This markdown file can be simultaneously edited by participants to add their questions. This way we can keep track of these without going back and forth in the chat and trying to organize/summarize things as we go. Please scroll down to Parking Lot to add your questions. Day 1 WELCOME! =) INSTRUCTOR: Peter, solymos@ualberta.ca TA: Juan Andrés, juanandr@ualberta.ca

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Background Focus on less studies/supported regions: novelty is that no one is looking (unlike US), downside is data is probably going to be messy. Possible questions real # of cases (underreporting issue for estimating needed hospital beds) spatial spread: political divisions Stats tricks Regions/connections

# Point count data analysis workshop AOS 2019, Anchorage AK, 25 June 2019 Workshop material at http://peter.solymos.org/qpad-book/ This document is hosted at https://hackmd.io/@psolymos/aos-2019/ and contains notes taken during the workshop. ## 1. Introduction Make sure that packages load (not just installed). Save version=2 Rdata files as well for back compatibility. ## 2. Organizing and processing point count data ## 3. A primer in regression techniques ## 4. Behavioral complexiti