Recent updates from the STAB research group
2025
Wu et al. to appear in Annals of Applied Statistics
December 23, 2025
Small Area Estimation of Education Levels in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Wu, Dharamshi, and Wakefield) to appear in Annals of Applied Statistics. Link.
Paulson et al. to appear in Annals of Applied Statistics
Temporal Models for Estimation and Short-Term Forecasting of Neonatal Mortality Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa (Paulson, Fuglstad, Li, and Wakefield) to appear in Annals of Applied Statistics. Link.
Victoria Knutson passes her final exam!
December 5, 2025
Congratulations Victoria! She will next be doing a postdoc with Jon on the Gates SAE project.
Ameer presents at the NUS-IMS Young Mathematical Scientists Forum in Singapore
November 28, 2025
New preprint by Schumacher and Wakefield
November 19, 2025
Small Area Estimation Methods for Multivariate Health and Demographic Outcomes using Complex Survey Data (Schumacher and Wakefield) is now available: Link.
Okonek et al. published in Demographic Research
October 28, 2025
A parametric survival model for child mortality using complex survey data (Okonek, Wilson, and Wakefield) published in Demographic Research. Link.
Jiang and Wakefield published in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology
October 8, 2025
BARTSIMP: Flexible spatial covariate modeling and prediction using Bayesian additive regression trees (Jiang and Wakefield) published in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. Link.
Katie Paulson passes her general exam!
September 23, 2025
Congratulations Katie!
New preprint by Vasconcelos et al.
Accounting for Spatial Correlation in Graphical Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics Data (Vasconcelos, Danaher, McGuire, Wakefield, and Shojaie) is now available. Link.
Alana and Ameer present at the International Population Conference in Brisbane, Australia
July 13-18, 2025
Jon presents at the Small Area Estmation conference in Turin, Italy
July 9, 2025
Talk title: "The Two Cultures of Prevalence Mapping: Small Area Estimation and Model-Based Geostatistics"
New preprint by Wu and Wakefield
July 4, 2025
Small Area Estimation of Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Wu and Wakefield) is now available. Link.
Jon awarded a two-year grant by the Gates Foundation!
July 2025
The grant, titled "Multi Indicator Small Area Estimation Resource", will fund the development of methods and software for small-area estimation in low- and middle-income countries. The first version of the deliverables are available at: Link.
Jon gives the CRiSM colloqium talk at the University of Warwick
May 29, 2025
Details of his talk, "Small Area Estimation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" are available here: Link.
New preprint by Wu et al.
May 1, 2025
sae4health: An R Shiny Application for Small Area Estimation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Wu, Dong, Xu, Li, and Wakefield) is now available. Link.
Ameer Dharamshi passes his general exam!
April 29, 2025
Congratulations Ameer!
Amouzou et al. published in The Lancet
The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health: tracking progress on health and nutrition (Amouzou, ..., Wakefield, ..., Boerma) published in The Lancet. Link.
New preprint by Dong et al.
April 23, 2025
Toward a Principled Workflow for Prevalence Mapping Using Household Survey Data (Dong, Wu, Li, and Wakefield) is now available: Link.
New preprint by Sutton et al.
March 7, 2025
Evaluating Multilevel Regression and Poststratification with Spatial Priors with a Big Data Behavioural Survey (Sutton, Almquist, and Wakefield) is now available: Link.
Yunhan Wu passes his final exam!
March 4, 2025
Congratulations Yunhan! He will next be doing a postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
Li et al. published in The R Journal
Space-Time Smoothing of Survey Outcomes using the R Package SUMMER (Li, Martin, Dong, Fuglstad, Godwin, Paige, Riebler, Clark, and Wakefield) published in The R Journal. Link.
New preprint by Dharamshi et al.
February 16, 2025
Exact variance estimation for model-assisted survey estimators using U- and V-statistics (Dharamshi, Gao, and Wakefield) is now available. Link.
New preprint by Wu et al.
February 11, 2025
Small Area Estimation of Education Levels in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Wu, Dharamshi, and Wakefield) is now available. Link.
Gascoigne et al. published in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology
February 1, 2025
Estimating subnational under-five mortality rates using a spatio-temporal Age-Period-Cohort model (Gascoigne, Smith, Paige, and Wakefield) published in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. Link.
Wakefield and Knutson published in Annual Review of Statistics and its Application
Excess mortality estimation (Wakefield and Knutson) published in Annual Review of Statistics and its Application. Link.