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Xavier de Luna

My research consists in developing machine learning methods to discover and study causal relationships when using large amount of data. Stat4Reg Lab: www.stat4reg.se 

Contact

E-mail
xavier.de.luna@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 55 59

Works at

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

Link to my homepage: stat4reg.se/xavierdeluna

Causal inference with a functional outcome
The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, Oxford University Press 2024, Vol. 73, (1) : 221-240
Ecker, Kreske; de Luna, Xavier; Schelin, Lina
Volunteering and instrumental support during the first phase of the pandemic in Europe: the significance of COVID-19 exposure and stringent country’s COVID-19 policy
BMC Public Health, BioMed Central (BMC) 2024, Vol. 24, (1)
Lestari, Septi Kurnia; Eriksson, Malin; de Luna, Xavier; et al.
Robot causal discovery aided by human interaction
2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), IEEE 2023 : 1731-1736
Edström, Filip; Hellström, Thomas; de Luna, Xavier
Contrasting identifying assumptions of average causal effects: robustness and semiparametric efficiency
Journal of machine learning research, Vol. 24, (197) : 1-65
Gorbach, Tetiana; de Luna, Xavier; Waernbaum, Ingeborg; et al.
Convolutional neural networks for valid and efficient causal inference
Journal of Computational And Graphical Statistics
Mohammad, Ghasempour; Moosavi, Niloofar; de Luna, Xavier
The costs and benefits of uniformly valid causal inference with high-dimensional nuisance parameters
Statistical Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2023, Vol. 38, (1) : 1-12
Moosavi, Niloofar; Häggström, Jenny; de Luna, Xavier
Regional differences in initial labour market conditions and dynamics in lifetime income trajectories
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Bristol University Press 2022, Vol. 13, (3) : 352-379
Ecker, Kreske; de Luna, Xavier; Westerlund, Olle
Covariate balancing for causal inference on categorical and continuous treatments
Econometrics and Statistics
Lee, Seong-ho; Ma, Yanyuan; de Luna, Xavier
Frailty and types of social relationships among older adults in 17 European countries: A latent class analysis
Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (Print), Vol. 101
Lestari, Septi K; Eriksson, Malin; de Luna, Xavier; et al.
Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Feasible and Robust Estimation of Average Causal Effect
Statistica sinica, Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science 2021, Vol. 31, (2) : 821-842
Ghosh, Trinetri; Ma, Yanyuan; de Luna, Xavier
A longitudinal study on social support, social participation, and older Europeans' quality of life
SSM - Population Health, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 13
Lestari, Septi K.; de Luna, Xavier; Eriksson, Malin; et al.
Causal Effects of the Timing of Life-course Events: Age at Retirement and Subsequent Health
Sociological Methods & Research, Sage Publications 2020, Vol. 49, (1) : 216-249
Barban, Nicola; de Luna, Xavier; Lundholm, Emma; et al.
Semiparametric inference with missing data: robustness to outliers and model misspecification
Econometrics and Statistics, Elsevier 2020, Vol. 16 : 108-120
Cantoni, Eva; de Luna, Xavier
A Hierarchical Bayesian Mixture Model Approach for Analysis of Resting-State Functional Brain Connectivity: An Alternative to Thresholding
Brain Connectivity, Mary Ann Liebert 2020, Vol. 10, (5) : 202-211
Gorbach, Tetiana; Lundquist, Anders; de Luna, Xavier; et al.
Changes in the provision of instrumental support by older adults in nine European countries during 2004-2015: a panel data analysis
BMC Geriatrics, BioMed Central 2020, Vol. 20, (1)
Lestari, Septi K.; de Luna, Xavier; Eriksson, Malin; et al.
Causal inference accounting for unobserved confounding after outcome regression and doubly robust estimation
Biometrics, Wiley-Blackwell 2019, Vol. 75, (2) : 506-515
Genbäck, Minna; de Luna, Xavier
Survival after radiotherapy versus radical cystectomy for primary muscle-invasive bladder cancer: A Swedish nationwide population-based cohort study
Cancer Medicine, John Wiley & Sons 2019, Vol. 8, (5) : 2196-2204
Häggström, Christel; Garmo, Hans; de Luna, Xavier; et al.
Predictors of decline in self-reported health: addressing non-ignorable dropout in longitudinal studies of ageing
European Journal of Ageing, Springer 2018, Vol. 15, (2) : 211-220
Genbäck, Minna; Ng, Nawi; Stanghellini, Elena; et al.
Inference for partial correlation when data are missing not at random
Statistics and Probability Letters, Elsevier 2018, Vol. 141 : 82-89
Gorbach, Tetiana; de Luna, Xavier
Sensitivity analysis for unobserved confounding of direct and indirect effects using uncertainty intervals
Statistics in Medicine, John Wiley & Sons 2018, Vol. 37, (10) : 1744-1762
Lindmark, Anita; de Luna, Xavier; Eriksson, Marie
Childhood family structure and women's adult overweight risk: A longitudinal study
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 45, (5) : 511-519
Chaparro, M Pia; de Luna, Xavier; Häggström, Jenny; et al.
Proxy variables and nonparametric identification of causal effects
Economics Letters, Vol. 150 : 152-154
de Luna, Xavier; Fowler, Philip; Johansson, Per
Study protocol for the evaluation of a vocational rehabilitation
Observational Studies, Vol. 3 : 1-27
Fowler, Philip; de Luna, Xavier; Johansson, Per; et al.
Longitudinal association between hippocampus atrophy and episodic-memory decline
Neurobiology of Aging, Vol. 51 : 167-176
