Radu Craiu's Publications

(trainees are marked with §)


Outreach and Community Building

  1. Radu's Rides: Is More Less? (2024). IMS Bulletin, 53, No. 1, pg 4. pdf
  2. Radu's Rides: Summer Pitfalls (2023). IMS Bulletin, 52, No. 7, pg 7. pdf
  3. Radu's Rides: The Stand-up Statistician (2023). IMS Bulletin, 52, No. 5, pg 5. pdf
  4. Review of The Bordeaux Club by Neil McKendrick (2023). Journal of Wine Economics, to appear. pdf
  5. Introducing... Clara-fications (2023). IMS Bulletin, 52, No. 4, pg 23. pdf
  6. Radu's Rides: In Praise of Praise (2023). IMS Bulletin, 52, No. 2, pg 7. pdf
  7. Radu's Rides: Flying like a bosstatistician (2022). IMS Bulletin, 51, No. 7, pg 12. pdf
  8. Radu's Rides: Theoretically, we could be more practical (2022). IMS Bulletin, 51, No. 5, pg 12-13. pdf
  9. Radu's Rides: Those on whose shoulders we stand (2021). IMS Bulletin, 50, No. 7, pg 12. pdf
  10. Radu's Rides: Oh OUCH, to be young again! (2021). IMS Bulletin, 50, No. 5, pg 11. pdf
  11. Radu's Rides: Notes to my past self (2021). IMS Bulletin, 50, No. 4, pg 9. pdf
  12. Radu's Rides: A Valentine's Day Special (2021). IMS Bulletin, 50, No. 2, pg 4. pdf
  13. Radu's Rides: Will the Future Mature? (2020). IMS Bulletin, 49, No. 8, pg 4-5. pdf
  14. Radu's Rides: The Stink of Mathematical Righteousness (2020). IMS Bulletin, 49, No. 7, pg 12-13. pdf
  15. Radu's Rides: The Road Less Traveled (2020). IMS Bulletin, 49, No. 5, pg 16-17. pdf
  16. Radu's Rides: A lesson in humility (2020). IMS Bulletin, 49, No. 4, pg 6. pdf
  17. Radu's Rides: A True Embarrassment of Riches (2020). IMS Bulletin, 49, No. 2, pg 6. pdf
  18. The Hiring Gambit: In Search of the Twofer Data Scientist (2019). Harvard Data Science Review, 1, No. 1. pdf
  19. My `sexy statistics' - take it or LV it (2018). IMS Bulletin, 47, No. 8, pg 13. pdf
  20. Growing Pains and Gains in Statistics, the Toronto Way (2018). IMS Bulletin, 47, No. 6, pg 11. pdf
  21. A Contribution to "Math in Seventeen Syllables: A Folder of Mathematical Haiku" (2018). Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 8, pg 450. pdf
  22. Review of Perfect Simulation by Mark Huber (2016). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 111, pg 1849-1850. pdf
  23. In Search of a Statistical Culture (2013). IMS Bulletin, 42, No. 2, pg 7. pdf
  24. Idle Hands for Monte Carlo Residents (2011). ISBA Bulletin, 18, No. 3, pg 16-19. pdf
  25. The Renaissance Statistician (2010). IMS Bulletin, 39, No. 3, pg 10. pdf
  26. The Statistics Debutante's Dilemma (2009). IMS Bulletin, 38, No. 3, pg 3-5. pdf

