Fitting Non-Linear Models in R with the mgcv Package

Gavin L Simpson and Noam Ross

(with Dave Miller and Eric Pedersen in absentia)

Download/Install materials from bit.ly/mgcv2017

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• (Palaeo)ecologist interested in community dynamics & environmental change
• (Palaeo)limnologist interested in environmental change
• Self-taught not-statistician
• Ecological stats software (vegan plus some palaeo stuff)
• To me most things are a model I can (will!) fit with mgcv

• Disease and theoretical ecologist at EcoHealth Alliance
• Disease spillover dynamics
• Host/pathogen macroecology
• Stochastic and network population processes
• Fitting time-series data to mechanistic models
• R package development editor with rOpenSci
• mgcvfor time and species traits, and as alternative to black-box machine learning.

• 8am to 5pm
• Morning session: 8am-12pm
• Aternoon session: 1pm-5pm