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Comment on Rob Boddice, 'Neurohistory'
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)"With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger ... -
Comment: A Fruitful Resolution to Simpson’s Paradox via Multiresolution Inference
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)Simpson’s Paradox is really a Simple Paradox if one at all. Peeling away the paradox is as easy (or hard) as avoiding a comparison of apples and oranges, a concept requiring no mention of causality. We show how the commonly ... -
Comment: Assumptions and Procedures in the File Drawer Problem
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1988) -
Commentary on Alex Cohen et al: "Questioning an Axiom: Better Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the Developing World"
(Oxford University Press, 2008) -
Commentary: All species are important, but some species are more important than others
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)Foundation species control biodiversity and ecosystem processes, but are difficult to identify. In this issue of Journal of Vegetation Science, Elumeeva et al. show that Festuca varia and Nardus stricta act as foundation ... -
Commentary: Epidemiology in Context
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Commentary: Nash equilibrium and mechanism design
(Elsevier BV, 2011)A Nash equilibrium (called an “equilibrium point” by John Nash himself; see Nash 1950) of a game occurs when each player chooses a strategy from which unilateral deviations do not pay. The concept of Nash equilibrium is ... -
Commentary: The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: Second-Generation Assimilation: Comments on Haller, Portes and Lynch
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011) -
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(American Sociological Association Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, 2012) -
Comments on "Anderson Acceleration, Mixing and Extrapolation"
(2017)The Extrapolation Algorithm is a technique devised in 1962 for accelerating the rate of convergence of slowly converging Picard iterations for fixed point problems. Versions to this technique are now called Anderson ... -
Comments on "When Do Policy Reforms Work?' by Daron Acemoglu et al.
(Brookings Institution Press, 2008)Questions of the effectiveness of economic policy reform are inseparable from the political economy factors responsible for distortionary policies in the first place. Distortionary policies are more likely to be adopted ... -
Comments on 'Europe's Gamble' by M. Obstfeld
(Brookings Institution Press, 1997) -
Comments on Gorton and Metrick: Regulating the Shadow Banking System
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Comments on Greta Krippner, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
(American Sociological Association - Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, 2012) -
Comments on Michael Strevens's Depth
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)