Online talk by Dr. Chhaya Werner

Here is another talk by one of our consortium members, Dr. Chhaya Werner.

In this 12 minute talk she presents a collaboration with consortium members Dr. Lauren Shoemaker and Dr. Topher Weiss-Lehman, and Dr. Lauren Hallett. They use sparse modeling to learn about direct and indirect causes of variation in population growth rates and advance our understanding of community ecology.

The work is a model of a number of things we aim to do in our project:

1. it uses simulations to generate data with known process parameters and assesses the ability of statistical methods to recover these known values,

2. it combines statistical models with process models to yield highly predictive and interpretable models and predictions.

A related pre-print describing this work is on biorxiv.