Research

  1. Copula Modelling of Serially Correlated Multivariate Data with Hidden Structures (2023). Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear. (with Robert Zimmerman§ and Vianey Leos-Barajas) pdf.
  2. Living on the Edge: Antithetic Sampling on Segments (2023+). Statistical Science, 39, No. 1, 115 — 136. (with Roberto Casarin, Lorenzo Frattarolo§ and Christian P. Robert) pdf
  3. Characterization of direct and/or indirect genetic associations for multiple traits in longitudinal studies of disease progression (2023). Genetics, to appear. (with Myriam Brossard§, Andrew D. Paterson, Osvaldo Espin-Garcia§ and Shelley B. Bull) medRxiv
  4. A conversation with Nancy Reid (2023). The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 51, 752 — 759. (with Grace Yi) pdf
  5. Six Statistical Senses (2023). Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 10, 699 — 725. (with Ruobin Gong and Xiao-Li Meng). pdf
  6. Approximate Methods for Bayesian Computation (2023). Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 10, 379 — 400. (with Evgeny Levi§). pdf
  7. Exploring dimension learning via a penalized probabilistic principal component analysis. (2023). Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 93, No. 2, 266 — 297. (with Wei Q. Deng§) pdf and Appendix.
    Wei's R-package SPAC2 has been built to implement the paper's methods and is available here.
  8. Double Happiness: Enhancing the Coupled Gains of L-lag Coupling via Control Variates (2022). Statistica Sinica, 32, No. 4, 1745 — 1766. (with Xiao-Li Meng) pdf
  9. Reflections on Bayesian Inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2022). The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 50, No. 4, 1213 — 1227 (identified as a most downloaded paper of the journal). (with Paul Gustafson and Jeffrey Rosenthal) pdf
  10. Finding Our Way in the Dark: Approximate MCMC for Approximate Bayesian Methods (2022). Bayesian Analysis, 17, No. 1, 193 — 221 (with Evgeny Levi§) pdf and Appendix
  11. Two-phase sample selection strategies for design and analysis in post-genome wide association fine-mapping studies (2021). Statistics in Medicine, 40, 6792 — 6817. (with Osvaldo Espin-Garcia§ and Shelley B. Bull) pdf
  12. The X Factor: A Robust and Powerful Approach to X-chromosome-Inclusive Whole-genome Association Studies (2021). Genetic Epidemiology, 45, 694-709. (identified as a top cited and top downloaded paper of the journal) (with Bo Chen§, Lisa Strug and Lei Sun) pdf
  13. Discussion of Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods with coupling by Yves Atchade, Pierre Jacob and John O'Leary (2020). JRSS-B, 82, No. 3, 578 — 581. (with Xiao-Li Meng) (pdf of Paper, discussion and rejoinder).
  14. Assessing Data Support for the Simplifying Assumption in Bivariate Conditional Copulas (2020). In Nonparametrics Statistics. Edited by Michele La Rocca, Brunero Liseo and Luigi Salmaso. (with Evgeny Levi§). pdf

  15. Nonparametric imputation method for nonresponse in surveys (2020). Statistical Methods and Applications, 20, No. 5, 25 — 48. (with Caren Hasler§) pdf
  16. Bayesian model averaging for the X-chromosome inactivation dilemma in genetic association study (2020). Biostatistics, 21, No. 2, 319 — 335. (with Bo Chen§ and Lei Sun) pdf
  17. Adaptive Component-wise Multiple-try Metropolis Sampling (2019). Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 28, No. 2, 276 — 289. (with Jinyoung Yang§, Evgeny Levi§ and Jeffrey Rosenthal) pdf and Appendix
  18. Vine Copulas for Imputation of Monotone Non-Response (2018). International Statistical Review, 86, 488 — 511. (with Caren Hasler§ and Louis-Paul Rivest) pdf
  19. Two-Phase Designs for Joint Quantitative-Trait-Dependent and Genotype-Dependent Sampling in Post-GWAS Regional Sequencing (2018). Genetic Epidemiology, 42, 104 — 116. (with Osvaldo Espin-Garcia§ and Shelley B. Bull) pdf
  20. Gaussian Process Single Index Models for Conditional Copulas (2018). Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 122, 115 — 134. (with Evgeny Levi§) pdf
  21. A scalable and efficient covariate selection criterion for mixed effects regression models with unknown random effects structure (2018). Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 117, 154 — 161. (with Thierry Duchesne) pdf
  22. Likelihood Inflated Sampling Algorithm (2018). The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 46, No. 1, 147 — 175. (with Reihaneh Entezari§ and Jeffrey Rosenthal) pdf.
    This paper received the CJS Award from the Statistical Society of Canada in 2019.
  23. Discussion of: Efficient Metropolis-Hastings Proposal Mechanisms for Bayesian Regression Tree Models by Matthew Pratola (2016). Bayesian Analysis, 11, No. 3, 935 — 937. (with Reihaneh Entezari and Jeff Rosenthal) pdf
  24. Embarassingly Parallel Sequential Markov chain Monte Carlo for Large Sets of Time Series (2016). Statistics and Its Interface, 9, No. 4, 497 — 508. (with Roberto Casarin and Fabrizio Leisen) pdf
  25. Parameter expanded algorithms for Bayesian latent variable modelling of Genetic Pleiotropy Data (2016). Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 25, 405 — 425. (with Lizhen Xu§, Lei Sun and Andrew Paterson) pdf and Appendix
  26. Stability of Adversarial Markov chains, with an Application to Adaptive MCMC Algorithms (2015). Annals of Applied Probability, 25, 3592 — 3623. (with Lawrence Gray, Krzysztof Latuszynski, Neal Madras, Gareth O. Roberts and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal) pdf
  27. Additive Models for Conditional Copulas (2014). STAT - The ISI's Journal for the Rapid Dissemination of Statistics Research, 3, 300 — 312. (with Avideh Sabeti§ and Mian Wei§) pdf
  28. A Note on the Efficiencies of Sampling Strategies in Two-Stage Bayesian Regional Fine Mapping of a Quantitative Trait (2014). Genetic Epidemiology, 38, 599 — 609. (with Zhijian Chen§ and Shelley Bull). pdf
  29. Bayesian Methods in Fisher's Statistical Genetics World (2014). In Statistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook, Edited by J. Lawless. (with Lei Sun) pdf

