Giampiero Marra - Lecturer in Statistics

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Giampiero Department of Statistical Science
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

Office: Room 142
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 7HB

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1864
Fax:     +44 (0) 20 3108 3105
E-mail: giampiero -AT- stats.ucl.ac.uk

Main research interests

Penalized likelihood based inference in semiparametric simultaneous equation models, quantile and expectile semiparametric regression, copula regression modelling, generalized additive and spatio-temporal modelling.
Keywords: endogeneity, sample selection, observed and unobserved confounding, penalized regression spline, copula.
Click here to see some of my application areas. A list of published papers is here.

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Selected talks

01.12.2012: Practical Variable Selection for Generalized Models (Invited Talk, Computing and Statistics ERCIM 2012, Oviedo, Spain)
15.06.2012: Semiparametric Recursive Bivariate Probit Modelling with Nonparametric Mixing (Invited Seminar, Department of Statistical Science, University of Bologna, Italy)
24.02.2012: Modelling Correlated Binary Responses within a Semiparametric Regression Framework (Invited Seminar, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham)
18.05.2011: A Flexible Bivariate Probit Model to Control for Unmeasured Confounding (Talk, Conference of Applied Statistics in Ireland)
17.08.2010: Semiparametric Recursive Bivariate Probit Modelling in the Presence of Endogeneity (Talk, European Meeting of Statisticians, University of Piraeus, Greece)
14.12.2009: Generalized Additive Models: An Overview (Invited Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Bari, Italy)
21.07.2009: Confidence Intervals for Generalized Additive Models (Talk, International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Cornell University, New York)

PDRA and PhD students

Malgorzata Wojtys (PDRA), working on an EPSRC funded project on semiparametric sample selection models, May 2012 -
Ken Liang, PhD project on nonparametric spatio-temporal quantile regression, 2010 -
Francesco Donat, PhD project on ordered probit modelling, 2012 -
Karol Wyszynski, PhD project on sample selection modelling, 2012 -

Teaching

2012/2013
STATG001: Statistical Models and Data Analysis (1st Term)
STATG003: Statistical Computing (shared, 1st Term)

2011/2012
STATG001: Statistical Models and Data Analysis (1st Term)
MATH7501: Probability and Statistics (2nd Term)

2010/2011
STAT2001/3101/D2: Probability and Inference (tutorials, 1st Term)
MATH7501: Probability and Statistics (2nd Term)


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Last modified: May 2013