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Prepare yourself for a career applying and/or interpreting ‘multivariate’ analysis methods, which are used on datasets with multiple response variables (such as many different species, traits, habitat conditions, genomic information, etc.).  This course helps you identify the ecological and statistical properties of multivariate responses, demonstrates how to summarize and graph data to reveal those properties, explains which distance measures will do the best job capturing the patterns among your responses, discusses the consequences of modifying or failing to modify data when needed, introduces the most common multivariate analyses applicable to ecological datasets, describes ordination and how to interpret ordination diagrams, and takes you through a ten-step process for performing, interpreting, and communicating defensible analyses for five different types of guided ordination (WA, PO, CCA, RDA, and FSO).  MECA I is the first part in a two-part series (MECA II builds upon MECA I to cover an additional 18 free ordination, classification, group testing, association assessment, and trait analysis tools).

FORMAT & DATES (see course ad for more details)
With Instructor Support (1 month support + 2 months of additional access to course materials)

Academic Credit / Professional Certificate Program (1 month support + 2 months of limited support; access to course for 1 year)

INSTRUCTOR
Dr. JeriLynn E. Peck

ESA & TWS CEUs included for FREE!

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