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Welcome to my blog about ecology, stats and R things. You can find the most recent posts below.

Calculate leaf area from scans semi-automatically

The measurement of leaf area is common both in functional plant ecology and in agronomy, where it is one of several high-throughput phenotyping measurements.¹ A clever way…

Luciano L.M. De Benedictis

Calculating Rao with R

C. R. Rao lived more than 100 years and has been one of the greatest mathematicians and statisticians of the 20th century. Ecologists mostly know him for his quadratic…

Luciano L.M. De Benedictis

Tidy ecology with R

This post and its twin were conceived together. In my mind, the two topics are tightly linked, but a tangent about different software implementations of a diversity index…

Luciano L.M. De Benedictis

Fitting the gravitational constant with brms

My experience with astronomy and astrophysics boils down to teenage curiosity. The main purpose of this example is as an exercise in brms nonlinear syntax. There are…

Luciano L.M. De Benedictis

Starting a blog!

Scientific debate currently revolves around papers, being the agreed upon way to make science, but they can’t be the only outlet for scholarly discussion. Post-publication…

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