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Joseph D. Ramsey

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Bai, X., R. Padman, J. Ramsey, and P. Spirtes. Tabu Search Enhanced Graphical Models for Classification in High Dimensions (2008). INFORMS, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 2008, pp. 423–437.

Bai, X., Glymour, C., Padman, R., Ramsey, J., Spirtes, P., Wimberly, F. (2004). PCX: Markov Blanket Classification for Large Data Sets with Few Cases. Technical Report CMU-CALD-04-102, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery .

Burgansky-Eliash Z, G. Wollstein, T. Chu, J. Ramsey, C. Glymour, R. Noecker, and J. Schuman (2005). Optical coherence tomography machine learning classifiers for glaucoma detection. Investigative Ophthamology & Visual Science, 2005;46:4147-4152.

Glymour C., Danks, D/, Glymour, B., Eberhardt F., Ramsey, J., Scheines, R., Spirtes, P., Teng, C. M., Zhang, J.(2010). Actual causation: a stone soup essay. Synthese:175,169-192.

Gerdes, D. A., C. Glymour, J. D. Ramsey. (2006). Who's Calling? Deriving Organization Struc ture from Communication Records. In A. Kott (Ed)., Information Warfare and Organizational Decision-Making. Boston, MA: Artech House.

Ramsey, J. (2010). Bootstrapping the PC and CPC Algorithms to Improve Search Accuracy. Technical Report 187, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University.

Ramsey, J. (2006). A PC-style Markov blanket search for high-dimensional datasets. Technical Report 177, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University.

Ramsey, J. (2014). A scalable conditional independence test for nonlinear, non-Gaussian data. arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5031, 2014.

Joseph Ramsey (2001). "Expertise and Mixture in Automatic Causal Discovery." Ph.D. diss., University of California at San Diego. [ps] [pdf]

Joseph Ramsey, Paul Gazis, Ted Roush, Peter Spirtes and Clark Glymour (2002). "Automated Remote Sensing with Near Infrared Reflectance Spectra: Carbonate Recognition." Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, v. 6, no. 3, 275-291.

J. D. Ramsey,  S. J. Hanson, C. Glymour . Multi-subject search correctly identifies causal connections and most causal directions in the DCM models of the Smith et al. simulation study.  NeuroImageVolume 58, Issue 31 October 2011Pages 838-848

C. Hanson, S. Hanson, J. Ramsey, C. Glymour. Atypical Effective Connectivity of Social Brain Networks in Individuals with Autism. Brain Connect. 2013 Oct 4.

Mumford, J. and Ramsey, J. (2014). Bayesian networks for fMRI: A primer. NeuroImage 86:573-582.

J. D. Ramsey, S. J. Hanson, C. Hanson, Y. O. Halchenko. R. A. Poldrack, and C. Glymour (2010). Six problems for causal inference from fMRI. NeuroImage, 49 (2), 1545-1558.

P. O. Hoyer, A. Hyvärinen, R. Scheines, P. Spirtes, J. Ramsey, G. Lacerda, and S. Shimizu. Causal discovery of linear acyclic models with arbitrary distributions (2008). Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

G. Lacerda, P. Spirtes, J. Ramsey, and P. O. Hoyer (2006). Discovering cyclic causal models by independent components analysis. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

Moody J., Silva. R., Vanderwaart, J., Ramsey, J., and Glymour, G.(2002). Classification and filtering of spectra: A case study in mineralogy. Intelligent Data Analysis:6, 517-530.

J. Ramsey, R. Sanchez-Romero, C. Glymour (2013). Non-Gaussian methods and high-pass filters in the estimation of effective connections, NeuroImage., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meuroimage.2013.09.0.

J. Ramsey, P. Spirtes, C. Glymour On meta-analyses of imaging data and the mixture of records. NeuroImageVolume 57, Issue 215 July 2011Pages 323-330.

Ramsey, J., P. Spirtes, and J. Zhang (2006). Adjacency-Faithfulness and Conservative Causal Inference. Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 401-408, Oregon, AUAI Press.

Richard Scheines and Joseph Ramsey (2001). "Simulating Genetic Regulatory Networks." Technical Report CMU-PHIL-24, Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

Smith, S. M. , Miller, K. L. , Salimi-Khorshidi, G. , Webster, M. , Beckmann, C. F., Nichols, T. E. , Ramsey, J. D. , and Woolrich, M. W. Network modelling methods for fMRI (2011).  NeuroImageVolume 54, Issue 2Pages 875-891

Roush, T.L., Gulick, V., Morris, R., Gazis, P., Benedix, G., Glymour, C., Ramsey, J., Pedersen, L., Ruzon, M., Buntine, W., and Oliver, J. (1999). Autonomous science decisions for Mars sample return. Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts:30,1586.

Wheeler, W., Danks, D., Ramsey, J., Scheines, R., Smith, J., and Thompson, A. (2001). Developing and Deploying Online Courses with JCourse. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications:1,2041-2042.

Wimberly, F., T. Heiman, C. Glymour, and J. Ramsey (2003). Experiments on the Accuracy of Algorithms for Inferring the Structure of Genetic Regulatory Networks from Microarray Expression Levels. Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning Graphical Models in Computational Genomics, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco.

Software Projects

Tetrad IV (http://www.phil.cmu.edu/ projects/tetrad). Lead Developer, 1998 – Present. Software for Causal Reasoning, Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

AProS (http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/apros). Lead Developer, 1998 – Present. Software in logic natural deduction proof generation. Philsophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

OCT Research. Data analyst, 2004 – 2005. Analysis of OCT retinal imaging daga.

Logic and Proofs (http://www.cmu.edu/oli). Programmer and technical advisor, 2000 – Present. Online logic course. Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

Courseware in Causal Reasoning (http://www.cmu.edu/oli). Web developer, programmer, and consultant, 1998 – Present. Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

Computational Systems Biology Group (http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/genegroup). Data analyst and programmer, 2001 – 2005. Analysis of genetic microarray data. Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

Rockspec (http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/rockspec). Data analyst and programmer, 1998-2002. Mineral and rock identification through automatic analysis of spectral signatures. Philosphy Department, Carnegie Mellon University, and NASA Ames.

Presentations

Joseph Ramsey (2002). "Automated Remote Sensing with Near Infrared Reflectance Spectra: Carbonate Recognition." American Geological Union (AGU) 2002 Fall Meeting.

Wilfried Sieg and Joseph Ramsey (2002). "Computer based logic instruction." Association for Symbolic Logic Annual Meeting, University of Las Vegas.

Joseph Ramsey, Clark Glymour, Ted Roush (2001). "Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Mineral Identification from Near-Infrared Spectra Onboard Future NASA Rover and Spacecraft Missions." Applied Information Systems Research Program Workshop.

Joseph Ramsey (2000). "Automated Mineral Identification from Reflectance Spectra." Applied Information Systems Research Program Workshop.


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