Ciaran Evans

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Statistical methodology and applications

  1. Evans, C., G’Sell, M.. Sequential changepoint detection for label shift in classification. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08592

  2. Evans, C., Weinberg, Z., Puthenveedu, M. G’Sell, M. M. Inference with generalizable classifier predictions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07623

  3. Evans, C., Hardin, J., Stoebel, D. Selecting between-sample RNA-Seq normalizationmethods from the perspective of their assumptions. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 19(5): 776-792, 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171491/pdf/bbx008.pdf

  4. Wong, G., Bonocora, R., Schep, A., Beeler, S., Lee, A., Shull, L., Batachari, L., Dillon, M., Evans, C., Becker, C., Bush, E., Hardin, J., Wade, J., and Stoebel, D. The genome-wide transcriptional response to varying RpoS levels in Escherichia coli K-12. Journal of Bacteriology, 199:e00755-16, 2017. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/21/082537

Teaching and Pedagogy

  1. Evans, C. Regression, transformations, and mixed-effects with marine bryozoans.
  1. Reinhart, A., Evans, C., Luby, A., Orellana, J., Meyer, M., Wieczorek, J., Elliott, P., Burckhardt, P., Nugent, R. (2020). Think-aloud interviews: A tool for exploring student statistical reasoning. http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00535 (Revise and resubmit)

Selected Presentations

  1. Evans, C., G’Sell, M. “Sequential changepoint detection for classifier label shift.” Contributed talk, Joint Statistical Meetings. (August 2020)

  2. Evans, C., Reinhart, A., Burckhardt, P., Nugent, R., Weinberg, G. “Exploring how students reason about correlation and causation.” Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics. https://www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots20/posters/2-03 (May 2020)

  3. Evans, C., Burckhardt, P., Nugent, R., Weinberg, G. “Discipline-specific activities in introductory statistics.” Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics. https://www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots20/posters/1-01 (May 2020)

  4. Meyer, M., Evans, C. “Introducing think-aloud interviews as a tool to explore student statistical reasoning.” CAUSE webinar. https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/teaching/2019-12 (December 2019)

  5. Evans, C., G’Sell, M., Weinberg, Z., Puthenveedu, M. “Clustering and classification of exocytic events.” Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO. (July 2019)