Publications

Papers

Luciano, Robert & Ryder, Insufficient Gibbs Sampling (2024). To appear in Statistics and Computing. arXiv.
Abner, Clarté, Geraci, Ryder, Mertz, Salgat & Yu. Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages (2024). Science 363(6682):519-23. Link. Code.
Voldoire, Ryder and Lahfa, Bayesian Imputation of Revolving Doors (2023). Under review. arXiv. Code.
Lawless, Robert, Rousseau & Ryder, Asymptotics of approximate Bayesian computation when summary statistics converge at heterogeneous rates (2023). arXiv.
Kelly, Nicholls, Ryder & Welch, TraitLab: a MatLab Package for Fitting and Simulating Binary Trait-Like Data (2023). arXiv.
Pellard, Ryder & Jacques, The Family Tree Model (2023). Under revision. Pdf. Code.
Clarté & Ryder, A Phylogenetic Model of the Evolution of Discrete Matrices for the Joint Inference of Lexical and Phonological Language Histories (2022). arXiv. Code.
Tian et al., Triangulation fails when neither linguistic, genetic, nor archaeological data support the Transeurasian narrative (2022). bioRxiv.
Kelly, Ryder & Clarté, Lagged couplings diagnose Markov chain Monte Carlo phylogenetic inference (2023). Annals of Applied Statistics 17(2):1419-43. arXiv. Code.
Round, Dockum & Ryder, Evolution and trade-off dynamics of functional load (2022). Entropy 24(4):507. Link. arXiv.
Thouzeau, Dezecache, Schlenker, Dunbar, Chemla & Ryder, Phylogenetic insights on the dynamics of primate calls evolution (2021), Submitted.
Chatain, Schlenker, Demolin, Mendes, Ryder & Chemla, Muriqui monkey vocalizations are complex: a formal and a statistical assessment (2021), Submitted.
Clarté, Robert, Ryder & Stoehr, Component-wise approximate Bayesian computation via Gibbs-like steps (2021), Biometrika 108(3):591-607. arXiv. Code.
Ryder, Robert, Clarté, Hairault & Lawless, Two comments on "Unbiased Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Couplings" (2020), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) 82(3):589-90. Blog post.
Lee, Nicholls & Ryder, Calibration procedures for approximate Bayesian credible sets (2019), Bayesian Analysis 14(4):1245-69. Link. Code.
Sagart, Jacques, Lai, Ryder, Thouzeau, Greenhill & List, Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan (2019), PNAS 116(21):10317-22. Link. Code.
Vasishth, Chopin, Ryder, Nicenboim, Modelling dependency completion in sentence comprehension as a Bayesian hierarchical mixture process: A case study involving Chinese relative clauses (2017), Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference 17:1278-83. arXiv.
Schlenker, Chemla, Cäsar, Ryder & Zuberbühler, Titi semantics: Context and meaning in Titi monkey call sequences (2017), Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 35(1):271-98, Link.
Schlenker, Chemla, Schel, Fuller, Gautier, Kuhn, Veselinović, Arnold, Cäsar, Keenan, Lemasson, Ouattara, Ryder and Zuberbühler (2016). Formal monkey linguistics. Theoretical Linguistics 42(1-2), 1-90. Link.
Schlenker, Chemla, Schel, Fuller, Gautier, Kuhn, Veselinović, Arnold, Cäsar, Keenan, Lemasson, Ouattara, Ryder and Zuberbühler (2016). Formal monkey linguistics: The debate. Theoretical Linguistics 42(1-2), 173–201. Link.
Ryder, Comment: Approximate Bayesian Computation - Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo (2015), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) 77:571-2
Schlenker, Chemla, Arnold, Lemasson, Ouattara, Keenan, Stephan, Ryder & Zuberbühler , Monkey semantics: two "dialects" of Campbell's monkey alarm calls (2014), Linguistics and Philosophy 37(6):439-501, Link.
Jacob & Ryder, The Wang-Landau algorithm reaches the Flat Histogram criterion in finite time (2014), Annals of Applied Probability 24(1):34-53, arXiv.
Marin, Pudlo, Robert & Ryder, Approximate Bayesian Computational methods (2012), Statistics and Computing 22(6):1167-80, arXiv: 1101.0955
Nicholls & Ryder, Phylogenetic Models for Semitic Vocabulary (2011), Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. PDF.
Ryder & Nicholls, Missing data in a stochastic Dollo model for cognate data, and its application to the dating of Proto-Indo-European (2011), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) 60(1):71-92, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2010.00743.x. Supplement.
Robert, Ryder & Chopin, Discussion on Particle Learning (2010), Bayesian Statistics 9:349-50, arXiv: 1006.0554
Ryder, Phylogenetic Models of Language Diversification (2010), DPhil thesis, University of Oxford. PDF.

Popularization

Ryder, Comment la géopolitique a influencé l’évolution des langues des signes (2024), Pour la Science 557:7. Link.
Ryder, Aux sources de la tour de Babel : méthodes statistiques pour reconstruire l'histoire des langues, in L'université ouverte 4:151-76, éditions EMS
Ryder, interview with P. Pajot, L'arbre des langues indo-européennes (2011), La Recherche 450:20-1. PDF.
Ryder, Editorial: modèles phylogénétiques de la diversification des langues (2010), Lettre du CREST 78:1-2. PDF.

Software

TraitLab, a MatLab package for estimating phylogenies on binary trait data, now has its on page.

Other

Ryder, Contigency exigency (2012), SIGecom Exchanges 11.2. PDF. (Original puzzle.)