Selected Publications

• "Large-scale unsupervised spatio-temporal semantic analysis of vast regions from
  satellite images sequences". Statistics and Computing, 34, 71, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-024-10383-y. Authors: Echegoyen, C., Pérez, A., Santafé, G., Pérez-Goya, U. and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE

• "Logistic regression versus XGBoost for detecting burned areas using satellite images". Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-023-00590-7 Authors: Militino, A.F. ,Goyena, H. , Pérez-Goya, U. and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "A simplified spatial+ to mitigate spatial confounding in multivariate spatial areal models". Spatial Statistics, 59, 100804, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2023.100804 Authors: Urdangarin, A., Goicoa, T., Kneib, T and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "A scalable approach for short-term disease forecasting in high spatial resolution areal data". Biometrical Journal, 65(8), 2300096, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.202300096 Authors: Orozco-Acosta, E., Riebler, A., Adin, A. and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "Unpaired spatio-temporal fusion of image patches (USTFIT) from cloud covered images". Remote Sensing of Environment, 295, 113709, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113709 Authors: Goyena, H. ,Pérez-Goya, U. , Montesino-SanMartin, M., Militino, A.F., Wang, Q., Atkinson, P.M., and Ugarte, M.D. PATENT PENDING: reference PCT/IB2023/000299.

• "High-dimensional order-free multivariate spatial disease mapping". Statistics and Computing, 33, 104, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-023-10263-x. Authors: Vicente, G. , Adin, A. ,Goicoa, T., and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "Multivariate Bayesian spatio-temporal P-spline models to analyze crimes against women". Biostatistics, vol. 24, Issue 3, 2023, pp 562–584. doi :https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxab042. Authors:Vicente, G. ,Goicoa, T., and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "Predicting cancer incidence in regions without population-based cancer registries using mortality" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, qnad077, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnad077. Authors: Retegui, G., Etxeberria, J., Riebler, A. and and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "Big problems in spatio-temporal disease mapping: Methods and software" . Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 231, 2023, 107403, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107403. Authors: Orozco-Acosta, E., Adin. A. and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE using the R library bigDM.

• "Evaluating recent methods to overcome spatial confounding".Revista Matemática Complutense, vol. 36, pp 333-360, 2023 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13163-022-00449-8. Authors: Urdangarin, A., Goicoa, T., and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE

• "Alleviating confounding in spatio-temporal areal models with an application on crimes against women in India". Statistical Modelling 23(1), pp 9-30, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1471082X211015452.Authors: Aritz Adin, Tomas Goicoa, James S. Hodges, Patrick M. Schnell and Maria D. Ugarte. CODE AVAILABLE

• "A Unique Cardiac Electrophysiological 3D Model. Towards Interpretable AI Diagnosis". iScience, vol. 25, Issue 12, 105617, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105617. Authors: Rueda, C., Rodriguez-Collado, A.Fernandez, I., Caneda, C., Ugarte, M.D., Larriba, Y. CODE AVAILABLE..

• "Using mortality to predict incidence for rare and lethal cancers in very small areas". Biometrical Journal 2022, doi:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.202200017. Authors: Etxeberria, J., Goicoa, T., and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "Space-time interactions in Bayesian disease mapping with recent tools: Making things easier for practitioners". Statistical Methods in Medical Research, vol 31(6), pp 1085-1103, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802221079351 . Authors: Urdangarin, A., Goicoa, T., and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "Locally adaptive change-point detection (LACPD) with applications to environmental
  changes". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 36, pp 251- 269, 2022. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00477-021-02083-0. Authors: Moradi, M., Montesino-SanMartin, Ugarte, M.D., and Militino, A.F. CODE AVAILABLE.

