Numbering Code	G-SCI32 66070 LJ58	Year/Term	2022 ・ Second semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	research
Target Year	Master's students	Target Student
Language	Japanese	Day/Period
Instructor name	UBUKATA TAKAO (Graduate School of Science Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	The fossil record cannot always be taken at face value because it is incomplete. Nevertheless, the fossil record is useful for some scientific purposes if its bias and incompleteness are taken into account for interpretation of paleontological data. Paleontologists have developed a variety of analytical techniques for examining data from the fossil record. This class is practically oriented and teaches the principles and nuts-and-bolts of paleontological data analysis.
Course Goals	The class aims to help students to acquire the ability to make choices of appropriate data analysis methods to execute research projects.
Schedule and Contents	The class is scheduled as follows: 1. Morphometrics 1: allometry, landmark, and shape space 2. Morphometrics 2: thin-plate spline, outline, ordination, and disparity 3. Theoretical morphology 4. Functional and evolutionary morphology 5. Analysis of species composition 6. Ordination techniques in (paleo)ecology 7. Measurement of sample-level diversity 8. Calibration of global diversity 9. Effect of time interval duration on diversity estimates 10. Quantitative biostratigraphy 11. Confidence intervals on stratigraphic ranges 12. Stratophylogenetics 13. Morphological rates and stratophenetic series 14. Taxonomic rates and taxonomic survivorship analysis 15. Conclusion
Course Requirements	The students are expected to have had the basic knowledge on paleontology.
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Handout materials for preparation for each class will be given at the beginning of each preceding class.
References, etc.	Palentological Data Analysis, Hammer, Ø. and Happer, D., (Blackwell), ISBN:1-4051-1544-0