Nathan Wikle
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
Journal Articles
Wikle, N.B. and Zigler, C.M. (2024) Causal health impacts of power plant emission controls under modeled and uncertain physical process interference. Accepted to Annals of Applied Statistics. 18(4), 2753–2774. https://doi.org/10.1214/24-aoas1904
Wikle, N.B., Hanks, E.M., Henneman, L.R.F., and Zigler, C.M. (2022) A mechanistic model of annual sulfate concentrations in the United States. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 117(539), 1082–1093. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2022.2027774
Tran, T.N., Wikle, N.B., Hanks, E.M., Boni, M.F. [and 10 others]. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 attack rate and population immunity in southern New England, March 2020 to May 2021. JAMA Network Open. 5(5):e2214171. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.06.21267375
Wikle, N.B., Tran, T.N., Hanks, E.M., Boni, M.F. [and 12 others]. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 epidemic after social and economic reopening in three US states reveals shifts in age structure and clinical characteristics. Science Advances. 8(4). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf9868
Tran, T.N., Wikle, N.B., Hanks, E.M., Boni, M.F [and 11 others]. (2021) Optimal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine allocation using real-time seroprevalence estimates in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. BMC Medicine, 19(162). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02038-w
Wagner, T., Lottig, N.R, [and 16 others, including Wikle, N.B.]. (2020) Increasing accuracy of lake nutrient predictions in thousands of lakes by leveraging water clarity data. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 5(2), 228–235. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10134
Wikle, N.B., Hanks, E.M., and Hughes, D.P. (2019) A dynamic individual-based model for high-resolution ant interactions. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 24(4), 589–609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-019-00363-5
Pre-prints
Wikle, N.B. and Zigler, C.M. (2026) Spatial Covariate Balancing Propensity Scores for Causal Inference with Latent Spatial Confounding. pre-print
Schmidt, T. and Wikle, N.B. (2026) Calibrated Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Interventions. pre-print
Wang, S. and Wikle, N.B. (2026) Estimating the spillover effect of animal feeding operations on air and water quality in Iowa. pre-print