Research

Pre-prints and papers under review

• Spencer Woody, Carlos M. Carvalho, P. Richard Hahn, and Jared S. Murray. “Estimating heterogeneous effects of continuous exposures using Bayesian tree ensembles: revisiting the impact of abortion rates on crime.” [arXiv preprint].

• Spencer Woody, Mauricio Garcia Tec, Maytal Dahan, Kelly Gaither, Spencer Fox, Lauren Ancel Meyers, and James G. Scott. “Projections for first-wave COVID-19 deaths across the US using social-distancing measures derived from mobile phones.” [medRxiv preprint].

• S. Woody, O.H.M Padilla and J.G. Scott. “Optimal post-selection inference for sparse signals: a nonparametric empirical-Bayes approach.” 2020. [arXiv preprint] [code].

• S. Woody, C.M. Carvalho and J.S. Murray. “Bayesian inference for treatment effects under nested subsets of controls.” 2020. [arXiv preprint].

• S. Woody, N. Ghaffari, and L. Hund. “Bayesian Model Calibration for Extrapolative Prediction via Gibbs Posteriors.” 2019. [arXiv preprint].

Peer-reviewed articles

• S. Woody, C.M. Carvalho and J.S. Murray. “Model interpretation through lower-dimensional posterior summarization.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 2020 (to appear). [arXiv preprint] [journal] [code].

• C.L. Feider, S. Woody, S. Ledet, J. Zhang, K. Sebastian, M.T. Breen, and L.S. Eberlin. “Molecular Imaging of Endometriosis Tissues using Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry.” Scientific Reports. 2019. [journal].

• R. J. DeHoog, J. Zhang, E. Alore, J.Q. Lin, W. Yu, S. Woody, C. Almendariz, M. Lin, A. Engelsman, S.B. Sidhu, R.J. Tibshirani, J. Suliburk, and L.S. Eberlin. “Preoperative Metabolic Classification of Thyroid Nodules using Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies.” PNAS. 2019. [journal]

• C. Carvalho, A. Feller, J. Murray, S. Woody, and D. Yeager. “Assessing Treatment Effect Variation in Observational Studies: Results from a Data Challenge.” Observational Studies. 2019. [journal] [arXiv preprint].