Statistical Methods and Applications from a Historical Perspective: Selected Issues

Part I - Methodological Issues in an Historical Perspective: Bayesian and non-bayesian approaches to statistical inference: a personal view, by Bruno Chiandotto.- Contributions of Italian statisticians to the development of multivariate data analysis, by Renato Coppi and Paolo Giordani.- The Semantic role of variability in the development of statistical thought, by Paola Monari.- The Permutation Testing Approach in the Light of Conditionality and Sufficiency Principles, by Fortunato Pesarin.- Bayesian Statistical Inference: an Overview, by Ludovico Piccinato.- Part II - Historical Issues in Economic and Socio-Demographic Studies: The long journey of Italian statistics on international migration, by Corrado Bonifazi.- The Evolution of Statistic Information on Agricultural Labour Force through Italian Agricultural Censuses from 1961 to 2010, by Loredana De Gaetano.- Changes in the Geographical Distribution of Inhabitants in Tuscany since 1861, by Luca Faustini, Linda Porciani, Graziella Sanna, Cristiano Tessitore, and Alessandro Valentini.- The "Administrative" Territory From the Unity of Italy to the Present - An Overview through the History of Municipalities and Provinces, by Orietta Gargano and Tiziana Clary.- Fifty Years of Business Confidence Surveys on Manufacturing Sector, by Bianca M. Martelli, Giancarlo Bruno, Paola M. Chiodini, Giancarlo Manzi, and Flavio Verrecchia.- Part III - New Developments in Survey Methodology for Official Statistics: Social aspects on censuses and official surveys in Italy, by Enrica Aureli and Mariangela Verrascina.- Response Burden Reduction through the Use of Administrative Data and Robust Sampling, by Maria Caterina Bramati.- An Application of Text Mining Technique for the Census of Nonprofit Institutions, by D. F. Iezzi, M. Lori, F. Lorenzini, M. Nicosia, S. Stoppiello.- Linking Administrative Tax Records and Survey Expenditure Data at the Local Level, by Lisa Crosato, Mauro Mussini, Paolo Mariani and Biancamaria Zavanella.- An Application of Statistical Matching Techniques to Produce a New Microeconomic Dataset on Farming households' Institutional Sector in Italy, by Edoardo Pizzoli, Benedetto Rocchi, and Giuseppe Sacco.- Outlier Detection via Compositional Forward Search: Application to the Preliminary Data of the 2010 Italian Agricultural Census, by Simona Toti, Filippo Palombi, and Romina Filippini.- Innovative Approaches to Census-taking: Overview of the 2011 Census Round in Europe, by Paolo Valente.- Part IV - New Methodological Developments in Economic Studies: Measuring Multidimensional Inequality: Methods and Issues in Empirical Analysis, by David Aristei and Bruno Bracalente.- Turning the Compulsory Communication Data into a Statistical System, by C. Baldi, G. De Blasio, G. Di Bella, A. Lucarelli, and R. Rizzi.- Credit Stress Testing From a Portfolio Perspective, by Tiziano Bellini.- Remote Processing of Business Microdata at the Bank of Italy, by Giuseppe Bruno, Leandro D'Aurizio, and Raffaele Tartaglia-Polcini.- A Distributional Approach for Measuring wage Discrimination and Occupational Discrimination Separately, by R. Giaimo, and G. L. Lo Magno.- Statistics and Economics: A Complex Relationship, by Alessandro Roncaglia.- Part V - New Methodological Developments in Educational Studies: Design, Implementation and Validation of a Questionnaire for University Teaching Evaluation, by Luigi D'Ambra and Maurizio Carpita.- A Family of Indices for Teaching Evaluation - Experiences in Italian Universities, by Donata Marasini and Piero Quatto.- The Unity of Italy From the Point of View of Student Performances: Evidences from PISA 2009, by Mariagiulia Matteucci and Marilena Pillati.- Some Experimental Results on the Role of Speed and Accuracy of Reading in Psychometric Tests, by Isabella Morlini, Giacomo Stella, and Maristella Scorza.- A Propensity Score Matching Method to Study the Achievement of Students in Upper Secondary Schools, by Giulia Roli and Luisa Stracqualursi.- Part VI - New Methodological Developments in Social and Demographic Studies: Developing a Composite Indicator of Residents' well-being: the Case of the Romagna Area, by Cristina Bernini, Andrea Guizzardi, and Giovanni Angelini.- New Technologies and Statistics Partners for Environmental Monitoring and City Sensing, by Rina Camporese, Giovanni Borga, Niccolò Iandelli, and Antonella Ragnoli.- Recent Developments in Multidimensional Analysis for Customer Satisfaction, by Luigi D'Ambra and Enrico Ciavolino.- Tourism Statistics for Destination Management: The Trips/Arrivals model, by Stefano De Cantis, Mauro Ferrante.- Non-Compensatory Aggregation of Social Indicators: An Icon Representation, by Matteo Mazziotta and Adriano Pareto.- Indicators for Assessment in Health Services, by Cesare Cislaghi and Marco Marchi.- Measuring the multidimensional demographic convergence by indices of multiple variability, by Maria Rita Sebastiani.