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most citedEnhancing statistical inference in psychological research via prospective and retrospective design analysis

29 citations · 129 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

stat.ME2026

Robust confidence intervals for generalized linear models

Andrea Panarotto, Riccardo De Santis, Livio Finos

Reliable uncertainty quantification is a central challenge in the analysis of modern biomedical data, where complex sources of variability often violate standard modeling assumptio…

stat.ME2026

Sign-Flipping Score Tests for Fixed Effects in Multivariate Clustered Data

Angela Andreella, Livio Finos

Standard parametric inference on fixed effects in multivariate linear mixed models can be sensitive to covariance misspecification, particularly with multivariate responses. We pro…

eess.SP2025★ 1 cited

The role of data partitioning on the performance of EEG-based deep learning models in supervised cross-subject analysis: a preliminary study

Federico Del Pup, Andrea Zanola, Louis Fabrice Tshimanga +3

Deep learning is significantly advancing the analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data by effectively discovering highly nonlinear patterns within the signals. Data partitionin…

cs.CV2025

HistoSmith: Single-Stage Histology Image-Label Generation via Conditional Latent Diffusion for Enhanced Cell Segmentation and Classification

Valentina Vadori, Jean-Marie Graïc, Antonella Peruffo +3

Precise segmentation and classification of cell instances are vital for analyzing the tissue microenvironment in histology images, supporting medical diagnosis, prognosis, treatmen…

cs.CV2024

Automated Classification of Cell Shapes: A Comparative Evaluation of Shape Descriptors

Valentina Vadori, Antonella Peruffo, Jean-Marie Graïc +2

This study addresses the challenge of classifying cell shapes from noisy contours, such as those obtained through cell instance segmentation of histological images. We assess the p…

stat.ME2024

Conformal inference for cell type annotation with graph-structured constraints

Daniela Corbetta, Livio Finos, Ludwig Geistlinger +1

Conformal prediction is a framework for constructing prediction sets for machine learning models, relying solely on the exchangeability of training and test data and without requir…

eess.IV2024

CISCA and CytoDArk0: a Cell Instance Segmentation and Classification method for histo(patho)logical image Analyses and a new, open, Nissl-stained dataset for brain cytoarchitecture studies

Valentina Vadori, Jean-Marie Graïc, Antonella Peruffo +3

Delineating and classifying individual cells in microscopy tissue images is inherently challenging yet remains essential for advancements in medical and neuroscientific research. I…

math.ST2024

Permutation-based multiple testing when fitting many generalized linear models

Riccardo De Santis, Jelle J. Goeman, Samuel Davenport +2

In many applied sciences a popular analysis strategy for high-dimensional data is to fit many multivariate generalized linear models in parallel. This paper presents a novel approa…

stat.ME2024

Robust Inference for Generalized Linear Mixed Models: An Approach Based on Score Sign Flipping

Angela Andreella, Jelle Goeman, Jesse Hemerik +1

Despite the versatility of generalized linear mixed models in handling complex experimental designs, they often suffer from misspecification and convergence problems. This makes in…

cs.CV2023

Revealing Cortical Layers In Histological Brain Images With Self-Supervised Graph Convolutional Networks Applied To Cell-Graphs

Valentina Vadori, Antonella Peruffo, Jean-Marie Graïc +3

Identifying cerebral cortex layers is crucial for comparative studies of the cytoarchitecture aiming at providing insights into the relations between brain structure and function a…

stat.ME2023★ 4 cited

A novel CFA+EFA model to detect aberrant respondents

Niccolò Cao, Livio Finos, Luigi Lombardi +1

Aberrant respondents are common but yet extremely detrimental to the quality of social surveys or questionnaires. Recently, factor mixture models have been employed to identify ind…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

NCIS: Deep Color Gradient Maps Regression and Three-Class Pixel Classification for Enhanced Neuronal Cell Instance Segmentation in Nissl-Stained Histological Images

