[R-sig-eco] Ecological datasets for teaching statistics

[Manuel Spínola]

Thank you very much Thierry.

Manuel

El jue., 18 jun. 2020 a las 13:06, Thierry Onkelinx (<
thierry.onkelinx using inbo.be>) escribió:

> Dear Manuel,
>
> Our institute has published 54 datasets under an open data licence at GBIF
> (
> https://www.gbif.org/dataset/search?publishing_org=1cd669d0-80ea-11de-a9d0-f1765f95f18b
> )
>
> You can look for local data on GBIF too.
>
> Best regards,
>
> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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> Op do 18 jun. 2020 om 19:58 schreef Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 using gmail.com>:
>
>> Thank you very much Rich.
>>
>> Yes, you are right, is a very broad spectrum.
>>
>> I teach mainly to wildlife ecology students.
>>
>> I was using several datasets from different sources for homeworks and
>> final projects, but some of the students were "sharing" the results of the
>> assignments so I decided to assign different datasets to each student for
>> their homeworks.  This means that I need several datasets for each
>> assignment, and the data need to be similar in the structure, for example,
>> logistic regression, the response variable needs to be binary, and so on.
>>
>> Manuel
>>
>>
>>
>> El jue., 18 jun. 2020 a las 11:41, Rich Shepard (<
>> rshepard using appl-ecosys.com>)
>> escribió:
>>
>> > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Manuel Spínola wrote:
>> >
>> > > I teach statistics to students in ecology and environmental sciences
>> > > fields and I would like to know if you could point me in the right
>> > > direction of sources of ecological/environmental datasets within and
>> > > outside packages, especially for general/generalized linear models and
>> > > multivariate statistics.
>> >
>> > Manuel,
>> >
>> > Ecology, and it's applied focus Environmental science, are very broad.
>> I've
>> > been working with these data for several decades so I need to ask what
>> > types
>> > of data you want.
>> >
>> > I don't know what's available from Costa Rican agencies but I do know
>> that
>> > in the US you can get geochemical, biological, hydrologidal, and other
>> data
>> > from the US Geological Survay, Environmental Protection Agency (if
>> they've
>> > not removed them), Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and
>> Natural
>> > Resources Conservation Service.
>> >
>> > You can also look at StreamNet run by the Pacific States Marine
>> Fisheries
>> > Council, The Army Corps of Engineers for hydraulic, flow, and sediment
>> > transport data.
>> >
>> > That's a start.
>> >
>> > Rich
>> >
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*Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.*
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