  30. Minimum Description Length Principle for Linear Mixed Effects Models (2014). Statistica Sinica, 24, 1161 — 1178. (with Li Li§, Fang Yao and Jialin Zou). pdf
  31. Bayesian Computation via Markov chain Monte Carlo (2014). Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application , 1, 179 — 201. (with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal). pdf
  32. Using a Bayesian Latent Variable Approach to Detect Pleiotropy in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 18 Data (2014). BMC Proceedings, 8, S:77. (with Lizhen Xu§, Andriy Derkach, Andrew Paterson and Lei Sun). pdf
  33. Statistical Testing of Covariate Effects in Conditional Copula Models (2013). The Electronic Journal of Statistics, 7, 2822 — 2850. (with Elif Acar and Fang Yao). pdf
  34. Interacting Multiple Try Algorithms with Different Proposal Distributions (2013). Statistics and Computing, 23, No. 2, 185 — 200. (with Roberto Casarin and Fabrizio Leisen). pdf
  35. In Mixed Company: Bayesian Inference for Bivariate Conditional Copula Models with Discrete and Continuous Outcomes (2012). Journal of Multivariate Analysis , No. 110, 106 — 120 (in a special issue of JMVA dedicated to copula models). (with Avideh Sabeti§). pdf
  36. Two-phase Stratified Sampling Designs for Regional Sequencing (2012). Genetic Epidemiology, 36, No. 4, 320 — 332. (with Zhijian Chen§ and Shelley Bull). pdf
  37. Conditional logistic regression with longitudinal follow up and individual-level random coefficients: A stable and efficient two-step estimation method (2011). Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, No. 3, 767 — 784. (with Thierry Duchesne, Daniel Fortin and Sophie Baillargeon). pdf. Supplementary material is available here.
    The R package TwoStepCLogit that implements the methods in the paper is available here.
  38. Dependence Calibration in Conditional Copulas: A Nonparametric Approach (2011). Biometrics, 67, No. 2, 445 — 453. (with Elif F. Acar§ and Fang Yao). pdf and Appendix.
  39. Tuning of Markov chain Monte Carlo Algorithms Using Copulas (2011). UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series A, 73, No. 1, 5 — 12. pdf
  40. Bayesian Methods to Overcome the Winner's Curse in Genetic Studies (2011). Annals of Applied Statistics, 5, No.1, 201 — 231. (with Lizhen Xu§ and Lei Sun). pdf and Appendix .
  41. Divide and Conquer: A Mixture-Based Approach to Regional Adaptation for MCMC (2011). Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, No. 1, 63 — 79. (with Yan Bai§ and Antonio F. Di Narzo§). pdf .
  42. Invited Discussion of: Predictive Comparison of Joint Longitudinal-Survival Modeling: A Case Study Illustrating Competing Approaches, by Timothy Hanson, Adam Branscum and Wesley Johnson (2011). Lifetime Data Analysis , 17, No. 1, 33 — 36. pdf, paper, and rejoinder
  43. Perfection Within Reach: Exact MCMC Sampling (2011). In Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Edited by Steve Brooks, Andrew Gelman, Galin Jones and Xiao-Li Meng. (with Xiao-Li Meng). pdf

