Applied Statistics
(Selected Papers)
Economics
Causal inference: an estimation problem in the economy.
- S. Cabras. A bootstrap procedure to estimate the causal effect of a public policy, considering overlap and imperfect compliance. Journal of Applied Statistics, 2024
- S. Cabras, J.D. Tena Horrillo. Implicit Institutional Incentives and Individual Decisions: Causal Inference with Deep Learning Models. Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023.
- S. Cabras, M. Delogu, J.D. Tena Horrillo. Forced to play too many matches? A deep-learning assessment of crowded schedule, Applied Economics, 2022
- S. Cabras, J. D. Tena Horrillo. A bayesian non-parametric modeling to estimate student response to ict investment. Journal of Applied Statistics, 43(14):2627 - 2642, 2016
Engineering
Robot programming.
- S. Cabras, M.E. Castellanos, E. Staffetti. A random forest application to contact-state classification for
robot programming by human demonstration. ASMBI, 32(2):209 - 227, 2016
- S. Cabras, M.E. Castellanos, E. Staffetti. Contact-state classification
of human-demonstrated robot compliant motion tasks using the boosting
algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 40(5):1372 - 1386,
2010
Nutritional Data Analysis
Evaluation of nutritional status.
- Stagi et al. Usability of classic and specific bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in measuring body composition of children. Clinical Nutrition, 2022.
- Stagi et al. Segmental body composition estimated by specific BIVA and Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry. Clinical Nutrition, 2021.
- M. Żegleń et al. The relationship among the age at menarche, anthropometric characteristics, and socio‐economic factors in Bengali girls from Kolkata, India. American Journal of Human Biology, 2019.
- O. Comandini et al. Nutritional status of Ugandan school‐children: The effect of age imprecision. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2019. (with discussion)
- V. Pinna et al. Physical Capacity and Energy Expenditure of Cavers. Front. Physiol., 2017.
- G. Antoni et al. Energy expenditure in caving. Plos ONE, 2017
- O. Comandini, S. Cabras, E. Marini. Nutritional evaluation of undocumented
children: a neglected health issue a ecting the most fragile people. European
Journal of Public Health, 27(1): 71-73, 2017 (On line app)
- O. Comandini, S. Cabras, E. Marini. Birth registration and child undernutrition
in sub-Saharan Africa. Public Health Nutrition, 19(10):1757 - 1767, 2016
- E. Marini et al. Effect of
influenza-induced fever on human bioimpedance values. Plos ONE, 10(4):e0125301,
2015
- E.
Marini et al. Helicobacter pylori and intestinal parasites are not detrimental to the
nutritional status of amerindians. American Journal of Tropical Medicine &
Hygiene, 76(3):534 - 540, 2007.
- E. Marini et al. Sex differences in skinfold variability across human populations and during the life cycle. Annals of Human Biology, 34(3):377 - 392, 2007
Medicine
Statistics for personalized medicine.
Genetics:
- S. Cabras et al. A strategy analysis for genetic association studies with known inbreeding. BMC Genetics, 12:63:1 - 12, 2011 (Open Access)
- J. Huffman et al. Modulation of genetic associations with serum urate levels by body-mass-index in humans. PLOS ONE, 10(3):e0119752, 2015
Histochemistry:
- S. Soddu et al. Imp-3 expression
in keratoacanthomas and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin: an
immunohistochemical study. European journal of histochemistry, 57(e6):36 - 40,
2013
- L. Pilloni et al. The usefulness of c-kit in the immunohistochemical assessment of melanocytic lesions. European journal of histochemistry, 55:105 - 111, 2011
Respiratory medicine:
- S. R. Del Giacco et al. The asthma-anxiety connection. Respiratory Medicine, 120:44 - 53, 2016
- D. Firinu et al. Th17 cells are increased in the pe-ripheral blood of patients with sapho syndrome. Autoimmunity, 47(6):389 - 394, 2014
Epidemics:
Pharmacology
Plant Science and their relation with pharmacology.
- M. Leonti et al. Food drugs as drivers of therapeutic knowledge and the role of chemosensory qualities. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 328: 118012, 2024
- M. S. Geek et al. The taste of heat: How humoral qualities act as cultural lter for chemosensory properties guiding herbal medicine. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 198: 499-515, 2017.
- M. Leonti et al. Reverseº ethnopharmacology and drug discovery. Journal of
Ethnopharmacology, 198: 417-431, 2017.
- M. Leonti et al. The causal dependence of present plant
knowledge on herbals'contemporary medicinal plant use in campania (italy)
compared to matthioli (1568). Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 130(2):379 - 391,
2010.
- C. S. Weckerle, S. Cabras, M. E. Castellanos, M.
Leonti. Quantitative methods in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology: Considering
the overall flora - hypothesis testing for over- and underused plant families
with the bayesian approach. Journal of
Ethnopharmacology, 137(1):837 - 843, 2011. (with discussion)