Tuesday - Statistical distributions, likelihood
Statistical distributions (pdf notes)
R script for distribution functions
Maximum likelihood estimation (pdf notes)
R script for numerical optimization - examples: Poisson, Binomial and Normal likelihoods
Reading: Chapter 5 Conroy and Carroll (2009)
Thursday - Model selection
AIC and model selection (pdf notes)
Reading: Burnham and Anderson (2002)
Application of AIC to model selection and multi-model inference
R script for AIC computation and model averaging
Data to run AIC example