Theoretical and Applied Statistics

This book is devoted to Corrado Gini, father of the Italian statistical school. It celebrates the 50^th anniversary of his death by bearing witness to the continuing extraordinary scientific relevance of his interdisciplinary interests. The book comprises a selection of the papers presented at the conference of the Italian Statistical Society, Statistics and Demography – the Legacy of Corrado Gini, held in Treviso in September 2015. The work covers many topics linked to Gini’s scientific legacy, ranging from the theory of statistical inference to multivariate statistical analysis, demography and sociology. In this volume, readers will find many interesting contributions on entropy measures, permutation procedures for the heterogeneity test, robust estimation of skew-normal parameters, S-weighted estimator, measures of multidimensional performance using Gini’s delta, small-sample confidence intervals for Gini’s gamma index, Bayesian estimation of the Gini-Simpson index, spatial residential patterns of selected foreign groups, minority segregation processes, dynamic time warping to study cruise tourism, and financial stress spill over. This book will appeal to all statisticians, demographers, economists, and sociologists interested in the field.

Corrado Crocetta is Full Professor of Statistics at the University of Foggia, Italy. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Bari in 1994. Dr. Crocetta has been an elected member of the SIS board (2012–16) and was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the conference Statistics and Demography – the Legacy of Corrado Gini (SIS 2015). He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals and proceedings, as well as a number of book chapters. Dr. Crocetta is an editorial board member or reviewer for a number of well-known journals. He has delivered many invited talks at national and international conferences.