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Information geometry for multiparameter models: New perspectives on the origin of simplicity
Katherine N. Quinn, Michael C. Abbott, Mark K. Transtrum +2
Complex models in physics, biology, economics, and engineering are often sloppy, meaning that the model parameters are not well determined by the model predictions for collective b…
Group roles in unstructured labs show inequitable gender divide
Katherine N. Quinn, Michelle M. Kelley, Kathryn L. McGill +3
Instructional labs are being transformed to better reflect authentic scientific practice, often by removing aspects of pedagogical structure to support student agency and decision-…
Visualizing probabilistic models in Minkowski space with intensive symmetrized Kullback-Leibler embedding
Han Kheng Teoh, Katherine N. Quinn, Jaron Kent-Dobias +3
We show that the predicted probability distributions for any -parameter statistical model taking the form of an exponential family can be explicitly and analytically embedded is…
Quantifying critical thinking: Development and validation of the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical thinking (PLIC)
Cole Walsh, Katherine N. Quinn, C. Wieman +1
Introductory physics lab instruction is undergoing a transformation, with increasing emphasis on developing experimentation and critical thinking skills. These changes present a ne…
Visualizing probabilistic models: Intensive Principal Component Analysis
Katherine N. Quinn, Colin B. Clement, Francesco De Bernardis +2
Unsupervised learning makes manifest the underlying structure of data without curated training and specific problem definitions. However, the inference of relationships between dat…
Assessment of critical thinking in physics labs
Cole Walsh, Katherine N. Quinn, N. G. Holmes
Despite the significant amount of time undergraduate students spend in introductory physics labs, there is little consensus on instructional goals and accepted diagnostic assessmen…
Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors
Katherine N. Quinn, Kathryn L. McGill, Michelle M. Kelley +2
While laboratory instruction is a cornerstone of physics education, the impact of student behaviours in labs on retention, persistence in the field, and the formation of students'…
Interview validation of the Physics Lab Inventory of Critical thinking (PLIC)
Katherine N. Quinn, Carl Wieman, N. G. Holmes
Although an important goal of introductory physics labs is to train students in scientific reasoning and critical thinking, currently there are no standard tests in physics designe…
Visualizing theory space: Isometric embedding of probabilistic predictions, from the Ising model to the cosmic microwave background
Katherine N. Quinn, Francesco De Bernardis, Michael D. Niemack +1
We develop an intensive embedding for visualizing the space of all predictions for probabalistic models, using replica theory. Our embedding is isometric (preserves the distinguish…
Deformation of crystals: Connections with statistical physics
James P. Sethna, Matthew K. Bierbaum, Karin A. Dahmen +12
We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical physics community, and a broad introduction into the statistical theories of forced rigid…