| How to Tell When Simpler, More Unified, or Less Ad Hoc Theories will Provide More Accurate Predictions M Forster, E Sober The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1), 1-35, 1994 | 775 | 1994 |
| Key concepts in model selection: Performance and generalizability MR Forster Journal of mathematical psychology 44 (1), 205-231, 2000 | 545 | 2000 |
| Naive and yet enlightened: From natural frequencies to fast and frugal decision trees L Martignon, O Vitouch, M Takezawa, MR Forster Thinking: Psychological perspectives on reasoning, judgment and decision …, 2003 | 195 | 2003 |
| GUEST EDITORS'INTRODUCTION: special issue on model selection IJ Myung, MR Forster, MW Browne Journal of Mathematical Psychology 44 (1), 1-2, 2000 | 146 | 2000 |
| The new science of simplicity MR Forster, A Zellner, HA Keuzenkamp, M McAleer Simplicity, inference and modelling: keeping it sophisticatedly simple, 83-119, 2001 | 107 | 2001 |
| Predictive accuracy as an achievable goal of science MR Forster Philosophy of Science 69 (S3), S124-S134, 2002 | 103 | 2002 |
| Unification, explanation, and the composition of causes in Newtonian mechanics MR Forster Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (1), 55-101, 1988 | 102 | 1988 |
| 6 Why Likelihood? M Forster, E Sober The nature of scientific evidence: Statistical, philosophical, and empirical …, 2010 | 73 | 2010 |
| Bayes and Bust: Simplicity as a Problem for a Probabilist's Approach to Confirmation MR Forster The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3), 399-424, 1995 | 59 | 1995 |
| How do simple rules fit to reality'in a complex world? MR Forster Minds and Machines 9, 543-564, 1999 | 54 | 1999 |
| Model selection [Special issue] IJ Myung, MR Forster, MW Browne Journal of Mathematical Psychology 44 (1-2), 37, 2000 | 52 | 2000 |
| AIC scores as evidence: A Bayesian interpretation M Forster, E Sober Philosophy of statistics, 535-549, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
| Model selection in science: The problem of language variance MR Forster The British journal for the philosophy of science 50 (1), 83-102, 1999 | 41 | 1999 |
| The frugal inference of causal relations M Forster, G Raskutti, R Stern, N Weinberger The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| A philosopher's guide to empirical success MR Forster Philosophy of Science 74 (5), 588-600, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| Hard problems in the philosophy of science: Idealisation and commensurability MR Forster After Popper, Kuhn, and Feyerabend. London: Kluwer, 231-250, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| Counterexamples to a likelihood theory of evidence MR Forster Minds and Machines 16, 319-338, 2006 | 26 | 2006 |
| Sober's Principle of Common Cause and the Problem of Comparing Incomplete Hypotheses MR Forster Philosophy of Science 55 (4), 538-559, 1988 | 26 | 1988 |
| The debate between Whewell and Mill on the nature of scientific induction M Forster Handbook of the History of Logic 10, 93-115, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
| Unification and scientific realism revisited MR Forster PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science …, 1986 | 22 | 1986 |
