Reading List

#Books

Howson And Urbach? Hacking Book? Cartwright Book? B Van Fraassen Jeffrey Subjective Probability (see also Dorling Notes) Mayo D Error and the Growth of Knowledge Woodward Making Things Happen 2003 Fisher Notes Fisher Statistical Methods for Research Workers 14th Ed 1970 Weber, M Philosophy Of Experimental Biology 2005 Gigerenzer 1993 Franklin, A Experiment Right Or Wrong? 1990

#Papers

Freedman And Spiegeltalter Versus Whitehead Dorling 1979 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 10;177-87 Dorling Notes Berger, J. and Berry, D. (1988). The relevance of stopping rules in statistical inference (with Discussion). In Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics IV. Springer’ Verlag, New York. Berry D 2005 Bayesian Clinical Trials, Nature Reviews Goodman S 1999 Annals of Internal Med Papers (1 and 2) Yusuf Collins and Peto. Why Large Simple R C T S Statistics in Medicine 1984;3:409-20. Neyman Statistical Estimation Phil Transactions 1937 Worrall J Why Theres No Cause To Randomise Br J Phil Sci 2007 Lindley Novick Paper The role of exchangeability in inference Annals of Statistics 1981; 9 (1):45-58

#Random Read/Find list

Hacking 1965 Logic of Stastistical Evidence. CUP. Phys Eng [=Q A 276=][H 2]() 1965

Vanderbroucke 1998 J Clinical Epi 51(6):467-72

Vanderbroucke 2004 BMJ 329:2-3

Reichenbach. The direction of time ’ ‘causation’ section 19 and 22

Cartwright. Causal Laws and Effective Strategies. Nous 1979 (Simpson’s Paradox)

Kyburg H, Smokler H. Studies in Subjective Probability, 2nd Ed 1980 (contains 2 of de Finnetti’s translated papers containing the dutch book argument for the ‘product rule’ leading to bayes theorem - ref from Jeffrey’s Subjective Prob)

An interesting use of bayesian techniques in picking up adverse drug event ‘signals’ from spontaneous reporting: Uppsala Monitoring Centre http://www.who-umc.org/index2.html