• "Identifying extreme COVID-19 mortality risks in English small areas: a disease cluster approach". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 36 (10), pp 2995- 3010, 2022.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-022-02175-5. Authors: Adin, A., Congdon, P., Santafé, G., and Ugarte, M.D.. CODE AVAILABLE

• "Alleviating confounding in spatio-temporal areal models with an application on crimes against women in India". Statistical Modelling 2021, doi: 10.1177/1471082X211015452 Authors: Aritz Adin, Tomas Goicoa, James S. Hodges, Patrick M. Schnell and Maria D. Ugarte. CODE AVAILABLE

• "Dealing with risk discontinuities to estimate cancer mortality risks when the number of small areas is large". Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 30 (1), pp 6-21, 2021, doi: 10.1177/0962280220946502 Authors: Santafé, G., Adin, A., Lee, D. and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE

• " Scalable Bayesianmodeling for smoothing disease risks in large spatial data sets using INLA" . Spatial Statistics, 2021, doi:10.3390/rs12121934. Authors: Orozco-Acosta, E., Adin. A. and Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE

• "Using RGISTools to estimate water levels in reservoirs and lakes" . Remote Sensing, 12, 1934 (pp 1-19), 2020, doi:10.3390/rs12121934. Authors: Militino, A.F., Montesino-SanMartin, M., Pérez-Goya, U. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Bayesian inference in multivariate spatio-temporal areal models using INLA:
  analysis of gender-based violence in small areas" . Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2020, in press, DOI 10.1007/s00477-020-01808-x.. Authors: Vicente, G. ,Goicoa, T., and Ugarte, M.D.

• "On the Performances of Trend and Change-Point Detection Methods for Remote
  Sensing Data" . Remote Sensing, 12, 1008(pp 1-25), 2020, doi:10.3390/rs12061008. Authors: Militino, A.F., Moradi, M. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Crime against women in India: unveiling spatial patterns and temporal trends of dowry deaths in the districts of Uttar Pradesh" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 183, Part2, pp 655-679, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12545. Authors: Vicente, G. Goicoa, T., Fernandez-Rasines, P. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Filling Missing Data and Smoothing Altered Data in Satellite Imagery with a Spatial Functional Procedure". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment,33(10), pp 1737-1750, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s00477-019-01711-0. Authors : Militino, AF, Ugarte, M.D. , Montesino, M.

• "Interpolation of the Mean Anomalies for Cloud Filling in Land Surface Temperature and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(8), pp 6068-6078, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2904193.. Authors : Militino, AF, Ugarte, M.D. , Pérez-Goya, U., Genton, G. CODE AVAILABLE

• "A two-stage approach to estimate spatial and spatio-temporal disease
  risks in the presence of local discontinuities and clusters". Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 28(9), pp 2595-2613, 2019, DOI: 10.1177/0962280218767975 Authors : Adin, A., Lee, D., Goicoa, T. , Ugarte, M.D. CODE AVAILABLE UNDER REQUEST

• "Online relative risks/rates estimation in spatial and spatio-temporal disease mapping"
  Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 172, pp 103-116,
  2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.02.014.Authors: Adin, A., Goicoa, T., Ugarte, M.D.

• "Flexible Bayesian P-splines for smoothing age-specific spatio-temporal mortality patterns" Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 28(2), 384-403, 2019, DOI: 10.1177/0962280217726802. Authors: Goicoa, T., Adin, A., Etxeberria, J., Militino, AF, Ugarte, M.D.

• "Joint modelling of brain cancer incidence and mortality using Bayesian age- and gender-specifc shared component models". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 32(10), pp 2951-2969, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s00477-018-1567-4.Authors: Etxeberria, J., Goicoa, T. , Ugarte, M.D.

• "Improving the quality of satellite imagery based on ground-truth data from rain gauge stations". Remote Sensing, 10, 398 (16 pps) doi:10.3390/rs10030398, 2018. Authors: Militino, A.F., Ugarte, M.D., Pérez-Goya, U.

• "In spatio-temporal disease mapping models, identifiability constraints affect PQL and INLA results". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 32(3), 749-770, DOI 10.1007/s00477-017-1405-0, 2018. Authors: Goicoa, T., Adin, A., Ugarte, M.D., Hodges, J.

• "One-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three dimensional B-splines to specify space –time interactions in Bayesian disease mapping: Model fitting and model identifiability." Spatial Statistics, 22(2), 451-468, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2017.04.002. Authors: Ugarte, M.D., Adin, A., Goicoa, T.

