Peer-reviewed articles
Statistics theory and methodology
Tang, Z. and Westling, T. (2025+). Nonparametric Assessment of Variable Selection and Ranking Algorithms. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, accepted. arXiv:2308.11593.
Takatsu, K. and Westling, T. (2025). Debiased inference for a covariate-adjusted regression function. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 87(1):33-55. doi:10.1093/jrsssb/qkae041. arXiv:2210.06448.
Yang, J., Bhattacharhya, R., Lee, Y., and Westling, T. (2024). Statistical and Causal Robustness for Causal Null Hypothesis Tests. 40th Conference on Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence. https://openreview.net/forum?id=6ZIQzAuMWE.
Ye, T., Westling, T., Page, L., and Keele, L. Nonparametric identification of causal effects in clustered observational studies with differential selection. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 187(4):1013-1036. doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnae018. arXiv:2206.10364.
Wu, Y. and Westling, T. (2023). Nonparametric inference under a monotone hazard ratio order. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 17(2):3181-3225. doi:10.1214/23-EJS2173.
Westling, T., Luedtke, A., Gilbert, P., and Carone, M. Inference for treatment-specific survival curves using machine learning. Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear. arXiv:2106.06602.
Westling, T., Downes, K. J., and Small, D. (2023). Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation under a likelihood ratio order. Statistica Sinica, 33, 1-19. doi:10.5705/ss.202020.0207. arXiv:1904.12321
Westling, T. (2022) Nonparametric tests of the causal null with non-discrete exposures. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117(539):1551-1562. doi:10.1080/01621459.2020.1865168. arXiv:2001.05344.
Balzer, L. and Westling, T. (2021) Demystifying Statistical Inference When Using Machine Learning in Causal Research. American Journal of Epidemiology, kwab200. doi:10.1093/aje/kwab200.
Ng, T. L., Murphy, T. B., Westling, T., McCormick, T. H., and Fosdick, B. K. (2021). Modeling the social media relationships of Irish politicians using a generalized latent space stochastic blockmodel. Annals of Applied Statistics, 15(4):1923-1944. doi:10.1214/21-AOAS1483.
Westling, T., van der Laan, M. J., and Carone, M. (2020). Correcting an estimator of a multivariate monotone function with isotonic regression. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 14(2):3032–3069. doi:10.1214/20-EJS1740. arXiv:1810.09022.
Westling, T., Gilbert, P., and Carone, M. (2020). Causal isotonic regression. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 82(3):719—747. doi:10.1111/rssb.12372. PDF. Supplementary Material. Code. arXiv:1810.03269.
Westling, T. and Carone, M. (2020). A unified study of nonparametric inference for monotone functions. Annals of Statistics, 48(2):1001—1024. doi:10.1214/19-AOS1835. PDF. Supplementary Material. arXiv:1806.01928.
Westling, T., Juraska, M., Seaton, K., Tomaras, G., Gilbert, P., and Janes, H. (2020). Methods for comparing durability of immune responses between vaccine regimens in early-phase trials. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 29(1):78—93. doi:10.1177/0962280218820881. PDF. Supplementary Material.
Westling, T. and McCormick, T. H. (2019). Beyond Prediction: A Framework for Inference With Variational Approximations in Mixture Models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 28(4):778-789. doi:10.1080/10618600.2019.1609977. PDF. Supplementary Material. Code. arXiv:1510.08151.
Fosdick, B. K., McCormick, T. H., Murphy, T. B., Ng, T. L., and Westling, T. (2019). Multiresolution network models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 28(1):185-196. doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1505633. PDF. Code. arXiv:1608.07618.
Scientific collaborations
Sawant S., Paskavitz, A., Rosati, A., Westling, T., Bertolla, R., Whitcomb, B., Pilsner, R. (2025+). A Machine Learning Approach Using Semen Parameters and Sperm Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number to Predict Couples’ Fecundity. F & S Reports, forthcoming. doi:10.1016/j.xfre.2025.05.002.
Ramgopal S., Westling T., Siripong N., Salcido D., Martin-Gill C. (2021) Use of a metalearner to predict emergency medical services demand in an urban setting. Computational Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 207:106201. doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106201.
Fisher, B. T., Westling, T., Boge, C. K., et al. (2021) Prospective Evaluation of Galactomannan and (1→3) Beta-D-Glucan Assays as Diagnostic Tools for Invasive Fungal Disease in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Receiving Fungal Prophylaxis. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 10(8):864-871. doi:10.1093/jpids/piab036.
Westling, T., Cowden, C., Mwananyanda, L., et al. (2020). Impact of Chlorhexidine Baths on Suspected Sepsis and Bloodstream Infections in Hospitalized Neonates in Zambia. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 96:54-60. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.03.043.
Harbison, R. A., Gray, A. J., Westling, T., Carone, M., Rodriguez, C. P., Futran, N., Cannon, R., and Houlton, J. J. (2020). The role of elective neck dissection in high-grade parotid malignancy: a hospital-based cohort study. The Laryngoscope, 130:1487–1495. doi:10.1002/lary.28238.
Yousem, D. M., Camargo, A., Yousem, K. P., Westling, T., and Carone, M. (2019). Ethical Dilemmas in Radiology: Survey of Opinions and Experiences. American Journal of Roentgenology, 213(6): 1274-1283. doi:10.2214/AJR.19.21121.
Saranya, S., Luedtke, A., Langevin, E., Zhu, M., Bonaparte, M., Machabert, T., Savarino, S., Zambrano, B., Moureau, A., Khromava, A., Moodie, Z., Westling T., et al. (2018). Effect of Dengue Serostatus on Dengue Vaccine Safety and Efficacy. New England Journal of Medicine, 379(4):327-340. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1800820.
Submitted or under revision
Hu, R., Staudenmayer, J., Matthews, C., and Westling, T. (2024). Sensitivity of the Effect of Physical Activity on Mortality among Former Smokers to Unobserved Confounding and Confounder Misclassification.
Tang, Z. and Westling, T. (2024). Consistency of the bootstrap for asymptotically linear estimators with nuisance parameters. arXiv:2404.03064
Ham, D., Westling, T., and Doss, C. (2024). Doubly robust estimation and inference for a log-concave counterfactual density. arXiv:2403.19917