Daniel Wayne Franks

Predicting kinship dynamics during pre- and post reproductive life stages

This study extends kinship dynamics models to include age-linked changes in survival and fecundity, showing improved predictions of female kinship dynamics in killer whales across life stages.

Analysis of sparse animal social networks

The paper addresses bias in estimating edge weights in sparse animal social networks by introducing zero-inflation into a Bayesian framework, demonstrating improved performance over frequentist methods in elephant data.