Last Update September 2007

Editorship

  1. P. Sebastiani, M. Ramoni and I. Kohane (2003), Methods in Functional Genomics. Special issue of the Machine Learning Journal. 52(1-2):5-9.
  2. P. Sebastiani, M. F. Ramoni and I. Kohane (2003), Machine Learning in the Genomics
    Era. Editorial to the special issue Methods in Functional Genomics. Machine Learning
    Journal. 52, 5–9.

Journal papers

  1. M. M. Abad-Grau, J. Ierache, C. Cervino and P. Sebastiani (2008), Evolution and challenges in the design of computational systems for triage assistance in the Emergency Department. J. Biomed. Inform. In press.
  2. 2. P. Sebastiani, Z. Zhao Z, M. M. Abad-Grau, A. Riva A, S. W. Hartley, A. E. Sedgewick, A. Doria, M. Montano, E. Melista, D. Terry, T. T. Perls, M. H. Steinberg, C. T. Baldwin. (2008), A hierarchical and modular approach to the discovery of robust associations in genome-wide association studies from pooled DNA samples. BMC Genetics Jan 14;9(1):6
  3. P. Sebastiani, L. Wang, V. G. Nolan, E. Melista, Q. Ma, C. T. Baldwin and M.
    H. Steinberg (2008), Fetal Hemoglobin in Sickle Cell Anemia: Bayesian Modeling of
    Genetic Associations.     American Journal of Hematology. 83(3):189–95.
  4. D. Terry, P. Sebastiani, S Anderson and T. T. Perls (2008), Disentangling the Roles
    of Disability and Morbidity in Survival to Exceptional Old Age    . Archives of Internal
    Medicine. Feb 11;168(3):277-83.
  5. J. Bean, P. Sebastiani, G. Liu,J. Brody, M. Lenburg, A Spira. (2007) Reversible and
    permanent effects of tobacco smoke exposure on airway epithelial gene expression    .
    Genome Biology 8(9):R201
  6. . P. Sebastiani, V. G. Nolan, C.T. Baldwin, M. M. Abad-Grau, L. Wang, A. H. Adewoye,
    L. C. McMahon, M.D., L. A. Farrer, J. G. Taylor, IV., G. J. Kato, M. T. Gladwin, M. H. Steinberg (2007) A Network Model To Predict The Risk Of Death In Sickle Cell Disease. Blood. 110(7):2727–2735.
  7. P. Sebastiani and M Abad-Grau (2007) Bayesian Estimates of Linkage Disequilibrium.
    BMC Genetics. June 25 8:36.
  8. M. Montano, J. Flanagan, L. Jiang, P Sebastiani, M. Rarick, N. LeBrasseur, C Morris,
    R. Jasuja and S. Bhasin (2007), Transcriptional Profiling Of Testosterone-Regulated
    Genes In The Skeletal Muscle Of Hiv-Infected Men Experiencing Weight Loss.     The
    Journ. Clin. Endoc. Metab. 92(7):2793–2802.
  9. A. Spira, J E Beane, V Shah, K Steiling, G Liu, F Schembri, S Gilman, Y Dumas, P
    Calner, P Sebastiani, S Sridhar, J Beamis, C Lamb, T Anderson, N Gerry, J Keane, M
    E Lenburg and J S Brody (2007), Airway epithelial gene expression in the diagnostic
    evaluation of smokers with suspect lung cancer    . Nature Medicine 13 361–366.
  10. F. Ferrazzi, P. Sebastiani, M. F. Ramoni, and R. Bellazzi (2007), Bayesian approaches
    to reverse engineer cellular systems: a simulation study on nonlinear Gaussian networks    .
    BMC Bioinformatics. 8(Suppl 5):S2 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S5-S2.
  11. M. Abad, R. Montes and P. Sebastiani (2006), Building chromosome-wide LD maps.
    Bioinformatics. 22, 1933–1944
  12. 12. P. Sebastiani, H. Xe and M. F. Ramoni (2006), Bayesian Analysis of Comparative
    Microarray Experiments by Model Averaging    . Bayesian Analysis Journal. 1, 707–732.
  13. M. Montano, M. Rarick, P. Sebastiani, P. Brinkmann, M. Russell, A. Navis, M. Essex,
    C. Wester and I. Thior (2006), Gene-Expression Profiling of HIV-1 Infection and
    Perinatal Transmission in Southern Africa    . Genes and Immunity. 7, 298–309.
  14. V. Nolan, A. Adewoye, C. Baldwin, L. Wang, Q. Ma, D. Wyszynski, J. Farrell,