• "Stochastic Spatio-Temporal Models for Analysing
  NDVI Distribution of GIMMS NDVI3g Images". Remote Sensing, 9, 76 (17 pps); doi:10.3390/rs9010076, 2017. Authors: Militino, A.F., Ugarte, M.D., Pérez-Goya, U.

• "Smoothing and high risk areas detection in space-time disease mapping: a comparison of P-splines, Autoregressive, and Moving Average models". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 31(2), 403-415, doi 10.1007/s00477-016-1269-8, 2017. Authors: Adin, A., Martínez-Beneito, MA, Botella-Rocamora, P., Goicoa, T., Ugarte, M.D.

• "Spatial gender-age-period-cohort analysis of pancreatic
  cancer mortality in Spain (1990-2013)". PLoS ONE, 12(2): e0169751.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169751 (12 pps), 2017. Authors: Etxeberria, J., Goicoa, T. , López-Abente, G., Riebler, A. Ugarte, M.D.

• "Two-level spatially structured models in spatio-temporal disease mapping". Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 25(4), 1080-1100, doi: 10.1177/0962280216660423, 2016. Authors: Ugarte, M.D., Adin A., Goicoa, T.

• "Age–space–time CAR models in Bayesian
  disease mapping". Statistics in Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/sim.6873, 2016. Authors: Goicoa, T., Ugarte, M.D., Etxeberria, J. and Militino, A.F. .

• "Checking unimodality using isotonic regression: an application to breast cancer mortality rates". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 30, 1277-1288, 2016. Authors: Rueda, C., Ugarte and Militino, A.F.

• "Deriving small area estimates from information technology business surveys ". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 178,(4), pp. 1051–1067, 2015. Authors: Militino, A.F., Ugarte, M.D. and Goicoa, T.

• "Interpolation of daily rainfall using spatio-temporal models and clustering". International Journal of Climatology, 35, pp. 1453-1464, 2015. Authors: Militino, A.F., Ugarte, M.D., Goicoa, T., and Genton, M.

• "On predicting cancer mortality using ANOVA-type P-spline models". REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, 13, pp 21-40, 2015. Authors: Etxeberria, J., Ugarte, M.D., Goicoa, T. and Militino, A.F.

• "Analyzing the evolution of young people brain cancer mortality in Spanish provinces". Cancer Epidemiology, 39 , pp. 480-485, 2015.Authors: Ugarte, M.D., Adin, A., Goicoa, T., and López-Abente, G.

• "On fitting spatio-temporal disease mapping models using approximate Bayesian inference". Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 23, 507-530, (2014) .DOI: 10.1177/0962280214527528 Authors: Ugarte, M.D., Adin, A., Goicoa, T. , Militino, A.F.

• "Age and sex-specific spatio-temporal patterns of colorectal cancer mortality in Spain (1975-2008)". Population Health Metrics, 12:17, (2014). DOI:10.1186/1478-7954-12-17.Authors: Etxeberria, J, Ugarte, M.D., Goicoa, T. , Militino, A.F.

• "More on functional data analysis and other aspects in OODA". Biometrical Journal, 56, 786-789, 2014. DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201300212. Authors: Ugarte, M.D. and Aguilera, A.

• "Discussion of Single and Two-Stage Cross-Sectional and Time Series Benchmarking Procedures for SAE". TEST, 23, pp 680-685 (2014). DOI 10.1007/s11749-014-0386-2. Authors: Steorts. R. and Ugarte, M.D.

• " Evaluating space-time models for short-term cancer mortality risk
  predictions in small areas ". Biometrical Journal (2014), 56 , pp. 383-402, 2014. DOI: 10.1177/0962280214527528 Authors:Etxeberria, J, Goicoa, T. , Ugarte, M.D., Militino, A.F.

• "Functional time series analysis of epidemiological data". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 28 (4), pp 943-954, (2014) . Authors:Ruiz-Medina, M.D., Espejo, R.M., Ugarte, M.D., Militino, A.F.

• "Mapping GPS Positional Errors Using Spatial Linear Mixed Models". Journal of Geodesy, 87, 675-685, (2013). Authors: Militino, A.F., Ugarte, M.D., Iribas, J., and Lizarraga-Garcia, E.

