Research

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Johnson, K.E., Pasco, R., Woody, S., Lachmann, M., Johnson-Leon, M., Bhavnani, D., Klima, J., Paltiel, A.D., Fox, S.J. and Meyers, L.A., 2023. Optimizing COVID-19 testing strategies on college campuses: Evaluation of the health and economic costs. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(12). [journal]

  • S. Woody, O.H.M Padilla and J.G. Scott. “Optimal post-selection inference for sparse signals: a nonparametric empirical-Bayes approach.” Biometrika. 2022. [journal] [arXiv preprint] [code].

  • Fox, S.J., Lachmann, M., Tec, M., Pasco, R., Woody, S., Du, Z., Wang, X., Ingle, T.A., Javan, E., Dahan, M. and Gaither, K., 2022. Real-time pandemic surveillance using hospital admissions and mobility data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(7). [journal]

  • Johnson, K. E., Woody, S., Lachmann, M., Fox, S. J., Klima, J., Hines, T. S., & Meyers, L. A. (2021). Real-Time projections of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant in a university setting, Texas, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(12), 3188. [journal]

  • S. Woody, C.M. Carvalho and J.S. Murray. “Model interpretation through lower-dimensional posterior summarization.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 2020. [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].

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, 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].