Module 6

Key topics

• Least squares estimation
• Maximum likelihood estimation
• Bayesian inference

R packages and datasets

It is assumed in all following examples of this module that the following code has been executed successfully.

packages used in this module

library(tidyverse) ## general functionality

datasets used in this module

base_url <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/STATS-UOA/databunker/master/data/"

1. lobster¹³

lobster <- read_csv(paste(base_url, "lobster.csv", sep = ""))

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13. Source: Influence of predator identity on the strength of predator avoidance responses in lobsters.↩