Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians – Statforbiology

Finally migrating to Quarto

An introduction with R

News

A few months ago, my blogdown-based blogs started giving me a few headaches, after more than seven years of remarkably reliable service. After doing some research on the web…

Migration from Blogdown to Quarto

R

Quarto

More than twenty-five years ago, I had the idea that having a website would be a good way to store my teaching and research materials, keep them organised, retrieve them…

Field Research methods in Agriculture

An introduction with R

News

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Some useful equations for nonlinear regression in R

nonlinear regression

Biological phenomena are often studied by examining how a numerical variable, usually called the response (e.g., the weight or height of an organism), is affected by another…

My learning path with blogdown

General

This is my first day at work with blogdown. I must admit it is pretty overwhelming at the beginning …

The Variance Puzzle: Why Doesn’t R Divide by ‘n’?

descriptive statistics

Teaching Experimental Methodology in master’s courses related to agriculture poses some peculiar challenges. One of them is explaining the difference between population…

Is R dangerous? Side effects of free software for biologists

R

When I started my career in biology (almost forty years ago), only the luckiest of us had access to advanced statistical software. Licences were very expensive, and it was…