Publications of Alexander Volfovsky    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Papers Published

1. 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]
2. Toulis, P; Volfovsky, A; Airoldi, EM. "Estimating causal effects under non-individualistic treatments due to network entanglement." Biometrika 112.1 (January, 2025). [doi]  [abs]
3. 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]
4. 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, 2024): kxae018. [doi]  [abs]
5. Parikh, H; Sun, H; Amerineni, R; Rosenthal, ES; Volfovsky, A; Rudin, C; Westover, MB; Zafar, SF. "How many patients do you need? Investigating trial designs for anti-seizure treatment in acute brain injury patients.." Annals of clinical and translational neurology 11.7 (July, 2024): 1681-1690. [doi]  [abs]
6. Weltz, J; Laber, E; Volfovsky, A. "Hidden Population Estimation with Indirect Inference and Auxiliary Information.." Proceedings of machine learning research 244 (July, 2024): 3730-3746.  [abs]
7. Seale-Carlisle, T; Jain, S; Lee, C; Levenson, C; Ramprasad, S; Garrett, B; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Evaluating Pre-trial Programs Using Interpretable Machine Learning Matching Algorithms for Causal Inference." Proceedings of the Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence 38.20 (March, 2024): 22331-22340. [doi]  [abs]
8. Katta, S; Parikh, H; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Interpretable Causal Inference for Analyzing Wearable, Sensor, and Distributional Data." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 238 (January, 2024): 3340-3348.  [abs]
9. Parikh, H; Lanners, Q; Akras, Z; Zafar, SF; Westover, MB; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Safe and Interpretable Estimation of Optimal Treatment Regimes." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 238 (January, 2024): 2134-2142.  [abs]
10. Mathews, H; Volfovsky, A. "Community informed experimental design." Statistical Methods and Applications 32.4 (October, 2023): 1141-1166. [doi]  [abs]
11. Combs, A; Tierney, G; Guay, B; Merhout, F; Bail, CA; Hillygus, DS; Volfovsky, A. "Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform.." Nature human behaviour 7.9 (September, 2023): 1454-1461. [doi]  [abs]
12. Parikh, H; Sun, H; Amerineni, R; Rosenthal, ES; Volfovsky, A; Rudin, C; Westover, MB; Zafar, SF. "How Many Patients Do You Need? Investigating Trial Designs for Anti-Seizure Treatment in Acute Brain Injury Patients.." medRxiv (August, 2023). [doi]  [abs]
13. Combs, A; Tierney, G; Alqabandi, F; Cornell, D; Varela, G; Castro Araújo, A; Argyle, LP; Bail, CA; Volfovsky, A. "Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election.." Scientific reports 13.1 (August, 2023): 14051. [doi]  [abs]
14. Bu, F; Aiello, AE; Xu, J; Volfovsky, A. "Likelihood-Based Inference for Partially Observed Epidemics on Dynamic Networks." Journal of the American Statistical Association 117.537 (January, 2022): 510-526. [doi]  [abs]
15. Weltz, J; Volfovsky, A; Laber, EB. "Reinforcement Learning Methods in Public Health.." Clinical therapeutics 44.1 (January, 2022): 139-154. [doi]  [abs]
16. Zivich, PN; Volfovsky, A; Moody, J; Aiello, AE. "Assortativity and Bias in Epidemiologic Studies of Contagious Outcomes: A Simulated Example in the Context of Vaccination.." American journal of epidemiology 190.11 (November, 2021): 2442-2452. [doi]  [abs]
17. Hollenbach, FM; Bojinov, I; Minhas, S; Metternich, NW; Ward, MD; Volfovsky, A. "Multiple Imputation Using Gaussian Copulas." Sociological Methods and Research 50.3 (August, 2021): 1259-1283. [doi]  [abs]
