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Sensitivity to Unobserved Confounding in Studies with Factor-structured Outcomes

Jiajing Zheng, Jiaxi Wu, Alexander D'Amour, Alexander Franks (2023). Sensitivity to Unobserved Confounding in Studies with Factor-structured Outcomes. Journal of the American Statistical Association.

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Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Latent Confounders

Ke Wang, Sang-Yun Oh, Alexander Franks (2023). Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Latent Confounders. Journal of Multivariate Analysis.

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Copula-based Sensitivity Analysis for Multi-Treatment Causal Inference with Unobserved Confounding

Jiajing Zheng, Alexander D'Amour, Alexander Franks (2022). Copula-based Sensitivity Analysis for Multi-Treatment Causal Inference with Unobserved Confounding. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.09412.

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Bayesian Inference and Partial Identification in Multi-Treatment Causal Inference with Unobserved Confounding

Jiajing Zheng, Alexander D'Amour, Alexander Franks (2022). Bayesian Inference and Partial Identification in Multi-Treatment Causal Inference with Unobserved Confounding. AISTATS.

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Reducing Subspace Models for Large-Scale Covariance Regression

Alexander Franks (2021). Reducing Subspace Models for Large-Scale Covariance Regression. Biometrics.

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An aging clock using metabolomic CSF

Nathan Hwangbo, Xinyu Zhang, Daniel Raftery, Haiwei Gu, Shu-Ching Hu, Thomas J Montine, Joseph F Quinn, Kathryn A Chung, Amie L Hiller, Dongfang Wang, others (2021). An aging clock using metabolomic CSF. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A.

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Nonstandard conditionally specified models for nonignorable missing data

Alexander M. Franks, Edoardo M. Airoldi, Donald B. Rubin (2020). Nonstandard conditionally specified models for nonignorable missing data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Modeling player and team performance in basketball

Zachary Terner, Alexander Franks (2020). Modeling player and team performance in basketball. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

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Shared subspace models for multi-group covariance estimation

Alexander M Franks, Peter Hoff (2019). Shared subspace models for multi-group covariance estimation. Journal of Machine Learning Research.

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Flexible sensitivity analysis for observational studies without observable implications

Alexander M Franks, Alexander D’Amour, Avi Feller (2019). Flexible sensitivity analysis for observational studies without observable implications. Journal of the American Statistical Association.

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DART-ID increases single-cell proteome coverage

Albert Tian Chen, Alexander Franks, Nikolai Slavov (2019). DART-ID increases single-cell proteome coverage. PLoS computational biology.

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Refining cellular pathway models using an ensemble of heterogeneous data sources

Alexander M Franks, Florian Markowetz, Edoardo M Airoldi, others (2018). Refining cellular pathway models using an ensemble of heterogeneous data sources. The Annals of Applied Statistics.

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Post-transcriptional regulation across human tissues

Alexander Franks, Edoardo Airoldi, Nikolai Slavov (2017). Post-transcriptional regulation across human tissues. PLoS computational biology.

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Studying Basketball Through the Lens of Player Tracking Data

Luke Bornn, Daniel Cervone, Alexander, Franks, Andrew Miller (2016). Studying Basketball Through the Lens of Player Tracking Data. Handbook of Statistical Methods for Design and Analysis in Sports.

Meta-analytics: tools for understanding the statistical properties of sports metrics

Alexander M Franks, Alexander D’Amour, Daniel Cervone, Luke Bornn (2016). Meta-analytics: tools for understanding the statistical properties of sports metrics. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.

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Characterizing the Spatial Structure of Defensive Skill in Professional Basketball

Alexander Franks, Andrew Miller, Luke Bornn, Kirk Goldsberry (2015). Characterizing the Spatial Structure of Defensive Skill in Professional Basketball. Annals of Applied Statistics.

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Reversible, specific, active aggregates of endogenous proteins assemble upon heat stress

Edward WJ Wallace, Jamie L Kear-Scott, Evgeny V Pilipenko, Michael H Schwartz, Pawel R Laskowski, Alexandra E Rojek, Christopher D Katanski, Joshua A Riback, Michael F Dion, Alexander M Franks, others (2015). Reversible, specific, active aggregates of endogenous proteins assemble upon heat stress. Cell.

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Estimating a Structured Covariance Matrix From Multilab Measurements in High-Throughput Biology

Alexander M. Franks, Gábor Csárdi, D. Allan Drummond, Edoardo M. Airoldi (2015). Estimating a Structured Covariance Matrix From Multilab Measurements in High-Throughput Biology. Journal of the American Statistical Association.

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Accounting for experimental noise reveals that transcription dominates control of steady-state protein levels in yeast

Gábor Csárdi, Alexander Franks, David S Choi, Edoardo M Airoldi, D. Allan Drummond (2015). Accounting for experimental noise reveals that transcription dominates control of steady-state protein levels in yeast. PLoS Genetics.

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A mixture-of-modelers approach to forecasting NCAA tournament outcomes

Lo-Hua Yuan, Anthony Liu, Alec Yeh, Aaron Kaufman, Andrew Reece, Peter Bull, Alexander Franks, Sherrie Wang, Dmitri Illushin, Luke Bornn (2015). A mixture-of-modelers approach to forecasting NCAA tournament outcomes. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.