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Evan earned his PhD in Biological Anthropology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he focused on spatial patterns of skeletal and dental variation in two large necropoles of Iron Age Central Italy (1st millennium BCE).
Students will be introduced to the basics of clustering using R. They will learn the basics of distance matrices and linkage methods, transforming data, creating cluster objects, and the construction, manipulation, and interpretation of dendrograms. They will also learn how to compute cluster p-values via multiscale bootstrap resampling from the 'pvclust' package.
Prior knowledge:
R for Data Science Days 1-3 or equivalent experience