effects models and GLMM with R. Halifax, Canada. 28 April - 2 May 2014.
• Introduction to linear mixed effects models and GLMM with R. Birmingham, UK. 12 - 16 May 2014.
• Beginner's Guide to GAM, MCMC and GAMM course in R. Elche, Spain. 10 -13 March 2014

Our books

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The book A Beginner's Guide to R has been translated from English into Japanese and Chinese and is used in many undergraduate university courses. 

                  

Latest news

• Our Beginner's Guide to GLM and GLMM with R is now available. The book is co-authored with Prof. Joseph Hilbe. The book uses frequentist approaches (glm, lmer, glmer, glmmADMB) and also Bayesian techniques (MCMC) via JAGS. The book can only be ordered from our website.
• Our Beginner's Guide to Generalized Additive Models with R can now be ordered from our website.
• Our 2010 paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution has been identified by Thomson Reuters (the impact factor people) as a New Hot Paper in the field of Environment/Ecology.  These papers comprise the top 1% of papers cited in each field and each year.
• Two new books are in preparation. Expected publication dates: November 2013
• Beginner's Guide to Generalized Additive Mixed Models with R. Zuur AF, Saveliev AA, Ieno EN
• Beginner's Guide to Data Exploration. Ieno EN, Zuur AF.

         

• The Japanese translation and Chinese translation of  A Beginner's Guide to R are now available.
• Our paper 'A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems' (2010). Zuur, Ieno and Elphick. Methods in Ecology and Evolution was downloaded 10,380 times from Wiley's website in 2010 and 2011. The abstract was viewed 13,000 times. It is MEE's top cited and top downloaded paper.
• Some of our co-authored work in the news.

Consultancy

A few hours of stats help may be enough for your project! Why would you come to us for statistical consultancy? Good communication skills, expertise knowledge in various statistical fields, pragmatic, and 15 years expertise with statistical consultancy with ecologists. We can help you with paper submission or referee comments, statistical analysis, experimental design, guidance during your PhD research, or "just" a big project of 50 days.

Software

We have developed the statistical software package Brodgar. Please visit: www.brodgar.com.  

Schedule of courses