    P. Sebastiani, L. Farrer and M. H. Steinberg (2006), Sickle Cell Leg Ulcers: Associations
    with Haemolysis and SNPs in Klotho, TEK and Genes of the TGF- /BMP Pathway    . British Journal of Hematology. 133, 570–578.
  15. M. Rarick, C. McPheeters C, S. Bright S, A. Navis A, J. Skefos J, P. Sebastiani, M
    Montano (2006), Evidence for cross-regulated cytokine response in human peripheral
    blood mononuclear cells exposed to whole gonococcal bacteria in vitro    . Microb Pathog.
    40, 261–270.
  16. P. Sebastiani, K. D. Mandl, P. Szolovits, I. S. Kohane and M. F. Ramoni (2006), Rejoinder:
    A Bayesian dynamic model forinfluenza surveillance    . Statistics in Medicine. 25, 1823–1825.
  17. P. Sebastiani, K. D. Mandl, P. Szolovits, I. S. Kohane and M. F. Ramoni (2006),
    A Bayesian dynamic model for influenza surveillance. Statistics in Medicine. 25,
    1803–1816.
  18. M. Montano, M. Rarick, P. Sebastiani, P. Brinkmann, J. Skefos and R. Ericksen
    (2006), HIV-1 burden influences host response to co-infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae
    in vitro    . Int Immunol., 18, 125–137.
  19. P. Sebastiani, M. F. Ramoni, V. Nolan, C. T Baldwin, M. H. Steinberg (2005), From
    the Cover: Genetic dissection and prognostic modeling of overt stroke in sickle cell
    anemia    . Nature Genetics, 37, 435–440.
  20. C. T. Baldwin, V. G. Nolan, D. F. Wyszynski, Q. Ma, P. Sebastiani, S. H. Embury, A.
    Bisbee, J. Farrell, L. Farrer and M. H. Steinberg (2005), Association of Klotho, Bone
    Morphogenic Protein 6 and Annexin A2 Polymorphisms with Sickle Cell Osteonecrosis.
    Blood. In press.
  21. E. S. Klings, S. Safaya, A. H. Adewoye, A. Odhiambo, G. Frampton, M. Lenburg,
    N. Gerry, P. Sebastiani, M. H. Steinberg and H.W. Farber (2005), Differential Gene
    Expression in Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cells Exposed to Sickle Cell Plasma.
    Physiological Genomics. In press
  22. L. Wang, M. F. Ramoni, K. D. Mandl and P. Sebastiani (2005), Factors Affecting the Performance of Syndromic Surveillance Systems. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. In press
  23. P. Sebastiani, and M. F. Ramoni (2005), Normative Selection of Bayesian Networks. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 93: 340-357.
  24. P. Sebastiani, M. Abad, G. Alpargu and M. F. Ramoni (2004), Robust Transmissio/
    Disequilibrium Test for Incomplete Family Genotypes. Genetics. 168: 2329-2337.
  25. K. Mandl, J. M. Overhage, M. M. Wagner, W. L. Lober, P. Sebastiani, F. Mostashari,J. A. Pavlin, P. H. Gesteland, T. Treadwell, E. Koski, L. Hutwagner, D. L Buckeridge, R. D. Aller, S. Grannis, (2004), Implementing Syndromic Surveillance: A Practical Guide Informed by the Early Experience. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 11:141-150.
  26. P. Sebastiani, Y. H. Yu, and M. Ramoni (2003), Bayesian Machine Learning and Its Potential Applications to the Genomic Study of Oral Oncology. Advances in Dental Research. 17:104-108.
  27. P. Sebastiani, R. Lazarus, S. T. Weiss, L. M. Kunkel, I. S. Kohane and M. F. Ramoni (2003), Minimal Haplotype Tagging. Proc. of the Nat Acad of Sci. 100(17):9900–9905,
  28. P. Sebastiani, E. Gussoni, I. S. Kohane and M. Ramoni, (2003), Rejoinder. Statistical Science. 18:69–70.
  29. P. Sebastiani, E. Gussoni, I. S. Kohane and M. Ramoni, (2003), Statistical Challenges in Functional Genomics. (With discussion) Statistical Science. 18(1):33-60.
  30. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani and I.S. Kohane (2002) From the cover: Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Dynamics. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA.99(14):9121-9126.
