Dr Silvia Liverani
Reader in Statistics
Head of The Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science
School of Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Bayesian modelling, Clustering, Computational statistics, Mixture models, Spatio-temporal modelling, Causal methods
Interests
Dr Silvia Liverani is a Reader in Statistics and Head of the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science 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 is keen to collaborate with external organisations, including industry and the charity sector.
She is supervising PhD projects on Bayesian modelling of epidemiological and biodiversity data.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science2024
Beyond conjugacy for chain event graph model selectionShenvi A and Liverani S
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Elsevier vol. 173
01-10-2024
Variance Matrix Priors for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models With Gaussian KernelsJing W, Papathomas M and Liverani S
International Statistical Review, Wiley
15-09-2024
2023
Quantifying the uncertainty of partitions for infinite mixture modelsLavigne A and Liverani S
Statistics and Probability Letters, Elsevier
06-09-2023
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 recordsWilk M, Harper G, Firman N, Liverani S and Dezateux C
SSM Annual Scientific Meeting., a129.2-a1a130.
01-08-2023
Structure induced by a multiple membership transformation on the Conditional Autoregressive modelGramatica M, Liverani S and Congdon P
Bayesian Analysis, International Society For Bayesian Analysis (Isba)
06-02-2023
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, ItalyCoker ES, Molitor J, Liverani S, Martin J, Maranzano P, Pontarollo N and Vergalli S
Environmental Research vol. 216
01-01-2023
2022
Mapping and determinants of consumption of egg and/or flesh foods and zero vegetables or fruits among young children in SSAHailu BA, Geremew BM, Liverani S, Abera KS, Beyene J and Miheretu BA
Scientific Reports vol. 12 (1)
01-12-2022
Dirichlet process mixture models for regression discontinuity designsRicciardi F, Liverani S and Baio G
Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Sage Publications vol. 32 (1), 55-70.
10-11-2022
Who lives in overcrowded households in north-east London? Cross-sectional study of linked electronic health records and Energy Performance Certificate register data.Wilk M, Dezateux C, Liverani S and Harper G
International Journal of Population Data Science, Swansea University vol. 7 (3)
25-08-2022
Variance matrix priors for Dirichlet process mixture models with Gaussian kernelsJing W, Papathomas M and Liverani S
08-02-2022
2021
Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesisSchweinsberg M, Feldman M, Staub N, van den Akker OR, van Aert RCM, van Assen MALM, Liu Y, Althoff T, Heer J, Kale A, Mohamed Z, Amireh H, Venkatesh Prasad V, Bernstein A, Robinson E, Snellman K, Amy Sommer S, Otner SMG, Robinson D, Madan N, et al.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes vol. 165, 228-249.
01-07-2021
Bayesian Modelling for Spatially Misaligned Health Areal Data: A Multiple Membership ApproachGramatica M, Congdon P and Liverani S
Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 70 (3), 645-666.
01-06-2021
2020
Left atrial enhancement correlates with myocardial conduction velocity in patients with persistent atrial fibrillationAli RL, Qureshi NA, Liverani S, Roney CH, Kim S, Lim PB, Tweedy JH, Cantwell CD and Peters NS
Frontiers in Physiology, Frontiers Media
12-11-2020
A spatial joint analysis of metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England.Lavigne A, Freni-Sterrantino A, Fecht D, Liverani S, Blangiardo M, de Hoogh K, Molitor J and Hansell AL
Environmental Epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) vol. 4 (4)
16-07-2020
Clustering method for censored and collinear survival dataLiverani S, Leigh L, Hudson IL and Byles JE
Computational Statistics, Springer Science and Business Media Llc vol. 36 (1), 35-60.
21-06-2020
Applied StatisticsFriel N, Smith PWF, Canale A, Demiris N, Fan Y, Gaetan C, Huang X, Iannario M, Jaki T, Jermyn IH, Kalogeropoulos K, Latouche P, Liverani S, Marra G, Mateu J, De Menezes RX, Ntzoufras I, Oberski D, Papamarkou T, Prangle D, et al.
Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 69 (3), 501-502.
06-05-2020
Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Regression Discontinuity DesignsRicciardi F, Liverani S and Baio G
26-03-2020
Modeling tails for collinear data with outliers in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Quantile profile regression.Liu X, Liverani S, Smith KJ and Yu K
Biometrical Journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift vol. 62 (4), 916-931.
20-01-2020
Predicting success in the worldwide start-up network.Bonaventura M, Ciotti V, Panzarasa P, Liverani S, Lacasa L and Latora V
Scientific Reports vol. 10 (1)
01-01-2020
2019
Incidence of falls among adults with cerebral palsy: a cohort study using primary care dataRyan JM, Cameron MH, Liverani S, Smith KJ, O'connell N, Peterson MD, Anokye N, Victor C and Boland F
Developmental Medicine &Amp; Child Neurology, Wiley vol. 62 (4), 477-482.
26-12-2019
Performance Comparison of Julia Distributed Implementations of Dirichlet Process Mixture ModelsHuang R, Xu W, Wang Y, Liverani S and Stapleton AE
2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). vol. 00, 3350-3354.
12-12-2019
Associations between metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England: an ecological study.Lavigne A, Freni Sterrantino A, Liverani S, Blangiardo M, de Hoogh K, Molitor J and Hansell A
Bmj Open vol. 9 (12)
01-12-2019
Noncommunicable disease among adults with cerebral palsy: A matched cohort study.Ryan JM, Peterson MD, Matthews A, Ryan N, Smith KJ, O'Connell NE, Liverani S, Anokye N, Victor C and Allen E
Neurology vol. 93 (14), e1385-e1396.
28-08-2019
Mortality due to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer in adults with cerebral palsy.Ryan JM, Peterson MD, Ryan N, Smith KJ, O'connell NE, Liverani S, Anokye N, Victor C and Allen E
Dev Med Child Neurol vol. 61 (8), 924-928.
01-08-2019
Incidence of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases in adults with cerebral palsy: A population-based cohort study.O'Connell NE, Smith KJ, Peterson MD, Ryan N, Liverani S, Anokye N, Victor C and Ryan JM
Bone vol. 125, 30-35.
08-05-2019
Risk of Depression and Anxiety in Adults With Cerebral Palsy.Smith KJ, Peterson MD, O'Connell NE, Victor C, Liverani S, Anokye N and Ryan JM
Jama Neurology vol. 76 (3), 294-300.
01-03-2019
2018
Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect ResultsSilberzahn R, Uhlmann EL, Martin DP, Anselmi P, Aust F, Awtrey E, Bahník Š, Bai F, Bannard C, Bonnier E, Carlsson R, Cheung F, Christensen G, Clay R, Craig MA, Dalla Rosa A, Dam L, Evans MH, Flores Cervantes I, Fong N, et al.
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Sage Publications vol. 1 (3), 337-356.
23-08-2018
A case study of r performance analysis and optimizationHuang R, Xu W, Liverani S, Hiltbrand D and Stapleton AE
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.
22-07-2018
Applied StatisticsBoys RJ, Stallard N, Chen Q, Deardon R, Gaetan C, Greven S, Husmeier D, Jermyn IH, Kalogeropoulos K, Kneib T, Lewin A, Liverani S, Marra G, Mateu J, Mccrea R, Oberski D, Roy J, Schildcrout J, Shortreed S and Wages NA
Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 67 (4), 741-742.
18-07-2018
Circadian clock components control daily growth activities by modulating cytokinin levels and cell division-associated gene expression in Populus trees.Edwards KD, Takata N, Johansson M, Jurca M, Novák O, Hényková E, Liverani S, Kozarewa I, Strnad M, Millar AJ, Ljung K and Eriksson ME
Plant Cell Environ vol. 41 (6), 1468-1482.
01-06-2018
Multi-pollutant Modeling Through Examination of Susceptible Subpopulations Using Profile Regression.Coker E, Liverani S, Su JG and Molitor J
Current Environmental Health Reports vol. 5 (1), 59-69.
01-03-2018
2017
Applied StatisticsBoys RJ, Stallard N, Chen Q, Clarke P, Deardon R, Gaetan C, Greven S, Husmeier D, Kalogeropoulos K, Lewin A, Liverani S, Mateu J, McCrea R, Oberski D, Ogden T, Ranjan P, Roy J, Scheike T, Schildcrout J, Shortreed S, et al.
Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 66 (4), 667-668.
08-07-2017
Metabolic profiling identifies trehalose as an abundant and diurnally fluctuating metabolite in the microalga Ostreococcus tauri.Hirth M, Liverani S, Mahlow S, Bouget F-Y, Pohnert G and Sasso S
Metabolomics : Official Journal of The Metabolomic Society vol. 13 (6)
01-01-2017
2016
THE PREVALENCE OF AGE-RELATED CHRONIC CONDITIONS IN ADULTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY.Ryan JM, Mahmoudi E, Hurvitz EA, Victor C, Smith KJ, Anokye N, Liverani S and Peterson MD
GERONTOLOGIST. vol. 56, 420-421.
01-11-2016
Bayesian selection of graphical regulatory modelsLiverani S and Smith JQ
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Elsevier Bv vol. 77, 87-104.
01-10-2016
Modelling collinear and spatially correlated data.Liverani S, Lavigne A and Blangiardo M
Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology vol. 18, 63-73.
27-04-2016
Multi-pollutant exposure profiles associated with term low birth weight in Los Angeles CountyCoker E, Liverani S, Ghosh JK, Jerrett M, Beckerman B, Li A, Ritz B and Molitor J
Environment International, Elsevier vol. 91, 1-13.
15-02-2016
A space–time multivariate Bayesian model to analyse road traffic accidents by severityBoulieri A, Liverani S, de Hoogh K and Blangiardo M
Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series a (Statistics in Society), Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 180 (1), 119-139.
27-01-2016
Multidimensional analysis of the effect of occupational exposure to organic solvents on lung cancer risk: the ICARE studyMattei F, Liverani S, Guida F, Matrat M, Cenee S, Azizi L, Menvielle G, Sanchez M, Pilorget C, Lapotre-Ledoux B, Luce D, Richardson S and Stucker I
Occupational and Environmental Medicine vol. 73 (6), 368-377.
01-01-2016
The association of cardiometabolic functioning clusters with depressive symptoms in older adults: results from the English Longitudinal Study of AgeingLi A, Smith KJ and Liverani S
DIABETIC MEDICINE. vol. 33, 172-172.
01-01-2016
2015
Modeling spatial effects of PM2.5 on term low birth weight in Los Angeles CountyCoker E, Ghosh J, Jerrett M, Gomez-Rubio V, Beckerman B, Cockburn M, Liverani S, Su J, Li A, Kile ML, Ritz B and Molitor J
Environmental Research, Elsevier vol. 142, 354-364.
18-07-2015
Analysing the health effects of simultaneous exposure to physical and chemical properties of airborne particlesPirani M, Best N, Blangiardo M, Liverani S, Atkinson RW and Fuller GW
Environment International, Elsevier vol. 79, 56-64.
19-03-2015
PReMiuM: An R Package for Profile Regression Mixture Models Using Dirichlet Processes.Liverani S, Hastie DI, Azizi L, Papathomas M and Richardson S
Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation For Open Access Statistic vol. 64 (7), 1-30.
01-01-2015
2014
Blood Pressure Differences Associated With Optimal Macronutrient Intake Trial for Heart Health (OMNIHEART)–Like Diet Compared With a Typical American DietMolitor J, Brown IJ, Chan Q, Papathomas M, Liverani S, Molitor N, Richardson S, Van Horn L, Daviglus ML, Dyer A, Stamler J and Elliott P
Hypertension, Wolters Kluwer vol. 64 (6), 1198-1204.
08-09-2014
Sampling from Dirichlet process mixture models with unknown concentration parameter: mixing issues in large data implementationsHastie DI, Liverani S and Richardson S
Statistics and Computing, Springer Nature vol. 25 (5), 1023-1037.
03-05-2014
Abstract P403: Blood Pressure Differences Associated With OMNIHEART-like Lower Sodium Compared With Typical American Higher Sodium Nutrient Profile: INTERMAP USAMolitor J, Brown IJ, Chan Q, Papathomas M, Liverani S, Molitor N, Richardson S, Van Horn L, Daviglus ML, Stamler J and Elliott P
Circulation, Wolters Kluwer vol. 129 (suppl_1)
25-03-2014
2013
A semi-parametric approach to estimate risk functions associated with multi-dimensional exposure profiles: application to smoking and lung cancerHastie DI, Liverani S, Azizi L, Richardson S and Stücker I
Bmc Medical Research Methodology, Springer Nature vol. 13 (1)
23-10-2013
2011
Spatial Clustering of Multivariate Data Using Weighted MAX-SATLiverani S and Petrucci A
Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization., 239-246.
01-01-2011
Data Mining for Longitudinal Data with Different TreatmentsAkacha M, Fonseca TCO and Liverani S
Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization., 409-416.
01-01-2011
2010
Orchestrated transcription of biological processes in the marine picoeukaryote Ostreococcus exposed to light/dark cyclesMonnier A, Liverani S, Bouvet R, Jesson B, Smith JQ, Mosser J, Corellou F and Bouget F-Y
Bmc Genomics, Springer Nature vol. 11 (1)
22-03-2010
Searching a Multivariate Partition Space Using MAX-SATLiverani S, Cussens J and Smith JQ
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6160, 240-253.
01-01-2010
2009
Efficient utility-based clustering over high dimensional partition spacesLiverani S, Anderson PE, Edwards KD, Millar AJ and Smith JQ
Bayesian Analysis, Institute of Mathematical Statistics vol. 4 (3), 539-571.
01-09-2009
2008
Separation measures and the geometry of Bayes factor selection for classificationSmith JQ, Anderson PE and Liverani S
Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology), Oxford University Press (Oup) vol. 70 (5), 957-980.
24-07-2008
2007
The Fifty-Second IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical ContactsPapavasiliou A and Liverani S
Electrical Contacts - 2006. Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts., i-i.
15-01-2007
2006
Entropy Based Adaptive Particle FilterLiverani S and Papavasiliou A
2006 IEEE Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop., 87-90.
01-09-2006
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data ScienceCausal AI - TIL with WarwickSilvia Liverani
£148,405 Alan Turing Institute, The
01-09-2022 - 31-01-2025
Identifying and managing causes of rare and severe complications of Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease – an international prospective cohort studyNicholas Croft and Silvia Liverani
£49,014 Bowel Research UK ( formerly Bowel & Cancer Research)
01-06-2021 - 31-12-2022
Predicting disease and disease outcomes in childrenNicholas Croft and Silvia Liverani
£112,086 BH NHS Barts Health NHS
01-04-2021 - 31-12-2022
Girls in Mathematics Event - SLiveraniSilvia Liverani
£500 London Mathematical Society (LMS)
01-03-2020 - 31-03-2020
Genetically-Informed Envirotyping Tools to Better Match Test and Target EnvironmentsSilvia Liverani
£83,987 University of North Carolina Wilmington
11-07-2017 - 14-02-2020