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Dr Jose Romeo PhD in Statistics

Senior Research Officer

Doctoral Co-Supervisor
SHORE Centre

Jose Romeo (Pepe), is a researcher in Statistics, specialised in survival analysis, interested in applying statistical models for decision-making in public-health and social sciences. He holds a Statistical Engineering degree (University of Santiago, Chile) and a PhD in Statistics (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). Since December 2016, he works at SHORE providing statistical expertise on quantitative research projects led by social and public-health researchers on topics including alcohol consumption and policy and drugs trends. He provides advice on research design and analyses as grant applications are developed, data management and statistical analyses and on finding dissemination through peer-reviewed publications.

Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: +64 9 366 6136
    Location: Level 7, 90 Symonds Street
    Campus: Auckland

Qualifications

  • PhD in Statistics - University of Sao Paulo (2005)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Statistical Modelling | Biostatistics | Bayesian Inference | Regression models | Survival Analysis | Copula and Frailty models | Multivariate methods

Thematics

Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment (160801):
Applied Statistics (010401): Biostatistics (010402):
Epidemiology (111706):
Health Policy (160508):
Mathematical Sciences (010000):
Medical And Health Sciences (110000):
Policy and Administration (160500):
Public Health and Health Services (111700):
Sociology (160800):
Statistical Theory (010405): Statistics (010400):
Studies In Human Society (160000)

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Key Researcher / Named Investigator / Associate Investigator 1 0