  31. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani, P. Cohen (2002), Bayesian Clustering by Dynamics. Machine Learning, 47 (1), 91–121.
  32. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2001), Bayesian Selection of Decomposable Models with Incomplete Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96 , 1375–1386.
  33. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2001), Common Trends in European School Population. Research in Official Statistics, 4 (1), 169–183.
  34. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2001), On the Use of Bayesian Networks to Analyze Survey Data. Research in Official Statistics, 4 (1), 53–64.
  35. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (2001). Robust Bayes Classifiers. Artificial Intelligence 125(1-2):207-224.
  36. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (2001). Robust Learning with Missing Data. Machine Learning. 147-170.
  37. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani, and R. Dybowsky (2001). Robust Prediction for Intensive Care Patients. Methods of Information in Medicine. 40(1):39-45.
  38. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2000). Bayesian Inference with Missing Data Using Bound and Collapse. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 9, 779-800.
  39. P. Sebastiani, M. Ramoni and A. Crea (2000). Profiling your Customers using Bayesian Networks. ACM SIGKDD Explorations, 1(2).
  40. P.Sebastiani and H.P.Wynn (2000), Maximum Entropy Sampling and Optimal Bayesian Experimental Design. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B. 62, 145--157.
  41. A. P. Dawid and P. Sebastiani (1999), Coherent Dispersion Criteria for Optimal Experimental Design. Annals of Statistics 27, 57--81.
  42. P. Sebastiani and R.  Settimi (1998), First-order Optimal Design for Nonlinear Problems. J.Statist. Plann. Infer, 74, 177--192.
  43. M.Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (1998), Parameter Estimation in Bayesian Networks from Incomplete Databases. Intelligent Data Analysis, 2(1).
  44. P. Sebastiani, R. Settimi (1997) A Note on D-optimal Designs for a Logistic Regression Model. J. Statist. Plann. Inference, 59, 359--368.
  45. S. Colazza, M.G. Rosi, P. Sebastiani, M. Ursini (1996), Host Discrimination in the Egg Parasitoids Trissolcus Basalis. Acta AEecologia, 17, 109--125.
  46. P. Sebastiani (1996), On the Derivatives of Matrix Powers. SIAM Journal of matrix analysis and applications 17, No 3, 640--648.
  47. M.L. Eaton, A. Giovagnoli, P. Sebastiani (1996), A Predictive Approach to the Bayesian Design Problem with Application to Normal Regression Models. Biometrika, 83, 111--125.
  48. J. Burridge, P. Sebastiani (1994), D-optimal Designs for Generalized Linear Models with Variance Proportional to the Square of the Mean. Biometrika 81, 295--304.
  49. J. Burridge, P. Sebastiani (1992), Optimal Designs for Generalized Linear Models. J. Ital. Statist. Soc., 2, 183--202.
  50. M. I. Taticchi, P. Pandolfi, M. T. Biondi, P. Sebastiani (1992), Population Dynamics of Daphnia Galeata Sars and Bosmina Longirostris Muell in Trasimeno Lake. Bollettino di Zoologia, 59, 427--435.
  51. A. Giovagnoli, P. Sebastiani (1989), Experimental Designs for Mean and Variance Estimation in Variance Component Models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 8, 21--28, Correction ibidem 1990, 10, 93.
  52. A. Giovagnoli, P. Sebastiani (1988), Introduzione ai Modelli Lineari con piu Componenti di Varianza. (in Italian) Quaderni di Statistica e Matematica Applicata 4, Universita di Perugia, 79--112.

