Advances in Theoretical and Applied Statistics [Paperback]

This volume includes contributions selected after a double blind review process and presented as a preliminary version at the 45th Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. The papers provide significant and innovative original contributions and cover a broad range of topics including: statistical theory; methods for time series and spatial data; statistical modeling and data analysis; survey methodology and official statistics; analysis of social, demographic and health data; and economic statistics and econometrics.

Part I Statistical Theory: Default Priors Based on Pseudo-likelihoods for the Poisson-GPD Model (Stefano Cabras).- Robustness, Dispersion and Local Functions in Data Depth (Mario Romanazzi and Claudio Agostinelli).-? New Distribution-free Plotting Position Through an Approximation to the Beta Median (Pasquale Erto and Antonio Lepore).- On Gaussian Compound Poisson Type Limiting Likelihood Ratio Process (Sergue? Dachian and Ilia Negri).- Archetypal Symbolic Objects (M.R. DEsposito, F. Palumbo, G. Ragozini).- Lorenz Zonoids and Dependence Measures: A Proposal (Emanuela Raffinetti, Paolo Giudici).- Algebraic Generation of Orthogonal Fractional Factorial Designs (Roberto Fontana and Giovanni Pistone).- Part II Methods for Time Series, Spatial and Functional Data: A Functional Spatio-Temporal Model for Geometric Shape Analysis (Lara Fontanella, Luigi Ippoliti and Pasquale Valentini).- Vector Threshold Moving Average Models: Model Specification and Invertibility (Marcella Niglio, Cosimo Damiano Vitale).- A Regionalization Method for Spatial Functional Data Based on Variogram Models: An Application on Environmental Data (Elvira Romano, Antonio Balzanella, and Rosanna Verde).- Spectral Decomposition of the AR Metric (Maria Iannario and Domenico Piccolo).- Nonlinear Nonstationary Model Building by Genetic Algorithms (Francesco Battaglia and Mattheos K. Protopapas).- Using the Autodependogram in Model Diagnostic Cl(