Selected Publications
- Thornton S and Xie M. (2024) Bridging Bayesian, frequentist and fiducial inferences using confidence distribution. In Handbook on Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist (BFF) Inferences. (co-editors: Berger JO, Meng XL, Reid N, & Xie M) Chapman & Hall, New York. (In press)
- Thornton S. and Xie M. (2024) An exploration of parameter duality in statistical inference. In the Proceedings of the 2022 Philosophy of Science Association Symposium. doi:10.1017/psa.2023.174.
- Thornton S, Li W, Xie M. (2023) Approximate confidence distribution computing. The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science. 2023 Jul;1(2):270-282. doi: 10.51387/23-NEJSDS38
- Thornton S, Roy D, Parry S, LaLonde D, Martinez W, Ellis R, Corliss D. (2022, Jan). Towards best practices for collecting gender and sex data. Significance, 19(1), 40–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01614
- Choi H, Detyniecki K, Bazil C, Thornton S, Crosta P, Tolba H, Muneeb M, Hirsch LJ, Heinzen EL, Sen A, Depondt C, Perucca P, Heiman GA; EPIGEN Consortium. Development and validation of a predictive model of drug-resistant genetic generalized epilepsy. Neurology. 2020 Oct 13;95(15):e2150-e2160. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010597.
- Michael H, Thornton S, Xie M, Tian L. Exact inference on the random-effects model for meta-analyses with few studies. Biometrics. 2019 Jun;75(2):485-493. doi: 10.1111/biom.12998.
Teaching material
Here you can find my class material for several undergraduate statistics courses.
- Stat 1/Introduction to Statistics
- Stat 2/Introduction to Statistical Modeling
- Mathematical Statistics