Invited book chapters and discussions

  1. M. Montano and P. Sebastiani (2008), Efforts to characterize host response to HIV-1 infection. In Host gene responses to RNA virus infection, Y Decheng et al. (Eds).
  2. P. Sebastiani, A. Puca and T. T. Perls (2008), Deciphering The Familial and Genetic
    Influences Upon Exceptional Longevity. To appear in Exceptional Longevity. John
    Hopkins University Press.
  3. T. T. Perls and P. Sebastiani (2007), Genetics of exceptional longevity. To appear in
    Molecular Biology of Aging. L. Guarente et al. (Eds) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    Press
  4. P. Sebastiani and T. T. Perls (2007), Complex Genetic Models. To appear in Bayesian
    Belief Networks: A Practical Guide to Applications. Olivier Pourret, Patrick Nam and
    Bruce G. Marcot (Eds). Wiley, NY.
  5. P. Sebastiani and M. Abad (2007), Bayesian Networks for Genetics Analysis. In Systems
    Bioinformatics: An Engineering Case-Based Approach, To appear.
  6. P. Sebastiani, J. Jeneralcuk and M. F. Ramoni (2006), Design and Analysis of Screening
    Experiments with Microarrays. In Screening, A. Dean and S Lewis (editors). Springer Verlag, NY. 115–138.
  7. P. Sebastiani, M. F. Ramoni (2005), Learning Bayesian Networks. In Encyclopedia of
    Data Warehosing and Mining. Kluwer, Amsterdam. 2, 674–678.
  8. P. Sebastiani, M. Abad and M. F. Ramoni (2005), Bayesian Networks. In The Data
    Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook. 193–230.
  9. P. Sebastiani, M. Abad and M. F. Ramoni (2005), Bayesian Networks for Genomic
    Analysis. In Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, Dougherty, E. R., Shmulevich,
    I., Chen, J., and Wang, Z. J. (Eds.). 281–320.
  10. P. Sebastiani and K. Mandl (2004), Biosurveillance and Outbreak Detection. In Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions, H. Kargupta A. Joshi K.Sivakumar and Y. Yesha (Eds). MIT Press. 185–198.
  11. P. Sebastiani, M. F. Ramoni and I. Kohane (2003), Machine Learning in the Genomics Era. Editorial to the special issue Methods in Functional Genomics. Machine Learning Journal. 52, 5–9.
  12. P. Sebastiani, M. Ramoni and I. Kohane (2003), Bayesian Model-based Clustering of Gene Expression Dynamics. In The Analysis of Microarray Data: Methods and Software, G. Parmigiani, E. S. Garrett, R. A. Irizarry, and S. L. Zeger editors, Springer, NY. 400-427.
  13. M. F. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (2003), Bayesian Methods in Intelligent Data Analysis. In Intelligent Data Analysis. An Introduction., M. R. Berthold and D.J. Hand (Eds).Springer Verlag, New York. 128–166. 2nd Ed. 131–168.
  14. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani and P. Cohen (2001). Sequence Learning via Bayesian Clustering by Dynamics. In L. Giles and R. Sun, editors, Sequence Learning: Paradigms, Algorithms, and Applications, Springer, New York, NY. 11-34.
  15. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (1999), Bayesian Methods for Intelligent Data Analysis. In M. Berthold and D.J. Hand, editors, Intelligent Data Analysis: An Introduction, Springer, New York, NY. 128-166. 2nd Ed, 2003.
  16. P. Sebastiani (1996), Invited discussion to the papers by Atkinson and by Bates et al. Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, April 1995. J. Royal Statist. Soc. B , 58, 96--97.