Research Outputs

Journal

Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo, JS., Moewaka Barnes, H., Connor, J., & Rehm, J. (2024). Quantifying alcohol-attributable disability-adjusted life years to others than the drinker in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A modelling study based on administrative data.. Addiction.
[Journal article]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Rychert, M., Romeo, JS., & Wilkins, C. (2023). Exploring Differences in Daily Vaping of Nicotine and Cannabis among People Who Use Drugs in New Zealand. Substance Use and Misuse. 58(11), 1388-1398
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., Wilkins, C.
Romeo, JS., Huckle, T., Casswell, S., Connor, J., Rehm, J., & McGinn, V. (2023). Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Aotearoa, New Zealand: Estimates of prevalence and indications of inequity. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(4), 859-867
[Journal article]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Huckle, T., & Romeo, JS. (2023). Estimating child maltreatment cases that could be alcohol-attributable in New Zealand. Addiction. 118(4), 669-677
[Journal article]Authored by: Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Leung, J., Casswell, S., Parker, K., Huckle, T., Romeo, J., Graydon-Guy, T., . . . van Dalen, W. (2023). Effective alcohol policies and lifetime abstinence: An analysis of the International Alcohol Control policy index. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(3), 704-713
[Journal article]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Parker, K., Romeo Nunez, J.
Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Parker, K., Romeo, J., Graydon-Guy, T., Leung, J., . . . Harker, N. (2022). Benchmarking alcohol policy based on stringency and impact: The International Alcohol Control (IAC) policy index.. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2(4), e0000109
[Journal article]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Parker, K., Romeo Nunez, J.
Lin, EY., Witten, K., Carroll, P., Romeo, JS., Donnellan, N., & Smith, M. (2023). The relationship between children’s third-place play, parental neighbourhood perceptions, and children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Children's Geographies. 21(5), 789-802
[Journal article]Authored by: Carroll, P., Lin, E., Romeo Nunez, J., Witten, K.
van der Sanden, R., Wilkins, C., Romeo, JS., Rychert, M., & Barratt, MJ. (2021). Predictors of using social media to purchase drugs in New Zealand: Findings from a large-scale online survey. International Journal of Drug Policy. 98
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., van der Sanden, R., Wilkins, C.
Huckle, T., Parker, K., Romeo, JS., & Casswell, S. (2021). Online alcohol delivery is associated with heavier drinking during the first New Zealand COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Drug and Alcohol Review. 40(5), 826-834
[Journal article]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Parker, K., Romeo Nunez, J.
Connor, J., Maclennan, B., Huckle, T., Romeo, J., Davie, G., & Kypri, K. (2021). Changes in the incidence of assault after restrictions on late-night alcohol sales in New Zealand: evaluation of a natural experiment using hospitalization and police data. Addiction. 116(4), 788-798
[Journal article]Authored by: Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Wilkins, C., Romeo, JS., Rychert, M., Prasad, J., & Graydon-Guy, T. (2020). Determinants of the retail price of illegal drugs in New Zealand. International Journal of Drug Policy. 79
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., Wilkins, C.
Rychert, M., Romeo, JS., Wilkins, C., & Graydon-Guy, T. (2020). Could the community trust model be applied to regulate cannabis? Findings from a survey of two alcohol licensing trust communities in New Zealand. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 27(6), 427-435
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., Wilkins, C.
Huckle, T., Romeo, J., & Casswell, S. (2019). A restrictive alcohol social supply law change is associated with less supply to friends under 18 years. Drug and Alcohol Review. 38(7), 737-743
[Journal article]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Gallardo, DI., Bolfarine, H., Pedroso-de-Lima, AC., & Romeo, JS. (2019). Destructive power series long-term survival model with complex activation schemes. Statistics and its Interface. 12(4), 561-571
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Wilkins, C., Rychert, M., Romeo, JS., & Randerson, S. (2019). Smoke in our eyes: The sense partners’ evaluation of the legalisation of cannabis in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal. 132(1490), 6-9
[Journal article]Authored by: Randerson, S., Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., Wilkins, C.
Vásquez, CA., Salinas-Torres, VH., & Romeo, JS. (2019). Bayesian estimation of the limiting availability in a repairable one-unit system: Estimación bayesiana de la disponibilidad límite en un sistema reparable uni-componente. Revista Colombiana de Estadistica. 42(1), 123-142
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Wilkins, C., Romeo, JS., Rychert, M., Prasad, J., & Graydon-Guy, T. (2018). Determinants of high availability of methamphetamine, cannabis, LSD and ecstasy in New Zealand: Are drug dealers promoting methamphetamine rather than cannabis?. International Journal of Drug Policy. 61, 15-22
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., Wilkins, C.
Huckle, T., Romeo, JS., Wall, M., Callinan, S., Holmes, J., Meier, P., . . . Casswell, S. (2018). Socio-economic disadvantage is associated with heavier drinking in high but not middle-income countries participating in the International Alcohol Control Study. Drug and Alcohol Review. 37, S63-S71
[Journal article]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Meyer, R., & Gallardo, DI. (2018). Bayesian bivariate survival analysis using the power variance function copula. Lifetime Data Analysis. 24(2), 355-383
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Gallardo, DI., Romeo, JS., & Meyer, R. (2017). A simplified estimation procedure based on the EM algorithm for the power series cure rate model. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation. 46(8), 6342-6359
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Poshdar, M., González, VA., Raftery, GM., Orozco, F., Romeo, JS., & Forcael, E. (2016). A Probabilistic-Based Method to Determine Optimum Size of Project Buffer in Construction Schedules. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 142(10)
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Meyer, R., & Romeo, JS. (2015). Bayesian semiparametric analysis of recurrent failure time data using copulas. Biometrical Journal. 57(6), 982-1001
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Reyes-López, FE., Romeo, JS., Vallejos-Vidal, E., Reyes-Cerpa, S., Sandino, AM., Tort, L., . . . Imarai, M. (2015). Differential immune gene expression profiles in susceptible and resistant full-sibling families of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) challenged with infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV). Developmental and Comparative Immunology. 53(1), 210-221
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Meyer, R., & Reyes-Lopez, FE. (2014). Hierarchical Failure Time Regression Using Mixtures for Classification of the Immune Response of Atlantic Salmon. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 19(4), 503-523
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Román, ST., Romeo, JS., & Salinas-Torres, VH. (2014). Bayesian estimation of the limiting availability in the presence of right-censored data. Metron. 72(3), 247-267
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Bazán, JL., Romeo, JS., & Rodrigues, J. (2014). Bayesian skew-probit regression for binary response data. Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics. 28(4), 467-482
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Torres-Avilés, F., Romeo, JS., & López-Kleine, L. (2014). Data mining and influential analysis of gene expression data for plant resistance gene identification in tomato (solanum lycopersicum). Electronic Journal of Biotechnology. 17(2), 79-82
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Torres-Avilés, F., & López-Kleine, L. (2013). Detection of influent virulence and resistance genes in microarray data through quasi likelihood modeling. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 288(1-2), 49-61
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Tanaka, NI., Pedroso-de-Lima, AC., & Salinas-Torres, VH. (2013). Large sample properties for a class of copulas in bivariate survival analysis. Metrika. 76(8), 997-1015
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Salinas, VH., Romeo, JS., & Peña, A. (2010). On Bayesian estimation of a survival curve: Comparative study and examples. Computational Statistics. 25(3), 375-389
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Diaz-Ledezma, C., Urrutia, J., Romeo, J., Chelen, A., González-Wilhelm, L., & Lavarello, C. (2009). Factors associated with variability in length of sick leave because of acute low back pain in Chile. Spine Journal. 9(12), 1010-1015
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Tanaka, NI., & Pedroso-De-Lima, AC. (2006). Bivariate survival modeling: A Bayesian approach based on Copulas. Lifetime Data Analysis. 12(2), 205-222
[Journal article]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.

