Dr Silvia LiveraniReader in StatisticsEmail: s.liverani@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3370Room Number: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room: MB-321Website: https://www.silvialiverani.com/Office Hours: Please email for an appointmentProfileResearchPublicationsProfileDr Silvia Liverani is a Reader in Statistics and Head of the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science School of Mathematical Sciences in the School of Mathematical Sciences. Her research focuses on Bayesian modelling and clustering methods. In particular she works on Dirichlet process mixture models, Bayesian spatio-temporal models and survival response models. She has worked in very diverse areas of application including genetics, epidemiology, road traffic accidents, football and environmental health. She enjoys teaching Statistics at undergraduate and postgraduate level.ResearchResearch Interests:My research interests include Bayesian methods, clustering and spatial statistics, with applications to many areas including epidemiology and genetics.Publications Shenvi A, Liverani S (2024). Beyond conjugacy for chain event graph model selection International Journal of Approximate Reasoning nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.ijar.2024.109252 https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/98330 Jing W, Papathomas M, Liverani S (publicationYear). Variance Matrix Priors for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models With Gaussian Kernels International Statistical Review nameOfConference. 10.1111/insr.12595 qmroHref Lavigne A, Liverani S (2023). Quantifying the uncertainty of partitions for infinite mixture models Statistics and Probability Letters nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.spl.2023.109930 https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/90801 Wilk M, Harper G, Firman N et al. (2023). OP140 Household associations between child and adult weight status in an ethnically diverse urban population: cross-sectional study using linked primary care and National Child Measurement Programme records journal SSM Annual Scientific Meeting. 10.1136/jech-2023-ssmabstracts.270 qmroHref Gramatica M, Liverani S, Congdon P (2023). Structure induced by a multiple membership transformation on the Conditional Autoregressive model Bayesian Analysis nameOfConference. 10.1214/23-BA1370 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/84762 Coker ES, Molitor J, Liverani S et al. (2023). Bayesian profile regression to study the ecologic associations of correlated environmental exposures with excess mortality risk during the first year of the Covid-19 epidemic in lombardy, Italy Environmental Research nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114484 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/81379 Hailu BA, Geremew BM, Liverani S et al. (2022). Mapping and determinants of consumption of egg and/or flesh foods and zero vegetables or fruits among young children in SSA Scientific Reports nameOfConference. 10.1038/s41598-022-15102-z https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/79528 Ricciardi F, Liverani S, Baio G (2023). Dirichlet process mixture models for regression discontinuity designs Statistical Methods in Medical Research nameOfConference. 10.1177/09622802221129044 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/82720 Wilk M, Dezateux C, Liverani S et al. (publicationYear). Who lives in overcrowded households in north-east London? Cross-sectional study of linked electronic health records and Energy Performance Certificate register data. International Journal of Population Data Science nameOfConference. 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1827 https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/80460 Jing W, Papathomas M, Liverani S (2022). Variance matrix priors for Dirichlet process mixture models with Gaussian kernels journal nameOfConference. 10.48550/arxiv.2202.03946 https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/98905 Schweinsberg M, Feldman M, Staub N et al. (2021). Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.02.003 qmroHref Gramatica M, Congdon P, Liverani S (2021). Bayesian Modelling for Spatially Misaligned Health Areal Data: A Multiple Membership Approach Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics nameOfConference. 10.1111/rssc.12480 https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/70214 Ali RL, Qureshi NA, Liverani S et al. (2020). Left Atrial Enhancement Correlates With Myocardial Conduction Velocity in Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation. Frontiers in physiology nameOfConference. 10.3389/fphys.2020.570203 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/68005 Lavigne A, Freni-Sterrantino A, Fecht D et al. (2020). A spatial joint analysis of metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England. Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) nameOfConference. 