Prof.Dr. Angel Perez Muzafa, Spain&Dr.B.Rashleigh,USEPA,Athens,USA
Venue: IGEM Akademia, Istanbul
Course fee: 300 Euros

Program

Day 1 (19 April Monday) Introduction and indices
09h00 – 09h30 Registration
09h30 – 10h00 Welcome and logistics
10h00 – 12h30 Introduction, introduction to statistical software (R), overview and comparison of statistical approaches
14h00 – 16h00 Use of indices (IBI)
16h00 – 18h00 Data sets – exploratory graphical analysis

Day 2  (20 April Tuesday) Regression and Ordination
09h00 – 10h30 Multiple Regression – linear and logistic
10h30 – 12h30 Ordination – Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Correspondence Analysis (CA), Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) and Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS)
14h00 – 16h00 Exercises – Fish and Macrobenthos in estuarine systems
Discussion – Statistics in Ecological decision-making
16h00 – 18h00 Exercises  - general practice and review

Day 3 (21 April Wednesday) Classification and Rule-based analysis
09h00 – 10h30 Classification (cluster analysis) and multiple discriminant analysis
10h30 – 12h30 Rule-based analysis (classification and regression trees)
14h00 – 16h00 Exercises – Fish and macrobenthos in freshwater systems
Discussion – Statistics in Ecological decision-making
16h00 – 16h30 End