Topics in Theoretical and Applied Statistics

Book Overview

Part I Statistical Theory and Methods: Empirical Orthogonal Function and Functional Data Analysis Procedures to Impute Long Gaps in Environmental Data by Francesca Di Salvo, Antonella Plaia, Mariantonietta Ruggieri and Gianna Agr?.- Unconditional and Conditional Quantile Treatment Effects: Identification Strategies and Interpretations by Margherita Fort.- Some New Results on the Beta Skew-Normal Distribution by Valentina Mameli and Monica Musio.- The Median of a Set of Histogram Data by Lidia Rivoli, Rosanna Verde and Antonio Irpino.- Rates for Bayesian Estimation of Location-Scale Mixtures of Super-Smooth Densities by Catia Scricciolo.- Part II Data Mining and Multivariate Data Analysis: Unsupervised Classification of Multivariate Time Series Data for the Identification of Sea Regimes by Mauro Bencivenga, Francesco Lagona, Antonello Maruotti, Gabriele Nardone and Marco Picone.- An Evaluation of the Student Satisfaction Based on CUB Models by Barbara Cafarelli and Corrado Crocetta.- Dimensions of Well-being and their Statistical Measurements by Carla Ferrara, Francesca Martella and Maurizio Vichi.- Extracting Meta-Information by Using Network Analysis Tools by Agnieszka Stawinoga, Maria Spano and Nicole Triunfo.- Factor PD-Co-Clustering on Textual Data by Cristina Tortora, Marina Marino and Germana Scepi.- Part III Sampling and Estimation Methods: M-Quantile Small Area Estimation for Panel Data by Annamaria Bianchi.- A Two-Part Geoadditive Small Area Model for Geographical Domain Estimation by Chiara Bocci, Alessandra Petrucci and Emilia Rocco.- A Unified Approach for Defining Optimal Multivariate and Multi-Domains Sampling Designs by Piero Demetrio Falorsi and Paolo Righi.- Estimation of Poverty Rate and Quintile Share Ratio for Domains and Small Areas by Risto Lehtonen and Ari Veijanen.- A Sample Survey on Inactive Students - Weighting Issues in Modelling the Inactivity Status by Lucio Masserini and Monica Pratesi.- Part IV Social Statistics, Demography and Health Data: The Material Deprivation of Foreigners: Measurement and Determinants by Annalisa Busetta, Anna Maria Milito and Antonino Mario Oliveri.- How Do Life Course Events Affect Paid and Unpaid Work of Italian Couples? by Maria Gabriella Campolo, Antonino Di Pino and Ester Lucia Rizzi.- Do Rational Choices Guide Family Formation and Dissolution in Italy? by Gustavo De Santis and Silvana Salvini.- STAR Modeling of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Delay-Time in Diagnosis by Bruno de Sousa, Dulce Gomes, Patrıcia A. Filipe, Cristiana Areias, Teodoro Briz, Carlos Pires, and Carla Nunes.- Non-Aggregative Assessment of Subjective Well-being by Marco Fattore, Filomena Maggino and Alberto Arcagni.- Composite Indicator of Social Inclusion for the EU Countries by Francesca Giambona and Erasmo Vassallo.- A Well-being Index Based on the Weighted Product Method by Matteo Mazziotta and Adriano Pareto.- Part V Economic Statistics and Econometrics: A Comparison of Different Procedures for Combining High-Dimensional Multivariate Volatility Forecasts by Alessandra Amendola and Giuseppe Storti.- Which Seasonality in Italian Daily Electricity Prices? A Study with State Space Models by&nbs

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319801066
• ISBN13: 9783319801063
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"