lök100 - Data Modelling (Complete module description)

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Module label	Data Modelling
Modulkürzel	lök100
Credit points	9.0 KP
Workload	270 h
Institute directory	Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences
Verwendbarkeit des Moduls	Master's Programme Landscape Ecology (Master) > Basismodule
Zuständige Personen	Peppler-Lisbach, Cord (Module responsibility) Peppler-Lisbach, Cord (Module counselling) Peppler-Lisbach, Cord (Prüfungsberechtigt) Greskowiak, Janek (Prüfungsberechtigt)
Prerequisites
Skills to be acquired in this module	Basic methods of explorative statistics and adequate application of statistical tests relevant to ecological data. To learn, interpret and apply methods of habitat modelling To understand the fundamentals of spatial explicit analysis of species-environment relationships as well as the fundamentals of spatial prediction of environmental requirements in species To adequately analyse measured and observed spatial data applying methods of spatial statistics and geostatistics, respectively To learn and to understand relevant methods of multivariate analysis of vegetation data To be able to interpret and to assess the results obtained as well as the relevant literature To be able to apply the treated methods independently To learn and to improve skills in using the statistics software R
Module contents	Part 1: Introduction to statistical analysis of ecological data NN (NN) Experimental design Explorative data analysis Distribution tests, data transformation Chi² test Anova, Kruskal-Wallis test t & U test Multiple comparisons, post-hoc tests Part 2: Habitat modelling and spatial statistics (Biedermann) Linear (OLS) regression GLM (logistic regression, Poisson regression) Spatial explicit modelling, GIS integration Spatial statistics Part 3: Multivariate analysis of vegetation ecological data (Peppler-Lisbach) Classification: Cluster analysis Statistical degrees of fidelity Ordination: Indirect procedures: PCA, CA, DCA Canonical procedures: RDA, CCA
Literaturempfehlungen	Crawley, M.J. (2007): The R Book. 942 S. Wiley & Sons, Chichester. Additional literature will be announced during the course.
Links	https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/en/landeco/
Language of instruction	German
Duration (semesters)	1 Semester
Module frequency	jährlich
Module capacity	unlimited
Modullevel / module level	MM (Mastermodul / Master module)
Modulart / typ of module	Wahlpflicht / Elective
Lehr-/Lernform / Teaching/Learning method	Ü
Vorkenntnisse / Previous knowledge

Examination	Prüfungszeiten	Type of examination
Final exam of module	Before the end of the course	Assignment

Form of instruction	Exercises
SWS	6
Frequency	WiSe
Workload Präsenzzeit	84 h