Data Analysis and Statistics in Ecology аnd Landscape Study

The course “Data analysis and statistics in ecology and landscape study” (DASELS) aims to provide the basic knowledge and train necessary skills in collecting, processing and presenting scientific data. The lectures of the course cover the broad topics from the introduction to data analysis and general framework of statistical hypothesis’ testing to advanced statistical tools, like multiple and logistic regressions. All the lectures involve vivid examples from current research in environmental and landscape sciences. Seminars are focused on data analysis and statistics in ecology and landscape study using R program. The seminars include the following sections: the introduction to R; the descriptive statistics; the base graphic capabilities; analysis of outliers and checking a normal distribution; comparing two samples and correlation; comparing multiple samples and simple linear regression. The main aim of seminars is to learn how to apply statistics in practice for analyzing data in environmental and landscape study research with descriptive statistics, graphs and basic statistical tests using free software R.