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
Shenvi A and Liverani S (2024). Beyond conjugacy for chain event graph model selection. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Elsevier vol. 173 01-10-2024
Jing W, Papathomas M and Liverani S (2024). Variance Matrix Priors for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models With Gaussian Kernels. International Statistical Review, Wiley 15-09-2024
2023
Lavigne A and Liverani S (2023). Quantifying the uncertainty of partitions for infinite mixture models. Statistics and Probability Letters, Elsevier 06-09-2023
Wilk M, Harper G, Firman N, Liverani S and Dezateux C (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 records. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting. 01-08-2023
Gramatica M, Liverani S and Congdon P (2023). Structure induced by a multiple membership transformation on the Conditional Autoregressive model. Bayesian Analysis, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) 06-02-2023
Coker ES, Molitor J, Liverani S, Martin J, Maranzano P, Pontarollo N and Vergalli S (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, Italy. Environmental Research vol. 216 01-01-2023
2022
Hailu BA, Geremew BM, Liverani S, Abera KS, Beyene J and Miheretu BA (2022). Mapping and determinants of consumption of egg and/or flesh foods and zero vegetables or fruits among young children in SSA. Scientific Reports vol. 12 (1) 01-12-2022
Ricciardi F, Liverani S and Baio G (2022). Dirichlet process mixture models for regression discontinuity designs. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, SAGE Publications vol. 32 (1), 55-70. 10-11-2022
Wilk M, Dezateux C, Liverani S and Harper G (2022). Who lives in overcrowded households in north-east London? Cross-sectional study of linked electronic health records and Energy Performance Certificate register data. International Journal of Population Data Science, Swansea University vol. 7 (3) 25-08-2022
Jing W, Papathomas M and Liverani S (2022). Variance matrix priors for Dirichlet process mixture models with Gaussian kernels. 08-02-2022
2021
Schweinsberg 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. (2021). Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes vol. 165, 228-249. 01-07-2021
Gramatica M, Congdon P and Liverani S (2021). Bayesian Modelling for Spatially Misaligned Health Areal Data: A Multiple Membership Approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 70 (3), 645-666. 01-06-2021
2020
Ali RL, Qureshi NA, Liverani S, Roney CH, Kim S, Lim PB, Tweedy JH, Cantwell CD and Peters NS (2020). Left atrial enhancement correlates with myocardial conduction velocity in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation. Frontiers in Physiology, Frontiers Media 12-11-2020
Lavigne A, Freni-Sterrantino A, Fecht D, Liverani S, Blangiardo M, de Hoogh K, Molitor J and Hansell AL (2020). A spatial joint analysis of metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England. Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) vol. 4 (4) 16-07-2020
Liverani S, Leigh L, Hudson IL and Byles JE (2020). Clustering method for censored and collinear survival data. Computational Statistics, Springer Science and Business Media LLC vol. 36 (1), 35-60. 21-06-2020
Friel 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. (2020). Applied Statistics. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 69 (3), 501-502. 06-05-2020
Ricciardi F, Liverani S and Baio G (2020). Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Regression Discontinuity Designs. 26-03-2020
Liu X, Liverani S, Smith KJ and Yu K (2020). Modeling tails for collinear data with outliers in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Quantile profile regression. Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift vol. 62 (4), 916-931. 20-01-2020
Bonaventura M, Ciotti V, Panzarasa P, Liverani S, Lacasa L and Latora V (2020). Predicting success in the worldwide start-up network. Scientific reports vol. 10 (1) 01-01-2020
2019
Ryan JM, Cameron MH, Liverani S, Smith KJ, O'connell N, Peterson MD, Anokye N, Victor C and Boland F (2019). Incidence of falls among adults with cerebral palsy: a cohort study using primary care data. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Wiley vol. 62 (4), 477-482. 26-12-2019
Huang R, Xu W, Wang Y, Liverani S and Stapleton AE (2019). Performance Comparison of Julia Distributed Implementations of Dirichlet Process Mixture Models. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 12-12-2019
Lavigne A, Freni Sterrantino A, Liverani S, Blangiardo M, de Hoogh K, Molitor J and Hansell A (2019). Associations between metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England: an ecological study. BMJ open vol. 9 (12) 01-12-2019
Ryan JM, Peterson MD, Matthews A, Ryan N, Smith KJ, O'Connell NE, Liverani S, Anokye N, Victor C and Allen E (2019). Noncommunicable disease among adults with cerebral palsy: A matched cohort study. Neurology vol. 93 (14), e1385-e1396. 28-08-2019
Ryan JM, Peterson MD, Ryan N, Smith KJ, O'connell NE, Liverani S, Anokye N, Victor C and Allen E (2019). Mortality due to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer in adults with cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol vol. 61 (8), 924-928. 01-08-2019
O'Connell NE, Smith KJ, Peterson MD, Ryan N, Liverani S, Anokye N, Victor C and Ryan JM (2019). Incidence of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases in adults with cerebral palsy: A population-based cohort study. Bone vol. 125, 30-35. 08-05-2019
Smith KJ, Peterson MD, O'Connell NE, Victor C, Liverani S, Anokye N and Ryan JM (2019). Risk of Depression and Anxiety in Adults With Cerebral Palsy. JAMA neurology vol. 76 (3), 294-300. 01-03-2019
2018
Silberzahn 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. (2018). Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, SAGE Publications vol. 1 (3), 337-356. 23-08-2018
Huang R, Xu W, Liverani S, Hiltbrand D and Stapleton AE (2018). A case study of r performance analysis and optimization. 22-07-2018
