Articles on paleontology

JL Payne, AG Boyer, JH Brown, S Finnegan, M Kowalewski, RA Krause, SK Lyons, CR McClain, DW McShea, PM Novack-Gottshall, FA Smith, JA Stempien, and SC Wang: Two-Phase Increase in the Maximum Size of Life over 3.5 Billion Years. Submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, in revision.

SC Wang and AM Bush (2008): Adjusting Global Extinction Rates to Account for Taxonomic Susceptibility. Paleobiology, in press.

AR Solow and SC Wang (2008): Some Problems with Assessing Cope's Rule. Evolution 62:8, pp. 2092-2096. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

S Finnegan, JL Payne, and SC Wang (2008): The Red Queen Revisited: Reevaluating the Age-Selectivity of Phanerozoic Marine Genus Extinctions. Paleobiology 34:3, pp. 318-341. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

SC Wang and PJ Everson (2007): Confidence Intervals for Pulsed Mass Extinction Events. Paleobiology, 33:2, pp. 324-336. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

PD Roopnarine, KD Angielczyk, SC Wang and R Hertog (2007): Trophic Network Models Explain Instability of Early Triassic Terrestrial Communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences 274:1622, pp. 2077-2086. [abstract] [html] [pdf] [supporting data]

SC Wang and P Dodson (2006): Estimating the Diversity of Dinosaurs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103:37, pp. 13601-13605. [abstract] [html] [pdf] [supporting data] (also see here for media coverage)

SC Wang (2005): Accounting for Unequal Variances in Evolutionary Trend Mechanisms. Paleobiology 31:2, pp. 191-198. [html] [pdf]

KD Angielczyk, PD Roopnarine, and SC Wang (2005): Modeling the Role of Primary Productivity Disruption in End-Permian Extinctions, Karoo Basin, South Africa. In SG Lucas and KE Ziegler, eds., The Nonmarine Permian: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 30, pp. 16-23. [abstract] [pdf]

RK Bambach, AH Knoll, and SC Wang (2004): Origination, Extinction, and Mass Depletions of Marine Diversity. Paleobiology, 30:4, pp. 522-542. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

SC Wang and CR Marshall (2004): Improved Confidence Intervals for Estimating the Position of a Mass Extinction Boundary. Paleobiology 30:1, pp. 5-18. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

SC Wang (2003): On the Continuity of Background and Mass Extinctions. Paleobiology 29:4, pp. 455-467. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

SC Wang (2001): Quantifying Passive and Driven Large-Scale Evolutionary Trends. Evolution 55:5, pp. 849-858. [abstract] [html] [pdf]


Articles on other topics

SC Wang (2007): Teaching Statistical Thinking Using the Baseball Hall of Fame. Chance, 20:1, pp. 25-31. [pdf]

SC Wang (2005): Baseball's Highest Honor: Teaching Statistical Thinking Using the Baseball Hall of Fame. 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Section on Statistics in Sports, pp. 2682-2688. [abstract]

RS Legro, R Bentley-Lewis, D Driscoll, SC Wang, and A Dunaif (2002): Insulin Resistance in the Sisters of Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Association with Hyperandrogenemia Rather Than Menstrual Irregularity. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 87:5, pp. 2128-2133. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

RS Legro, AR Kunselman, L Demers, SC Wang, R Bentley-Lewis, and A Dunaif (2002): Elevated Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate Levels as the Reproductive Phenotype in the Brothers of Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 87:5, pp. 2134-2138. [abstract] [html] [pdf]

SC Wang (2000): In Search of Einstein's Genius. Science 289:5484, p. 1477. [html] [pdf (916K)] [pdf hi-res (3.0M)].

SC Wang (1999): Handwritten ZIP Code Recognition: A Statistical Model. Computing Science and Statistics 31, pp. 221-225. [abstract]

WT Federer, CE McCulloch, and SC Wang (1997): Computer Aided Construction of Fractional Replicates from Large Factorials. Journal of Combinatorics, Information & System Sciences 22:2, pp. 95-105. [abstract]

SC Wang (1994): The Sign of the Devil... and the Sine of the Devil. Journal of Recreational Mathematics 26:3, pp. 201-205. [pdf]


Theses

SC Wang (1998): A Statistical Model for Computer Recognition of Sequences of Handwritten Digits, with Applications to ZIP Codes. PhD Thesis, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago. [abstract] [UMI citation]

SC Wang (1994): Analyzing a Baseball Lineup Using Markov Chains. MS Paper, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago. [abstract]

SC Wang (1992): Wylie... A Program for Constructing Large Fractional Factorial Designs. BS Honors Thesis, Biometrics Unit Technical Report T-150, Cornell University.


