Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics

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This book includes a wide selection of the papers presented at the 48th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS2016), held in Salerno on 8-10 June 2016. Covering a wide variety of topics ranging from modern data sources and survey design issues to measuring sustainable development, it provides a comprehensive overview of the current Italian scientific research in the fields of open data and big data in public administration and official statistics, survey sampling, ordinal and symbolic data, statistical models and methods for network data, time series forecasting, spatial analysis, environmental statistics, economic and financial data analysis, statistics in the education system, and sustainable development. Intended for researchers interested in theoretical and empirical issues, this volume provides interesting starting points for further research. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Robustness in Survey Sampling Using the Conditional Bias Approach with R Implementation (Cyril Favre-Martinoz, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Jean Francois Beaumont, David Haziza)....Pages 3-13 Methodological Perspectives for Surveying Rare and Clustered Population: Towards a Sequentially Adaptive Approach (Federico Andreis, Emanuela Furfaro, Fulvia Mecatti)....Pages 15-24 Age Management in Italian Companies. Findings from Two INAPP Surveys (Maria Laura Aversa, Paolo Emilio Cardone, Luisa D’Agostino)....Pages 25-39 Generating High Quality Administrative Data: New Technologies in a National Statistical Reuse Perspective (Manlio Calzaroni, Cristina Martelli, Antonio Samaritani)....Pages 41-48 Exploring Solutions for Linking Big Data in Official Statistics (Tiziana Tuoto, Daniela Fusco, Loredana Di Consiglio)....Pages 49-58 Front Matter ....Pages 59-59 An Algorithm for Finding Projections with Extreme Kurtosis (Cinzia Franceschini, Nicola Loperfido)....Pages 61-70 Maxima Units Search (MUS) Algorithm: Methodology and Applications (Leonardo Egidi, Roberta Pappadà, Francesco Pauli, Nicola Torelli)....Pages 71-81 DESPOTA: An Algorithm to Detect the Partition in the Extended Hierarchy of a Dendrogram (Davide Passaretti, Domenico Vistocco)....Pages 83-93 The p-value Case, a Review of the Debate: Issues and Plausible Remedies (Francesco Pauli)....Pages 95-104 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 A Dynamic Discrete-Choice Model for Movement Flows (Johan Koskinen, Tim Müller, Thomas Grund)....Pages 107-117 On the Analysis of Time-Varying Affiliation Networks: The Case of Stage Co-productions (Giancarlo Ragozini, Marco Serino, Daniela D’Ambrosio)....Pages 119-129 Similarity and Dissimilarity Measures for Mixed Feature-Type Symbolic Data (Manabu Ichino, Kadri Umbleja)....Pages 131-144 Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Contingency Tables with Ordinal Variables (Luigi D’Ambra, Pietro Amenta, Antonello D’Ambra)....Pages 145-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 Extended Realized GARCH Models (Richard Gerlach, Giuseppe Storti)....Pages 159-168 Updating CPI Weights Through Compositional VAR Forecasts: An Application to the Italian Index (Lisa Crosato, Biancamaria Zavanella)....Pages 169-178 Prediction Intervals for Heteroscedastic Series by Holt-Winters Methods (Paolo Chirico)....Pages 179-186 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Measuring Residential Segregation of Selected Foreign Groups with Aspatial and Spatial Evenness Indices. A Case Study (Federico Benassi, Frank Heins, Fabio Lipizzi, Evelina Paluzzi)....Pages 189-199 Space-Time FPCA Clustering of Multidimensional Curves (Giada Adelfio, Francesca Di Salvo, Marcello Chiodi)....Pages 201-210 The Power of Generalized Entropy for Biodiversity Assessment by Remote Sensing: An Open Source Approach (Duccio Rocchini, Luca Delucchi, Giovanni Bacaro)....Pages 211-217 An Empirical Approach to Monitoring Ship CO\(_2\) Emissions via Partial Least-Squares Regression (Antonio Lepore, Biagio Palumbo, Christian Capezza)....Pages 219-227 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Promoting Statistical Literacy to University Students: A New Approach Adopted by Istat (Alessandro Valentini, Monica Carbonara, Giulia De Candia)....Pages 231-238 From South to North? Mobility of Southern Italian Students at the Transition from the First to the Second Level University Degree (Marco Enea)....Pages 239-249 Monitoring School Performance Using Value-Added and Value-Table Models: Lessons from the UK (George Leckie, Harvey Goldstein)....Pages 251-260 Front Matter ....Pages 261-261 Indexing the Normalized Worthiness of Social Agents (Giulio D’Epifanio)....Pages 263-273 Financial Crises and Their Impacts: Data Gaps and Innovation in Statistical Production (Emanuele Baldacci)....Pages 275-287 European Welfare Systems in Official Statistics: National and Local Levels (Alessandra Coli, Barbara Pacini)....Pages 289-299 Financial Variables Analysis by Inequality Decomposition (Michele Costa)....Pages 301-308 Front Matter ....Pages 309-309 A Novel Perspective in the Analysis of Sustainability, Inclusion and Smartness of Growth Through Europe 2020 Indicators (Elena Grimaccia, Tommaso Rondinella)....Pages 311-323 The Italian Population Behaviours Toward Environmental Sustainability: A Study from Istat Surveys (Isabella Mingo, Valentina Talucci, Paola Ungaro)....Pages 325-335 Estimating the at Risk of Poverty Rate Before and After Social Transfers at Provincial Level in Italy (Caterina Giusti, Stefano Marchetti)....Pages 337-347