sample of publications

• articles 

  • Associations of bioelectrical impedance and anthropometric variables among populations and within the full spectrum of malnutrition.  Nutrition Journal.  127:112550-1-112550-10. 2024
  • Food drugs as drivers of therapeutic knowledge and the role of chemosensory qualities.  JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY.  328:1-11. 2024
  • Transfer learning in multiple hypothesis testing.  Entropy.  26. 2024
  • Implicit institutional incentives and individual decisions: Causal inference with deep learning models.  MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS.  44:3739-3754. 2023
  • Model uncertainty quantification in Cox regression.  BIOMETRICS.  79:1726-1736. 2023
  • A Bayesian spatial temporal model for predicting passengers occupancy at Beijing Metro.  Spatial Statistics.  55. 2023
  • Forced to play too many matches? A deep-learning assessment of crowded schedule.  APPLIED ECONOMICS.  55:6187-6204. 2022
  • Usability of classic and specific bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in measuring body composition of children.  CLINICAL NUTRITION.  41:673-679. 2022
  • A bayesian-deep learning model for estimating covid-19 evolution in Spain.  Mathematics.  9:1-18. 2021
  • Goodness of fit for models with intractable likelihood.  TEST.  30:713-736. 2021
  • Segmental body composition estimated by specific BIVA and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.  CLINICAL NUTRITION.  40:1621-1627. 2021
  • A Model Selection Approach for Variable Selection with Censored Data.  Bayesian Analysis.  16:271-300. 2021
  • A dirichlet process prior approach for covariate selection.  Entropy.  22:948. 2020
  • The relationship among the age at menarche, anthropometric characteristics, and socio-economic factors in Bengali girls from Kolkata, India.  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY.  32:e23380. 2020
  • Response to Cummins and Finaret (2019).  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.  171:3-4. 2020
  • Nutritional status of Ugandan school-children: The effect of age imprecision.  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.  170:88-97. 2019
  • Two-Stage Bayesian Approach for GWAS With Known Genealogy.  JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS.  28:197-204. 2019
  • Assessing the variability in transmission of bovine tuberculosis within Spanish cattle herds.  Epidemics.  23:110-120. 2018
  • A Markov chain representation of the multiple testing problem.  STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH.  27:364-383. 2018
  • Physical capacity and energy expenditure of cavers.  Frontiers in Physiology.  8:1067. 2017
  • P-value calibration in multiple hypotheses testing.  STATISTICS IN MEDICINE.  36:2875-2886. 2017
  • Minimum Wage and Employment: Escaping the Parametric Straitjacket.  Economics-The Open Access Open-Assessment E-Journal.  11. 2017
  • Reverse ethnopharmacology and drug discovery.  JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY.  198:417-431. 2017
  • The taste of heat: How humoral qualities act as a cultural filter for chemosensory properties guiding herbal medicine.  JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY.  198:499-515. 2017
  • Energy expenditure in caving.  PLoS One.  12:e0170853. 2017
  • Nutritional evaluation of undocumented children: a neglected health issue affecting the most fragile people.  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH.  27:71-73. 2017
  • The asthma-anxiety connection.  RESPIRATORY MEDICINE.  120:44-53. 2016
  • Birth registration and child undernutrition in sub-saharan Africa.  PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION.  19:1757-1767. 2016
  • A random forest application to contact-state classification for robot programming by human demonstration.  APPLIED STOCHASTIC MODELS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY.  32:209-227. 2016
  • A Bayesian non-parametric modeling to estimate student response to ICT investment.  JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS.  43:2627-2642. 2016
  • Bayesian analysis of a disability model for lung cancer survival.  STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH.  25:336-351. 2016
  • Unscaled Bayes factors for multiple hypothesis testing in microarray experiments.  STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH.  24:1030-1043. 2015
  • Higher order asymptotic computation of Bayesian significance tests for precise null hypotheses in the presence of nuisance parameters.  JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION.  85:2989-3001. 2015
  • From cumulative cultural transmission to evidence-based medicine: evolution of medicinal plant knowledge in Southern Italy.  Frontiers in Pharmacology.  207. 2015
  • Approximate Bayesian computation by modelling summary statistics in a quasi-likelihood framework.  Bayesian Analysis.  10:411-439. 2015
  • Effect of Influenza-Induced Fever on Human Bioimpedance Values.  PLoS One.  10. 2015
  • Modulation of genetic associations with serum urate levels by body-mass-index in humans.  PLoS One.  10:1-21. 2015
  • A new minimal training sample scheme for intrinsic Bayes factors in censored data.  COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS.  81:52-63. 2015
  • Comparison of objective Bayes factors for variable selection in parametric regression models for survival analysis.  STATISTICS IN MEDICINE.  33:4637-4654. 2014
  • T(H)17 cells are increased in the peripheral blood of patients with SAPHO syndrome.  AUTOIMMUNITY.  47:389-394. 2014
  • A Quasi likelihood approximation of posterior distributions for likelihood-intractable complex models.  Metron.  72:153-167. 2014
  • Bioprospecting: evolutionary implications from a post-Olmec pharmacopoeia and the relevance of widespread Taxa.  JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY.  (1):92-107. 2013
  • Accuracy of specific BIVA for the assessment of body composition in the United States population.  PLoS One.  8. 2013
  • IMP-3 expression in keratoacanthomas and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin: an immunohistochemical study.  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY.  1:36-40. 2013
  • An imprecise probability approach for the detection of over and underused taxonomic groups with the Campania (Italy) and the Sierra Popoluca (Mexico) medicinal flora.  JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY.  1:259-264. 2012
  • A matching prior for the shape parameter of the skew-normal distribution.  SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS.  39:236-247. 2012
  • Nutritional and psycho-functional status in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease.  Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging.  16:231-236. 2012
  • Reply to the commentary: "Regression residual vs. Bayesian analysis of medicinal floras".  JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY.  139:695-697. 2012