• "Spatio-temporal trends in gastric cancer mortality in Spain: 1975-2008". Cancer Epidemiology, 37, pp. 360-369 (2013). Authors: Aragonés, N. , Goicoa, T., Pollán, M., Militino, A.F, Pérez-Gómez, B., López-Abente, G. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Comparing CAR and P-spline models in spatial disease mapping". Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 19, 573-599, (2012) . Authors:Goicoa, T., Ugarte, M. D., Etxeberria, J., and Militino A. F.

• "Projections of cancer mortality risks using spatio-temporal P-spline models". Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 21, 545-560 (2012),. Autores: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T., Etxeberria, J., and Militino A. F.

• "A P-spline ANOVA type model in space-time disease mapping". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk , Assessment , 26, 835-845 (2012).Authors:Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T., Etxeberria, J., and Militino A. F.

• "Estimating the percentage of food expenditure in small areas using bias-corrected P-spline based estimators". Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 2934-2948 (2012) Authors: Militino A. F. , Goicoa, T. and Ugarte, M. D.

• "Gender-specific spatio-temporal patterns of colorectal cancer incidence in Navarre, Spain (1990–2005) ". Cancer Epidemiology, 36, pp. 254-262, (2012) Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Etxeberria, J, Goicoa, T., and Ardanaz, E.

• "Testing for space-time interaction in conditional autoregressive models". Environmetrics,23(1), pp. 3-11 (2012). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T., Etxeberria, J., and Militino A. F.

• "Modelling aboveground tree biomass while achieving the additivity property". Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 18, pp 367-385 (2011). Authors: Goicoa, T., Militino, A. F. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Age-specific spatio-temporal patterns of female breast cancer mortality in Spain (1975-2005)". Annals of Epidemiology, 20(12), pp. 906-916 (2010). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T., Etxeberria, J., Militino A.F.and Pollán, M.

• "Spatio-temporal modelling of mortality risks using penalized splines". Environmetrics, 21, pp. 270-289 (2010). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T.and Militino A. F.

• "Evaluating the performance of spatio-temporal
  Bayesian models in disease mapping". Environmetrics, 20, pp 647-665 (2009). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T., Ibáñez, B. and Militino A. F.

• "Estimating unemployment in very small areas". Sort, 33(1), pp. 49-70 (2009). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Militino A. F, Goicoa, T. and Sagaseta-López, M.

• "Benchmarked estimates in small areas using linear mixed models with restrictions". TEST, 18(2), pp. 342-364 (2009). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Militino A. F., and Goicoa, T.

• "Spline smoothing in small area trend estimation and forecasting". Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53, pp. 3616- 3629 (2009). Authors: : Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T., Militino A. F. and Durbán, M.

• "Empirical Bayes and fully Bayes procedures to detect high-risks areas in disease mapping ". . Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53, pp. 2938-2949 (2009). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T. and Militino A. F.

• "Comments on: Missing Data Methods in Longitudinal Studies. A Review". TEST, 18, pp. 44-46 (2009). Author: Ugarte, M. D.

• "Adjusting Economic Estimates in Business Surveys: an Application". Journal of Applied Statistics, 35(11), 1253-1265 (2008). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T. and Militino A. F.

• "Prediction error estimators in empirical Bayes disease mapping" . Environmetrics, 19, 287-300 (2008). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Militino A. F., and Goicoa, T.

• "Longitudinal analysis of spatially correlated data" . Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 22, 49-57 (2008). Authors: Militino A. F.,Ugarte, M. D., and Ibáñez, B.

• "Guest Editorial: METMA3 Workshop 2006 " . Environmetrics, 18, 663-664 (2007). Authors: Ugarte, M. D.

• "A BLUP Synthetic versus an E-BLUP Estimator: An Empirical Study of a Small Area Estimation Problem" . Journal of Applied Statistics, 34, 153-165 (2007). Authors: Militino A. F.,Ugarte, M. D., and Goicoa, T.

