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Vanda Inacio is Reader in Statistics at the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh since 2016. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at PUC Chile (2012–2016). Vanda received a PhD in Statistics from Universidade de Lisboa and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her main research interests are Bayesian (nonparametric) statistics, computational statistics, and biostatistics, with an emphasis on the statistical evaluation of medical tests. Vanda’s work has been published in some of the top-tier journals in the field, like Annals of Applied Statistics, Bayesian Analysis, Biostatistics, Biometrics, Statistics in Medicine, Statistical Science, and The American Statistician. Vanda is also a co-author of the R package ROCnReg, the only package integrating both frequentist and Bayesian methods for estimation of ROC curves (with and without covariates).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vanda Inacio

Citation names

  • Inacio, Vanda
  • Inacio de Carvalho, Vanda

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9C1A-0741-E136
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8084-1616

Email addresses

  • vanda.inacio@ed.ac.uk (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability
Education
Degree Classification
2012/07/05
Concluded
 Estatística e Investigação Operacional (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/08/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2016/12/01 - 2023/07/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2012/10/06 - 2016/10/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - Current Data Fusion and Calibration Methods for Spatial Risk Analysis
PTDC/MAT-STA/28649/2017
Researcher
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Hanson, Timothy; Zhou, Haiming; de Carvalho, Vanda Inácio. "Bayesian Nonparametric Spatially Smoothed Density Estimation". In New Frontiers of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, 87-105. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-99389-8_4
  2. de Carvalho, Vanda Inácio; Jara, Alejandro; de Carvalho, Miguel. "Bayesian Nonparametric Approaches for ROC Curve Inference". In Nonparametric Bayesian Inference in Biostatistics, 327-344. Springer International Publishing, 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-19518-6_16
Encyclopedia entry
  1. de Carvalho, Vanda Inácio; Rodríguez-Álvarez, María Xosé. "Statistical Evaluation of Medical Diagnostic Tests". In Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08063.
    10.1002/9781118445112.stat08063
Journal article
  1. Serveh Sharifi Far; Vanda Inacio; Daniel Paulin; Miguel de Carvalho; Nicole Augustin; Mike Allerhand; Gail Robertson. "Consultancy Style Dissertations in Statistics and Data Science: Why and How". The American Statistician (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2022.2163689.
    10.1080/00031305.2022.2163689
  2. Vanda Inácio; María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez. "The Covariate-Adjusted ROC Curve: The Concept and Its Importance, Review of Inferential Methods, and a New Bayesian Estimator". Statistical Science (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/21-sts839.
    10.1214/21-sts839
  3. Vanda Inacio; Javier E. Garrido Guillén. "Bayesian nonparametric inference for the overlap coefficient: With an application to disease diagnosis". Statistics in Medicine (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.9480.
    10.1002/sim.9480
  4. Vanda Inacio; V. M. Lourenço; Miguel de Carvalho; Richard A. Parker; Vincent Gnanapragasam. "Robust and flexible inference for the covariate-specific receiver operating characteristic curve". Statistics in Medicine (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.9153.
    10.1002/sim.9153
  5. María,Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez; Vanda Inácio. "ROCnReg: An R Package for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Inference With and Without Covariates". The R Journal (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.32614/rj-2021-066.
    10.32614/rj-2021-066
  6. Inácio, Vanda; Rodríguez-Álvarez, María Xosé; Gayoso-Diz, Pilar. "Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests". Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 8 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-statistics-040720-022432.
    10.1146/annurev-statistics-040720-022432
  7. Margaritella, Nicolò; Inácio, Vanda; King, Ruth. "Parameter clustering in Bayesian functional principal component analysis of neuroscientific data". Statistics in Medicine 40 1 (2020): 167-184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.8768.
    Published • 10.1002/sim.8768
  8. Parker, Richard A.; Scott, Charles; Inácio, Vanda; Stevens, Nathaniel T.. "Using multiple agreement methods for continuous repeated measures data: a tutorial for practitioners". BMC Medical Research Methodology 20 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01022-x.
    10.1186/s12874-020-01022-x
  9. Inacio, Vanda. "Bayesian bootstrap inference for the receiver operating characteristic surface". Stat (2018): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sta4.211.
    Published
  10. Castro, Luis M; Wang, Wan-Lun; Lachos, Victor H; Inácio de Carvalho, Vanda; Bayes, Cristian L. "Bayesian semiparametric modeling for HIV longitudinal data with censoring and skewness". Statistical Methods in Medical Research 28 5 (2018): 1457-1476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0962280218760360.
    10.1177/0962280218760360
  11. Carvalho, Vanda Inácio de; Branscum, Adam J. "Bayesian nonparametric inference for the three-class Youden index and its associated optimal cutoff points". Statistical Methods in Medical Research 27 3 (2017): 689-700. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0962280217742538.
    10.1177/0962280217742538
  12. Vanda Inácio de Carvalho; Miguel de Carvalho; Adam J. Branscum. "Nonparametric Bayesian covariate-adjusted estimation of the Youden index". Biometrics (2017): https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fbiom.12686.
    10.1111/biom.12686
  13. Vanda Inácio de Carvalho; Miguel de Carvalho; Todd A. Alonzo; Wenceslao González-Manteiga. "Functional covariate-adjusted partial area under the specificity-ROC curve with an application to metabolic syndrome diagnosis". The Annals of Applied Statistics 10 3 (2016): 1472-1495. https://doi.org/10.1214%2F16-aoas943.
    10.1214/16-aoas943
  14. Vanda Inácio de Carvalho; Alejandro Jara; Timothy E. Hanson; Miguel de Carvalho. "Bayesian Nonparametric ROC Regression Modeling". Bayesian Analysis 8 3 (2013): 623-646. https://doi.org/10.1214%2F13-ba825.
    10.1214/13-ba825
  15. V. Inacio; W. Gonzalez-Manteiga; M. Febrero-Bande; F. Gude; T. A. Alonzo; C. Cadarso-Suarez. "Extending induced ROC methodology to the functional context". Biostatistics 13 4 (2012): 594-608. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fbiostatistics%2Fkxs007.
    10.1093/biostatistics/kxs007
  16. Vanda Inácio; Antónia A. Turkman; Christos T. Nakas; Todd A. Alonzo. "Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of the three-way receiver operating characteristic surface". Biometrical Journal 53 6 (2011): 1011-1024. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fbimj.201100070.
    10.1002/bimj.201100070
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/12/14 Distributional ROC surface regression 12th International Conference on Statistics and Computing, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
(United Kingdom)
2018/06/29 Bayesian nonparametric inference for the covariate-adjusted ROC curve 2018 ISBA World Meeting
(United Kingdom)
2016/06/17 Nonparametric Bayesian covariate-adjusted estimation of the Youden index ISBA 2016 : International Society for Bayesian Analysis

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2016/09/01 - 2020/05/12 Parameter clustering in Bayesian functional PCA of neuroscientific data
Supervisor
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/06/24 - 2018/06/29 Membro do comité de organização local do 2018 ISBA World Meeting (2018/06/24 - 2018/06/29)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019/01/01 - Current Statistical Methods in Medical Research (1477-0334) SAGE Publications