Topics in Theoretical and Applied Statistics

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 Agrò .- 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, Patricia 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 Paolo Chirico .- From the Standard of Living as a Latent Variable to the Estimation of Equivalence Scales and Other Indices by Gustavo De Santis and Mauro Maltagliati .- Learning-by-Exporting and Productivity: Evidences from a Panel of Manufacturing Firms by Maria Rosaria Ferrante, Marzia Freo and Alessandro Viviani.- A Multivariate VEC-BEKK Model for Portfolio Selection by Andrea Pierini and Alessia Naccarato .