2026-2027 Graduate Catalog (20273)
Environmental Studies Courses
All Environmental Studies Courses
ENVR 6410 Environmental Data Science and Modeling (3 credits)
This graduate-level course develops analytical reasoning and quantitative skills for environmental and biological sciences. It provides a foundation in inferential statistics, extends into regression and generalized linear modeling, and introduces multivariate and machine-learning techniques commonly used in research across ecology, fisheries, environmental monitoring, field toxicology, and bench biology. Emphasis is placed on experimental design, reproducibility, visualization, and interpretation of complex datasets. Students will learn to implement analyses using R and produce fully reproducible reports. The course concludes with an introduction to Bayesian reasoning and Monte Carlo simulation as tools for uncertainty analysis.
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