Statistical Models for Data Analysis

1. Ordering Curves by Data Depth
Claudio Agostinelli, Mario Romanazzi

2. Can the Students’ Career be Helpful in Predicting an Increase in Universities Income?
Massimo Attanasio, Giovanni Boscaino, Vincenza Capursi, Antonella Plaia

3. Model-Based Classification Via Patterned Covariance Analysis
Luca Bagnato

4. Data Stream Summarization by Histograms Clustering
Antonio Balzanella, Lidia Rivoli, Rosanna Verde

5. Web Panel Representativeness
Annamaria Bianchi, Silvia Biffignandi

6. Nonparametric Multivariate Inference Via Permutation Tests for CUB Models
Stefano Bonnini, Luigi Salmaso, Francesca Solmi

7. Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling Models for Seriation
Giuseppe Bove

8. An Approach to Ranking the Hedge Fund Industry
Riccardo Bramante

9. Correction of Incoherences in Statistical Matching
Andrea Capotorti, Barbara Vantaggi

10. The Analysis of Network Additionality in the Context of Territorial Innovation Policy: The Case of Italian Technological Districts
Carlo Capuano, Domenico Stefano, Alfredo Monte, Maria Rosaria D’Esposito, Maria Prosperina Vitale

11. Clustering and Registration of Multidimensional Functional Data
M. Chiodi, G. Adelfio, A. D’Alessandro, D. Luzio

12. Classifying Tourism Destinations: An Application of Network Analysis
Rosario D’Agata, Venera Tomaselli

13. On Two Classes of Weighted Rank Correlation Measures Deriving from the Spearman’s ρ

Livia Dancelli, Marica Manisera, Marika Vezzoli

14. Beanplot Data Analysis in a Temporal Framework
Carlo Drago, Carlo Lauro, Germana Scepi

15. Supervised Classification of Facial Expressions
S. Fontanella, C. Fusilli, L. Ippoliti

16. Grouping Around Different Dimensional Affine Subspaces
L. A. García-Escudero, A. Gordaliza, C. Matrán, A. Mayo-Iscar

17. Hospital Clustering in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients Via a Bayesian Semiparametric Approach
Alessandra Guglielmi, Francesca Ieva, Anna Maria Paganoni, Fabrizio Ruggeri

18. A New Fuzzy Method to Classify Professional Profiles from Job Announcements
Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Mario Mastrangelo, Scipione Sarlo

19. A Metric Based Approach for the Least Square Regression of Multivariate Modal Symbolic Data
Antonio Irpino, Rosanna Verde

20. A Gaussian–Von Mises Hidden Markov Model for Clustering Multivariate Linear-Circular Data
Francesco Lagona, Marco Picone

21. A Comparison of Objective Bayes Factors for Variable Selection in Linear Regression Models
Luca Rocca

22. Evolutionary Customer Evaluation: A Dynamic Approach to a Banking Case
Caterina Liberati, Paolo Mariani

23. Measuring the Success Factors of a Website: Statistical Methods and an Application to a “Web District”
Eleonora Lorenzini, Paola Cerchiello

24. Component Analysis for Structural Equation Models with Concomitant Indicators
Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio, Giorgio Vittadini

25. Assessing Stability in NonLinear PCA with Hierarchical Data
Marica Manisera

26. Using the Variation Coefficient for Adaptive Discrete Beta Kernel Graduation
Angelo Mazza, Antonio Punzo

27. On Clustering and Classification Via Mixtures of Multivariate t-Distributions
Paul D. McNicholas

28. Simulation Experiments for Similarity Indexes Between Two Hierarchical Clusterings
Isabella Morlini

29. Performance Measurement of Italian Provinces in the Presence of Environmental Goals
Eugenia Nissi, Agnese Rapposelli

30. On the Simultaneous Analysis of Clinical and Omics Data: A Comparison of Globalboosttest and Pre-validation Techniques
Margret-Ruth Oelker, Anne-Laure Boulesteix

31. External Analysis of Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling Based on Singular Value Decomposition
Akinori Okada, Hiroyuki Tsurumi

32. The Credit Accumulation Process to Assess the Performances of Degree Programs: An Adjusted Indicator Based on the Result of Entrance Tests
Mariano Porcu, Isabella Sulis

33. The Combined Median Rank-Based Gini Index for Customer Satisfaction Analysis
Emanuela Raffinetti

34. A Two-Phase Clustering Based Strategy for Outliers Detection in Georeferenced Curves
Elvira Romano, Antonio Balzanella

35. High-Dimensional Bayesian Classifiers Using Non-Local Priors
David Rossell, Donatello Telesca, Valen E. Johnson

36. A Two Layers Incremental Discretization Based on Order Statistics
Christophe Salperwyck, Vincent Lemaire

37. Interpreting Error Measurement: A Case Study Based on Rasch Tree Approach
Annalina Sarra, Lara Fontanella, Tonio Battista, Riccardo Nisio

38. Importance Sampling: A Variance Reduction Method for Credit Risk Models
Gabriella Schoier, Federico Marsich

39. A MCMC Approach for Learning the Structure of Gaussian Acyclic Directed Mixed Graphs
Ricardo Silva

40. Symbolic Cluster Representations for SVM in Credit Client Classification Tasks
Ralf Stecking, Klaus B. Schebesch

41. A Further Proposal to Perform Multiple Imputation on a Bunch of Polytomous Items Based on Latent Class Analysis
Isabella Sulis

42. A New Distance Function for Prototype Based Clustering Algorithms in High Dimensional Spaces
Roland Winkler, Frank Klawonn, Rudolf Kruse

43. A Simplified Latent Variable Structural Equation Model with Observable Variables Assessed on Ordinal Scales
Angelo Zanella, Giuseppe Boari, Andrea Bonanomi, Gabriele Cantaluppi

44. Optimal Decision Rules for Constrained Record Linkage: An Evolutionary Approach
Diego Zardetto, Monica Scannapieco

45. On Matters of Invariance in Latent Variable Models: Reflections on the Concept, and its Relations in Classical and Item Response Theory
Bruno D. Zumbo

Keywords: Statistics, Statistical Theory and Methods, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Computing Methodologies