Everything about Proxy-based estimating

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Proxy-based estimatingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A low-cost methodology for estimating beach-stranded plastic pellets using drone-based aerial photographs and marine natural wracks as proxyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: TCP/IP IllustratedThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Estimating Preference-Based Single Index Measures for Dementia Using DEMQOL and DEMQOL-ProxyCited 76 times
5. Go sideways: Personal software processA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Team software processA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Estimating Preference-Based Single Index Measures for Dementia Using DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy

  Donna Rowen, Brendan Mulhern, Sube Banerjee · 2012 · Value in Health · 76 citations

• A proxy-based model for estimating V30 in the Iberian Peninsula

  Maria J. Crespo, Beatriz Benjumea, José M. Moratalla · 2022 · Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering · 17 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A low-cost methodology for estimating beach-stranded plastic pellets using drone-based aerial photographs and marine natural wracks as proxy

  G.M. Izar, T.Y. Tan, S.T. Martinez · 2025 · Regional Studies in Marine Science · 1 citations

• Feasibility and Validity of Mobile Phone‐Based Proxy Full Pregnancy History ( mPFPH ) for Estimating Perinatal Mortality in Rural Northwest Bangladesh

  Lena Kan, Mayank Date, Diwakar Mohan · 2026 · Tropical Medicine & International Health · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
• From Quackery to Credibility. Unconventional Healthcare in the Era of HighTech Medicine.Gilbert Mertens · 2000
• Protection of built environment against earthquakesMatjaž Dolšek · 2011
• PaleoaltimetryMatthew J. Kohn · 2007
• MetaheuristicsMauricio G. C. Resende, Jorge Pinho de Sousa · 2004
• 📕Quaternary studies in KoreaJu-Yong Kim, Sangheon Yi · 2008
• ICICS 2017 · 2017
• Object-oriented software engineering : an agile unified methodologyDavid C. Kung · 2014

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