Dear all,

registrations are now open for the online Multivariate Data Analysis
with R and vegan course.

Dates: February 10-13, 2025.

Course website: (
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/vegan/ )

Overview: This course will offer participants a practical introduction
to some of the most useful functions available within vegan. We will
focus on the use of ordination methods and on the use of restricted
permutations to test a range of experimental designs.We will focus
on when and how to use multivariate methods including unconstrained
and constrained ordination (CCA, RDA, Constrained PCoA), as well as
between-group tests such as PERMANOVA. We will cover concepts such as
design- and model-based permutations and the exchangeability of samples
in tests. We will also discuss the use of vegan to go beyond simply
fitting a constrained ordination model, to diagnostics, plotting, etc.

Who Should Attend? This course is suitable for PhD students (including
senior thesis-based masters students) and researchers working with
multivariate data sets in biology (inter alia ecology, animal science
agriculture, microbial ecology/microbiology), with limited statistical
knowledge but a willingness to learn more.Participants should be familiar
with RStudio and have some fluency in programming R code, including
being able to import, manipulate (e.g. modify variables) and visualise
data. There will be a mix of lectures, and hands-on practical exercises
throughout the course.

Program Overview

Monday: Intro to multivariate data, transformations, dissimilarity
metrics Tuesday: Unconstrained ordination (PCA, PCoA, NMDS) Wednesday:
Constrained ordination, PERMANOVA Thursday: Statistical inference with
permutation tests

For the full list of our courses and workshops, please visit: (
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/vegan/ )

Best regards,

Carlo

Carlo Pecoraro, Ph.D
Physalia-courses DIRECTOR
info@physalia-courses.org

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