Refereed conference proceedings

  1. M. M. Abad-Grau and P. Sebastiani (2007), Multivariate Imputation of Genotype
    Data using Short and Long Range Disequilibrium. In Proceedings of Computation
    and Simulation in Modelling Biological Systems.
  2. F. Ferrazzi, P. Sebastiani, L. Wang, R. Bellazzi, I. S. Kohane and M. F. Ramoni
    (2005), Discovering Feedback Control Mechanisms in Gene Expression. To appear in
    Proceedings of Gensips 2005.
  3. L. Wang, P. Sebastiani and M. F. Ramoni (2005), Gene Expression Pattern Identifi-
    cation Using Bayesian Clustering by Dynamics. To appear in Proceedings of Gensips
    2005.
  4. P. Sebastiani, L. Wang, K. D. Mandl and M. F. Ramoni (2004), Outbreak Detection by Signal Integration. In MMWR: Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Reports (Supplement). 257,
    57.
  5. S. Lodi, P. Sebastiani, D. Cocchi and M. F. Ramoni (2004), Bayesian Clustering of Gene Expression Dynamics: An Application. In New Developments in Classification
    and Data Analysis.     Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization,
    Springer-Verlag. 259–266.
  6. S. Lodi, D. Cocchi and P. Sebastiani (2003), Applications of Bayesian Clustering by Dynamics. In Book of short papers. CLADAG 2003: Meeting of the Classification and
    Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society CLUEB, Bologna, 249–252.
  7. T. M. Rath, M. Carrerar and P. Sebastiani (2003). Automated Detection of Influenza Epidemics Using Hidden Markov Models. In: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis. Proc. of the 5th Int`l Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Berlin, Germany, August 28-30, 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, New York. 521–531.
  8. C. Morrison, P. R. Cohen and P. Sebastiani (2002). On the Development of Visual Object Memory: The Stay/Go Decision Problem. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'02).
  9. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2001), Clustering Continuous Time Series. Proceeding of the 18th International Conference on Machine Learning. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (CA), 497–504.
  10. H. P. Wynn and P. Sebastiani, (2001), The Quantization of the Attention Function under a Bayes Information Theoretic Model. MaxEnt 2000: Twentieth International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy in Science and Engineering. AIP Conference Proceedings. 159-168
  11. P. Sebastiani and H. P. Wynn, (2001), Design to Maximize Information. MaxEnt 2000: Twentieth International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy in Science and Engineering. AIP Conference Proceedings. 192-203.
  12. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (2001). Analysis of Survey Data with Bayesian Networks. Bayesian Methods: Selected Papers from Sixth World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), European Communities, Luxembourg, 429-438
  13. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2001). Bayesian Clustering by Dynamics of European Socio-economic Indicators. Bayesian Methods: Selected Papers from Sixth World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), European Communities, Luxembourg, 479-488.
  14. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani and P. Cohen (2001). Bayesian analysis of sensory inputs of a mobile robot. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics. Lecture Notes in Statistics, Springer, New York, NY, 363-379
  15. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani and P. Cohen (2000). Multivariate Clustering by Dynamics. Proceedings of the 2000 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000). AAAI Press/The MIT Press: Menlo Park/Cambridge, 633-638.
  16. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani, P. Cohen and J. Warwick (2000). Unsupervised Clustering of Robot Activities: A Bayesian Approach. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS-2000), ACM Press, New York, 134-136.
  17. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni, Robust Bayesian Classification (2000). Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing (COMPSTAT-2000). Springer, New York, NY.