Boys 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 (2018). Applied Statistics. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 67 (4), 741-742. 18-07-2018
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 (2018). Circadian clock components control daily growth activities by modulating cytokinin levels and cell division-associated gene expression in Populus trees. Plant Cell Environ vol. 41 (6), 1468-1482. 01-06-2018
Coker E, Liverani S, Su JG and Molitor J (2018). Multi-pollutant Modeling Through Examination of Susceptible Subpopulations Using Profile Regression. Current environmental health reports vol. 5 (1), 59-69. 01-03-2018
2017
Boys 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. (2017). Applied Statistics. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 66 (4), 667-668. 08-07-2017
Hirth M, Liverani S, Mahlow S, Bouget F-Y, Pohnert G and Sasso S (2017). Metabolic profiling identifies trehalose as an abundant and diurnally fluctuating metabolite in the microalga Ostreococcus tauri. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society vol. 13 (6) 01-01-2017
2016
Ryan JM, Mahmoudi E, Hurvitz EA, Victor C, Smith KJ, Anokye N, Liverani S and Peterson MD (2016). THE PREVALENCE OF AGE-RELATED CHRONIC CONDITIONS IN ADULTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY. GERONTOLOGIST. 01-11-2016
Liverani S and Smith JQ (2016). Bayesian selection of graphical regulatory models. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Elsevier BV vol. 77, 87-104. 01-10-2016
Liverani S, Lavigne A and Blangiardo M (2016). Modelling collinear and spatially correlated data. Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology vol. 18, 63-73. 27-04-2016
Coker E, Liverani S, Ghosh JK, Jerrett M, Beckerman B, Li A, Ritz B and Molitor J (2016). Multi-pollutant exposure profiles associated with term low birth weight in Los Angeles County. Environment International, Elsevier vol. 91, 1-13. 15-02-2016
Boulieri A, Liverani S, de Hoogh K and Blangiardo M (2016). A space–time multivariate Bayesian model to analyse road traffic accidents by severity. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 180 (1), 119-139. 27-01-2016
Mattei 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 (2016). Multidimensional analysis of the effect of occupational exposure to organic solvents on lung cancer risk: the ICARE study. OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE vol. 73 (6), 368-377. 01-01-2016
Li A, Smith KJ and Liverani S (2016). The association of cardiometabolic functioning clusters with depressive symptoms in older adults: results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. 01-01-2016
2015
Coker 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 (2015). Modeling spatial effects of PM2.5 on term low birth weight in Los Angeles County. Environmental Research, Elsevier vol. 142, 354-364. 18-07-2015
Pirani M, Best N, Blangiardo M, Liverani S, Atkinson RW and Fuller GW (2015). Analysing the health effects of simultaneous exposure to physical and chemical properties of airborne particles. Environment International, Elsevier vol. 79, 56-64. 19-03-2015
Liverani S, Hastie DI, Azizi L, Papathomas M and Richardson S (2015). PReMiuM: An R Package for Profile Regression Mixture Models Using Dirichlet Processes. Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistic vol. 64 (7), 1-30. 01-01-2015
2014
Molitor 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 (2014). Blood Pressure Differences Associated With Optimal Macronutrient Intake Trial for Heart Health (OMNIHEART)–Like Diet Compared With a Typical American Diet. Hypertension, Wolters Kluwer vol. 64 (6), 1198-1204. 08-09-2014
Hastie DI, Liverani S and Richardson S (2014). Sampling from Dirichlet process mixture models with unknown concentration parameter: mixing issues in large data implementations. Statistics and Computing, Springer Nature vol. 25 (5), 1023-1037. 03-05-2014
Molitor J, Brown IJ, Chan Q, Papathomas M, Liverani S, Molitor N, Richardson S, Van Horn L, Daviglus ML, Stamler J and Elliott P (2014). Abstract P403: Blood Pressure Differences Associated With OMNIHEART-like Lower Sodium Compared With Typical American Higher Sodium Nutrient Profile: INTERMAP USA. Circulation, Wolters Kluwer vol. 129 (suppl_1) 25-03-2014
2013
Hastie DI, Liverani S, Azizi L, Richardson S and Stücker I (2013). A semi-parametric approach to estimate risk functions associated with multi-dimensional exposure profiles: application to smoking and lung cancer. BMC Medical Research Methodology, Springer Nature vol. 13 (1) 23-10-2013
2011
Liverani S and Petrucci A (2011). Spatial Clustering of Multivariate Data Using Weighted MAX-SAT. 01-01-2011
Akacha M, Fonseca TCO and Liverani S (2011). Data Mining for Longitudinal Data with Different Treatments. 01-01-2011
2010
Monnier A, Liverani S, Bouvet R, Jesson B, Smith JQ, Mosser J, Corellou F and Bouget F-Y (2010). Orchestrated transcription of biological processes in the marine picoeukaryote Ostreococcus exposed to light/dark cycles. BMC Genomics, Springer Nature vol. 11 (1) 22-03-2010
Liverani S, Cussens J and Smith JQ (2010). Searching a Multivariate Partition Space Using MAX-SAT. 01-01-2010
2009
Liverani S, Anderson PE, Edwards KD, Millar AJ and Smith JQ (2009). Efficient utility-based clustering over high dimensional partition spaces. Bayesian Analysis, Institute of Mathematical Statistics vol. 4 (3), 539-571. 01-09-2009
2008
Smith JQ, Anderson PE and Liverani S (2008). Separation measures and the geometry of Bayes factor selection for classification. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology), Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 70 (5), 957-980. 24-07-2008
2007
Papavasiliou A and Liverani S (2007). The Fifty-Second IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts. Electrical Contacts - 2006. Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts. 15-01-2007
2006
Liverani S and Papavasiliou A (2006). Entropy Based Adaptive Particle Filter. 2006 IEEE Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop. 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 - 31-12-2024)
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)