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Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Spreadsheet and R Project

Occupancy Modeling Video Course

Description for this course…

This course is available under ___ license, through the US National Fish and Wildlife Training Center.

This course has been laid out as a 7 week crash course, with around 10 videos per week. The videos are labeled either “Lecture” or “Spreadsheet” to indicate whether the video will focus on working on a spreadsheet/or broader topics.

We highly recommend taking your time with this material. Please keep in mind that this material is older, has not been updated, and therefore does not reference the latest edition of excel.

Module 1: Introductions, Binomials and Multinomials
Lecture NameRoot Link
Binomials – Lecture https://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/bb51b94c-bd41-4697-9c6c-b9289e6b834d
Daryll’s Background – Lecture https://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/a8c6fa7d-31a6-47e7-b6bf-9909d60306ed
Functions – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/0c26b71a-4c7d-43cf-92a6-f6f2dc919628
Introductions – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/9c472651-4813-4fb6-948c-d64008960e8d
Daryll and Jim Intro – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/8490e4dc-ac07-4da9-9d78-edfddb009028
Jim Background – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/c02d32b3-7a65-4904-8093-3522eb9f5ca9
Module Assumptions – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/7633e22d-320c-42a7-b321-2abf46e780da
Multinomials – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/7a7706ce-584c-4e8d-a13f-aabc3d08a27b
Occupancy Detection- Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/5f7cf092-4cdb-4b23-a3e2-168335c58e9d
Binomial Likelihood – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/84cf2a1a-46a1-422b-863c-1c396d9cd05d
Binomial Probability – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/a9b1069d-ea92-4e74-b326-fabcd34f22e4
Multinomial Likelihood – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/15152cf0-1fe7-428d-81c3-45ae53dc44b7
Multinomial Probability
– Spreadsheet		https://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/79ab7e1a-34bb-44b8-95fa-584fd10115aa
Module Files
Ocpy-wk1_spreadsheet_binomialDownload
Ocpy-wk1_spreadsheet_multinomialDownload

