Priyantha Wijayatunga

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Associate professor at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) Section: Statistics

Samhällsvetarhuset, Biblioteksgränd 6 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Research interests

Theory and method: Causal inference using graphical models; Discriminative training of classifiers; Algebraic statistics.

Fields of application: Social sciences; Economics; Finance.

Editorial: recent advances in multimodal artificial intelligence for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and prevention

Frontiers in Radiology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2024, Vol. 3

Ali, Hazrat; Shah, Zubair; Alam, Tanvir; et al.

Editorial: Probability and its paradoxes for critical thinking

Frontiers in Education, Frontiers Media S.A. 2024, Vol. 9

Wijayatunga, Priyantha; Bandyopadhyay, Prasanta S.; Woodcook, Stephen

Priyantha Wijayatunga's contribution to the Discussion of 'Experimental evaluation of algorithm-Assisted human decision-making: Application to the pretrial safety assessment' by Imai et al.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Oxford University Press 2023, Vol. 186, (2) : 210-211

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Priyantha Wijayatunga’s contribution to the discussion of ‘Martingale Posterior Distributions’ by Fong, Holmes, and Walker

Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series B-statistical Methodology, Oxford University Press 2023, Vol. 85, (5) : 1412-1412

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Some cases of prediction and inference with uncertainty

Proceedings of the 14th international conference on soft computing and pattern recognition (SoCPaR 2022), Springer Nature 2022 : 265-274

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Discussion on the paper titled "Gaussian differential privacy"

Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series B-statistical Methodology, John Wiley & Sons 2022, Vol. 84, (1) : 49-50

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Probabilistic prediction of increased intracranial pressure in patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 2022, Vol. 12, (1)

Wijayatunga, Priyantha; Koskinen, Lars-Owe D.; Sundström, Nina

Priyantha Wijayatunga’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Testing by betting: A strategy for statistical and scientific communication’ by Glenn Shafer

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), John Wiley & Sons 2021, Vol. 184, (2) : 465-466

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Amyloid fibril composition within hereditary Val30Met (p. Val50Met) transthyretin amyloidosis families

PLOS ONE, Public Library Science 2019, Vol. 14, (2)

Suhr, Ole Bernt; Wixner, Jonas; Anan, Intissar; et al.

Resolution to four probability paradoxes: Two-envelope, Wallet-game, Sleeping Beauty and Newcomb’s

Proceedings of The 34th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling 2019, Guimarães, Portugal, Volume II, Portugal: 2019 : 252-257

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Probability, Paradoxes and Human Thinking

Proceedings of the 15th SweCog Conference, Skövde, Sweden: University of Skövde 2019 : 54-56

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Probabilistic Graphical Models and Their Inferences (Tutorial)

2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W) : 251-252

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Discussion on the meeting on 'Data visualization'

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), UK: Royal Statistical Society 2019, Vol. 182, (2) : 433-441

Wijayatunga, Priyantha; Diggle, Peter J.; Baillie, Mark; et al.

Discriminative Prediction of Adverse Events for Optimized Therapies Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Umeå: 2019

Wijayatunga, Priyantha; Sundström, Nina

Statistical challenges of administrative and transaction data: Discussion on the paper by Hand

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Wiley-Blackwell 2018, Vol. 181, (3) : 578-605

Babb, Penny; Zhang, Li-Chun; Allin, Paul; et al.

Beyond subjective and objective in statistics: Discussion on the paper by Gelman and Hennig

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Wiley-Blackwell 2017, Vol. 180, (4) : 997-1033

Dawid, Philip; Wijayatunga, Priyantha; Pierides, Dean C.

Resolving the Lord's Paradox

Proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: Volume II, Groningen, Netherlands: International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM) 2017 : 223-226

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Discussion on the paper by Caron and Fox

Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series B-statistical Methodology, USA: John Wiley & Sons 2017, Vol. 79, (5) : 1359-1359

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Rheumatoid Factor Isotypes in Relation to Antibodies Against Citrullinated Peptides and Anti-Carbamylated Antibodies in Individuals Before the Onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Research & Therapy , Vol. 18

Brink, Mikael; Hansson, M; Mathsson-Alm, L; et al.

A geometric view on Pearson's correlation coefficient and a generalization of it to non-linear dependencies

Ratio Mathematica, Italy: eiris 2016, Vol. 30 : 3-21

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Data Deluge and Its Analysis Issues

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference in Accounting Researchers and Educators (ICARE 2016), Kelaniya: Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya 2016 : 21-21

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Liver transplantation for hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis: after 20 years still the best therapeutic alternative?

Transplantation, Vol. 99, (9) : 1847-1854

Ericzon, Bo-Göran; Wilczek, Henryk E.; Larsson, Marie; et al.

Probabilistic Analysis of Balancing Scores for Causal Inference

Journal of Mathematics Research, Canada: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015, Vol. 7, (2) : 90-100

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

On Associative Confounder Bias

Thirteenth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence : 157-166

Wijayatunga, Priyantha

Viewing Simpson’s Paradox

Statistica & Applicazioni, Italy: 2014, Vol. XII, (2) : 225-235