• book chapters 

  • Biological Age Imputation by Data Depth. In: Building Bridges between Soft and Statistical Methodologies for Data Science.  SPRINGER. 2023
  • Bayesian adaptive design for a clinical trial on cardiology. In: Book of Abstracts XVIII Congreso de Biometría CEBMADRID.  101-102. 2022
  • Latest advances on Objective Bayesian model selection for survival regression. In: BIOSTAT at 25: invited essays in theoretical, biomedical and social statistics.  Edizioni ETS. 215-226. 2018
  • Default priors based on pseudo-likelihoods for the Poisson-GPD Model. In: Advances in theoretical and applied statistics.  SPRINGER. 3-12. 2013
  • Estimación del efecto casual del uso de ordenadores en los resultados de los estudiantes en el test PISA 2012. In: PISA 2012. Volumen II, Análisis secundario.  MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN, CULTURA Y DEPORTE - SECRETARIA GENERAL DE UNIVERSIDADES. 67-88. 2013

• books 

  • Book of Abstracts XVIII Congreso de Biometría CEBMADRID.  MADRID. 2022
  • Proceedings of 47th SIS Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society.  Cagliari: CUEC Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice Cagliaritana. 2014

• conference contributions 

  • Bayesian adaptive design for a clinical trial on cardiology.  103. 2022
  • Biological age imputation by data depth.  89. 2022
  • Goodness of fit of approximate bayesian computational models 2017
  • Goodness of fit in ABC setting.  233. 2016
  • A Markovian process representation of multiple testing 2015
  • Conditional predictive p-values an ABC revisi 2015
  • The conditional predictive $p-$value in ABC 2015
  • A Bayesian nonparametric modelling to estimate students' response to ICTinvestment.  1-8. 2014
  • An abc/quasi-likelihood approach for linkage/gwas study of a Sardinian genetic isolate.  1-8. 2014
  • IDMS: The Sardinian Index of Multiple Deprivation.  1-8. 2014
  • Zellner-siow priors for variablle selection with censored data.  1-8. 2014
  • A default proposal distribution for ABA-MCMC 2013
  • Aproximacion de alto orden asintotico para el contraste de significacion bayesiano de hipotesis nulas puntuales con parametros molestos 2013
  • Increased peripheral T(H)17 Cells in SAPHO syndrome: a novel target for treatment?.  198-199. 2013
  • Quasi-likelihood for "intractable" posteriors 2013
  • ABC-MCMC Algorithms with Quasi-Likelihoods 2012
  • Default Bayesian Analysis of the Disability Model for the Progression of Stage IV Non-Small Cells Lung Cancer 2012
  • Examining the Intellectual Structure of Intangibles Resources in Family Business Studies: A co-Citation Analysis 2012
  • The Intrinsic and the Fractional Bayes Factors for Model Selection with Right Censored Weibull Responses 2012
  • A Bayesian Multi-State Model for Estimating the Progression of Stage IV Non-Small Cells Lung Cancer 2011
  • A Default Bayesian Approach for Model Choice in Weibull Regression 2011
  • Bayesian Multi-State Models for Assessing the Progression of Stage IV non Small-Cell Lung Cancer 2011
  • Bayesian Weibull Survival and Multi-State Models for the Progression of Stage IV Non-Small Cells Lung Cancer 2011

• working papers 

  • Deep Learning and Bayesian Calibration Approach to Hourly Passenger Occupancy Prediction in Beijing Metro: A Study Exploiting Cellular Data and Metro Conditions 2023
  • A Bayesian Spatio-temporal model for predicting passengers' occupancy at Beijing Metro 2021
  • Social Pressure or Rational Reactions to Incentives? A Historical Analysis of Reasons for Referee Bias in the Spanish Football 2019
  • A Bayesian model to estimate causality in PISA scores: a tutorial with application to ICT 2015
  • A Bayesian nonparametric modelling to estimate student response to ICT investment 2014