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Colin Rundel

Colin Rundel

Associate Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science
Statistical Science
cr173@duke.edu
204 Old Chemistry, Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708-0251
204 Old Chemistry Bldg, Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708-0251

Selected Publications

Long Distance Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants

Journal Article Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · December 22, 2021 By dispersing seeds long distances, large, fruit-eating animals influence plant population spread and community dynamics. After fruit consumption, animal gut passage time and movement determine seed dispersal patterns and distances. These, in turn, are inf ... Full text Open Access Cite

An educator's perspective of the tidyverse

Journal Article · August 7, 2021 Computing makes up a large and growing component of data science and statistics courses. Many of those courses, especially when taught by faculty who are statisticians by training, teach R as the programming language. A number of instructors have opted to ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Implementing Version Control With Git and GitHub as a Learning Objective in Statistics and Data Science Courses

Journal Article Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2021 A version control system records changes to a file or set of files over time so that changes can be tracked and specific versions of a file can be recalled later. As such, it is an essential element of a reproducible workflow that deserves due consideratio ... Full text Cite

Teaching an Undergraduate Course in Bayesian Statistics: A Panel Discussion

Journal Article Journal of Statistics Education · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Estimation of gut passage time of wild, free roaming forest elephants

Journal Article Wildlife Biology · January 1, 2019 Seed gut passage times, the time from ingestion to defecation, and frugivore movement patterns determine patterns of seed deposition across the landscape and are thus crucial parameters to quantify in wild populations. Recent advancements in satellite and ... Full text Cite

Infrastructure and Tools for Teaching Computing Throughout the Statistical Curriculum

Journal Article American Statistician · January 2, 2018 Modern statistics is fundamentally a computational discipline, but too often this fact is not reflected in our statistics curricula. With the rise of big data and data science, it has become increasingly clear that students want, expect, and need explicit ... Full text Cite

Sensor fusion for buried explosive threat detection for handheld data

Conference Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2017 Data from multiple sensors has been collected using a handheld system, and includes precise location information. These sensors include ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors. The performance of these sensors on differen ... Full text Cite

A data fusion approach for spatial analysis of speciated PM2.5 across time

Journal Article Environmetrics · December 1, 2015 PM2.5 exposure is linked to a number of adverse health effects such as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. However, PM2.5 is a complex mixture of different species whose composition varies substantially in both space and time. An open question is how t ... Full text Cite

Novel statistical methods for integrating genetic and stable isotope data to infer individual-level migratory connectivity.

Journal Article Molecular ecology · August 2013 Methods for determining patterns of migratory connectivity in animal ecology have historically been limited due to logistical challenges. Recent progress in studying migratory bird connectivity has been made using genetic and stable-isotope markers to assi ... Full text Cite

Quality of reproductive health services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients.

Journal Article Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · November 2011 BackgroundMedical patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) frequently receive health care services of suboptimal quality.MethodsWe explored whether clients served with staff interpreters (language-discordant, LDI) receive reproduct ... Full text Cite

Overexpression of a Drosophila homolog of apolipoprotein D leads to increased stress resistance and extended lifespan.

Journal Article Current biology : CB · April 2006 Increased Apolipoprotein D (ApoD) expression has been reported in various neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and stroke, and in the aging brain . However, whether ApoD is toxic or a defense is unknown. In a screen to iden ... Full text Cite