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Our ‘functional’ world

Our ‘functional’ world

“You couldn’t really do ecology if you didn’t know how to construct even the most basic mathematical model — even a simple regression is a…
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1. Very Basics

1. Very Basics

This section shows you how to use Matlab and R. The examples in text will be based on Matlab, though the equivalent code for R are found at…
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2. Writing and Plotting Functions

2. Writing and Plotting Functions

Now we learn to write functions in Function form: what we wrote in the last section was a raw script.
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3. Loops and cycles

3. Loops and cycles

In the last section we learnt how to plug functions into Matlab and how to plot them.
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4. Comparing, Judging, and Timing

4. Comparing, Judging, and Timing

At some point you’ll find some things need to be done on a case-by-case basis, much like in real life.
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