Welcome to TWS-WS GAMs Workshop

Course Information

Instructor Info

Kevin Shoemaker
University of Nevada, Reno
Email: kevinshoemaker@unr.edu

Main slide deck for workshop

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FPGMNagm7GfJtPSoGQAdLmr__fLx5E-0rFVibfHEHYU/edit?usp=sharing

Course Materials (GitHub)

https://github.com/kevintshoemaker/GAM-RSF-Workshop

Download course materials by clicking on the green “Code” button and downloading the repository as a zipfile. Unzip all the workshop materials to the root folder of the RStudio Project for this workshop.

Course Materials (Google Drive)

See email for link – download materials as ZIPfile and unzip to the RStudio Project Directory.

Intro to GAM slides (Gavin Simpson)

Intro to GAM slides

GAM worked examples

Splines intro (tent spline)

Tent splines demo

Time series example

Arthropod example (time series)
Arthropod data

Spatial data, presence/absence

Lark example (presence absence)

Spatial data, presence only

Joshua tree example
Joshua tree data

Intro to Gaussian Process models

https://distill.pub/2019/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes/

Intro to sdmTMB slides (Sean Anderson et al.)

all sdmTMB teaching materials

Intro to random fields

modeling presence only data using randomized background points

sdmTMB exercise

sdmTMB exercise