People

Faculty

• Silvia Columbu
• Maria Infusino
• Monica Musio

PhD students and Post-Docs

• Mara Manca
• Nicola Piras
   

Research Interests

• Problema dei momenti e sue applicazioni (anche in dimensione infinita).
• Problema della realizzabilità per funzioni di correlazione.
• Uniforme distribuzione di successioni di punti e partizioni su insiemi frattali
• Inferenza Causale
• Metodi di inferenza parametrica basati sulla teoria degli “Scoring Rules”
• Modellizzazione statistica e scelta del modello sia in ambito classico che bayesiano
• Misure di difformità in ottica bayesiana
• Distribuzione normale asimmetrica e sue generalizzazioni
• Modelli di regressione quantilica e sue estensioni
• Costruzione di indicatori aggiustati per la valutazione e confronto delle performance a livello universitario
• Costruzione e stima di modelli di mistura finita e in classi latenti per strutture dati multilivello

Events

Research Collaborations

• Nicole Augustin (University of Edinburgh, Scozia)
• Matteo Bottai (Karolinska Institute, Svezia)
• Emanuele Caglioti (Università La Sapienza, Italia)  
• Raul E. Curto (University of Iowa, Stati Uniti d’America)
• Fabio Corradi (Università di Firenze)
• Alexander Philip Dawid (University of Cambridge, Inghilterra)
• Michael Drmota (TU-Wien, Austria)
• Paolo Frumento (Università di Pisa, Italia)
• Erin E. Gabriel (University of Copenhagen, Danimarca)
• Mehdi Ghasemi (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) 
• Didier Henrion (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, Francia)
• Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University, Stati Uniti d’America e WZB Berlino, Germania)
• Salma Kuhlmann (Universität Konstanz, Germania) 
• Tobias Kuna (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italia)
• Joel Lebowitz (Rutgers University, Stati Uniti d’America)  
• Erlis Ruli (Università di Padova, Italia)
• Erik-Andrè Sauleau (Univeristè de Strasbourg, Francia)
• Eugene Speer (Rutgers University, Stati Uniti d’America)
• Laura Ventura (Università di Padova)
• Jeroen K. Vermunt (University of Tilburg, Olanda)
• Victor Vinnikov (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• Maria Prosperina Vitale (Università di Salerno)
• Aljosa Volcic (Università della Calabria, Italia)

Selected Publications

• B. Cappelletti-Montano, S. Columbu, M. Montaldo, M. Musio, Interpreting the outcomes of research assessments: A geometrical approach, Journal of Informetrics, 16 (1), 101254, 2022.
• S. Columbu, P. Frumento, M. Bottai, Modeling sign concordance of quantile regression residuals with multiple outcomes, International Journal of Biostatistics, https://doi.org/10.1515/ijb-2022-0020, 2022.
• A.P. Dawid, M. Humphreys, M. Musio, Bounding causes of effects with mediators, Sociological methods and research, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00491241211036161
• A.P. Dawid, M. Musio, Effects of Causes and Causes of Effects, Annual Review of Statistics and its Application, 9: 261-287, 2022.
• M. Infusino, S. Kuhlmann, T. Kuna, P. Michalski, Projective limit techniques for the infinite dimensional moment problem, Integral Equ. Oper. Theory 94 (2): Art.12. 44 pp., 2022.
• S. Columbu, V. Mameli, M. Musio, A. P. Dawid, The Hyvärinen scoring rule in Gaussian linear time series models, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 212, 126 – 140, 2021.
• S. Columbu, M. Porcu, I. Sulis, University choice and the attractiveness of the study area: Insights on the differences amongst degree programmes in Italy based on generalised mixed-effect models, Socio- Economic Planning Sciences, 74, 100926, 2021.
• F. Corradi, M. Musio, Causes of Effects via a Bayesian Model Selection Procedure, Journal of Royal Statistical Society A, 183 (4): 1327-1348, 2020.
• M. Infusino, T. Kuna, The full moment problem on subsets of probabilities and point configurations, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 483 (1): 123551, 2020.
• M. Infusino, T. Kuna, J. L. Lebowitz, E. R. Speer, The truncated moment problem on N_0, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 452 (1): 443–468, 2017.
• E. Caglioti, M. Infusino, T. Kuna, Translation invariant realizability problem on the d-dimensional lattice: an explicit construction, Electronic Communications in Probability 21 (45): 1–9, 2016.
• A.P. Dawid, M. Musio, S.E. Fienberg, From Statistical Evidence to Evidence of Causality, Bayesian Analysis, 11 (3): 725-752, 2016.
• A.P. Dawid, M. Musio, L. Ventura, Minimum Scoring Rules Inference, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 43, 123-138, 2016.
• A.P. Dawid, M. Musio, Bayesian Model Selection based on Proper Scoring Rules, (with discussion), Bayesian Analysis 10 (2): 479-521, 2015.
• M. Infusino, T. Kuna, A. Rota, The full infinite dimensional moment problem on semialgebraic sets of generalized functions, Journal of Functional Analysis 267 (5): 1382–1418, 2014.
• M. Drmota, M. Infusino, On the discrepancy of some generalized Kakutani’s sequences of partitions, Uniform Distribution Theory 7 (1): 75–104, 2012.
• N.H. Augustin, M. Musio, K. von Wilpert, E. Kublin, S. Wood, M. Schmacher, Modelling Spatiotemporal Forest Health Monitoring Data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104 (487): 899–911, 2009.

Alumni

• Valentina Mameli (Università di Udine) https://people.uniud.it/page/valentina.mameli
• Rossella Murtas (ATS Milano) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rossella-Murtas-2
• Patrick Michalski (Universität Konstanz, Germania) http://www.math.uni-konstanz.de/~michalski/
• Aldo Rota https://it.linkedin.com/in/aldo-rota-88584778

Former Members

• Francesco Bertolino
• Walter Racugno
• Maria Luisa Targhetta