10.1097/ee9.0000000000000098 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/65149 Liverani S, Leigh L, Hudson IL et al. (2021). Clustering method for censored and collinear survival data Computational Statistics nameOfConference. 10.1007/s00180-020-01000-3 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/65180 Friel N, Smith PWF, Canale A et al. (2020). Applied Statistics Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) nameOfConference. 10.1111/rssc.12360 qmroHref Ricciardi F, Liverani S, Baio G (2020). Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Regression Discontinuity Designs journal nameOfConference. doi https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/80698 Liu X, Liverani S, Smith KJ et al. (2020). Modeling tails for collinear data with outliers in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Quantile profile regression. Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift nameOfConference. 10.1002/bimj.201900146 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/62317 Bonaventura M, Ciotti V, Panzarasa P et al. (2020). Predicting success in the worldwide start-up network. Scientific reports nameOfConference. 10.1038/s41598-019-57209-w https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/62223 Ryan JM, Cameron MH, Liverani S et al. (2020). Incidence of falls among adults with cerebral palsy: a cohort study using primary care data Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology nameOfConference. 10.1111/dmcn.14444 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/62481 Huang R, Xu W, Wang Y et al. (2019). Performance Comparison of Julia Distributed Implementations of Dirichlet Process Mixture Models journal 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9005453 qmroHref Lavigne A, Freni Sterrantino A, Liverani S et al. (2019). Associations between metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England: an ecological study. BMJ open nameOfConference. 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030140 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61986 Ryan JM, Peterson MD, Matthews A et al. (2019). Noncommunicable disease among adults with cerebral palsy: A matched cohort study. Neurology nameOfConference. 10.1212/wnl.0000000000008199 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/57809 Ryan JM, Peterson MD, Ryan N et al. (2019). Mortality due to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer in adults with cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol nameOfConference. 10.1111/dmcn.14176 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/55097 O'Connell NE, Smith KJ, Peterson MD et al. (2019). Incidence of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases in adults with cerebral palsy: A population-based cohort study. Bone nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.bone.2019.05.007 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/57602 Smith KJ, Peterson MD, O'Connell NE et al. (2019). Risk of Depression and Anxiety in Adults With Cerebral Palsy. JAMA neurology nameOfConference. 10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.4147 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54954 Silberzahn R, Uhlmann EL, Martin DP et al. (2018). Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science nameOfConference. 10.1177/2515245917747646 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28423 Huang R, Xu W, Liverani S et al. (2018). A case study of r performance analysis and optimization ACM International Conference Proceeding Series nameOfConference. 10.1145/3219104.3219156 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/44646 Boys RJ, Stallard N, Chen Q et al. (2018). Applied Statistics Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) nameOfConference. 10.1111/rssc.12248 qmroHref Edwards KD, Takata N, Johansson M et al. (2018). Circadian clock components control daily growth activities by modulating cytokinin levels and cell division-associated gene expression in Populus trees. Plant Cell Environ nameOfConference. 10.1111/pce.13185 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/35823 Coker E, Liverani S, Su JG et al. (2018). Multi-pollutant Modeling Through Examination of Susceptible Subpopulations Using Profile Regression. Current environmental health reports nameOfConference. 10.1007/s40572-018-0177-0 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/32963 Boys RJ, Stallard N, Chen Q et al. (2017). Applied Statistics Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) nameOfConference. 10.1111/rssc.12182 qmroHref Hirth M, Liverani S, Mahlow S et al. (2017). Metabolic profiling identifies trehalose as an abundant and diurnally fluctuating metabolite in the microalga Ostreococcus tauri. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society nameOfConference. 10.1007/s11306-017-1203-1 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28304 Ryan JM, Mahmoudi E, Hurvitz EA et al. (2016). THE PREVALENCE OF AGE-RELATED CHRONIC CONDITIONS IN ADULTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY. GERONTOLOGIST GERONTOLOGIST. 