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After all the hard work of collecting the data, thinking about appropriate models, formatting the data, you are finally running your model, this is it you are going to get the long awaited results and BOUM you get out such kind of message: ## Warning in checkConv(attr(opt, derivs), opt$par, ctrl = ## control$checkConv, : Model … Continue reading Help! I have convergence warnings Another year of blogging has pas*ed, now is the time to look back, look at some numbers and think a bit about the coming of a bright new This is a quick post on a blatant example on how careful and prudent interpretation in scientific articles are over-simplified in news article. Scrolling through lemonde.fr website I found this article about a long-term study that looked at the long-term changes in insect biomas*. In this article one can reads: 'Le facteur majeur permettant d’expliquer … Continue reading Mind the gap: when the news article A reader asked in a comment to my post on interpreting two-way interactions if I could also explain interaction between two categorical variables and one continuous variable. Rather than just dwelling on this particular case, here is a full blog post with all possible combination of categorical and continuous variables and how to interprete standard … Continue reading Interpreting three-way Point pattern an*lysis is a set of techniques to an*lyze spatial point data. In ecology this type of an*lysis may arise in several context but make specific as*umptions regarding the ways the data were generated, so let's first see what type of ecological data may or may not be relevant for point pattern an*lysis.  What … Continue reading Introduction to point pattern an*lysis for ecologists This is a theme that bugged me for the past few months, through reading (Peters' critique for ecology, Shipley's path an*lysis book), meetings and discussions (IK computation ecology). So it is time to actually sit down, think this through and organize my thoughts. What