Published refereed abstracts (paleontology only)

SC Wang, PJ Everson, DJ Chudzicki, and D Park (2008): Confidence Intervals on Stratigraphic Ranges When Recovery Potential Is Unknown. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. [abstract]

D Park, SC Wang, PJ Everson, and DJ Chudzicki (2008): Comparing Methods for Confidence Intervals on Stratigraphic Ranges Under Non-Uniform Recovery Potential. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. [abstract]

L Sun, SC Wang, PD Roopnarine, and KD Angielczyk (2008): Estimating the Magnitude of Primary Production Loss in the End-Permian Mass Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. [abstract]

PD Roopnarine, SC Wang, KD Angielczyk, and R Hertog (2008): Coping with Recovery: Community Sensitivity and Resistance in the Wake of Mass Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. [abstract]

KD Angielczyk, CF Kammerer, PD Roopnarine, and SC Wang (2008): The Perturbation Resistance of Early Permian Terrestrial Communities Characterized by Low Tetrapod Herbivore Diversity. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. [abstract]

SC Wang and AM Bush (2007): Adjusting Extinction Rates For Taxonomic Susceptibility Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39:6, p. 368. [abstract]

S Finnegan, JL Payne, and SC Wang (2007): Why Are Genus Extinctions Age-Biased In The Marine Fossil Record? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39:6, p. 369. [abstract]

KD Angielczyk, PD Roopnarine, and SC Wang (2007): Does Extinction Resistance Explain Changes In The Structure Of Terrestrial Communities? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39:6, p. 370. [abstract]

PD Roopnarine, KD Angielczyk, and SC Wang (2007): The Evolution and Emergence of Paleocommunity Resistance to Secondary Extinctions: Species and Community Level Processes. Ecological Society of America. [abstract]

SC Wang, PD Roopnarine, KD Angielczyk, and MD Karcher (2006): Modeling Terrestrial Food Web Collapse in the End-Permian Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38:7, p. 171. [abstract]

MD Karcher, SC Wang, PD Roopnarine, and KD Angielczyk, (2006): Markov Chain Monte Carlo: New Tools for Bayesian Modeling in Paleontology. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38:7, p. 553. [abstract]

KD Angielczyk, PD Roopnarine, SC Wang, and R Hertog (2006): Sensitivity Analysis of Food Web Models for Permian and Triassic Terrestrial Communities of the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38:7, p. 170. [abstract]

R Hertog, PD Roopnarine, SC Wang, KD Angielczyk, and M Olson (2006): The Impact of Variable Fossilization on Reconstructions of Paleocommunities and Community Dynamics: The San Francisco Bay Community. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38:7, p. 63. [abstract]

PD Roopnarine, R Hertog, KD Angielczyk, and SC Wang (2006): Predicting Paleocommunity Resistance to Perturbation and Extinction Cascades. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38:7, p. 170. [abstract]

KD Angielczyk, PD Roopnarine and SC Wang (2006): Modeling Trophic Network Collapse and its Role in End-Permian Extinctions in the Terrestrial Realm. P. 190 in Q. Yang, Y. Wang, and E. A. Weldon (eds.), Ancient Life and Modern Approaches: Abstracts of the Second International Palaeontological Congress. University of Science and Technology of China Press, Hefei.

KD Angielczyk, PD Roopnarine and SC Wang (2006): Were End-Permian Terrestrial Vertebrate Communities Unusually Susceptible to Extinction? Society for Vertebrate Paleontology 26:3.

SC Wang, KD Angielczyk, and PD Roopnarine (2006): Modeling Terrestrial Food Web Collapse in the end-Permian Mass Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38:4, 15. [abstract]

SC Wang (2005): Bayesian Modeling of the Duration of a Multi-Stage Mass Extinction Event. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 37:7, 384. [abstract]

PD Roopnarine, KD Angielczyk, and SC Wang (2005): Mathematical Modeling and Bayesian Analysis of Paleocommunity Collapse During Mass Extinctions. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 37:7, 383. [abstract]

SC Wang (2005): Modeling Evolutionary Trends: Don't Forget the Variance. PaleoBios 25:2 (supplement), 119.

SC Wang and P Dodson (2004): Estimating Absolute Diversity: How Many Dinosaur Genera Were There? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36:5, 456. [abstract]

P Dodson and SC Wang (2004): Counting Dinosaurs 2004: How Many Kinds Were There? Society for Vertebrate Paleontology.

SC Wang (2003): On the Continuity of Background and Mass Extinctions. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35:6, 386. [abstract]

SC Wang (2002): Sudden, Gradual, or Stepwise? Expanding the Null Hypothesis in Statistical Tests of Mass Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 34:6, 464. [abstract]

SC Wang (2001): Optimal Confidence Intervals for Estimating the Position of a Mass Extinction Boundary. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 33:6, A-142. [abstract]

SC Wang (2001): What Are Mass Extinctions? A Statistical Approach Using Density Estimation. PaleoBios 21:2 (supplement), 131. [abstract]

SC Wang (2000): Quantifying Large-Scale Evolutionary Trends. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32:7, A-445. [abstract]



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