Dear colleagues,
Registration is open for Transmitting Science course "Modelling and Analysing Multivariate Traits Evolution using mvMORPH", June 7th-11th, 2021.
Online live sessions from Monday to Friday from 14:00 to 16:30 and 17:00 to 19:00 (GMT+2, Madrid time zone).
Instructors: Dr. Julien Clavel (NNRS, France)
Course overview
In this workshop students will be introduced to multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods with the mvMORPH R package.
The mvMORPH package contains tools for modelling the evolution of correlated continuous traits (e.g. morphometric measurement, geometric morphometric datasets, life history traits, gene _expression_ data, etc.) on phylogenetic trees [ with either fossil species, extant species or both] as well as statistical tools such as multivariate generalized least squares (GLS) linear models -e.g. multivariate regression, MANOVA, MANCOVA - for studying comparative datasets.
In this course, students will be first introduced to some theory with illustrative examples (both from simulated data as well as students' own datasets) and will learn how to interpret the models, their parameters, as well as how to assess their reliability.
For more information, please check the course webpage: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/modelling-and-analysing-multivariate-traits-evolution-using-mvmorph/ or write to courses@transmittingscience.com
With best regards