  44. Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves (2010). The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 38, No. 1, 27-46. (with Fang Yao and Benjamin Reiser) pdf and Appendix
  45. Learn From Thy Neighbor: Parallel-Chain and Regional Adaptive MCMC (2009). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104, No. 488, 1454-1466. (with Jeffrey Rosenthal and Chao Yang§) pdf
  46. On the Choice of Parametric Families of Copulas (2008). Advances and Applications in Statistics , 10, No. 1, 25 — 40. (with Mariana Craiu) pdf
  47. Choosing the lesser evil: trade-off between false discovery rate and non-discovery rate (2008). Statistica Sinica, 18, No. 3, 861 — 879. (with Lei Sun) pdf
  48. Generalized estimating equations and model selection for longitudinal conditional logistic regression (2008). Biometrical Journal, 50, No. 1, 97 — 109. (with Thierry Duchesne and Daniel Fortin) pdf and correction
  49. Acceleration of the Multiple-try Metropolis Algorithm using Antithetic and Stratified sampling (2007). Statistics and Computing, 17, No. 2, 109 — 120. (with Christiane Lemieux) pdf
  50. Stratified False Discovery Control for Large-scale Hypothesis Testing with Application to Genome-Wide Association Studies (2006). Genetic Epidemiology, 30, No. 6, 519 — 530. (with Lei Sun, Andrew Paterson and Shelley Bull) pdf
  51. Meeting Hausdorff in Monte Carlo: A Surprising Tour with the Antihype Fractal (2006). Statistica Sinica , 16, No. 1, 77 — 91. (with Xiao-Li Meng) pdf
  52. Inference for the dependent competing risks model with masked causes of failure (2006). Lifetime Data Analysis, 12, No. 1, 21 — 33. (with Benjamin Reiser) (pdf)
  53. Pattern generation using likelihood inference for cellular automata (2006). IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 15, No. 7, 1718 — 1727. (with Thomas C.M. Lee) pdf
  54. Model Selection for the Competing Risks Model With and Without Masking (2005). Technometrics, 47, No. 4, 457 — 467. (with Thomas C.M. Lee) pdf
  55. Multi-process parallel antithetic coupling for forward and backward Markov chain Monte Carlo (2005). Annals of Statistics, 33, No. 2, 661 — 697. (with Xiao-Li Meng) pdf
  56. Using EM and Data Augmentation for the competing risks model (2004). In Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from an Incomplete-Data Perspective. Edited by A. Gelman and X.L. Meng, Wiley. (with Thierry Duchesne) pdf

  57. Inference based on the EM algorithm for the competing risks model with masked causes of failure (2004). Biometrika , 91, No. 3, 543 — 558. (with Thierry Duchesne) pdf
  58. Efficient bootstrap resampling (2001). UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series A, 3, 3 — 10. pdf
  59. Chance and Fractals (2001). Chance, 14, 47 — 52. (with Xiao-Li Meng) pdf
  60. Antithetic coupling for perfect sampling (2001). In Bayesian Methods with Applications to Science, Policy, and Official Statistics - Selected Papers from ISBA 2000. Edited by E. I. George. (with Xiao-Li Meng) pdf
  61. Bayesian reliability estimates in the exponential case. (1999) Romanian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics , XLIV, 353-359.
  62. Bayesian inference in doubly truncated Laplace distribution. (1996) Romanian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, XLI, 473-481.