Uncertainty and Variability in Ecological Inference, Forecasting, and Decision Making
An Introduction to Modern Statistical Computation
Institute Schedule and Format
Course Welcome Booklet (pdf, 675k)
Lectures and Activities |
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Session |
Lecturer |
Topic(s) |
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Sunday |
6pm – 8pm |
Welcome mixer |
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Monday June 12 |
8:30–9:30am |
IT Staff |
Orientation to IT services, Computer Lab |
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9:45 – 12:00pm |
Clark |
Thinking conditionally: taking apart complex problems and putting them back together again |
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1:30 – 5:00 |
Clark |
Lab: Graphical modeling in R |
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7pm |
Clark, Gelfand |
Establish working groups |
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Tues June 13 |
8:30 – 12pm |
Gelfand |
The hierarchical Bayes framework |
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1:30 – 5:00pm |
Banerjee |
Lab: BUGS/R |
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7pm |
Clark, Gelfand |
Working groups |
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Wednesday June 14 |
8:30 – 12pm |
Banerjee |
BUGS examples |
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1:30 – 5:00pm |
Banerjee |
Lab: Introduction to BUGs |
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7pm |
Working groups |
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Thursday June 15 |
8:30 – 12pm 1:30 – 5:00pm |
Reckhow |
Case study: Decision Analysis and Bayes Nets for Water Quality Protection / NETICA |
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7pm |
Working groups |
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Friday June 16 |
8:30 – 12pm |
Clark |
Case study: Forest dynamics |
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1:30 – 5:00pm |
Gelfand |
Case study: modeling biodiversity |
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5:30pm 7pm |
BUS Caravan |
BULLS BASEBALL GAME
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Saturday June 17 |
8:30 – 12pm |
Clark, Gelfand
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Student working group progress reports |
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1:30 – 4:30pm |
BUS Caravan |
Field trip to FACE site: CO2 experiment in Duke Forest Depart Campus Center |
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6 or 6:30pm |
BUS Caravan |
Soirée at Home of Clark/Reid |
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Sunday June 18 |
8:30 – 12pm |
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Open Morning |
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1:30 – 12pm |
Clark/Gelfand |
Open Class Meeting |
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Evening |
Open Dining |
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Monday June 19 |
8:30 – 12pm |
Wikle |
Case study: Modeling population migration with hierarchical Bayes |
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1:30 – 5:00pm |
Wikle |
Lab: Matlab examples |
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7pm |
Working groups |
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Tuesday June 20 |
8:30 – 12pm |
Fuentes |
Bayesian spatial modeling: estimation and prediction |
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1:30 – 5:00pm |
Fuentes |
Lab: Geospatial models |
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6:00 - 6:30pm | Reception, LSRC A-158 | ||
6:30 - 8:00pm | Dinner, Hug Commons, Nicholas School | ||
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8pm |
Student working groups |
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Wednesday June 21 |
8:30 – 12pm |
Clark/Gelfand |
Open class lecture |
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1:30 – 5:00pm |
Clark/Gelfand |
Open class lecture |
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Evening |
Departure Some Participants |
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Thursday June 22 |
Before 11:30am |
Remaining Depart Residence Hall |
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