Disease Ecology in a Changing World: Quantitative tools to applied solutions
About EEID 2024 workshop training materials for ‘Estimating environmental response functions using Bayesian inference’
The EEID work team is pleased to present the 2024 pre-conference workshop “Disease Ecology in a Changing World: Quantitative tools to applied solutions”. This webpage (and linked git repository) contains materials for the portion of the workshop “Estimating environmental response functions using Bayesian inference”. More specifically, these materials, most of which were originally developed by the VectorByte Initiative, will introduce students to simple Bayesian approaches for linking responses of organisms to an environmental driver, with most examples being drawn from the thermal trait literature.
We assume basic familiarity with:
- The
RProgramming Language - Basic calculus (especially the mathematical idea of functions)
- Basic probability and statistics (e.g., what is a probability distribution, normal and binomial distributions, means, variances)
- Basic knowledge of linear and non-linear models
- Familiarity with the idea of a likelihood function
We’ve divided the materials into subject matter modules. Each module is designed to build on the previous one and consists of
- slides with presentation of materials
- labs/hands-on materials to allow you to practice material in a practical way
- solutions to exercises, when necessary