18. Tierney, G; Bail, C; Volfovsky, A. "Author Clustering and Topic Estimation for Short Texts." abs/2106.09533 (June, 2021).  [abs]
19. Ciccone, EJ; Zivich, PN; Lodge, EK; Zhu, D; Law, E; Miller, E; Taylor, JL; Chung, S; Xu, J; Volfovsky, A; Beatty, C; Abernathy, H; King, E; Garrett, HE; Markmann, AJ; Rebuli, ME; Sellers, S; Weber, DJ; Reyes, R; Alavian, N; Juliano, JJ; Boyce, RM; Aiello, AE. "SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Personnel and Their Household Contacts at a Tertiary Academic Medical Center: Protocol for a Longitudinal Cohort Study.." JMIR research protocols 10.4 (April, 2021): e25410. [doi]  [abs]
20. Gupta, NR; Orlandi, V; Chang, C-R; Wang, T; Morucci, M; Dey, P; Howell, TJ; Sun, X; Ghosal, A; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "dame-flame: A Python Library Providing Fast Interpretable Matching for Causal Inference." abs/2101.01867 (January, 2021).  [abs]
21. Wang, T; Morucci, M; Awan, MU; Liu, Y; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "FLAME: A fast large-scale almost matching exactly approach to causal inference." Journal of Machine Learning Research 22 (January, 2021).  [abs]
22. Wang, T; Morucci, M; Awan, MU; Liu, Y; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "FLAME: A Fast Large-scale Almost Matching Exactly Approach to Causal Inference.." J. Mach. Learn. Res. 22 (2021): 31:1-31:1.
23. Brinkley-Rubinstein, L; LeMasters, K; Nguyen, P; Nowotny, K; Cloud, D; Volfovsky, A. "The association between intersystem prison transfers and COVID-19 incidence in a state prison system.." PLoS One 16.8 (2021): e0256185. [doi]  [abs]
24. Ciccone, EJ; Zivich, PN; Lodge, EK; Zhu, D; Law, E; Miller, E; Taylor, JL; Chung, S; Xu, J; Volfovsky, A; Beatty, C; Abernathy, H; King, E; Garrett, HE; Markmann, AJ; Rebuli, ME; Sellers, S; Weber, DJ; Reyes, R; Alavian, N; Juliano, JJ; Boyce, RM; Aiello, AE. "SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Personnel and Their Household Contacts at a Tertiary Academic Medical Center: Protocol for a Longitudinal Cohort Study (Preprint)." (November, 2020). [doi]  [abs]
25. Bail, CA; Guay, B; Maloney, E; Combs, A; Hillygus, DS; Merhout, F; Freelon, D; Volfovsky, A. "Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117.1 (January, 2020): 243-250. [doi]  [abs]
26. Jagadeesan, R; Pillai, NS; Volfovsky, A. "Designs for estimating the treatment effect in networks with interference." Annals of Statistics 48.2 (January, 2020): 679-712. [doi]  [abs]
27. Awan, MU; Morucci, M; Orlandi, V; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Almost-Matching-Exactly for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 108 (January, 2020): 3252-3262.  [abs]
28. Morucci, M; Orlandi, V; Rudin, C; Roy, S; Volfovsky, A. "Adaptive Hyper-box Matching for Interpretable Individualized Treatment Effect Estimation." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 124 (January, 2020): 1089-1098.  [abs]
29. Morucci, M; Orlandi, V; Rudin, C; Roy, S; Volfovsky, A. "Adaptive Hyper-box Matching for Interpretable Individualized Treatment Effect Estimation." CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (UAI 2020) 124 (2020): 1089-1098.
30. Awan, MU; Roy, S; Morucci, M; Rudin, C; Orlandi, V; Volfovsky, A. "Almost-Matching-Exactly for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference." INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND STATISTICS, VOL 108 108 (2020): 3252-3261.
