Research Software Design and Testing by Example

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Chapters

1. Introduction
2. 1D Diffusion Simulation
3. Predator-Prey Dynamics
4. Pairwise Sequence Alignment
5. Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
6. Peak Detection in Mass Spectra
7. Cell Segmentation in Microscopy Images
8. Exoplanet Detection via Radial Velocity
9. Mineral Classification by Geochemistry
10. Heat Conduction Through a Composite Wall
11. Pollutant Spread in a River Network
12. Flood Frequency Analysis
13. Percolation in a Porous Medium
14. Fitting an SIR Epidemic Model
15. Survival Analysis with Kaplan-Meier
16. Anomaly Detection in Patient Vital Signs
17. Tumor Classification by Logistic Regression
18. Estimating Price Elasticity of Demand
19. Wealth Inequality in an Exchange Economy
20. Structural Break Detection in Economic Time Series
21. Schelling Segregation Model
22. Vocabulary Richness in Historical Texts
23. Topic Modeling a Document Corpus
24. Authorship Attribution by N-gram Profiles
25. Word Frequency Change Over Time
26. Manuscript Stemma Reconstruction
27. Least-Cost Path Analysis for Trade Routes
28. Spatial Clustering of Archaeological Sites
29. Spatial Interpolation of Climate Data
30. Fitting a Learning Curve to Experimental Data
31. Signal Detection Theory Analysis
32. Inter-Rater Agreement
33. Conclusion

Appendices

1. License
2. Code of Conduct
3. Bibliography
4. Glossary

Acknowledgments

Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto, Canada. He was the co-founder and first Executive Director of Software Carpentry and received ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator Award in 2020.

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