Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is a Turkish-American statistician. She is a senior lecturer at University of Edinburgh, an associate professor of the practice at Duke University, and a professional educator at RStudio. She is the author of three open source statistics textbooks and is an instructor for Coursera.[1][2] She is the chair-elect of the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association.[3]

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Born
Mine Çetinkaya
CitizenshipTurkey
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles, New York University
Known forOpenIntro Statistics
AwardsWaller Education Award
Scientific career
Fields
ThesisEstimating the impact of air pollution using small area estimation (2011)
Doctoral advisorJan de Leeuw

Life

Çetinkaya-Rundel grew up in Turkey and graduated from Robert College,[4] before coming to the United States for her undergraduate studies to study actuarial science at New York University. After working as an actuary at Buck Consultants, Çetinkaya-Rundel enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her master's degree and PhD in statistics at UCLA. Her dissertation, Estimating the impact of air pollution using small area estimation, was completed under the supervision of Jan de Leeuw.[5]

Work

Çetinkaya-Rundel coauthored three open-access textbooks, OpenIntro Statistics,[6] Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation, and OpenIntro: Advanced High School Statistics.[7] She is an author on the associated R package, openintro.[8] Çetinkaya-Rundel is also a proponent of reproducible analysis[9] in the context of statistics education.[10]

Recognition

Çetinkaya-Rundel was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.[11]

Selected publications
  • Diez, David M.; Barr, Christopher D.; Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mine (2014). Introductory statistics with randomization and simulation (First ed.). OpenIntro. ISBN 9781500576691. OCLC 889223663.
  • Diez, David M.; Barr, Christopher D.; Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mine (2015). OpenIntro Statistics (3rd ed.). OpenIntro. ISBN 9781943450039. OCLC 920524548.[6]
  • Diez, David M.; Barr, Christopher D.; Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mine; Dorazio, Leah (2015). Advanced High School Statistics. OpenIntro. ISBN 9781943450022. OCLC 980489902.

References
  1. "Coursera Instructor Profile: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel". Coursera. Archived from the original on 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  2. "Coursera connections: Examining online education at Duke". The Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  3. "Statistical Education Section Officers". American Statistical Association. Archived from the original on 2017-09-02. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  4. "A Passion for Stats and the Beauty of Bayes: A Duke Professor on Teaching Online". Class Central. 2015-03-24. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  5. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Aphalo, Pedro José (February 2017). "Review of OpenIntro Statistics". UV4Plants Bulletin. 2 (2): 51–53. doi:10.19232/uv4pb.2016.2.90.
  7. "Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation". OpenIntro. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  8. "openintro Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from 'OpenIntro' Textbooks". CRAN. 2017-09-08. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  9. "Scientific Reproducibility - Is It Going Extinct Or Do We Not Teach Statistics Well Enough?". Science 2.0. 2014-02-28. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  10. Baumer, Ben; Cetinkaya-Rundel, Mine; Bray, Andrew; Loi, Linda; Horton, Nicholas J (2014). "R Markdown: Integrating A Reproducible Analysis Tool into Introductory Statistics". Technology Innovations in Statistics Education. 8 (1). arXiv:1402.1894. Bibcode:2014arXiv1402.1894B.
  11. "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
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