Week 2 – Inference, Probability, and Optimization
Lecture NameRoot Link
Inference Machine – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/9802d163-0c97-4f99-ae86-03ac9a55b7e6
Optimization Methods – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/37ab982f-4e77-400c-bf87-45f77215eafb
Intro to Presence Program – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/2adcc831-81b9-4b6f-9db9-f1e208490de6
Probability Modeling – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/54969803-8005-483b-9af2-9f6dce8fa5b5
Review – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/a2b42671-17a7-4235-b7ce-39c78bb51dd8
Sampling Demonstration – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/d3766f8e-e394-4161-a2fd-6f70859761b7
Introduction to Solver Program – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/7d5f6950-5808-4980-8b5f-3713ce42ed73
Single Season Model 1 – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/d1cdfb1c-24f4-4d5b-8a3a-a3e03cbb4d48
Single Season Model 2 – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/3e876374-106e-4c79-9b0e-df6047ec7bca
Single Season Model 3 – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/8924886a-2deb-4b88-9d3d-48367de73518
Files for the Week
Week-2-Video-1-Recording-1.xlsxDownload
Week-2-Video-2-Recording-2.xlsxDownload
Week 3 – Parameter Estimation
Lecture NameRoot Link
Likelihood Based Parameter Estimation 1a – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/12693064-7d74-4b88-9682-724ad36eabf2
Likelihood Based Parameter Estimation 1b – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/91d6fa7e-1c79-4c95-b35e-fe21fc30adb6
Likelihood Based Parameter Estimation 2a – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/479cd144-f9b2-4655-9bba-5c5ce3876181
Likelihood Based Parameter Estimation 2b – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/bc7143be-6f1d-4366-97c5-5e02dce6b22d
Parameter Estimation: Precision, Bias, Inference – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/9eab3209-8508-48af-9ac1-a2a5ddb03436
Week 4 – Bootstrapping, Simulation, and Design Analysis
Lecture NameRoot Link
Design Analysis – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/fa30dda6-9719-42b0-9986-de55fb0889e2
Introduction to Bootstrapping – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/c3de7aff-8b6d-4095-82fb-e215a2f3f624
Introduction to Simulation – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/e81d4d66-0ef7-46e7-9dc7-3d2859f70b39
Week 4 Review – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/4158b5c8-f11a-4fec-823c-eb9cd1e1d132
Sampling Scenario – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/c702a931-cc43-4365-83a3-ac41a044fc81
Single Season Design: Estimation Process – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/5f1074bb-46bb-4629-b742-6f3436dfe9e9
Single Season Design: Monte Carlo Part 1 – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/19b3d601-b848-4e00-9315-fb41b8a4d30d
Single Season Design: Monte Carlo Part 2 – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/ed104eca-7bc5-4155-be80-8cf3d0403392
Single Season Design: Simulate Data – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/7f859a51-3b32-487a-8a95-7e5c900bf4fd
Week 5 – Covariates
Lecture NameRoot Link
Categorical Covariates – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/b8cc8039-2405-4143-b7f3-7ebe3a65e98f
Complex Covariates – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/55dc6467-4f2d-4af9-a8c0-82a3a7a989df
Continuous Covariates – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/b2b14308-645b-437c-8a86-f522b48a354d
Introduction to the Logit – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/eec7fa2f-b38c-4dfc-99f2-32a505ea2416
Presence Program for Categorical Covariates – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/a2fb4dae-167e-436b-9db0-8bfac0433d5d
Presence Program for Continuous Covariates – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/1f61edcf-1f44-4bc2-8ed8-30bc3139c318
Presence Program for Polynomial, Additive and Interaction Models – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/6914f560-2fd5-4902-9c7c-53a564f4dbd7
Categorical Covariates – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/84eeb168-5218-4003-a0d6-0afe47a9cd60
Continuous Covariates 1 – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/10c62ce6-afff-4ac2-a07c-946124a5e76f
Continuous Covariates 2 – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/2f37e0cc-1bca-4502-8087-ed01279a5d84
Polynomial, Additive and Interaction Models – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/35a087e9-8307-40ed-897f-0cfd361a17d1
Week 6 – Goodness of Fit
Lecture NameRoot Link
Variance Inflation Factor: C-hat – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/da78f73e-72cf-48e2-acaa-b21c19b5e19d
Goodness of Fit 1 – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/6128cc26-931d-4416-8f4e-c330b8df97e6
Goodness of Fit 2 – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/50c35367-40b1-4b06-ace0-ff9b65098caf
Presence Program: Goodness of Fit – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/6bd10915-41e7-4818-8ba2-29c7bd433f87
Model Averaging – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/be8492be-eb13-44a3-b5cb-d705f12d61ab
Model Selection – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/ba2d0743-e15b-44ef-abd0-dd4ab1c7f298
   Week 6 Review – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/a8df8e07-b0e3-4d8e-881b-ce2810661797
Goodness of Fit and C-hat – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/631cf327-61da-43b3-a76f-55bf4394360a
Goodness of Fit and Chi Square tests – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/02faa595-7a60-4755-bf4f-2e59de126593
Goodness of Fit and Mackenzie Bailey – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/712e6f2e-486a-42bd-b907-c0bcb707ca4e
Model Averaging – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/9439aa87-1d2a-44b4-923d-2d06f8ee56f1
Model Averaging Variance – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/3768e87b-787f-4f14-bfce-a6bf1a2d9479
Model Reviewing – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/650c141e-a959-4398-a053-db79f0e51a75
Model Selection – Spreadsheethttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/1a74b64a-aef7-4d05-9031-989cd5e8a294
6.1_mode-selection_table-calculation.docxDownload
Week 7
Video NameRoot Link
Final Wrap-up – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/5c023189-23d9-4053-aa40-49d76623ebe7
Daryll Training – Lecturehttps://fws.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/ec0b8bac-32ba-4e5c-90f9-931f42d23364
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