Plan of Attack

I'll probably be able to update this blog with another lengthy post about where my dissertation research is headed in a couple of weeks. Until then, here's a list of books I plan on reading, and a list of courses I plan on taking in the near future. In other words, my plan of attack over the next year or so.

Courses List
Spring 2012 Courses
Probability
Statistical Modeling
Research/Independent Study

Fall 2012 Courses
Stochastic Processes in Biology
Dynamic Modeling in Biology
Prospectus
Complex Adaptive Systems?

Spring 2013 Courses
Bayesian Modeling in the Life Sciences
Computability and Incompleteness OR Applied Multivariate Analysis
Research

Reading List (Recommendations Helpful!)
Currently Reading
Idea of Biodiversity (Takacs)
Data Analysis with Regression (Gelman)
Computability (Cutland)
Logic of Reliable Inquiry (Kelly)
Articulating Reasons (Brandom)
Making it Explicit (Brandom)

Future Reading
Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Allen)
Bayesian Choice (Robert)
Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis (Burger)
Bayesian Data Analysis (Gelman et al)
Probability Theory (Jaynes)
Risk Assessment in Conservation Biology (Burgman et al)
Matrix Population Models (Caswell)
Likelihood (Edwards)
Model Selection and Multimodel Inference (Burnham & Anderson)
Ecological Detective (Hilborn & Mangel)
Nature of Scientific Evidence (Taper & Lele)
Statistical Decision Functions (Wald)
Games and Information (Rasmusen)
Evolution of the Social Contract (Skyrms)
Enterprise of Knowledge (Levi)
Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (Hubbell)
Scientific Image (van Fraassen)
Dappled World (Cartwright)
Method in Ecology (Shrader-Frechette)
Unsimple Truths (Mitchell)
Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation (Lande et al)
Mathematical Modeling in Biology (Edelstein-Keshet)
Complexity (Mitchel)
Scientific Reasoning (Howson & Urbach)
Linear Causal Modeling with Structural Equations (Mulaik)
Structural Equations with Latent Variables (Bollen)