10.1093/geront/gnw162.1677 qmroHref Liverani S, Smith JQ (2016). Bayesian selection of graphical regulatory models International Journal of Approximate Reasoning nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.ijar.2016.05.007 qmroHref Liverani S, Lavigne A, Blangiardo M (2016). Modelling collinear and spatially correlated data. Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.sste.2016.04.003 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28306 Coker E, Liverani S, Ghosh JK et al. (2016). Multi-pollutant exposure profiles associated with term low birth weight in Los Angeles County Environment International nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.envint.2016.02.011 qmroHref Boulieri A, Liverani S, de Hoogh K et al. (2017). A space–time multivariate Bayesian model to analyse road traffic accidents by severity Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) nameOfConference. 10.1111/rssa.12178 qmroHref Mattei F, Liverani S, Guida F et al. (2016). Multidimensional analysis of the effect of occupational exposure to organic solvents on lung cancer risk: the ICARE study OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE nameOfConference. 10.1136/oemed-2015-103177 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54819 Li A, Smith KJ, Liverani S (2016). The association of cardiometabolic functioning clusters with depressive symptoms in older adults: results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing DIABETIC MEDICINE nameOfConference. doi qmroHref Coker E, Ghosh J, Jerrett M et al. (2015). Modeling spatial effects of PM2.5 on term low birth weight in Los Angeles County Environmental Research nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.envres.2015.06.044 qmroHref Pirani M, Best N, Blangiardo M et al. (2015). Analysing the health effects of simultaneous exposure to physical and chemical properties of airborne particles Environment International nameOfConference. 10.1016/j.envint.2015.02.010 qmroHref Liverani S, Hastie DI, Azizi L et al. (2015). PReMiuM: An R Package for Profile Regression Mixture Models Using Dirichlet Processes. Journal of Statistical Software nameOfConference. 10.18637/jss.v064.i07 qmroHref Molitor J, Brown IJ, Chan Q et al. (2014). Blood Pressure Differences Associated With Optimal Macronutrient Intake Trial for Heart Health (OMNIHEART)–Like Diet Compared With a Typical American Diet Hypertension nameOfConference. 10.1161/hypertensionaha.114.03799 qmroHref Hastie DI, Liverani S, Richardson S (2015). Sampling from Dirichlet process mixture models with unknown concentration parameter: mixing issues in large data implementations Statistics and Computing nameOfConference. 10.1007/s11222-014-9471-3 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54820 Molitor J, Brown IJ, Chan Q et al. (2014). Abstract P403: Blood Pressure Differences Associated With OMNIHEART-like Lower Sodium Compared With Typical American Higher Sodium Nutrient Profile: INTERMAP USA Circulation nameOfConference. 10.1161/circ.129.suppl_1.p403 qmroHref Hastie DI, Liverani S, Azizi L et al. (2013). A semi-parametric approach to estimate risk functions associated with multi-dimensional exposure profiles: application to smoking and lung cancer BMC Medical Research Methodology nameOfConference. 10.1186/1471-2288-13-129 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54825 Akacha M, Fonseca TCO, Liverani S (2011). Data Mining for Longitudinal Data with Different Treatments Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization nameOfConference. 10.1007/978-3-642-11363-5_46 qmroHref Liverani S, Petrucci A (2011). Spatial Clustering of Multivariate Data Using Weighted MAX-SAT Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization nameOfConference. 10.1007/978-3-642-11363-5_27 qmroHref Monnier A, Liverani S, Bouvet R et al. (2010). Orchestrated transcription of biological processes in the marine picoeukaryote Ostreococcus exposed to light/dark cycles BMC Genomics nameOfConference. 10.1186/1471-2164-11-192 https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54826 Liverani S, Cussens J, Smith JQ (2010). Searching a Multivariate Partition Space Using MAX-SAT Lecture Notes in Computer Science nameOfConference. 10.1007/978-3-642-14571-1_18 qmroHref Liverani S, Anderson PE, Edwards KD et al. (publicationYear). Efficient utility-based clustering over high dimensional partition spaces Bayesian Analysis nameOfConference. 10.1214/09-ba420 qmroHref Smith JQ, Anderson PE, Liverani S (2008). Separation measures and the geometry of Bayes factor selection for classification Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) nameOfConference. 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00664.x qmroHref Papavasiliou A, Liverani S (publicationYear). The Fifty-Second IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts 2010 Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts Electrical Contacts - 2006. Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts. 10.1109/holm.2006.284048 qmroHref Liverani S, Papavasiliou A (2006). Entropy Based Adaptive Particle Filter journal 2006 IEEE Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop. 10.1109/nsspw.2006.4378826 qmroHref