Marcela Alfaro Cordoba
Also known as: Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba; Marcela Alfaro; Marcela Alfaro-Cordoba; Marcela Alfaro Cordoba
Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is interested in developing novel statistical methods to address scientific questions related to the environment and turning those experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration into teaching methods for statistics and data science. Her areas of application include climate models, biophysics, spectrophotometry, among others. Marcela is committed to practicing open science and she believes in mentoring young scientists. Her volunteering activities include being a co-chair of CODATA-RDA Schools of Data Science, being part of the organizing committee of ConectaR2019 and ConectaR2021, the first R Users Conference in Central America. She is a founding member of the R-ladies chapter in San José, Costa Rica.
Works (17)
2021 journal article
A School and a Network: CODATA-RDA Data Science Summer Schools Alumni Survey
Data Science Journal, 20(1), 10.
datascience.codata.org (publisher PDF)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 21, 2021
2021 journal article
First evidence for an aposematic function of a very common color pattern in small insects
Plos One, 16(2), 0237288.
Source: ORCID
Added: February 21, 2021
2020 journal article
Aridity Trends in Central America: A Spatial Correlation Analysis
Atmosphere.
Source: ORCID
Added: April 25, 2020
2020 journal article
Use of unconventional mixed Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol solvents for anthocyanin extraction from Purple-Fleshed sweetpotatoes
Food Chemistry, 314.
Source: ORCID
Added: December 14, 2019
2019 journal article
A comparison of testing methods in scalar-on-function regression
AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, 103(3), 411–436.
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
2019 report
A curriculum for foundational Research Data Science skills for Early Career Researchers
In Research Data Alliance.
Source: ORCID
Added: December 18, 2019
2019 journal article
Spectral measure of color variation of black-orange-black (BOB) pattern in small parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), a statistical approach
PLOS ONE, 14(10).
Source: ORCID
Added: October 31, 2019
2017 journal article
A Data-driven weighting scheme for multivariate phenotypic endpoints recapitulates zebrafish developmental cascades
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 314, 109–117.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 dataset
Data from: The use of functional data analysis to evaluate activity in a spontaneous model of degenerative joint disease associated pain in cats
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
2017 journal article
The Use of Functional Data Analysis to Evaluate Activity in a Spontaneous Model of Degenerative Joint Disease Associated Pain in Cats
PLOS ONE, 12(1), e0169576.
Ed(s): J. Harezlak
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
2017 article
Variable Selection Methods with Applications to Atmospheric Sciences
(2017, May 23). North Carolina State University.
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
2014 journal article
Iodine Quantification to Distinguish Clear Cell from Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma at Dual-Energy Multidetector CT: A Multireader Diagnostic Performance Study
Radiology, 273(3), 813–820.
Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 journal article
Nonlinear Image Blending for Dual-Energy MDCT of the Abdomen: Can Image Quality Be Preserved If the Contrast Medium Dose Is Reduced?
American Journal of Roentgenology, 203(4), 838–845.
Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018
2010 journal article
Comparación metodológica de encuestas vía telefonía fija y celular en Costa Rica
Revista De Ciencias Económicas.
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
manuscript
Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Variable Selection with Applications to Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Modeling
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
journal article
A Comparison of Testing Methods in Scalar-on-Function Regression
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
conference paper
An intentional AI for hanabi
Source: ORCID
Added: May 15, 2019
Employment
2021 - present
University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, US
Teaching Assistant Professor
Statistics
2017 - 2021
Universidad de Costa Rica San Jose, San José, CR
Assistant Professor
Statistics
2013 - 2017
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Research Assistant
Statistics
2009 - 2011
Universidad de Costa Rica San Jose, San José, CR
Visiting Professor
Statistics
Education
2011 - 2017
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Ph.D
Statistics
2007 - 2009
Iowa State University Ames, IA, US
M.Sc.
Statistics
2002 - 2006
Universidad de Costa Rica San Jose, San José, CR
B.Sc.
Statistics
