Dr Sofia Massa
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Sofia Massa
PhD
Senior Statistician
- Statistical Editor, Cochrane Review Group
Sofia Massa is a Senior Statistician in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. She has an MSc in Mathematics (University of Udine, Italy) and a PhD in Statistical Science (University of Padua, Italy). Before joining NDPH she was a postdoc at the University of Padua and a Departmental Lecturer at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford where she was also the course co-ordinator of the MSc in Applied Statistics.
Her main research interests are on probabilistic graphical models on aspects related to evidence synthesis, gene-set analysis and neuropsychology modelling. She is also working on statistical models for high-dimensional population health studies.
Recent publications
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Algebraic Representation of Gaussian Markov Combinations
Journal article
Massa MS. and Riccomagno E., (2017), Bernoulli, 23, 626 - 644
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On the importance of cognitive profiling: A graphical modelling analysis of domain-specific and domain-general deficits after stroke.
Journal article
Massa MS. et al, (2015), Cortex, 71, 190 - 204
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Graphical modeling for gene set analysis: A critical appraisal.
Journal article
Djordjilović V. et al, (2015), Biom J, 57, 852 - 866
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Along signal paths: an empirical gene set approach exploiting pathway topology.
Journal article
Martini P. et al, (2013), Nucleic Acids Res, 41
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Effectiveness of combinations of Gaussian graphical models for model building
Journal article
Massa MS. and Chiogna M., (2012), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation