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ResearcherID: B-8955-2017
Scopus Author ID: 56652097400
Ciência ID: C417-3E48-D5F3

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Statistics, Bayesian statistics, Ecological statistics, Environmental statistics, MCMC, big data, statistical epidemiology

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University of St Andrews: St Andrews, GB

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University of Glasgow: Glasgow, GB

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University of Glasgow

University of St Andrews: St Andrews, GB

2022-08-22 to present | Lecturer in Statistics (School of Mathematics and Statistics)
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Ben Swallow

University of Warwick: Coventry , GB

2017-08-01 to 2019-04-30 | Research fellow (Mathematics Institute and Zeeman Institute)
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Ben Swallow

University of Bristol: Bristol, GB

2017-07-31
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University of Bristol - PURE

University of Bristol: Bristol, Bristol, GB

2015-08 to 2017-07-31 | Postdoctoral Research Associate (School of Chemistry)
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University of St Andrews: St Andrews, GB

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University of St Andrews: St Andrews, GB

2012-09 to 2015-06 | PhD Statistics (School of Mathematics and Statistics)
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Ben Swallow

University of St Andrews: St Andrews, GB

2011-09 to 2012-08 | MSc Statistics (School of Mathematics and Statistics)
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Ben Swallow

King's College London: London, GB

2006-09 to 2010-07 | BA French and Mathematics
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Ben Swallow

Works (38)

Proposer of the vote of thanks and contribution to the Discussion of the “Discussion Meeting on the Analysis of citizen science data”

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
2025-02-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jrsssa/qnaf009
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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Same data, different analysts

BMC Biology
2025-02-06 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.32942/X2GG62
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x
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Contributors: Ben Swallow
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University of St Andrews CRIS

A Bayesian multivariate extreme value mixture model

2024 | Preprint
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2401.15703
Contributors: Chenglei Hu; Ben Swallow; Daniela Castro-Camilo
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Ben Swallow
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Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland

npj Vaccines
2024-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41541-024-00898-w
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Contributors: Calum Macdonald; Norah Palmateer; Andrew McAuley; Laura Lindsay; Taimoor Hasan; Safraj Shahul Hameed; Elliot Hall; Karen Jeffrey; Zoë Grange; Petros Gousias et al.
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University of St Andrews CRIS

Irruptions of crossbills Loxia spp. in northern Europe – patterns and correlations with seed production by key and non‐key conifers

Ibis
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ibi.13328
Contributors: Ron W. Summers; Ben Swallow; Jonas Fridman; Tatu Hokkanen; Ian Newton; Stephen T. Buckland
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Bayesian inference for stochastic oscillatory systems using the phase-corrected linear noise approximation

Bayesian Analysis
2024-10-18 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1214/24-BA1471
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Contributors: Ben Swallow; David A. Rand; Giorgos Minas
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University of St Andrews CRIS

Target Trial Emulation: Impact of C-Section on Birth Outcomes for Spontaneous Preterm Breech Presentations

International journal of population data science
2024-09-10 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2785
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Contributors: Ben Swallow
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University of St Andrews CRIS

Quantifying transmissibility and dispersion of SARS-CoV-2 variants and subvariants of concern in England

2024-08-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.14.24311985
Contributors: Ben Swallow; Joshua Grier; Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths
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Selecting the most informative positive and negative controls for self-controlled case series (SCCS)

Journal of Global Health
2024-08-06 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.14.03037
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PMID: 39105317
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Contributors: Igor Rudan; Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi; Steven Kerr; Tristan Millington; Zoe Grange; Christopher Sullivan; Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe; Ben Swallow; Amanj Kurdi; Kirsty Morrison et al.
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University of St Andrews CRIS

Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
2024-02-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1177/01410768231223584
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Contributors: Ting Shi; Tristan Millington; Chris Robertson; Karen Jeffrey; Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi ; Colin McCowan; Colin R Simpson; Lana Woolford; Luke Daines; Steven Kerr et al.
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Caveats in reporting of national vaccine uptake

Journal of Global Health
2024-02-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.14.03006
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Contributors: Tristan Millington; Kirsty Morrison; Karen Jeffrey; Christopher Sullivan; Amanj Kurdi; Adeniyi Fagbamigbe; Ben Swallow; Ting Shi; Syed Ahmar Shah; Steven Kerr et al.
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Ben Swallow's contribution to the Discussion of ‘Martingale Posterior Distributions’ by Fong, Holmes and Walker

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology
2024-02-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jrsssb/qkad097
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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PCP-Ed: Parallel coordinate plots for ensemble data

Visual Informatics
2023-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2022.10.003
Contributors: Elif E. Firat; Ben Swallow; Robert S. Laramee
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Bayesian inference for stochastic oscillatory systems using the phase-corrected Linear Noise Approximation

2022 | Preprint
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2205.05955
Contributors: Ben Swallow; David A. Rand; Giorgos Minas
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Ben Swallow
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Data Fusion in a Two-stage Spatio-Temporal Model using the INLA-SPDE Approach

