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Austin, Peter C. 2011. “An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies.” Multivariate Behavioral Research 46 (3). Taylor & Francis: 399–424.

Canty, Angelo, and Brian Ripley. 2016. Boot: Bootstrap Functions (Originally by Angelo Canty for S). https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=boot.

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Davidian, Marie. 2005. Simulation Studies in Statistics. http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~davidian/st810a/simulation_handout.pdf.

Efron, Bradley, and Robert J Tibshirani. 1994. An Introduction to the Bootstrap. CRC press.

Friedman, Jerome, Trevor Hastie, Noah Simon, and Rob Tibshirani. 2016. Glmnet: Lasso and Elastic-Net Regularized Generalized Linear Models. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=glmnet.

Hallgren, Kevin A. 2013. “Conducting Simulation Studies in the R Programming Environment.” Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology 9 (2). NIH Public Access: 43.

Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman. 2009. The Elements of Statistical Learning (2nd Edition). Vol. 2. Cambridge university press. http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/.

Joseph, Lawrence. 2010. Principles of Inferential Statistics in Medicine. http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/Joseph/courses/EPIB-607/notes.pdf.

Maindonald, John H., and W. John Braun. 2015. DAAG: Data Analysis and Graphics Data and Functions. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DAAG.

Rosenbaum, Paul R, and Donald B Rubin. 1983. “The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Effects.” Biometrika 70 (1). Biometrika Trust: 41–55.

Stephens, David A. 2015. “MATH 680 - Computation Intensive Statistics Course Notes.” Notes. McGill University. http://www.math.mcgill.ca/dstephens/.

Sveidqvist, Knut, Mike Bostock, Chris Pettitt, Mike Daines, Andrei Kashcha, and Richard Iannone. 2016. DiagrammeR: Create Graph Diagrams and Flowcharts Using R. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DiagrammeR.

Tibshirani, Robert. 1996. “Regression Shrinkage and Selection via the Lasso.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological). JSTOR, 267–88.

Wang, Yishu, Orla Murphy, Maxime Turgeon, ZhuoYu Wang, Sahir R Bhatnagar, Juliana Schulz, and Erica EM Moodie. 2015. “The Perils of Quasi-Likelihood Information Criteria.” Stat 4 (1). Wiley Online Library: 246–54.


  1. http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-vectorize-your-functions-in-r.html

  2. All flowcharts are created using the DiagrammeR package (Sveidqvist et al. 2016)

  3. This example has been reproduced with permission from Dr. David A. Stephens (Stephens 2015)