Dr. Murray Logan

I am currently an associate lecturer within the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University. This is a position that I have held since completing my Ph.D thesis in late 2003. More about my research

News and information

R - open source statistical and graphical programming environment

The School of Biological Sciences is joining the growing number of scientific institutions that have made the switch to R. R (which is modelled on the popular and very powerful S language) is freely available for anyone to download and modify for their own use. The power, popularity and potential of R has encouraged and attracted a large international pool of contributers that enables extensive and rapidly evololution. More about R

Research

PhD students

2007 - Sherrie Caarels*

Honours students

2008 - Chris Pretorus* - seasonal activity patterns of free-ranging koalas
2006 - Luca Ferla - micro-habitat use by southern brown bandicoots
2006 - Sarah McLeod - behaviour of squirrel gliders within nest boxes
2005 - Ingrid Starva - ranging behaviour of southern brown bandicoots
2005 - Sherrie Caarels - effects of leaf physical properties on the feeding behaviour of koalas
2005 - Peter Crocroft - effects of airbourne dust on the feeding behaviour and ranging behaviour of ringtail possums

* - current students

Other research

2008 - Me and Roger Kirkwood - seasonal colony occupancy of Australian Fur Seals