  18. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2000) Official Statistics via Bayesian Networks. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing (COMPSTAT-2000). Short Communications. Statistics Netherlands and the Utrecht University.
  19. P. Sebastiani, M. Ramoni, P. Cohen, J. Warwick and J. Davis (1999). Discovering Dynamics using Bayesian Clustering. Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-99). Springer, New York, NY. 199-210
  20. P. Sebastiani, M. Ramoni and P. Cohen (1999). Unsupervised Classification of Sensory Inputs in a Mobile Robot. Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Neural, Symbolic, and Reinforcement Methods for Sequence Learning. Stockholm, Sweden, August. 23-28
  21. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani and R. Dybowsky (1999). Robust Outcome Prediction for Intensive Care Patients. Proceedings of the AIMDM-99 Workshop on Prognostic Models in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Analytic Approaches. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 45-49.
  22. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (1999), Learning Conditional Probabilities from Incomplete Data: An Experimental Comparison, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, (AI&Stats99). Morgan Kaufman, San Mateo, CA, 260--265.
  23. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (1999), Model Folding for Data Subject to Nonresponse, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, (AI&Stats99). Morgan Kaufman, San Mateo, CA,  287--292.
  24. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (1998), Decision Theoretic Foundations of Graphical Model Selection. in Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI98). Madison, WI, 464--471.
  25. P. Sebastiani and H.P. Wynn (1998), Risk Based Optimal Designs. in Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Model Oriented Data Analysis and Experimental Design, (A.C.Atkinson, L.Pronzato and H.P. Wynn Eds) Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, 247--257.
  26. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (1998), Induction of Graphical Models from Incomplete Samples in Proceedings of the XIII Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing (COMPSTAT-98). Bristol, United Kingdom, 449--454.
  27. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (1997), The Use of Exogenous Knowledge to Learn Bayesian Networks from Incomplete Databases, Proceedings of the IDA97 conference. London 4--6 August 1997, 537--548.
  28. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (1997), Learning Bayesian Networks from Incomplete Databases, Proceedings of the Thirteen Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. Providence, Rhode Island, August 1--3 1997, 401--408
  29. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (1997), Robust Parameter Learning in Bayesian Networks with Missing Data in Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on AI and Statistics, Ft Lauderdale, FL, 339--406.
  30. R.G. Cowell, A.P. Dawid, P. Sebastiani (1996), A Comparison of Sequential Learning Methods for Incomplete Data. Bayesian Statistics 5 J.M. Bernardo, J.O. Berger, A.P. Dawid and A.F.M. Smith (eds.) Oxford University Press, 533--542.
  31. P. Sebastiani, R. Settimi (1994). Planning Experiments in non Linear Situations. Proceedings of the 9th International workshop on statistical modelling, Exeter, July 1994.
  32. P. Sebastiani, M. Ursini (1994), Modelling the Behaviour of a Parasitoid Insect, (in Italian) Atti della XXXVII Riunione Scientifica della Societa Italiana di Statistica San Remo, 1994, 171--177.
  33. A. Forcina, P. Sebastiani (1993), Graphical Analysis of Conditional Independence. Proceedings of the 8th International workshop on statistical modelling, Leuven, July 1993, 85--87.
  34. P. Sebastiani (1991), Optimal Designs for Generalized Linear Models, Atti del Convegno SIS ``Sviluppi metodologici nei diversi approcci all'inferenza statistica", Cagliari, April 1991, Pitagora ed., 1, 167--170.

