Something old, something new
We've been developing our social media presence, using R to create images of famous quotes, and worked on a couple of projects with a difference this month.
Beer bottles and mark-recapture?
How many bottles of beer were drunk at the West Taieri Rugby Football Club after a game? We can use mark-recapture methods to estimate this!
Occupancy modelling - more than species presence/absence!
In this video Darryl MacKenzie provides an overview of occupancy modelling, noting that it is for more than just species presence/absence
Sample size tips for closed population capture-recapture studies
In this video Darryl provides some tips on sample size considerations for estimating abundance or population size with closed population capture-recapture (or mark-recapture) methods. Here is the R code used to create the plots discussed in the video.
Considerations when using continuous-valued covariates
Darryl gives some tips on important considerations when using continuous-valued covariates in analyses
Beer fridge statistics
Darryl uses the contents of his beer fridge to explain the relationship between probabilities, odds and odds ratios.
Interpreting confidence intervals
In this month’s video tip Darryl explains how we should interpret confidence intervals.