Publications

Towards an understanding of inequity.

A theory of social inequity, with special consideration given to wage inequities is presented. A special case of Festinger's cognitive dissonance, the theory specifies the condi...

Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts

One of the major concerns with a potential change in climate is that an increase in extreme events will occur. Results of observational studies suggest that in many areas that h...

Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology

Abstract Observational epidemiological studies suffer from many potential biases, from confounding and from reverse causation, and this limits their ability to robustly identify...

Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studies

Observational epidemiological studies are prone to confounding, reverse causation and various biases and have generated findings that have proved to be unreliable indicators of ...

Blood pressure, stroke, and coronary heart disease

First‐Year <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> ( <i>WMAP</i> ) Observations: Preliminary Maps and Basic Results

We present full sky microwave maps in five frequency bands (23 to 94 GHz) from the WMAP first year sky survey. Calibration errors are less than 0.5% and the low systematic error...

Reading Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide, glossary, and checklist for clinicians

Mendelian randomisation uses genetic variation as a natural experiment to investigate the causal relations between potentially modifiable risk factors and health outcomes in obs...

Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset

Blood pressure, stroke, and coronary heart disease *1Part 1, prolonged differences in blood pressure: prospective observational studies corrected for the regression dilution bias

Qualitative research : theory, method and practice

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introducing Qualitative Research - David Silverman PART TWO: OBSERVATION Ethnography - Isabelle Baszanger and Nicolas Dodier Relating the Part to the Whol...

Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers

In this paper, we question if self-supervised learning provides new properties to Vision Transformer (ViT) that stand out compared to convolutional networks (convnets). Beyond t...

Model-Based Clustering, Discriminant Analysis, and Density Estimation

Cluster analysis is the automated search for groups of related observations in a dataset. Most clustering done in practice is based largely on heuristic but intuitively reasonab...