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Quantifying Critical Thinking: Development and Validation of the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical Thinking by Walsh, Cole, Quinn, Katherine N, Wieman, C, Holmes, N. G

“…Introductory physics lab instruction is undergoing a transformation, with increasing emphasis on developing experimentation and critical thinking skills. These…”
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Group Roles in Unstructured Labs Show Inequitable Gender Divide by Quinn, Katherine N, Kelley, Michelle M, McGill, Kathryn L, Smith, Emily M, Whipps, Zachary, Holmes, N. G

“…Instructional labs are being transformed to better reflect authentic scientific practice, often by removing aspects of pedagogical structure to support student…”
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Chebyshev Approximation and the Global Geometry of Model Predictions by Quinn, Katherine N, Wilber, Heather, Townsend, Alex, Sethna, James P

“…Complex nonlinear models are typically ill conditioned or sloppy; their predictions are significantly affected by only a small subset of parameter…”
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Visualizing probabilistic models and data with Intensive Principal Component Analysis by Quinn, Katherine N., Clement, Colin B., De Bernardis, Francesco, Niemack, Michael D., Sethna, James P.

“…Unsupervised learning makes manifest the underlying structure of data without curated training and specific problem definitions. However, the inference of…”
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Information geometry for multiparameter models: new perspectives on the origin of simplicity by Quinn, Katherine N, Abbott, Michael C, Transtrum, Mark K, Machta, Benjamin B, Sethna, James P

“…Complex models in physics, biology, economics, and engineering are often , meaning that the model parameters are not well determined by the model predictions…”
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Deformation of Crystals: Connections with Statistical Physics by Sethna, James P, Bierbaum, Matthew K, Dahmen, Karin A, Goodrich, Carl P, Greer, Julia R, Hayden, Lorien X, Kent-Dobias, Jaron P, Lee, Edward D, Liarte, Danilo B, Ni, Xiaoyue, Quinn, Katherine N, Raju, Archishman, Rocklin, D. Zeb, Shekhawat, Ashivni, Zapperi, Stefano

“…We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical physics community, as well as a broad introduction to the statistical…”
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Visualizing probabilistic models in Minkowski space with intensive symmetrized Kullback-Leibler embedding by Teoh, Han Kheng, Quinn, Katherine N., Kent-Dobias, Jaron, Clement, Colin B., Xu, Qingyang, Sethna, James P.

“…We show that the predicted probability distributions for any N-parameter statistical model taking the form of an exponential family can be explicitly and…”
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Information geometry for multiparameter models: New perspectives on the origin of simplicity by Quinn, Katherine N, Abbott, Michael C, Transtrum, Mark K, Machta, Benjamin B, Sethna, James P

“…Complex models in physics, biology, economics, and engineering are often sloppy, meaning that the model parameters are not well determined by the model…”
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Quantifying critical thinking: Development and validation of the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical thinking (PLIC) by Walsh, Cole, Quinn, Katherine N, Wieman, C, Holmes, N. G

“…Introductory physics lab instruction is undergoing a transformation, with increasing emphasis on developing experimentation and critical thinking skills. These…”
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Chebyshev approximation and the global geometry of sloppy models by Quinn, Katherine N, Wilber, Heather, Townsend, Alex, Sethna, James P

“…Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158302 (2019) Sloppy models are complex nonlinear models with outcomes that are significantly affected by only a small subset of…”
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Assessment of critical thinking in physics labs by Walsh, Cole, Quinn, Katherine N, Holmes, N. G

“…Despite the significant amount of time undergraduate students spend in introductory physics labs, there is little consensus on instructional goals and accepted…”
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Interview validation of the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical thinking (PLIC) by Quinn, Katherine N, Wieman, Carl, Holmes, N. G

“…Although an important goal of introductory physics labs is to train students in scientific reasoning and critical thinking, currently there are no standard…”
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Visualizing probabilistic models in Minkowski space with intensive symmetrized Kullback-Leibler embedding by Teoh, Han Kheng, Quinn, Katherine N, Kent-Dobias, Jaron, Clement, Colin B, Xu, Qingyang, Sethna, James P

“…Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033221 (2020) We show that the predicted probability distributions for any $N$-parameter statistical model taking the form of an…”
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Group roles in unstructured labs show inequitable gender divide by Quinn, Katherine N, Kelley, Michelle M, McGill, Kathryn L, Smith, Emily M, Whipps, Zachary, Holmes, N. G

“…Instructional labs are being transformed to better reflect authentic scientific practice, often by removing aspects of pedagogical structure to support student…”
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Visualizing probabilistic models: Intensive Principal Component Analysis by Quinn, Katherine N, Clement, Colin B, De Bernardis, Francesco, Niemack, Michael D, Sethna, James P

“…Unsupervised learning makes manifest the underlying structure of data without curated training and specific problem definitions. However, the inference of…”
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Visualizing theory space: Isometric embedding of probabilistic predictions, from the Ising model to the cosmic microwave background by Quinn, Katherine N, De Bernardis, Francesco, Niemack, Michael D, Sethna, James P

“…We develop an intensive embedding for visualizing the space of all predictions for probabalistic models, using replica theory. Our embedding is isometric…”
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Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors by Quinn, Katherine N, McGill, Kathryn L, Kelley, Michelle M, Smith, Emily M, Holmes, N. G

“…While laboratory instruction is a cornerstone of physics education, the impact of student behaviours in labs on retention, persistence in the field, and the…”
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Deformation of crystals: Connections with statistical physics by Sethna, James P, Bierbaum, Matthew K, Dahmen, Karin A, Goodrich, Carl P, Greer, Julia R, Hayden, Lorien X, Kent-Dobias, Jaron P, Lee, Edward D, Liarte, Danilo B, Ni, Xiaoyue, Quinn, Katherine N, Raju, Archishman, Rocklin, D. Zeb, Shekhawat, Ashivni, Zapperi, Stefano

“…Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 47, 217 (2017) We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical physics community, and a broad…”
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