• "Combining Sampling and Model Weights in Agricultural Small Area Estimation" . Environmetrics, 18, 87-99 (2007). Authors: Militino A. F.,Ugarte, M. D., and Goicoa, T.

• "Using Small Area Models to Estimate the Total Area Occupied by Olive Trees" . Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 11, 450-461 (2006). Authors: Militino A. F.,Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T., and González-Audícana, M.

• "Modelling Risks in Disease Mapping" . Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 15, 21-35 (2006). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Ibáñez, B. and Militino A. F.

• "Outliers Detection in Multivariate Spatial Linear Models" . Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136(1), 125-146 (2006). Authors: Militino A. F., Palacios, M.B. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Detection of Spatial Variation In Risk when Using CAR models for Smoothing Relative Risks" . Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 19(1), 33-40 (2005). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Ibáñez, B. and Militino A. F.

• "Testing for Poisson Zero Inflation in Disease Mapping" . Biometrical Journal 46 (5), 526-539 (2004). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Ibáñez, B. and Militino A. F.

• "Searching for Housing Submarkets Using Mixtures of Linear Models" . Advances in Econometrics, 18, 259-276 (2004). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Goicoa, T. and Militino A. F.

• "Alternative Models for Describing Models for Spatial Depence Among Dwelling Selling Prices " . Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 29(2), 193-209, (2004). Authors: Militino, A. F., Ugarte, M. D. and García-Reinaldos, L.

• "Penalized Quasi-Likelihood with Spatially Correlated Data" . Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 45(2), 235-248, (2004). Authors: Dean, C. B., Ugarte, M. D. and Militino A. F.

• "Confidence Intervals for Relative Risks in Disease Mapping" . Biometrical Journal 45 (4), 410-425 (2003). Authors: Ugarte, M. D., Militino A. F. and Ibáñez, B.

• "Robust Trend Parameters in a Multivariate Spatial Linear Model" . Test, 12(2), 445-457 (2003). Authors: Militino A. F., Palacios, M.B. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Detecting Interaction Between Random Region and Fixed Age Effects in Disease Mapping" . Biometrics 57(1), 197-202 (2001). Authors: Dean, C. B., Ugarte, M. D. and Militino A. F.

• "The Use of Mixture Models for Identifying High Risks in Disease Mapping". Statistics in Medicine, 20 (13), 2035-2049 (2001). Authors: Militino, A.F., Ugarte, M.D. and Dean, C.B.

• "Assessing the Covariance Function in Geostatistics". Statistics and Probability Letters, 52(1), 199-206 (2001). Authors: Militino, A.F. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Robust Predictions of Rainfall in Navarre". in: geoENV III- Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. P. Montestiez, D. Allard and R.
  Froidevaux, eds, pp.79-90. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (2001). Authors: Militino, A.F., Palacios, M.B. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "Analyzing Censored Spatial Data".Mathematical Geology, 31 (5) 551-561, (1999). Authors: Militino, A.F. and Ugarte, M.D.

• "A GM Estimation of the Location Parameters in a Spatial Linear Model" Communications in Statistics. Theory and Methods, 26, 1701-1725, (1997). Authors: Militino, A.F. and Ugarte, M. D.

• "Bounded Influence Estimation in a Spatial Linear Mixed Model." Lecture Notes in Statistics, 122, 211-221, (1997). Edited by T. G. Gregoire, D. R. Brillinger, P. J. Diggle, E. Russek-Cohen, W. G. Warren and R. D. Wolfinger. Authors: Militino A. F. and Ugarte M. D.
  
• "Robustizing the Non-parametric ML Estimation of a Spatial Linear Mixed Model Using the EM Algorithm".Computing Science and Statistics, 29 (2), 533-539, (1997). Authors: Militino A. F. and Ugarte M. D.

• "Score Tests for Detecting Interaction in a Natural Exponential Family". Comptes Rendus de L'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 49 (2), 13-16, (1996). Authors: Ugarte, M.D. and Kolev, N.

• "C($\alpha$) Statistics for Different Negative Binomial Parametrizations in a One-way Layout of Data".Comptes Rendus de L'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 49 (3), 9-12, (1996). Authors: Ugarte, M.D. and Kolev, N.

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