L. V. Madden

This researcher's work centers on plant disease epidemiology, especially the quantitative and statistical methods used to study how plant diseases spread over time and space, and how to forecast and manage them (for example, fruit rot diseases in strawberries and grapevine virus spread). A major recurring focus is on statistical methodology itself, including meta-analysis techniques (combining results across many studies), mixed-effects statistical models, and network meta-analysis, applied both to plant pathology and occasionally to unrelated fields like medical imaging and clinical prediction models. Note that some recent publications listed (on cancer radiation therapy and prediction-model sample sizes) appear unrelated to the plant pathology focus and may reflect a name-matching issue in the data rather than this researcher's actual work.

Publication output was notably high around 2017 (21 papers) but has since settled into a slower, fairly steady pace of about 2-5 papers per year over the past several years.

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