Publications

• Cappello, L., Kim, J. , Liu, S. , Palacios, J. A., (2022) ``Statistical Challenges in Tracking the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2.” Statistical Science, to appear [arXiv]

• Cappello, L., Palacios, J. A., (2021) “Adaptive Preferential Sampling in Phylodynamics.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, in press, [arXiv] [journal][software]

• Cappello, L., Ghosh, S., Palacios, J. A., (2020) Discussion (Invited) on “Horseshoe-based Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of Effective Population Size Trajectories.” Biometrics, 76 (3) 691-694 [journal]

• Cappello, L., Palacios, J. A., (2020) “Sequential Importance Sampling Algorithms for Multi-Resolution Kingman-Tajima Coalescent Counting.” Annals of Applied Statistics, 14 (2) 727-751. [arXiv] [journal][software]

• Palacios, J. A., Veber, A. , Cappello, L., Wang, Z., Wakeley, J., Ramachandran, S., (2019) “Bayesian Estimation of Population Size Changes by Sampling Tajima’s Tree.” Genetics, 213 (3) 967-986 [bioRxiv] [journal][software]

• Cappello, L., Walker, S. G., (2018) “A Recursive Multivariate Inversion of a Laplace Transform for Probability Distributions.”, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 20 777-797. [journal]

Submitted Papers

• Cappello, L., Padilla, O. M., Palacios, J. A., ``Scalable Bayesian Change Point Detection with Spike and Slab Priors.” [arXiv] [software]

• Cappello, L., Veber, A. , Palacios, J. A., “Bayesian Nonparametrics Inference of Population Trajectories via Tajima Heterochronous Coalescent.” [arXiv] [software]

• Cappello, L.*, Kim, J.* , Palacios, J. A., ``Bayesian Inference of Dependent Population Dynamics in Coalescent Models.” [biorXiv] [software]. * first authors

• Parikh, V. N. , Ioannidis, A. G. , …, Cappello, L., … Ashley, E. A. , “Deconvoluting complex correlates of COVID19 severity with local ancestry inference and viral phylodynamics: Results of a multiomic pandemic tracking strategy.” [medrXiv]

• Cappello, L., Walker, S. G., “Recursive Nonparametric Predictive for a Discrete Regression model.” (SBSS Best Student Paper Prize at JSM 2018, BNP at Paris 2017 Best Poster Award) (Revision due to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis)

• Cappello, L., Walker, S. G., “Recursive Estimation of Probability Distributions.”

Papers in Preparation

• Cappello, L., Walker, S. G., “Bivariate Bayesian Recursive Predictive Distributions.”

• Cappello, L., Walker, S. G., “Recursive Sampling from a Distribution given its Laplace Transform.”