2022 | Preprint
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2207.10027
DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2023.100744
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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Ben Swallow
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Development and Evaluation of Two Approaches of Visual Sensitivity Analysis to Support Epidemiological Modeling

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2022.3209464
Part of ISSN: 1077-2626
Part of ISSN: 1941-0506
Part of ISSN: 2160-9306
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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Ben Swallow
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Tracking the national and regional COVID-19 epidemic status in the UK using directed Principal Component Analysis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2110.03626
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0302
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Ben Swallow
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Visualization for Epidemiological Modelling: Challenges, Solutions, Reflections & Recommendations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2204.06946
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0299
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Ben Swallow
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Combining rapid antigen testing and syndromic surveillance improves community-based COVID-19 detection in a low-income country

Nature Communications
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30640-w
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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Ben Swallow
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The challenges of data in future pandemics

Epidemics
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100612
Contributors: Nigel Shadbolt; Alys Brett; Min Chen; Glenn Marion; Iain J. McKendrick; Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths; Lorenzo Pellis; Richard Reeve; Ben Swallow
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Bayesian hierarchical mixture models for detecting non‐normal clusters applied to noisy genomic and environmental datasets

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics
2022-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/anzs.12370
Part of ISSN: 1369-1473
Part of ISSN: 1467-842X
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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Ben Swallow
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Modelling: Understanding pandemics and how to control them

Epidemics
2022-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100588
Part of ISSN: 1755-4365
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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Ben Swallow
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Complex model calibration through emulation, a worked example for a stochastic epidemic model

Epidemics
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100574
Part of ISSN: 1755-4365
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Ben Swallow
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Challenges for modelling interventions for future pandemics

Epidemics
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100546
Part of ISSN: 1755-4365
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Ben Swallow
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Challenges in estimation, uncertainty quantification and elicitation for pandemic modelling

Epidemics
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100547
Part of ISSN: 1755-4365
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Ben Swallow
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The impact of cancer incidence on catastrophic health expenditure in Iran with a Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis

Iranian journal of public health
2022-02-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.18502/ijph.v51i2.8697
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Contributors: Nazanin Fekri; Mahboubeh Parsaeian; Abolghasem Pourreza; Ben Swallow; Aminreza Amini; Abbas Rahimi Foroushani
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Statistical and agent-based modelling of the transmissibility of different SARS-CoV-2 variants in England and impact of different interventions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
2022-01-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.30.21267090
DOI: doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2021.0315
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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Ben Swallow
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Challenges on the interaction of models and policy for pandemic control

Epidemics
2021-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100499
Contributors: Liza Hadley; Peter Challenor; Chris Dent; Valerie Isham; Denis Mollison; Duncan A. Robertson; Ben Swallow; Cerian R. Webb
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A Review of Applied Hierarchical Modelling in Ecology: Volume 2 by Kéry and Royle

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics
2021-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-021-00440-8
Part of ISSN: 1085-7117
Part of ISSN: 1537-2693
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Ben Swallow
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Toward Efficient Bayesian Approaches to Inference in Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Inferring Animal Behavior

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2021-05-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.623731
Part of ISSN: 2296-701X
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Ben Swallow
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Multivariate spatio-temporal analysis of the global COVID-19 pandemic

2021-02-09 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.08.21251339
Contributors: Wen Xiang; Ben Swallow
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Parallel tempering as a mechanism for facilitating inference in hierarchical hidden Markov models

2020-11-19 | Preprint
ARXIV: arXiv:2011.10088v2
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Ben Swallow
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Data Study Group Final Report: Roche

2020-06-04 | Report
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3876989
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Ben Swallow
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Assessing factors associated with changes in the numbers of birds visiting gardens in winter: Are predators partly to blame?

Ecology and Evolution
2019-10-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5702
Part of ISSN: 2045-7758
Part of ISSN: 2045-7758
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Ben Swallow
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A spatiotemporal multispecies model of a semicontinuous response

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)
2018-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12250
Part of ISSN: 0035-9254
Part of ISSN: 1467-9876
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Ben Swallow
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Parametric uncertainty in complex environmental models: a cheap emulation approach for models with high-dimensional output

arXiv
2017 | Journal article
ARXIV: 1702.03696
Contributors: Ben Swallow
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Ben Swallow
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Identifying multispecies synchrony in response to environmental covariates.

2016-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2518
PMID: 28031803
PMC: PMC5167035
Contributors: Swallow B; King R; Buckland ST; Toms MP
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Ben Swallow via Europe PubMed Central
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Bayesian hierarchical modelling of continuous non-negative longitudinal data with a spike at zero: An application to a study of birds visiting gardens in winter.

2016-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201400081
PMID: 25737026
PMC: PMC4964939
Contributors: Swallow B; Buckland ST; King R; Toms MP
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Ben Swallow via Europe PubMed Central
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Journal of theoretical biology. (1)
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