Gorbach, Tetiana; Pudas, Sara; Lundquist, Anders; 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.
Does the number of siblings affect health in midlife?: Evidence from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register
Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: 2016, Vol. 35 : 1259-1302
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; De Luna, Xavier; Ivarsson, Anneli
Causal inference with longitudinal outcomes and non-ignorable drop-out: Estimating the effect of living alone on cognitive decline
The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, Vol. 65, (1) : 131-144
Josefsson, Maria; de Luna, Xavier; Daniels, Michael; et al.
Data Resource Profile: Swedish Microdata Research from Childhood into Lifelong Health and Welfare (Umeå SIMSAM Lab)
International Journal of Epidemiology, Oxford University Press 2016, Vol. 45, (4) : 1075-1075g
Lindgren, Urban; Nilsson, Karina; de Luna, Xavier; et al.
Regional inequalities in overweight and obesity among first-time pregnant women in Sweden, 1992–2010
22nd European Congress on Obesity (ECO2015), Prague, Czech Republic, May 6-9, 2015: abstracts, S. Karger 2015 : 119-119
Chaparro, M Pia; Ivarsson, Anneli; Koupil, Ilona; et al.
Regional inequalities in pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity in Sweden, 1992, 2000, and 2010
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 43, (5) : 534-539
Chaparro, M. Pia; Ivarsson, Anneli; Koupil, Ilona; et al.
Uncertainty intervals for regression parameters with non-ignorable missingness in the outcome
Statistical papers, Springer-Verlag New York 2015, Vol. 56, (3) : 829-847
Genbäck, Minna; Stanghellini, Elena; de Luna, Xavier
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.
Family Life Course and the Timing of Women's Retirement: a Sequence Analysis Approach
Population, Space and Place, John Wiley & Sons 2015, Vol. 21, (8) : 856-871
Svensson, Ingrid; Lundholm, Emma; De Luna, Xavier; et al.
Testing for the Unconfoundedness Assumption Using an Instrumental Assumption
Journal of Causal Inference, Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2014, Vol. 2, (2) : 187-199
de Luna, Xavier; Johansson, Per
Targeted smoothing parameter selection for estimating average causal effects
Computational statistics (Zeitschrift), Springer 2014, Vol. 29, (6) : 1727-1748
Häggström, Jenny; de Luna, Xavier
Does formal education for older workers increase earnings?: evidence based on rich data and long-term follow up
Labour, John Wiley & Sons 2014, Vol. 28, (2) : 163-189
Stenberg, Anders; de Luna, Xavier; Westerlund, Olle
Sensitivity analysis of the unconfoundedness assumption with an application to an evaluation of college choice effects on earnings
Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis 2014, Vol. 41, (8) : 1767-1784
Xavier, de Luna; Lundin, Mathias
Brain Characteristics of Individuals Resisting Age-Related Cognitive Decline over Two Decades
Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 33, (20) : 8668-8677
Pudas, Sara; Persson, Jonas; Josefsson, Maria; et al.
A Consistency Result for Bayes Classifiers with Censored Response Data
Theoretical mathematics and applications, Vol. 3, (4) : 47-54
Wijayatunga, Priyantha; de Luna, Xavier
Genetic and lifestyle predictors of 15-Year longitudinal change in episodic memory
Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 60, (12) : 2308-2312
Josefsson, Maria; de Luna, Xavier; Pudas, Sara; et al.
Can adult education delay retirement from the Labour Market?
Journal of Population Economics, Springer 2012, Vol. 25, (2) : 677-696
Stenberg, Anders; de Luna, Xavier; Westerlund, Olle
Covariate selection for the non-parametric estimation of an average treatment effect
Biometrika, Oxford University Press 2011, Vol. 98, (4) : 861-875
de Luna, Xavier; Waernbaum, Ingeborg; Richardson, Thomas
SIMSAM-nätverket i Umeå strävar mot att bli ett framstående center för registerforskning som knyter samman barndomen med livslång hälsa och välfärd
SVEPET - Medlemstidning för Svensk Epidemiologisk Förening (SVEP), Göteborg: Svensk epidemiologisk förening 2011, Vol. 29, (3) : 8-9
Holmström, Anna; Oudin, Anna; de Luna, Xavier; et al.
Non-parametric inference for the effect of a treatment on survival times with application in the health and social sciences
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Elsevier 2010, Vol. 140, (7) : 2122-2137
de Luna, Xavier; Johansson, Per
Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?
IFAU Working Paper, 2010:2
de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle
Estimating prediction error: cross-validation vs. accumulated prediction error
Communications in statistics. Simulation and computation, Informa plc. 2010, Vol. 39, (5) : 880-898
Häggström, Jenny; de Luna, Xavier
Registerdata om barndomen: kunskapsbas för hållbar hälsa och välfärd
SVEPET. Medlemsbladet för Svensk Epidemiologisk Förening (Svep), Malmö: Svensk Epidemiologisk Förening (Svep) 2010, Vol. 28, (3) : 4-6
Ivarsson, Anneli; de Luna, Xavier; Nilsson, Karina; et al.
Sensitivity analysis of the unconfoundedess assumption in observational studies
IFAU Working Papers, 2009:12
de Luna, Xavier; Lundin, Mathias
Local polynomial regression with truncated or censored response
IFAU Working Paper, 2009:25
Karlsson, Maria; Cantoni, Eva; de Luna, Xavier
Central bank independence and price stability: evidence from OECD-countries
Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, Vol. 60, (3) : 410-422
de Luna, Xavier; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov
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