Biostatistics
Institutt for biovitenskap, UiB
18 August 2025
email: richard.telford@uib.no
Palaeoecologist/ecologist with numerical interests
R user since 2002
Interested in
Global change ecology, conservation biology.
Mycorrhizae
Fish parasitology and immunology, salmon lice vaccine
112 Students
Including about 3 PhD students
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Slides made with quarto & revealjs
3 Groups per week
Group 1 | Tuesday 1015–1200 | HiB Aktiv 3 |
Group 2 | Thursday 1015–1200 | HiB Aktiv 3 |
Group 3 | Friday 1015–1200 | HiB Aktiv 3 |
Please sign up for one group
Possible to change group if space available
Portfolio assessment
5 Credit course
1 ECTS = 25–30 hours
Total = 125–150 hours
12 weeks
~ 10–12 hours per week (including lecture and datalab)
For installation & configuration instructions see Chapter 1 of the Working in R coursebook
tidyverse
(for data manipulation and plotting)remotes
(for installing packages from GitHub)usethis
(for setting up some course material)here
(for helping load file)gt
(for making tables)quarto
(for making reproducible documents)See Chapter 5 of the Working in R coursebook
(more packages will be needed later in the course)
Make an issue on github
Open Science course (Hjerkinn - 10–15 November)
“The first rule about R club is you talk about R.”
Fridays 1400-1600 in Tunet (4th floor Bio A)
Zoom possible on request
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