31. Mathews, H; Mayya, V; Volfovsky, A; Reeves, G. "Gaussian Mixture Models for Stochastic Block Models with Non-Vanishing Noise." 2019 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi Sensor Adaptive Processing Camsap 2019 Proceedings (December, 2019): 699-703. [doi]  [abs]
32. Reeves, G; Mayya, V; Volfovsky, A. "The Geometry of Community Detection via the MMSE Matrix." IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings 2019-July (July, 2019): 400-404. [doi]  [abs]
33. Dieng, A; Liu, Y; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Interpretable Almost-Exact Matching for Causal Inference.." Proceedings of machine learning research 89 (April, 2019): 2445-2453.  [abs]
34. Usaid Awan, M; Liu, Y; Morucci, M; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Interpretable almost-matching-exactly with instrumental variables." 35th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2019 (January, 2019).  [abs]
35. Bu, F; Xu, S; Heller, K; Volfovsky, A. "SMOGS: Social Network Metrics of Game Success." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 89 (January, 2019): 2406-2414.  [abs]
36. Usaid Awan, M; Liu, Y; Morucci, M; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Interpretable almost-matching-exactly with instrumental variables." 35th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Uai 2019 (January, 2019).  [abs]
37. Bu, F; Xu, S; Heller, K; Volfovsky, A. "SMOGS: Social network metrics of game success." Aistats 2019 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 89 (January, 2019).  [abs]
38. Parikh, H; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "MALTS: Matching After Learning to Stretch." Journal.of.Machine.Learning.Research 23(240) (2022) 1-42 (November, 2018).  [abs]
39. Bail, CA; Argyle, LP; Brown, TW; Bumpus, JP; Chen, H; Hunzaker, MBF; Lee, J; Mann, M; Merhout, F; Volfovsky, A. "Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115.37 (September, 2018): 9216-9221. [doi]  [abs]
40. Liu, Y; Dieng, A; Roy, S; Rudin, C; Volfovsky, A. "Interpretable Almost Matching Exactly for Causal Inference." abs/1806.06802 (June, 2018).  [abs]
41. Toulis, P; Volfovsky, A; Airoldi, EM. "Propensity score methodology in the presence of network entanglement between treatments." (January, 2018).  [abs]
42. Volfovsky, A; Airoldi, EM. "Sharp total variation bounds for finitely exchangeable arrays." Statistics and Probability Letters 114 (July, 2016): 54-59. [doi]  [abs]
43. Basse, GW; Volfovsky, A; Airoldi, EM. "Observational studies with unknown time of treatment." (January, 2016).  [abs]
44. Sussman, DL; Volfovsky, A; Airoldi, EM. "Analyzing statistical and computational tradeoffs of estimation procedures." (June, 2015).  [abs]
45. Volfovsky, A; Airoldi, EM; Rubin, DB. "Causal inference for ordinal outcomes." (January, 2015).  [abs]
46. Volfovsky, A; Hoff, PD. "Testing for nodal dependence in relational data matrices.." Journal of the American Statistical Association 110.511 (January, 2015): 1037-1046. [doi]  [abs]
47. Volfovsky, A; Hoff, PD. "HIERARCHICAL ARRAY PRIORS FOR ANOVA DECOMPOSITIONS OF CROSS-CLASSIFIED DATA.." The annals of applied statistics 8.1 (March, 2014): 19-47. [doi]  [abs]
48. Hoff, P; Fosdick, B; Volfovsky, A; Stovel, K. "Likelihoods for fixed rank nomination networks.." Network science (Cambridge University Press) 1.3 (December, 2013): 253-277. [doi]  [abs]
49. Volfovsky, A; Stovel, K; Fosdick, B; Hoff, P. "Likelihoods for fixed rank nomination networks." Network Science 1.03 (December, 2013): 253-277.

Chapters

1. Ogburn, EL; Volfovsky, A. "Networks." Handbook of Big Data. Ed. Bühlmann, P; Drineas, P; Kane, M; Laan, MJVD Chapman and Hall/CRC, February, 2016: 171-190.