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Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel

Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science
Statistical Science
Department of Statistical Scie, Box 90251, 214 Old Chemistry B, Durham, NC 27708-0251
Department of Statistical Scie, 214 Old Chemistry Bldg Duke Un, Durham, NC 27708-0251

Selected Publications


THE 5Ws AND 1H OF TERM PROJECTS IN THE INTRODUCTORY DATA SCIENCE CLASSROOM

Journal Article Statistics Education Research Journal · January 1, 2022 Many data science applications involve generating questions, acquiring data and preparing it for analysis—be it exploratory, inferential, or modeling focused—and communicating findings. Most data science curricula address each of these steps as separate un ... Full text Cite

Tools and Recommendations for Reproducible Teaching

Journal Article Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2022 It is recommended that teacher-scholars of data science adopt reproducible workflows in their research as scholars and teach reproducible workflows to their students. In this article, we propose a third dimension to reproducibility practices and recommend ... Full text Cite

infer: An R package for tidyverse-friendly statistical inference

Journal Article Journal of Open Source Software · September 16, 2021 Full text Cite

Teaching Courses Focused on Social Good

Journal Article CHANCE · July 3, 2021 Full text Cite

Web Scraping in the Statistics and Data Science Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities

Journal Article Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2021 Best practices in statistics and data science courses include the use of real and relevant data as well as teaching the entire data science cycle starting with importing data. A rich source of real and current data is the web, where data are often presente ... Full text Open Access Cite

A Fresh Look at Introductory Data Science

Journal Article Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2021 The proliferation of vast quantities of available datasets that are large and complex in nature has challenged universities to keep up with the demand for graduates trained in both the statistical and the computational set of skills required to effectively ... Full text 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 Introductory Statistics with DataCamp

Journal Article Journal of Statistics Education · January 2, 2020 We designed a sequence of courses for the DataCamp online learning platform that approximates the content of a typical introductory statistics course. We discuss the design and implementation of these courses and illustrate how they can be successfully int ... Full text Open Access Cite

Real-World Simulation of an Alternative Retinopathy of Prematurity Screening System in Thailand: A Pilot Study.

Journal Article J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus · July 1, 2018 PURPOSE: To evaluate an alternative retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening system that identifies infants meriting examination by an ophthalmologist in a middle-income country. METHODS: The authors hypothesized that grading posterior pole images for th ... Full text Link to item 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

Infrastructure and tools for teaching computing throughout the statistical curriculum

Journal Article · August 24, 2017 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 both want, expect, and ne ... Full text Cite

Infrastructure and tools for teaching computing throughout the statistical curriculum

Journal Article · August 24, 2017 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 both want, expect, and ne ... Full text Cite

Understanding the massive open online course (MOOC) student experience: An examination of attitudes, motivations, and barriers

Journal Article Computers and Education · July 1, 2017 During the widespread development of open access online course materials in the last two decades, advances have been made in understanding the impact of instructional design on quantitative outcomes. Much less is known about the experiences of learners tha ... Full text Open Access Cite

OpenIntro Statistics

Book · July 2, 2015 The OpenIntro project was founded in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing exceptional books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. ... Cite

Advanced High School Statistics

Book · May 10, 2015 The OpenIntro project was founded in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing exceptional books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. ... Cite

Teaching data analysis in R through the lens of reproducibility

Dataset · April 17, 2015 The issue of reproducibility often comes up in the context of published research and the need to accompany such research with the complete data and analyses, including software/code. As statistics educators who teach data analysis, we should be ins ... Full text Cite

Interactivity online and on-campus: Data Analysis and Statistical Inference

Journal Article · April 17, 2015 In this talk we will share experiences from the development, delivery, and assessment of the Data Analysis and Statistical Inference course both on Coursera and on-campus at Duke University, with an emphasis on interactivity. For the MOOC we wil ... Full text Cite

Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation

Book · July 18, 2014 This textbook may be downloaded as a free PDF on the project's website, and the paperback is sold royalty-free. ... Cite

R Markdown: Integrating A Reproducible Analysis Tool into Introductory Statistics

Journal Article Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 8(1), 2014 · February 8, 2014 Nolan and Temple Lang argue that "the ability to express statistical computations is an essential skill." A key related capacity is the ability to conduct and present data analysis in a way that another person can understand and replicate. The copy-and-pas ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Evidence-based value of subcutaneous surgical wound drainage: the largest systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal Article Plastic and reconstructive surgery · August 2013 BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to determine the evidenced-based value of prophylactic drainage of subcutaneous wounds in surgery.MethodsAn electronic search was performed. Articles comparing subcutaneous prophylactic drainage wit ... 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

Sexually Coercive Male Chimpanzees Sire More Offspring

Journal Article Current Biology In sexually reproducing animals, male and female reproductive strategies often conflict [1]. In some species, males use aggression to overcome female choice [2, 3], but debate persists over the extent to which this strategy is successful. Previous studies ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite