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Freelance Statistician & Data Analyst | Biostatistics | Expert in R

Profile Summary

I enjoy solving problems using data. I have 14+ years of experience in academia, building statistical models for a variety of applications, including medicine, biology and environmental sciences. I am a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Queen Mary University of London, and I have held positions also at Imperial College London, University of Bristol and Brunel University London. I have an MSc and PhD in Statistics from the University of Warwick, UK.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Biostatistics
• ★ Applied Statistics
• ★ Medical Statistics
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Statistical Theory
• ☆ Social Statistics
• ☆ Bayesian Statistics
• ☆ Statistical Computing
• ☆ Mathematical Statistics
• ☆ Spatial Statistics
• ☆ Environmental Statistics
• ☆ Educational Statistics
• ☆ Business Statistics

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Technical Writing, Newswriting

Research Market Research, Feasibility Study

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization

Product Development Formulation

Work Experience

Senior Lecturer in Statistics

Queen Mary University of London, UK

October 2017 - Present

Lecturer in Statistics

Brunel University London, UK

August 2014 - August 2017

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Imperial College London, UK

November 2011 - July 2014

Brunel Research Fellow

University of Bristol, UK

November 2009 - October 2011

Education

PhD in Statistics

University of Warwick, UK

October 2006 - September 2009

MSc in Statistics

University of Warwick, UK

October 2005 - September 2006

BSc in Statistics

Universita' di Firenze, Italy

October 2002 - July 2005

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Silvia Liverani, Xi Liu, Kimberley J. Smith, Keming Yu(2020). Modeling tails for collinear data with outliers in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Quantile profile regression . Biometrical Journal. 62. (4). p. 916--931. Wiley

Silvia Liverani, Lucy Leigh, Irene L. Hudson, Julie E. Byles (2020). Clustering method for censored and collinear survival data . Computational Statistics.

Silvia Liverani, Jim Q. Smith(2016). Bayesian selection of graphical regulatory models . International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 77. p. 87--104. Elsevier {BV}

Silvia Liverani, Aurore Lavigne, Marta Blangiardo(2016). Modelling collinear and spatially correlated data . Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 18. p. 63--73. Elsevier {BV}

Silvia Liverani, Eric Coker, Jo Kay Ghosh, Michael Jerrett, Bernardo Beckerman, Arthur Li, Beate Ritz, John Molitor(2016). Multi-pollutant exposure profiles associated with term low birth weight in Los Angeles County . Environment International. 91. p. 1--13. Elsevier {BV}

Silvia Liverani, Francesca Mattei, Florence Guida, Mireille Matrat, Sylvie Cenée, Lamiae Azizi, Gwenn Menvielle, Marie Sanchez, Corinne Pilorget, Bénédicte Lapôtre-Ledoux, et al.(2016). Multidimensional analysis of the effect of occupational exposure to organic solvents on lung cancer risk: the {ICARE} study . Occup Environ Med. p. oemed--2015--103177. {BMJ}

Silvia Liverani, Areti Boulieri, Kees de Hoogh, Marta Blangiardo(2016). A space-time multivariate Bayesian model to analyse road traffic accidents by severity . J. R. Stat. Soc. A. p. n/a--n/a. Wiley-Blackwell

Silvia Liverani, Eric Coker, Jokay Ghosh, Michael Jerrett, Virgilio Gomez-Rubio, Bernardo Beckerman, Myles Cockburn, Jason Su, Arthur Li, Molly L Kile, et al.(2015). Modeling spatial effects of {PM}2.5 on term low birth weight in Los Angeles County . Environmental Research. 142. p. 354--364. Elsevier {BV}

Silvia Liverani, Monica Pirani, Nicky Best, Marta Blangiardo, Richard W. Atkinson, Gary W. Fuller(2015). Analysing the health effects of simultaneous exposure to physical and chemical properties of airborne particles . Environment International. 79. p. 56--64. Elsevier {BV}

Silvia Liverani, David I. Hastie, Lamiae Azizi, Michail Papathomas, Sylvia Richardson(2015). {PReMiuM} : An R Package for Profile Regression Mixture Models Using Dirichlet Processes . Journal of Statistical Software. 64. (7). Foundation for Open Access Statistic

Silvia Liverani, David I. Hastie, Sylvia Richardson(2014). Sampling from Dirichlet process mixture models with unknown concentration parameter: mixing issues in large data implementations . Statistics and Computing. 25. (5). p. 1023--1037. Springer Science $\mathplus$ Business Media

Silvia Liverani, David I Hastie, Lamiae Azizi, Sylvia Richardson, Isabelle Stücker(2013). A semi-parametric approach to estimate risk functions associated with multi-dimensional exposure profiles: application to smoking and lung cancer . {BMC} Med Res Methodol. 13. (1). p. 129. Springer Science $\mathplus$ Business Media

Silvia Liverani, Annabelle Monnier, Regis Bouvet, Beline Jesson, Jim Q Smith, Jean Mosser, Florence Corellou, Francois-Yves Bouget(2010). Orchestrated transcription of biological processes in the marine picoeukaryote Ostreococcus exposed to light/dark cycles . {BMC} Genomics. 11. (1). p. 192. Springer Science $\mathplus$ Business Media

Silvia Liverani, Paul E. Anderson, Kieron D. Edwards, Andrew J. Millar, Jim Q. Smith(2009). Efficient utility-based clustering over high dimensional partition spaces . Bayesian Anal. 4. (3). p. 539--571. Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Silvia Liverani, Jim Q. Smith, Paul E. Anderson(2008). Separation measures and the geometry of Bayes factor selection for classification . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology). 70. (5). p. 957--980. Wiley-Blackwell

OTHER

Silvia Liverani, Mouna Akacha, Thaís C. O. Fonseca(2011). Data Mining for Longitudinal Data with Different Treatments . 409--416Springer Science $\mathplus$ Business Media

Silvia Liverani, Alessandra Petrucci(2011). Spatial Clustering of Multivariate Data Using Weighted {MAX}-{SAT} . 239--246Springer Science $\mathplus$ Business Media

Silvia Liverani, James Cussens, Jim Q. Smith(2010). Searching a Multivariate Partition Space Using {MAX}-{SAT} . 240--253Springer Science $\mathplus$ Business Media

CONFERENCE PAPER

Silvia Liverani, Anastasia Papavasiliou(2006). Entropy Based Adaptive Particle Filter . Institute of Electrical {\&} Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})