Lab book club Fall 08/Spr 09

Fall Qtr reading group
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models

Sqr Qtr reading group
Ben Bolker's book

Yasmin gives talk on population consequences of maternal effects

At American Fisheries Society meeting in Ottawa in September:

Population Outcomes of Maternal Effects in Rockfish Depends on Life-history

http://yasmin.lucero.googlepages.com/talkAFS2008.pdf

Multivariate State-Space Models workshop now online

We did the workshop on Sunday, Aug 3, in Milwaukee and now have the course material, lectures and R case studies, posted online.

MSSM Workshop

During the workshop, we discovered a few typos in the case study write-ups which have not been corrected yet (EH: Aug 4).

Eric posted data-cloning MSSMs

A fair bit of Eric and my work over the past 6-months has involved using multivariate state-space models (MSSMs) to make inferences about population spatial structure. As part of this work, Eric worked on using data-cloning (Lele et al. 2007) for obtaining MLEs from MSSMs. Eric has posted for fitting MSSMs using data-cloning to FishBox.

Data-cloning MSSMs

This is "research" code, but should be useful to others trying to use data-cloning.

Brice has posted Bayesian MAR on FishBox

As part of our multi-pronged work on estimation methods for multivariate state-space models, Brice has posted a Bayesian version for fitting MARs to FishBox. This was motivated by a desire to put informative priors on the interaction matrix.

Bayesian MAR

ESA workshop on multivariate state-space models

On Sunday, Aug 10, Eric, Brice, Yasmin and myself are teaching a 1-day workshop on fitting multivariate state-space models (MSSMs) to data. This workshop uses a R routine that we wrote for fitting MSSM to multivariate time series data. A online version of the workshop will be posted after Sunday.

Kevin See joining the lab to work on spatial MARs

Kevin received a SeaGrant fellowship in Population Dynamics for his Ph.D. work starting in the fall. His proposal title was "Estimating population growth and interspecies interaction parameters with spatial replication" and will build on research on using MAR models to analyze fisheries monitoring data.