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To be published in July 2025, Statistics by Simulation: A Synthetic Data Approach is an advanced textbook that provides a new tool for the statistical toolkit: data simulations. It shows that using simulation and data-generating models is an excellent way to validate statistical reasoning and to augment study design and statistical analysis with planning and visualization. Although data simulations are not new to professional statisticians, Statistics by Simulation makes the approach accessible to a broader audience, with examples from many fields. It introduces the reasoning behind data simulation and then shows how to apply it in planning experiments or observational studies, developing analytical workflows, deploying model diagnostics, and developing new indices and statistical methods.
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instability: Photographs of the Unexpected is a book of photographic images created in collaboration with Eric Zeigler. The book features 145 images that we created from 2020 through 2024 using contemporary versions of 19th-century dry collodion glass plates, 20th-century film, and new digital technologies. We use these different methods to challenge interpretations of the assumed objective reality of a photograph and illuminate contradictions in 21st-century narratives of environmental stability and preservation.
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