Writing Community
Online virtual eventTired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Tired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Avneet Kaur will defend their thesis.
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This workshop will show how to interpret GAMs and how to use GAMs to make publication-level figures.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to interpret GAMs and the output of the summary() function, predict from GAMs, and make figures using GAMs.
This session will introduce participants to the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), a statistical method used for comparing the means of three or more groups. The concept of blocking will also be introduced to reduce noise and isolate sources of variation.
By the end of the session, participants should be able to use ANOVA for multi-treatment analysis, implement blocking in experimental design, calculate the F statistic for assessing significance, and appreciate how blocking can improve the efficiency of a study.
Bibek Adhikari will defend their thesis.
Hoi Kee Tsang will defend their thesis.
Yue Cao will defend their thesis.
Negin Kazemian will defend their dissertation.
Emily Browne will defend their thesis.
Tired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Tadesse Gemeda Wakjira will defend their dissertation.
Nadhiyya Shabir will defend their thesis.
Yiwen Chen will defend their thesis.
Kai Derksen will defend their thesis.
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Magpie Winslow will defend their thesis.
This workshop will re-visit random and fixed effects with Hierachical GAMs (HGAMs) and expand the concepts of random slopes by introducing random smooths. The workshop will also cover smooth, nonlinear interaction terms via the ti() and te() functions.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to fit HGAMs with smooth interaction terms, plot and interpret the models.
Kristin Pulles will defend their thesis.
Ramin Karimianghadim will defend their thesis.
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This session will address the concepts of correlation, causation, and association in data. Participants will learn to differentiate between these concepts and to recognize and interpret various types of correlations.
By the end of the session, participants should be able to distinguish between correlation and causation, recognize the impact of confounding variables on associations, evaluate correlation reliability, and understand the significance of correlation results.
Tired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Nasim Hajati will defend their thesis.
Whether you're gearing up for graduate school applications, navigating the academic realm, or preparing for the job market, this online workshop is your key to building a successful CV.