| Date
of Meeting |
Facilitator |
Topic/Paper
to be discussed |
Thursday,
September 27,
2007 |
Julia Linke
|
1) Introduction
to Modelling and Statistics: Exchange of the research questions
asked
by the members of this group, the techniques applied and the statistics
packages used. Introduction for new and existing students.
Bring in your experiences and your questions.
2) Viewpoint
Discussion: The Ecological Fallacy - or
the danger of erroneous data aggregation.
Papers: I) Robinson,
W.S. 1950. Ecological Correlation and the Behaviour of
Individuals. II) Clancy, K.J.
and Berger, P.D. 2003. The Ecological Fallacy: some
Fundamental Research Misocneptions Corrected.
III) Pearce
N. 2000. The ecological fallacy strikes back.
IV) Cao, C. and
Lam, N.S.-N. 1997. Understanding the Scale and Resolution
Effects in Remote Sensing and GIS. Chapter 3 In Quatrrochi and
Goodchild. Scale in Remote Sensing.
|
Thursday, October 11,
2007 |
|
Paul Plummer
|
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: Ways of
dealing with the "Ecological Fallacy": Multi-level modelling or,
selection of the appropriate scale Papers: I) Goldstein, H.
2007. Becoming familiar with multi-level modelling.
Significance 2007 (4) 3: 133-135 II)
Bowyer and Kie. 2006. Effects of scale on ungulate
life-history characteristics of ungulates and carnivores. Diversity
and Distributions 12 9244-257. |
Thursday,
October 25,
2007 |
|
Mike Suitor
|
1) Discussion of a Student Research Problem:
Multi-level modelling: an example using several morphs in one species. Dealing with several
sources of independent variation in models: a case study using
pronghorn antelope.
|
Thursday,
November 8,
2007 |
|
Typhenn Bricherie-Colombi |
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: Ways of
dealing with Spatial Autocorrelation: Detection of Autocorrelation in
your Data and Sampling to Avoid it. Papers: I) Rooney et al.
1998. Autocorrelated
data in telemetry studies: time to independence and the problem of
behaviorual effects. II) Swihart and Slade.
1986. The
importance of statistcal power when testing for independence in animal
movements. III) Sokal et al. 1989. Spatial
autocorrelation analysis of migration and selection. IV)
Fieberg. 2007. Kernel
density estimators of home range: smoothing and the autocorrelation red
herring.
|
Thursday November 22,
2007 |
|
Stefania Bertazzon
|
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: Continuation
from last session: "Ways of
dealing with Spatial Autocorrelation: a) Detection of Autocorrelation
in
your Data, b) Incorporating Autocrrelation in regression models, and c)
Sampling to Avoid or incorporate Autocorrelation?"
|
Thursday, December 6,
2007 |
|
Paul Plummer
|
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: Research
Design and Anlaysis: The Do's and Don'ts. Four
Papers: I) Kennedy
2002. Sinning in the basement: what are the rules? the ten
commandments of applied econometrics, II) Hendry 2002. Applied
Economterics withou sinning. III) Magnus 2002. The missing
tablet: comment on Peter Kennedy's ten commandments, IV) Smith 2002. Peter Kennedy's
sinning in the basement: a comment. V) Kennedy 2002. Reply.
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Tuesday,
January 29,
2008
|
Julia Linke
|
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: Research
Design and Anlaysis: The Do's and Don'ts. Four
Papers: I) Kennedy
2002. Sinning in the basement: what are the rules? the ten
commandments of applied econometrics, II) Hendry
2002. Applied
Economterics withou sinning. III) Magnus
2002. The missing
tablet: comment on Peter Kennedy's ten commandments, IV) Smith
2002. Peter Kennedy's
sinning in the basement: a comment. V)
Kennedy 2002. Reply. |
Tuesday,
February 12,
2008
|
Isabelle Laporte
|
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: Home Range
Estimators: time to independence, kernels and smoothing.
Three papers: I) Rooney 1998.
Autocorrelated data in telemtery studies. II) Worton. 1989. Kernel Methods for
estimating the utilization distribution in homerange studies.
III) Horne
and Garnton. 2006. Likelihood cross-validation versus least
squares cross-validation for chooing the smoothing parameter in kernel
home range analysis. |
Tuesday,
February 26,
2008
|
Mike Suitor
|
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: Moving
forward on landscape movement analysis: how to address the paths
animals like to take in quantitative analysis. Four Papers: I) Johnson
et al. 2002. Movement parameters of ungulates and scale-specific
responses to the environment; II) Forester
et al. 2007. State-space models link elk movement patterns to
landscape characteristics in Yellowstone National Park. III) Pinaud.
2007. Quantifying search effort of moving animals at several
spatial scales using first-passage time analysis: effect of the
structure of environment and tracking systems. IV) Saher
and Schmiegelow. 2004. Movement pathways and habitat
selection by woodland caribou during spring migration.
|
Tuesday,
March 11,
2008
|
Stefan Steiniger |
1) Discussion of Students Research Problems: bring your
questions and thoughts for your research project!
2) Viewpoint Discussion: "Are there Problems with Statistical
Methods? Validity of statistical inference in Geography in the
Seventies and Today" Papers: I) Gould
P. 1970. Is Statistix
Inferens the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose? Economic
Geography. II) Brundston
C. 2001. Is Statistix Inference still the Geographical
Name for a Wild Goose?Transactions in GIS 5(1): 1-3.
|
Tuesday,
March 25,
2008
|
cancelled
|
*************cancelled due to
Departmental Conference***************
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Tuesday,
April 8,
2008
|
Julia Linke/Stefan Steiniger |
1) Viewpoint Discussion: Geoslavery: a
new form of slavery, characterized by location control?
Paper: Dobson
and Fischer. 2003. Geoslavery. IEEE Technology and Society
Magazine.
2) "Wrapping up" the Second Year of Mosta: Ideas and Directions
for the academic year 2008/2009. Come and contribute!
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