Foundations; Statistical Models
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Feynman, R., 1974. CalTech Commencement Address,
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Freedman, D.A., and D. Lane, 1983. A Nonstochastic Interpretation of Reported Significance Levels, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1, 292-298.
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Freedman, D.A., 1995. Some issues in the foundations of statistics, Foundations of Science, 1, 19--39. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00208723
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Freedman, D.A., 1999. From association to causation: some remarks on the history of statistics, Statistical Science, 14(3), 243--258.
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Freedman, D.A., and R. Berk, 2001. Statistical Assumptions as Empirical Commitments,
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zj8s368#page-1 (also in Freedman, D.A., 2010. Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A dialog with the Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press. D. Collier, J. Sekhon, P.B. Stark, eds.) -
Freedman, D.A., 2008. On types of scientific inquiry: the role of qualitative reasoning, The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, Box-Steffensmeier, J.M., H.E. Brady, and D. Collier (eds), Oxford University Press, Oxford. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286546.003.0012. Preprint
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Freedman, D.A., 2009. Statistical Models: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press.
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Freedman, D.A., R. Pisani, and R. Purves, 2007. Statistics, 4th edition, W.W. Norton, New York.
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Jewell, N.P., J.A. Lewnard, and B.L. Jewell, 2020. Predictive Mathematical Models of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Underlying Principles and Value of Projections, JAMA, 323(19):1893-1894. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6585
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Klemes, V., 1989. The Improbable Probabilities of Extreme Floods and Droughts, in O. Starosolsky and O.M. Meldev (eds), Hydrology and Disasters, James and James, London, 43--51.
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LeCam, L., 1977. Note on metastatistics or 'An essay toward stating a problem in the doctrine of chances,' Synthese, 36, 133-160.
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Stark, P.B., 1997. SticiGui
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Stark, P.B., 2016a. Pay no attention to the model behind the curtain
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Stark, P.B., 2016b. The value of P-values, The American Statistician, 70, DOI:10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108
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Stark, P.B., 2017. Mathematical Foundations, Inequalities, Statistical models, Introduction to permutation tests, Rabbits and Cargo-Cult Statistics, Generating pseudo-random samples and permutations Combining tests
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Stark, P.B., and A. Saltelli, 2018. Cargo-cult Statistics and Scientific Crisis, Significance, 15(4), 40--43. https://www.significancemagazine.com/593
Statistical methodology
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Freedman, D.A., 2008. Randomization does not justify logistic regression, Statistical Science, 23 237--249. DOI: 10.1214/08-STS262 https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.3914.pdf
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Hastie, T., R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman, 2009. Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, NY. https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/ESLII.pdf
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McCullagh, P. and J.A. Nelder, 1983. Generalized Linear Models, 2nd edition, Chapman & Hall, NY.
Evidence, Models, and Public Policy
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Saltelli, A., P.B. Stark, W. Becker, and P. Stano, 2015. Climate Models as Economic Guides: Scientific Challenge or Quixotic Quest?, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2015. Reprint: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/saltelliEtal15.pdf
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van der Sluijs, J.P., A.C. Petersen, P.H.M. Janssen, J.S. Risbey, and J.R. Ravetz, 2008. Exploring the quality of evidence for complex and contested policy decisions, Environmental Research Letters, 3, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/2/024008
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van der Sluijs, J.P., 2016. Numbers Running Wild, Chapter 5 in The Rightful Place of Science: Science on the Verge, A. Benessia, S. Funtowicz, M. Giampietro, Â.G. Pereira, J. Ravetz, A. Saltelli, R. Strand, J.P. van der Sluijs, eds., Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, AZ & DC. http://www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/repository/Science_on_the_Verge_FINAL_.pdf
Foundations: Computation, Optimization
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Goldberg, D., 1991. What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic, ACM Computing Surveys, 23, 5--48.
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Ottoboni, K. and P.B. Stark, 2018. Random problems with R, ArXiV, https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06520. also see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-September/076817.html
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Stark, P.B., and K. Ottoboni, 2018. Random sampling: practice makes imperfect, https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10985
Earthquake probabilities
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USGS 2008 Bay Area Earthquake Probabilities.
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Cornell, C.A., 1968. Engineering seismic risk analysis, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 58, 1583--1606.
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Mulargia, F., P.B. Stark, and R.J. Geller, 2017. Why is probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) still used? Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 264, 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2016.12.002
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Stark, P.B. and D.A. Freedman, 2003. What is the Chance of an Earthquake? in Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction, F. Mulargia and R.J. Geller, eds., NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, v. 32, Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 201–213. Preprint: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/611.pdf
Impact of Climate Change
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Houser, T., R. Kopp, S. Hsiang, M. Delgado, A. Jina, K. Larsen, M. Mastrandrea, S. Mohan, R. Muir-Wood, D.J. Rasmussen, J. Rising, and P. Wilson, 2014. The American Climate Prospectus: Economic Risks in the United States, 2014. http://rhg.com/reports/climate-prospectus
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Hsiang, S., R. Kopp, A. Jina, J. Rising, M. Delgado, S. Mohan, D.J. Rasmussen, R. Muir-Wood, P. Wilson, M. Oppenheimer, K. Larsen, and T. Houser, 2017. Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States, Science, 356, 1362-1369 DOI: 10.1126/science.aal4369
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Ranson, M., 2014. Crime, weather, and climate change, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 67(3), 274-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2013.11.008
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Urban, M.C., 2015. Accelerating extinction risk from climate change, Science, 348, Issue 6234, 571--573, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4984, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6234/571.full
Reproducibility and Scientific Method
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Ball, P., 2018. High-profile journals put to reproducibility test, Nature, 27 August, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06075-z, doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06075-z
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Barba, L., 2016. The hard road to reproducibility, Science, 354, 142. doi 10.1126/science.354.6308.142
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Barba, L., 2016. Reproducibility Syllabus, http://lorenabarba.com/blog/barbagroup-reproducibility-syllabus/
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Barba, L., 2018. Terminologies for Reproducible Research, https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03311
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J.B. Buckheit and D.L. Donoho, 1995. Wavelab and Reproducible Research, https://statweb.stanford.edu/~wavelab/Wavelab_850/wavelab.pdf
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Implementing Reproducible Research, edited by V. Stodden, F. Leisch and R. Peng
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The Practice of Reproducible Research: Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences Kitzes, Turek and Deniz, eds.
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Reproducibility: a Primer on Semantics and Implications for Research
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Mesnard, O., and L.A. Barba, 2017. Reproducible and replicable CFD: it's harder than you think, IEEE/AIP Computing in Science and Engineering, 19(4):44--55. 10.1109/MCSE.2017.3151254 Preprint: arXiv:1605.04339
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Rokem, A., B. Marwick, and V. Staneva, 2018. Assessing Reproducibility, in The Practice of Reproducible Research: Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences, University of California Press. https://www.practicereproducibleresearch.org/core-chapters/2-assessment.html
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Schapin, and Schaffer, 1985. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, Princeton University Press, NJ ISBN 0-691-08393-2
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Stark, P.B., 2018. No Reproducibility Without Preproducibility, Nature, 557, 613. https://www.nature.com/magazine-assets/d41586-018-05256-0/d41586-018-05256-0.pdf doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05256-0