Refereed papers by Robert Matthews

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Last updated: 27 December 2005

 

  1. 2006: What are the implications of optimism bias in clinical research? Chalmers, I. & Matthews, R.A.J. Lancet (in press)
  2. 2005: Why people believe weird things Matthews, R.A.J. Significance 2(4) 182-184
  3. 2004: Inference with legal evidence: common sense is necessary but not sufficient Matthews, R.A.J. Med Sci Law 44(3) 189-192
  4. 2001: Testing Murphy's Law: urban myths as a source of school science projects Matthews, R.A.J. School Science Review 83 23-28 (Summary)
  5. 2001: Methods for assessing the credibility of clinical trial outcomes Drug Inf Journal 35 (4) 1469-1478 (Full text PDF)
  6. 2001: Why should clinicians care about Bayesian methods ? J Stat Planning & Inference 94 43-58
  7. 2000: A quintet of queueing quirks Mathematics Today 36 (2) April 38-40
  8. 2000: Storks deliver babies (p < 0.008) Teaching Statistics 22 (2) 36-38 (Abstract)
  9. 1999: The Science of Murphy's Law Proc. Roy. Inst. Lond. 70 75-95
  10. 1999: Significance levels for the assessment of anomalous phenomena J. Sci. Exp 13 (1) 1-7 (Full text PDF)
  11. 1999: Bayesian statistical methods: what, why--and when. J Altern Complement Med 1998 4(4) 361-3
  12. 1998: Dirac's Coincidences 60 years on Astron. & Geophys 39 (6) 19-20
  13. 1998: Facts versus Factions: The use and abuse of subjectivity in scientific research European Science and Environment Forum Working Paper; reprinted in Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle (Ed: Morris, J.) (Oxford : Butterworth) 247-282 (2000) (Full text)
  14. 1997: Coincidences: the truth is out there (with Fiona Stones) Teaching Statistics 20 17-19 (full text)
  15. 1997: Decision-theoretic limits on earthquake prediction Geophys. J. Int. 131 526-529
  16. 1997: The Cassandra Criterion Mathematics Today 347-10 (abstract)
  17. 1997: Murphy's Law of Maps Teaching Statistics 19 34-35(full text)
  18. 1997: Knotted rope: a topological example of Murphy's Law Mathematics Today June 33 82-84 (full text)
  19. 1997: The Science of Murphy's Law Scientific American April 1997 72-75 (summary)
  20. 1997: Shock-horror statistics, Matthews, R.A.J. Teaching Statistics ASLU Supplement 9-11 (full text)
  21. 1996: Why are weather forecasts still under a cloud ? Matthews, R.A.J. Mathematics Today Nov-Dec 1996 32 168-170 (full text)
  22. 1996: Base-rate errors and rain forecasts Matthews, R.A.J. Nature 382 766 (full text)
  23. 1996: Odd Socks: a combinatoric example of Murphy's Law , Matthews, R.A.J., Mathematics Today March-April 39-41 (abstract)
  24. 1996: Using neural networks to distinguish literary styles Matthews, R.A.J., Merriam, T.V.N. Handbook of Neural Computation (Ed. Beale, R. et al.) Oxford University Press (abstract)
  25. 1995: Shakespeare v. Fletcher: a stylometric analysis by radial basis functions Lowe, D., Matthews, R.A.J. Computers and the Humanities29 449-461 (abstract)
  26. 1995: Tumbling toast, Murphy's Law and the Fundamental Constants Matthews, R.A.J., European Journal of Physics 16 172-176 (abstract)
  27. 1995: Why are coincidences so impressive ? Matthews, R.A.J., Blackmore, S.J., Perceptual and Motor Skills 80 1121-1122 (abstract)
  28. 1995: Pi in the sky Matthews, R.A.J., Nature 374 681-682 (abstract)
  29. 1995: The Interrogator's Fallacy Matthews, R.A.J., Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications 31 3-5 (abstract)
  30. 1994: The Close Approach of Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood Matthews, R.A.J., Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 35 1 - 9 (abstract)
  31. 1994: Using neural networks to cast light on literary mysteries Proceedings of Expert Systems '94, 14th Annual Conference of British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems, Cambridge, UK December 1994. 2 237-247 (Ed. Milne, R; Montgomery, A). SGES Publications Cambridge. (abstract)
  32. 1994: Neural computation in stylometry II: an application to the works of Shakespeare and Marlowe, Merriam, T.V.N. & Matthews, R.A.J., Literary and Linguistic Computing 9 1-6 (abstract)
  33. 1993: Neural computation in stylometry I: an application to the works of Shakespeare and Fletcher. Matthews, R.A.J., & Merriam, T.V.N. Literary and Linguistic Computing 8 203-209 (abstract)
  34. 1993: Is Proxima really bound ? Matthews, R.A.J., & Gilmore, G.F. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 261 L5-7 (abstract)
  35. 1993: The Law of Credulity Matthews, R.A.J. Mathematics Gazette77 327-328 (abstract)
  36. 1993: The use of genetic algorithms in cryptanalysis Matthews, R.A.J. Cryptologia 17 187-201 (abstract)
  37. 1993: Realistic Least Squares Analysis, Matthews, R.A.J. & Campbell, J. School Science Review 74 93-94
  38. 1992: The darkening of Iapetus and the origin of Hyperion Matthews, R.A.J Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 33 253-258 (abstract)
  39. 1992: Maximally Periodic Reciprocals Matthews, R.A.J., Bulletin of the Institute of and its Applications 28 147-148 (abstract)
  40. 1991: Supercomputer investigations of a chaotic encryption algorithm Wheeler, D.D & Matthews, R.A.J., Cryptologia 15 140-150
  41. 1990: On the use of seismometers to detect the impact of meteorites Matthews, R.A.J Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 31 181-189 (abstract)
  42. 1989: On the derivation of a chaotic encryption algorithm Matthews, R.A.J. Cryptologia 13 29-42
  43. 1988: An empirical method for finding the keylength of periodic ciphers Cryptologia 12 220-224 (abstract)

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