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Emma Persson

Contact

E-mail
emma.persson@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 52 11

Works at

Affiliation
Associate professor at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) Units: Statistics
Location
Samhällsvetarhuset, Biblioteksgränd 6 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Research interests

Theory and method: Causal inference in observational studies; Case-control studies.

Fields of application: Diabetes research.

Effect of type 1 diabetes on school performance in a dynamic world: new analysis exploring Swedish register data
Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Group 2019, Vol. 51, (24) : 2606-2622
Persson, Emma; Persson, Sofie; Gerdtham, Ulf-G; et al.
Data-driven algorithms for dimension reduction in causal inference
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Vol. 105 : 280-292
Persson, Emma; Häggström, Jenny; Waernbaum, Ingeborg; et al.
Estimating marginal causal effects in a secondary analysis of case-control data
Statistics in Medicine, Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell 2017, Vol. 36, (15) : 2404-2419
Persson, Emma; Waernbaum, Ingeborg; Lind, Torbjörn
CovSel: An R Package for Covariate Selection When Estimating Average Causal Effects
Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 68, (1) : 1-20
Häggström, Jenny; Persson, Emma; Waernbaum, Ingeborg; et al.
Causal inference and case-control studies with applications related to childhood diabetes
Statistical studies, 48
Persson, Emma
Estimating a marginal causal odds ratio in a case-control design: analyzing the effect of low birth weight on the risk of type 1 diabetes mellitus
Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 32, (14) : 2500-2512
Persson, Emma; Waernbaum, Ingeborg
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Research groups

Group member
Stat4Reg

Research projects

1 January 2012 until 31 December 2014
Risk factors of childhood diabetes and its complications