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A lot of statistical analysis and R packages were pioneered for/by ecologists. In ecology we get some of the more complex and interesting data, and questions to

• closed 9y ago
  My sense is that ecology tends to have more on spatial covariance (along with epidemiology), psychology on building scales out of latent factor models, and economics on temporal covariance. (although there is substantial overlap between the three)
• jhbadger 9y ago
  It's also worth mentioning that a lot of fields that you wouldn't normally think of as ecology use ecological tools like the vegan package. A good example is studies of the human microbiome. Studying the microbiome you want to measure the biodiversity of various samples from diseased and healthy individuals -- which is basically the same problem as traditional ecologists face when looking at, say, a polluted versus pristine environment.