Teaching

Estatística Descomplicada — YouTube channel

youtube.com/@DiogoBProvete · Statistics for the life sciences, in plain Portuguese.

I run a YouTube channel — Estatística Descomplicada — with lessons on statistics aimed at biologists and other life-scientists. The content mirrors what I teach in graduate and undergraduate courses at UFMS: Generalized Linear (Mixed) Models, multivariate methods, study design, and the reproducible-analysis workflow in R.

Topics covered include hypothesis testing, GLM/GLMM with appropriate error families, ordinations (PCA, NMDS, RDA, CCA), classification, and how to read statistical results in the ecological literature without getting lost in the jargon. New videos are released as the academic semester progresses.

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Phenotypic evolution & comparative phylogenetic methods

Graduate course given annually at the Ecology and Conservation PPG (UFMS), Campo Grande. The course is hosted on Moodle — feel free to get in touch if you’d like access to materials.

Mind map summarising the main methods

Past courses & short-courses

2012 — Mendeley demo, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Slides with screenshots and tutorials

2011 — Ecological statistics with R

Tópicos em Biologia Animal — Estatística aplicada à ecologia usando o R. A two-week graduate course in Animal Biology at UNESP (São Paulo State University), in collaboration with Thiago Gonçalves-Souza and Fernando R. Silva. We covered Generalized Linear Models, the main multivariate methods, and other ecological tools, using R as the analysis platform.

2009 — Sampling techniques for vertebrates (PT)

Short course (4 h) for undergraduates at UNESP, given as a pre-meeting course at the 4º Simpósio de Biologia Animal. Ricardo Brassaloti and I covered field sampling techniques for the four classes of vertebrates.

Class slides

Recommended bibliography

  • Colwell, R.K. & Coddington, J.A. 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 345:101–118. PDF
  • Dias, S.C. 2004. Planejando estudos de diversidade e riqueza: uma abordagem para estudantes de graduação. Acta Scientiarum 26:373–9. PDF
  • Gotelli, N. & Colwell, R.K. 2001. Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4:379–391. PDF
  • Sutherland, W.J. (Ed.) 2006. Ecological census techniques: a handbook. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press.