Publications


Papers and preprint


A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Species Sampling Problems with Ordering


Cecilia Balocchi, Federico Camerlenghi, Stefano Favaro

Bayesian Analysis, vol. 1, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2024, pp. 1--26


Crime in Philadelphia: Bayesian Clustering with Particle Optimization


Cecilia Balocchi, Sameer K. Deshpande, Edward I. George, Shane T. Jensen

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2023 Oct 30


Bayesian nonparametric inference for “species-sampling” problems.


Cecilia Balocchi, Stefano Favaro, Zacharie Naulet

arXiv: Statistical Theory, 2022


Clustering Areal Units at Multiple Levels of Resolution to Model Crime Incidence in Philadelphia.


Cecilia Balocchi, Ed I. George, Shane T. Jensen

arXiv: Methodology, 2021


A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Framework for Geospatial Analysis of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes


Cecilia Balocchi, Ray Bai, Jessica Liu, Silvia P. Canelón, Edward I. George, Yong Chen, Mary R. Boland

arXiv: Applications, 2021 Apr 11


VCBART: Bayesian trees for varying coefficients


Sameer K. Deshpande, Ray Bai, Cecilia Balocchi, Jennifer E. Starling, Jordan Weiss

arXiv: Methodology, 2020 Feb 13


Spatial modeling of trends in crime over time in Philadelphia


Cecilia Balocchi, Shane T. Jensen

The Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 13(4), 2019 Nov 1, pp. 2235-2259


Conference papers


Association of Neighborhood-Level Factors and COVID-19 Infection Patterns in Philadelphia Using Spatial Regression


Mary Regina Boland, Jessica Liu, Cecilia Balocchi, Jessica Meeker, Ray Bai, Ian Mellis, Danielle L Mowery, Daniel Herman

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, vol. 2021, 2021 1, pp. 545-554


Dissertation


Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis of Spatial Variation with Discontinuities


Cecilia Balocchi

University of Pennsylvania, 2020