Other conference proceedings and abstracts

  1. P. Sebastiani, L. Wang, T. T. Perls, D. Terry, V. G. Nolan, M. Montano, C. T. Baldwin
    and M. H. Steinberg (2007), A repertoire of genes that modify the risk of death in sickle cell
    anemia. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007. In press.
  2. V. G. Nolan, Y. Zhang, T. Lash, P. Sebastiani and M. H. Steinberg (2007), Association of
    wind speed and the occurrence of sickle cell acute painful episodes: results of a case-crossover study. Blood (American Society of hematology, Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007. In press.
  3. L. Wang, V. Nolan, C. Baldwin, M. H. Steinberg and P. Sebastiani (2007), Discovery of
    genetic modifiers of a finite domain phenotype using Bayesian beta regression. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, (JSM 2007). In press.
  4. Y. Yang and P. Sebastiani (2007), An evaluation of different experimental designs of temporal microarray experiments. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, (JSM 2007). In press.
  5. A. Ozonoff, J. Ashba and P. Sebastiani (2006), Calculation of excess influenza mortality
    for small geographic regions. Proceedings of the JSM 2006.
  6. A. Ozonoff, S. Sukpraprut and P. Sebastiani (2006), Modeling seasonality of influenza
    with Hidden Markov Models. Proceedings of the JSM 2006.
  7. P. Sebastiani,V. G. Nolan, C. T. Baldwin, M. M. Abad-Grau, L. Wang, A. H. Adewoye,
    L. C. McMahon, L. A. Farrer, J. G. Taylor, VI, G. J. Kato, M. T. Gladwin, M. H. Steinberg (2006), Severity of Sickle Cell Disease: Modeling Interrelationships Among Hemolysis, Pulmonary Hypertension and Risk of Death. In Blood. Supplement: Proceedings of the 48 th ASH Annual Meeting.
  8. P. Sebastiani, M. M. Abad-Grau, A. Riva, V. G. Nolan, E. Melista, M. H. Steinberg
    and C. T. Baldwin (2006), Fetal Hemoglobin (HbF) in Sickle Cell Anemia: Genome-
    Wide Association Studies using Pooled DNA Samples can Reveal Genetic Associations
    with HbF Concentration. In Blood. Supplement: Proceedings of the 48 th ASH Annual
    Meeting.
  9. P. Sebastiani, E. Hadley, M. Province, A. Yashin, K. Christensen, J. Vaupel, C. Kammerer,
    W. Rossi, T. Perls, A. Ash (2006), A Family Longevity Selection Score. Proceedings
    of the 2006 Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. 411
  10. P. Sebastiani, C. T. Baldwin, V. Nolan, D. F. Wyszynski, Q. Ma, J. Farrell, A. Bisbee,
    K. Waraska, L. A. Farrer, M. H. Steinberg (2005), Polymorphisms (SNPs) in multiple
    genes of the TGF-BMP pathway are associated with a global measure of sickle cell
    disease severity. In Blood. Supplement: Proceedings of the 47 th ASH Annual Meeting.
    In press.
  11. V. G. Nolan, P. Sebastiani, C. T. Baldwin, D. F. Wyszynski, Q. Ma, A. Bisbee, J.
    Farrell, L. A. Farrer, M. H. Steinberg (2005), Modeling Genetic Polymorhphisms and
    Sickle Cell Associated Vasooclusive Events Using Classification and Regression Trees
    (CART). Abstract accepted for the 28th Annual Meeting of the National Sickle Cell Disease.
  12. P. Sebastiani, V. Nolan, C. T. Baldwin and M. H. Steinberg (2005), Modeling Phenotype
    Interactions in Sickle Cell Disease. Abstract accepted for the 28th Annual Meeting of the National Sickle Cell Disease.
  13. P. Sebastiani (2005), Hypothesis versus data driven modeling, Abstract submitted for
    the Joint Statistical Meeting, 2005.
  14. M. Abad, P. Sebastiani and M. F. Ramoni (2005), Bayesian estimator of pairwise
    linkage disequilibrium. Abstract submitted for the conference “Genome Studies and
    the HapMap”.
  15. P. Sebastiani, V. Nolan, C. T. Baldwin and M. H. Steinberg (2004), Modeling Phenotype
    Interactions in Sickle Cell Anemia.In Blood. Supplement: Proceedings of the 46th
    ASH Annual Meeting. 104:11, 460a.
  16. P. Sebastiani, M. F Ramoni, V. Nolan, C. T. Baldwin and M. H. Steinberg (2004),
    Multigenic Dissection and Prognostic Modeling of Overt Stroke in Sickle Cell Anemia.
    In Blood. Supplement: Proceedings of the 46th ASH Annual Meeting. 104:11, 462a.
  17. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (2003), Bayesian Differential Analysis of Gene ExpressionData. In Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting. New York, August 2002. Section on Bayesian Statistical Science.
  18. M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (2001), Bayesian Bioinformatics. Proceedings of the Workshop “Bayesian models in medicine”. Cascais, Pt, 2001. Page 1-4.
  19. P. Sebastiani and M. Ramoni (1999), Iterative Approximation of the Marginal Likelihood from Incomplete Data. In Book of Abstracts of the Second European Conference on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, University of Pavia, 262--264.
  20. M. Ramoni, P. Sebastiani and P. Cohen (1999), Bayesian Analysis of Sensory Inputs of a Mobile Robot. In Book of Abstracts of the Second European Conference on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, University of Pavia, 235--236.
  21. R. G. Cowell, M. Ramoni and P. Sebastiani (1999), An Experimental Evaluation of the Predictive Accuracy of Bayesian Networks. In Book of Abstracts of the Second European Conference on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, University of Pavia, 75--76.
  22. P. Sebastiani and H.P. Wynn (1997), Bayesian Experimental Design and Shannon Information. In 1997 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. American Statistical Association, 176 --181.
  23. M.L. Eaton, A. Giovagnoli and P. Sebastiani (1993), A Predictive Approach to the Bayesian Design Problem with Application to Normal Regression Models. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, Proceedings 49th Session, Contributed papers, 1, 405--406.

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Book reviews.

  1. A. Giovagnoli and P. Sebastiani (1992), Review of the book by A.C.Atkinson and Donev, ``Optimum Experimental Designs''. Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, 1, 425--426.

General articles

  1. P. Sebastiani (2002), Caged: Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Dynamics. Isba Bulletin., 9(2), 11--12..
  2. P. Sebastiani (2002), Computational Challenges in the Post-genome Era. Department Newletter. In press

 

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