Book

Wilkins, ., Prasad, ., Moewaka Barnes, H., Romeo, JS., & Rychert, . (2017). New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring (NZ-ADUM) 2016 Report. : Massey University
[Monograph]Authored by: Moewaka Barnes, H., Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., Wilkins, C.
Wilkins, C., Prasad, J., Romeo, JS., & Rychert, . (2017). Recent trends in illegal drug use in New Zealand, 2006-2016: Findings from the Illicit Drug Monitoring System (IDMS). : Massey University
[Monograph]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J., Rychert, M., Wilkins, C.

Report

Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J., & Casswell, S.(2020). Changes and influences on adolescent drinking in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Health Promotion Agency
[Technical Report]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Muriwai, E., Huckle, T., & Romeo Nunez, J.(2018). Māori attitudes and behaviours towards alcohol. Wellington
[Technical Report]Authored by: Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Huckle, T., & Romeo, JS.(2018). Patterns of social supply of alcohol over time in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: SHORE & Whariki Research Centre
[Technical Report]Authored by: Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.

Conference

Romeo Nunez, J., Huckle, T., & Casswell, S.Modelling alcohol-consumption: A Bayesian conditional copula-based regression approach. . Utrecht, The Netherlands
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo Nunez, J., Huckle, T., & Casswell, S. (2019). Modelling alcohol-consumption in New Zealand: A Bayesian conditional copula-based regression approach.. Poster session presented at the meeting of Bayes on the Beach Conference. Surfers Paradise, Australia.
[Conference Poster]Authored by: Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Romeo Nunez, J.
Wilkins, C., Romeo, JS., Rychert, M., Prasad, J., & Graydon-Guy, T.DETERMINANTS OF HIGH AVAILABILITY OF METHAMPHETAMINE, CANNABIS, LSD AND ECSTASY IN NEW ZEALAND: ARE DRUG DEALERS PROMOTING METHAMPHETAMINE RATHER CANNABIS?. DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW. (pp. S75 - S76). 0959-5236.
[Conference]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J., Wilkins, C.
Romeo, JS., & Meyer, R. (2017). Bayesian modelling of temporal dependence for bivariate survival data using copulas. Poster session presented at the meeting of Bayes on the Beach Conference. Surfers Paradise, Australia
[Conference Poster]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., & Meyer, R. (2016, November). Modelling temporal dependence of bivariate survival data using copulas. Presented at 2016 Joint New Zealand Statistical Association and Operations Research Society of New Zealand Conference. Auckland, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS. (2015, July). The power variance function copula model in bivariate survival analysis: an application to twin data. Presented at Workshop on Flexible Models for Longitudinal and Survival Data with Applications in Biostatistics. Warwick, United Kingdm.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., & Meyer, R.Bayesian approach for modelling bivariate survival data through the PVF copula. . Linz, Austria
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., & Meyer, R. (2014). The PVF copula model in bivariate survival analysis. Poster session presented at the meeting of Bayesian Biostatistics Conference. Zurich, Switzerland
[Conference Poster]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Meyer, R., & Gallardo, DI. (2014). The power variance function copula model in bivariate survival analysis. Poster session presented at the meeting of Bayes on the Beach Conference. Surfers Paradise, Australia
[Conference Poster]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Meyer, R., & Gallardo, DI. (2014, November). Bayesian approach for modelling bivariate survival data through the PVF copula. Presented at 2014 Joint NZSA+ORSNZ Conference. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
Romeo, JS., Meyer, R., & Reyes-Lopez, F. (2013, December). Hierarchical mixture failure time regression for classi fication of the immune response of Atlantic salmon. Presented at Biometrics by the Canals. Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.
López-Kleine, L., Romeo, J., & Torres-Avilés, F. (2013). Gene Functional Prediction Using Clustering Methods for the Analysis of Tomato Microarray Data. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Vol. 222 (pp. 1 - 6).
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Romeo Nunez, J.

Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • Spanish
    Last used: Daily
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent
  • Portuguese
    Last used: Weekly
    Spoken ability: Average
    Written ability: Excellent