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Alexander Volfovsky, Associate Professor
- Contact Info:
- 223C Old Chemistry
- (919) 668-2537
- alexander.volfovsky@duke.edu
- Personal Web Page:
- https://volfovsky.github.io/
- Education:
- Ph.D., University of Washington, 2013
- M.S., The University of Chicago, 2009
- B.Sc. (hons), The University of Chicago, 2009
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Jeong, H; Katta, S; Wang, WK; Volfovsky, A; Dunn, J. "Impact of daylight saving time on physical activity patterns." Nature Health (April, 2026). [doi]
- Bu, F; Aiello, AE; Volfovsky, A; Xu, J. "Stochastic EM algorithm for partially observed stochastic epidemics with individual heterogeneity.." Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 26.1 (December, 2025): kxae018. [doi] [abs]
- Tierney, G; Volfovsky, A. "Bias and excess variance in election polling: A not-so-hidden Markov model." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A Statistics in Society 188.2 (April, 2025): 566-582. [doi] [abs]
- Gupta, NR; Wang, T; Howell, TJ; Roy, S; Orlandi, V; Morucci, M; Sun, X; Rudin, C; Chang, CR; Dey, P; Ghosal, A; Volfovsky, A. "dame-flame: A Python Package Providing Fast Interpretable Matching for Causal Inference." Journal of Statistical Software 113 (January, 2025). [doi] [abs]
- Toulis, P; Volfovsky, A; Airoldi, EM. "Estimating causal effects under non-individualistic treatments due to network entanglement." Biometrika 112.1 (January, 2025). [doi] [abs]