Chris Volinsky: Papers

All papers are available in either postscript (ps) or PDF (pdf) format.

Network-based Marketing: Identifying likely adopters via consumer networks.

Shawndra Hill, Foster Provost, and Chris Volinsky (2006)
Statistical Science (to appear)
Building an Effective Representation for Dynamic Networks

Shawndra Hill, Deepak Agarwal, Robert Bell, and Chris Volinsky (2005)
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (accepted - to appear)
Mining Customer Care Dialogs for "Daily News"

Shona Douglas , Deepak Agarwal, Tirso Alonso, Robert Bell., Mazin Rahim , Deborah Swayne and Chris Volinsky (2005)
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (Special Data Mining Issue). 13: 652-660
PS, PDF,
Computational Methods for Dynamic Graphs

Authors: Corinna Cortes, Daryl Pregibon and Chris Volinsky (2003)
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 12. 950-970
PS, PDF,
Parallel Coordinates for Exploratory Modelling Analysis

Authors: Antony Unwin, Chris Volinsky, and Sylvia Winkler (2002)
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 28. 553-564
PDF
Communities of Interest

Authors: Corinna Cortes, Daryl Pregibon, and Chris T. Volinsky (2001)
Proceedings of IDA 2001 - Intelligent Data Analysis.
PostScript
Assessment of Response Bias in Mild Head Injury:  Beyond Malingering Tests

Authors: Scott R. Millis and Chris T. Volinsky (2001)
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology , 23, 809-828
Bayesian Information Criterion for Censored Survival Models

Authors: Chris T. Volinsky and Adrian E. Raftery (2000)
Biometrics 56, pp 256-262
PostScript,
 
Bayesian Model Averaging: A Tutorial

Authors: Jennifer A. Hoeting, David Madigan, Adrian Raftery, Chris T. Volinsky (1999)
Statistical Science 14, 382-401.  (NOTE: Printed version has many typesetting errors, please access paper from links below)
PDF
 
Squashing Flat Files Flatter

Authors: Bill DuMouchel, Chris Volinsky, Theodore Johnson, Corinna Cortes, and Daryl Pregibon (1999)
KDD-99 Proceedings pp. 6-15
PostScript,
 
Bayesian Model Averaging in Proportional Hazard Models: Predicting the Risk of a Stroke

Authors: Chris Volinsky, David Madigan, Adrian E. Raftery, and Richard A. Kronmal (1997)
Applied Statistics 46, pp.443-448
PostScript,
 
Bayesian Model Averaging for Censored Survival Models

Author: Chris Volinsky (1997)
PhD Dissertation, University of Washington Statistics Department
PostScript,
 
Bayesian Model Averaging and Model Selection for Markov Equivalence Classes of Acyclic Digraphs

Authors: David Madigan, Steen A. Andersson, Michael D. Perlman, and Chris T. Volinsky (1996)
Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 25, pp. 2493-2520
PostScript,
 
Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Survival Analysis Improves Predictive Performance

Authors: Adrian Raftery, David Madigan, and Chris T. Volinsky (1995)
Bayesian Statistics 5 (J.M. Bernardo et al eds) pp. 323-349
PostScript,
 
Bayesian Model Averaging

Authors: David Madigan, Adrian E. Raftery, Chris Volinsky, Jennifer Hoeting (1996)
Integrating Multiple Learned Models (IMLM-96) P. Chan, S. Stolofo, and D. Wolpert (Eds.), pp. 77-93
PostScript,
For software I have written to implement Bayesian Model Averaging in S-Plus, please see the Bayesian Model Averaging Homepage.