Radu Craiu's Publications

Non-Technical Publications

  1. Idle Hands for Monte Carlo Residents (2011). ISBA Bulletin, 18, No 3, 16--19. (pdf)

  2. The Renaissance Statistician (2010). IMS Bulletin, 39, No 3, 10. (pdf)

  3. The Statistics Debutante's Dilemma (2009). IMS Bulletin, 38, No 3, 3--5. (pdf)

Selected Refereed Publications

(trainees are marked with §)

  1. Two-phase Stratified Sampling Designs for Regional Sequencing (2012). Genetic Epidemiology, to appear. (with Zhijian Chen§ and Shelley Bull).

  2. Interacting Multiple Try Algorithms with Different Proposal Distributions (2012). Statistics and Computing, to appear. (with Roberto Casarin and Fabrizio Leisen). (pdf).

  3. 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.

  4. Dependence Calibration in Conditional Copulas: A Nonparametric Approach (2011). Biometrics, 67, No. 2, 445--453. (with Elif F. Acar§ and Fang Yao). (pdf). Supplementary material is available here.

  5. Tuning of Markov chain Monte Carlo Algorithms Using Copulas (2011). UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series A, 73, No. 1, 5--12. (pdf)

  6. 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). Supplementary file is available here .

  7. 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) .

  8. 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)

  9. 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)


  10. 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) Supplementary material for the paper is here.

  11. 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)

  12. On the Choice of Parametric Families of Copulas (2008). Advances and Applications in Statistics , 10, No. 1, 25--40. (with Mariana Craiu)

  13. 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)

  14. 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). Correction (pdf).

  15. 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)

  16. 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)

  17. 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)

  18. 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)

  19. 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)

  20. Model Selection for the Competing Risks Model With and Without Masking (2005). Technometrics, 47, No. 4, 457--467. (with Thomas C.M. Lee) (pdf)

  21. 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 )

  22. 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)


  23. 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)

  24. Efficient bootstrap resampling (2001). UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series A, 3, 3--10. (pdf)

  25. Chance and Fractals (2001). Chance, 14, 47--52. (with Xiao-Li Meng) (pdf)

  26. 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)

  27. Bayesian reliability estimates in the exponential case. (1999) Romanian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics , XLIV, 353-359.

  28. Bayesian inference in doubly truncated Laplace distribution. (1996) Romanian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, XLI, 473-481.