E-mail address (this will only be used for course-related communication)
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What is your (academic or professional) affiliation?
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What is your (academic or professional) level/rank? (e.g. master's or PhD student, junior researcher/faculty, senior researcher/faculty)
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What is your primary research area? (e.g. "terrestrial ecosystem ecology", "plant-pollinator coevolution", "efficiency of recycling systems", "military logistics")
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Do you have a data set available that you'd like to work with during the course? (It's best if it can be shared [privately] with other course participants. Practically, it should be 'clean' (ready to use for analysis)
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If you do have a data set, please describe it briefly. What is the main question you want to answer? What is the response variable and what are the predictors? How many observations do you have in total? Are the data grouped/blocked/repeated-measures? How many groups? What other complications [e.g. spatial/temporal correlation]?
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Why are you taking this course/what do you hope to gain from it?
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Are there particular topics you're interested in/would like to see covered? (Please mention any ideas you have even if they seem unusual or outside of the scope of the course.)
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What is your level of familiarity/comfort in the following areas?
minimal/none
unfamiliar
some experience
comfortable
very familiar/expert
R
tidyverse
ggplot
generalized linear models
mixed models
maximum likelihood estimation and inference
Bayesian statistics
curve-fitting/optimization
minimal/none
unfamiliar
some experience
comfortable
very familiar/expert
R
tidyverse
ggplot
generalized linear models
mixed models
maximum likelihood estimation and inference
Bayesian statistics
curve-fitting/optimization
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Any other comments, concerns, suggestions, or things you'd like me to know before the course starts?