Assignment
Demonstrate your learning and earn a badge!
You can complete this assignment using our water deer case-study, or your own field data
If you’re using your own field data, you can work with a subset of data to develop an analysis workflow and demonstrate your skills - you don’t need to run the analysis on your full dataset
Include these five elements:
- A model selection table 🔢 with three detection functions1
- A plot 📊 of one of your detection functions. For those using the water deer case-study, this must be of the detection function that you chose yourself, rather than the examples we provide the code for (half-normal and uniform)
- Interpretation 💡 Which model has the most support? What conclusion can you draw from it?
- A brief reflection 🤔, for example on your next step, a challenge you overcame, a problem you’re still trying to solve, or a leap of understanding you experienced
- Give feedback 👍 to one or more of your coursemates - see below
Note that each written step need only be 1-2 sentences - you don’t need to craft long paragraphs or spend a lot of time on this!
Feedback guide
To encourage you to share ideas and expertise, this assignment includes a social aspect where you give feedback
Ensure your feedback is positive, and involves some practical advice or a probing question. The aim is to help everyone extend their skills, consider different approaches, or decide their next steps
For example, you might offer:
- A suggestion for a way to improve what they’d done, or extend their work
- An alternative method of achieving the same or similar result
- A solution to one of their challenges or next steps
- A question about why they did something a certain way or how they achieved a certain effect
- Enquiry into what they plan next, or how this moves them forward
Generic questions that could be directed to anyone on the course don’t count! 😉
Demonstrate that you’ve thought about their particular situation or piece of work
Submit your assignment
Footnotes
Output of the
modSel()function↩︎