RT @frod_san: Solutions? 1. Improve statistical education. Course contents should catch up with modern statistical practice https://t.co/Z…
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Solutions? 1. Improve statistical education. Course contents should catch up with modern statistical practice https://t.co/ZzfwEyaCpY 2. Research centres should provide statistical support https://t.co/vDeA0AUpeo https://t.co/2fKS2dpTCD
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I don't really like the framing of "Traditional" vs "Contemporary" but the call for more statistical training in ecology is useful when convincing students that #stats is pretty handy 😜 https://t.co/XFYHmoNg2K
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@EcoEvoLab Check out Touchon and McCoy (2016) who surveyed 154 US doctoral programs and found that only 1/4 required statistics courses, most of which did not cover "contemporary" methods. Despite the fact that R has taken over in the ecological literature