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Fitting Non-Linear Models in R with the mgcv Package
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Gavin L Simpson and Noam Ross

(with Dave Miller and Eric Pedersen _in absentia_)

Download/Install materials from **bit.ly/mgcv2018**

Good morning!
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Logistics
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- where is power?
- what's the wifi?
- where is the coffee?
- where is the bathroom?
- what if there is a fire?

Who are we?
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Gavin Simpson
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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*

Noam Ross
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- Disease and theoretical ecologist at [EcoHealth Alliance](ecohealthalliance.org)
- Disease spillover dynamics
- Host/pathogen macroecology
- Stochastic and network population processes
- Fitting time-series data to mechanistic models
- R package development editor with [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org/)
- `mgcv`for time and species traits, and as alternative to black-box machine learning.


Who are you?
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What is the structure of the day?
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Timing
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- 8am to 5pm
- Morning session: 8am-12pm
- Aternoon session: 1pm-5pm

(Approximate) schedule
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Time       | Thing
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0800-0815  | Intro
0815-0945  | Generalized Additive Models
0945-1000  | Coffee
1000-1045  | Model checking
1045-1130  | Model selection
1130-1200  | Beyond the exponential family
1200-1300  | Lunch
1300-1700  | Extended examples/demos


Foraging
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Wifi
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