To provide a working knowledge of the use of the R statistical package for analyzing data and models used in natural resource management.
Students should be able to:
- Read and display data
- Create plots and other descriptive analyses
- Conduct standard statistical tests using R
- Use R to use and build models for natural resource applications
- Write programming commands in the R language
- Apply modeling tools in R to decision making problems in natural resource management.
- Identify the tools needed to analyse a natural resource problem.