@SophieLGilbert @kaitlyngaynor @cole_burton @JasonTFisherLab @RLongEco @LabGardner @taaltree @Fabi_Iannarilli @songofdodo Basis functions/splines! Here are two overview papers (one an obvious self-promotion). Cyclic splines are good for things like time, but there are non-cyclic splines for low->high scenarios.
https://t.co/ej1i7vjReh
https://t.co/Iup56BBpk7
@dr_sowards @rstatstweet @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics @ucfagls has a cool blog (https://t.co/v6J1gyqU33) plus some videos on YouTube and papers
https://t.co/idxylnEk4Y
https://t.co/Rxu2iqyB7y
https://t.co/tLkwfYNP4A
@VLucet you give me too much credit! Start with Youtube talks by @noamross and @ucfagls. Then find a tutorial in your field like this one in ecology https://t.co/DTd8uYMPlu (I started with a linguistics tutorial.) Then the best book would be Simon Wood's Generalized Additive Models.
Data & methods:
We related local plant community trait composition to broad gradients of soil moisture, soil temperature, soil pH and potential solar radiation - based on field data
@dan_p_simpson @Keith_Not_Kevin If you don't mind hand-waving away time series concerns, the plankton abundance data from our PeerJ paper (https://t.co/nH9SgjeCpE) is very nonlinear (seasonal peaks in Zooplankton abundance in Wisconsin lakes). Also very non-normal
@SwampThingPaul Depends how deep you want to understand the models and what’s going on with them.
If you haven’t already perhaps start with https://t.co/SZEBiaprPI and https://t.co/urEJ0tJoeQ
Which lay the groundwork; Simon’s book is excellent if you want more
@phenogirl @LukasLandler @phenolab @VGStaggemeier Me talking about statistic details is the best way to confuse you... better take a look on this paper that helped me https://t.co/umx5i4CkBN