We organised a 2-day workshop on the metrics of longevity used in human and animal demography. The idea is to explore potential bridges between the two fields. Next meeting in April.
Frederic Gosselin, Etienne Rivot and I organised a 2-day workshop on issues in fitting hierarchical models in ecology. I gave a talk on “Local minima and multistate capture-recapture models”, slides and R code available on GitHub.
This is a free adaptation of two (very) clever analyses made by others:
The Star Wars Social Network by Evelina Gabasov in which program F# was mostly used to analyse the Star wars social networks
I decided to teach myself how to do proper reproducible research. Many reasons to that: save time on the mid/long term, make my analyses open and criticizable, share with others, …
I attended Daniel Turek’s talk at ISEC about NIMBLE a neat alternative to WinBUGS and JAGS. It is developed by Perry de Valpine’s group at Berkeley and ‘lets you use BUGS models natively in R, program functions that use them, and compile everything via C++ for faster computing’.