Valentina Vadori, Antonella Peruffo, Jean-Marie Graïc +3

Deep learning has proven to be more effective than other methods in medical image analysis, including the seemingly simple but challenging task of segmenting individual cells, an e…

stat.AP2023★ 3 cited

Procrustes-based distances for exploring between-matrices similarity

Angela Andreella, Riccardo De Santis, Anna Vesely +1

The statistical shape analysis called Procrustes analysis minimizes the distance between matrices by similarity transformations. The method returns a set of optimal orthogonal matr…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

MR-NOM: Multi-scale Resolution of Neuronal cells in Nissl-stained histological slices via deliberate Over-segmentation and Merging

Valentina Vadori, Jean-Marie Graïc, Livio Finos +3

In comparative neuroanatomy, the characterization of brain cytoarchitecture is critical to a better understanding of brain structure and function, as it helps to distill informatio…

stat.ME2022★ 18 cited

Post-selection Inference in Multiverse Analysis (PIMA): an inferential framework based on the sign flipping score test

Paolo Girardi, Anna Vesely, Daniël Lakens +4

When analyzing data researchers make some decisions that are either arbitrary, based on subjective beliefs about the data generating process, or for which equally justifiable alter…

stat.AP2022★ 1 cited

Enhanced hyperalignment via spatial prior information

Angela Andreella, Livio Finos, Martin A Lindquist

Functional alignment between subjects is an important assumption of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) group-level analysis. However, it is often violated in practice, ev…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Inference in generalized linear models with robustness to misspecified variances

Riccardo De Santis, Jelle J. Goeman, Jesse Hemerik +2

Generalized linear models usually assume a common dispersion parameter, an assumption that is seldom true in practice. Consequently, standard parametric methods may suffer apprecia…

stat.ME2022

Resampling-Based Multisplit Inference for High-Dimensional Regression

Anna Vesely, Jelle J. Goeman, Livio Finos

We propose a novel resampling-based method to construct an asymptotically exact test for any subset of hypotheses on coefficients in high-dimensional linear regression. It can be e…

hep-ex2021★ 3 cited

Advances in Multi-Variate Analysis Methods for New Physics Searches at the Large Hadron Collider

Anna Stakia, Tommaso Dorigo, Giovanni Banelli +22

Between the years 2015 and 2019, members of the Horizon 2020-funded Innovative Training Network named "AMVA4NewPhysics" studied the customization and application of advanced multiv…

stat.ME2021★ 12 cited

Permutation-Based True Discovery Guarantee by Sum Tests

Anna Vesely, Livio Finos, Jelle J. Goeman

Sum-based global tests are highly popular in multiple hypothesis testing. In this paper we propose a general closed testing procedure for sum tests, which provides lower confidence…

stat.AP2020★ 1 cited

Permutation-based true discovery proportions for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging cluster analysis

Angela Andreella, Jesse Hemerik, Wouter Weeda +2

We propose a permutation-based method for testing a large collection of hypotheses simultaneously. Our method provides lower bounds for the number of true discoveries in any select…

stat.ME2020★ 16 cited

Procrustes analysis for high-dimensional data

Angela Andreella, Livio Finos

The Procrustes-based perturbation model (Goodall, 1991) allows minimization of the Frobenius distance between matrices by similarity transformation. However, it suffers from non-id…

stat.ME2020

Permutation testing in high-dimensional linear models: an empirical investigation

Jesse Hemerik, Magne Thoresen, Livio Finos

Permutation testing in linear models, where the number of nuisance coefficients is smaller than the sample size, is a well-studied topic. The common approach of such tests is to pe…

cs.CY2019★ 5 cited

(Mis)Information Operations: An Integrated Perspective

Matteo Cinelli, Mauro Conti, Livio Finos +6

The massive diffusion of social media fosters disintermediation and changes the way users are informed, the way they process reality, and the way they engage in public debate. The…