Curriculum Vitae: Rachel Fewster
Curriculum Vitae: Rachel Fewster |
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1992-1995 : University of Cambridge, UK.
BA Mathematics (1995). MA Mathematics (1999).
Associate Editor, Biometrics, 2006 - present.
Associate Editor, JABES, 2005 - present.
International Programme Committee, 25th International
Biometric Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2010.
Fewster, R.M. Variance estimation for systematic designs in spatial surveys. Biometrics, 67, 1518-1531, 2011. Online from Wiley, or email me for PDF.
Carroll, E.L., Patenaude, N.J., Childerhouse, S.J., Kraus, S. D., Fewster, R.M., and Baker, C.S. Abundance of the New Zealand subantarctic southern right whale population estimated from photo-identification and genotype mark-recapture. Marine Biology, 158, 2565-2575, 2011. Online from SpringerLink.
Fewster, R.M., Miller, S.D., and Ritchie, J. DNA profiling - a management tool for rat eradication. In: Veitch, C. R.; Clout, M. N. and Towns, D. R. (eds) Island invasives: Eradication and management. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 2011, in press. Full text (PDF).
Miller, S.D., Russell, J.C., MacInnes, H.E., Abdelkrim, J., and Fewster, R.M. Multiple paternity in wild populations of invasive Rattus species. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 34, 360-363, 2010. Full text (PDF) from NZ J Ecol website.
Russell, J.C., Miller, S.D., Harper, G.A., MacInnes, H.E., Wylie, M.J., and Fewster, R.M. Survivors or reinvaders? Using genetic assignment to identify invasive pests following eradication. Biological Invasions, 12, 1747-1757, 2010. Full text (open access).
Fewster, R.M., and Jupp, P.E. Inference on population size in binomial detectability models. Biometrika, 96, 805-820, 2009. Abstract. Free access PDF from Oxford Journals.
Fewster, R.M., Buckland, S.T., Burnham, K.P., Borchers, D.L., Jupp, P.E., Laake, J.L., and Thomas, L. Estimating the encounter rate variance in distance sampling. Biometrics, 65, 225-236, 2009. Online from Blackwell-Synergy.
Fewster, R.M. A simple explanation of Benford's Law. The American Statistician, 63, 26-32, 2009. Full text (PDF). The American Statistician Website
Russell, J.C., and Fewster, R.M. Evaluation of the linkage disequilibrium method for estimating effective population size. In: Thomson, D. L., Cooch, E. G., Conroy, M. J. (eds) Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations. Environmental and Ecological Statistics Series, Vol 3, Springer, Berlin, pp. 291-320, 2009. Online volume. Full text with corrections to misprints on page 311 here.
Miller, S.D., MacInnes, H.E., and Fewster, R.M. Detecting invisible migrants: an application of genetic methods to estimate migration rates. In: Thomson, D. L., Cooch, E. G., Conroy, M. J. (eds) Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations. Environmental and Ecological Statistics Series, Vol 3, Springer, Berlin, pp. 417-437, 2009. Online volume.
Russell, J.C., Abdelkrim, J., and Fewster, R.M. Early colonisation population structure of a Norway rat island invasion. Biological Invasions, 11, 1557-1567, 2009.
Fewster, R.M., and Patenaude, N.J. Cubic splines for estimating the distribution of residence time using individual resightings data. In: Thomson, D. L., Cooch, E. G., Conroy, M. J. (eds) Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations. Environmental and Ecological Statistics Series, Vol 3, Springer, Berlin, pp. 393-415, 2009. Online volume.
Fewster, R.M., and Pople, A.R. A comparison of mark-recapture distance sampling methods applied to aerial surveys of Eastern grey kangaroos. Wildlife Research, 35, 320-330, 2008. Online issue.
Fewster, R.M., Southwell, C., Borchers, D.L., Buckland, S.T., and Pople, A.R. The influence of animal mobility on the assumption of uniform distances in aerial line transect surveys. Wildlife Research, 35, 275-288, 2008. Online issue.
Buckland, S.T., Magurran, A.E., Green, R.E., and Fewster, R.M. (2005). Monitoring change in biodiversity through composite indices. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 360, 243-254.
Fewster, R.M., Laake, J.L., and Buckland, S.T. (2005). Line transect sampling in small and large regions. Biometrics, 61, 856-859.
Fewster, R.M. and Buckland, S.T. (2004). Assessment of distance sampling estimators. In Buckland, S.T., Anderson, D.R., Burnham, K.P., Laake, J.L., Borchers, D.L., and Thomas, L. (eds). Advanced Distance Sampling. Oxford, Oxford University Press, p. 281-306. Book website.
Fewster, R.M. A spatio-temporal stochastic process model for species spread. Biometrics 59, 640-649 (2003). Abstract.
Fewster, R.M. and Mendes, E. Portfolio management method for deadline planning. Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE Symposium on Software Metrics, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California (2003). Abstract.
Fewster, R.M. and Buckland, S.T. Similarity indices for spatial ecological data. Biometrics 57, 495-501 (2001). Summary.
Fewster, R.M. and Mendes, E. Measurement, prediction and risk analysis for web applications. Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Symposium on Software Metrics, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California (2001). Abstract.
Fewster, R.M. and Mendes, E. Empirical evaluation and prediction of web applications' development effort. Proceedings of EASE'00 - Fourth International Conference on Empirical Assessment and Evaluation in Software Engineering, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK; 2000. Abstract.
Fewster, R.M., Buckland, S.T., Siriwardena, G.M., Baillie, S.R. and Wilson, J.D. Analysis of population trends for farmland birds using generalized additive models. Ecology 81, 1970-1984 (2000). Abstract. SPLUS code.
Borchers, D.L., Zucchini, W. and Fewster, R.M. Mark-recapture models for line transect surveys. Biometrics 54, 1207-1220 (1998). Summary
Siriwardena, G.M., Baillie, S.R., Buckland, S.T., Fewster, R.M., Marchant, J.H. and Wilson, J.D. Trends in the abundance of farmland birds: a quantitative comparison of smoothed Common Bird Census indices. Journal of Applied Ecology 35, 24-43 (1998). Summary