RNR620

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RNR620 - Working with Ecological Data in R

Renewable Natural ResourcesGraduateUA - UA General

Course ID

038665

Course Description

R is increasingly becoming the software package of choice for manipulating, analyzing, and presenting data in ecological studies. This 2-credit graduate course will focus on fundamentals of the R language and introduce students to particular packages that are useful across a broad set of ecological applications. This course will emphasize tools for inputting, editing, checking, restructuring, and plotting of various data types (time series, counts, geographic layers, model output). This course will also include some discussion of general statistical approaches (hypothesis testing, parameter estimation and model selection) and their proper execution in R.

Min Units

2

Max Units

2

Repeatable for Credit

No

Grading Basis

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Career

Graduate

Course Attributes

GIDP - GC (Global Change)

Component

Lecture

Optional Component

No