Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference

1. Introducing Prior Information into the Forward Search for Regression
Anthony C. Atkinson, Aldo Corbellini, Marco Riani

2. A Finite Mixture Latent Trajectory Model for Hirings and Separations in the Labor Market
Silvia Bacci, Francesco Bartolucci, Claudia Pigini, Marcello Signorelli

3. Outliers in Time Series: An Empirical Likelihood Approach
Roberto Baragona, Domenico Cucina

4. Advanced Methods to Design Samples for Land Use/Land Cover Surveys
Roberto Benedetti, Federica Piersimoni, Paolo Postiglione

5. Heteroscedasticity, Multiple Populations and Outliers in Trade Data
Andrea Cerasa, Francesca Torti, Domenico Perrotta

6. How to Marry Robustness and Applied Statistics
Andrea Cerioli, Anthony C. Atkinson, Marco Riani

7. Logistic Quantile Regression to Model Cognitive Impairment in Sardinian Cancer Patients
Silvia Columbu, Matteo Bottai

8. Bounding the Probability of Causation in Mediation Analysis
A. Philip Dawid, Rossella Murtas, Monica Musio

9. Analysis of Collaboration Structures Through Time: The Case of Technological Districts
Maria Rosaria D’Esposito, Domenico Stefano, Giancarlo Ragozini

10. Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling of Urban Air Pollution Dynamics
Simone Del Sarto, M. Giovanna Ranalli, K. Shuvo Bakar, David Cappelletti, Beatrice Moroni, Stefano Crocchianti, Silvia Castellini, Francesca Spataro, Giulio Esposito, Antonella Ianniello, Rosamaria Salvatori

11. Clustering Functional Data on Convex Function Spaces
Tonio Battista, Angela Sanctis, Francesca Fortuna

12. The Impact of Demographic Change on Sustainability of Emergency Departments
Enrico Bella, Paolo Cremonesi, Lucia Leporatti, Marcello Montefiori

13. Bell-Shaped Fuzzy Numbers Associated with the Normal Curve
Fabrizio Maturo, Francesca Fortuna

14. Improving Co-authorship Network Structures by Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources
Vittorio Fuccella, Domenico Stefano, Maria Prosperina Vitale, Susanna Zaccarin

15. Statistical Issues in Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Elías Moreno

16. Statistical Evaluation of Forensic DNA Mixtures from Multiple Traces
Julia Mortera

17. A Note on Semivariogram
Giovanni Pistone, Grazia Vicario

18. Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis of Cardiovascular Diseases: Evidence from Canada Health Data
Anna Lina Sarra, Eugenia Nissi

19. Pseudo-Likelihoods for Bayesian Inference
Laura Ventura, Walter Racugno

Keywords: Statistics, Statistical Theory and Methods, Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Demography