Title: Big data and Design of Experiments 

Organizer: Laura Deldossi

• Henry Wynn – London School of Economics: “Passive or active observation? Experimental design issues in big data.”
• Peter Goos – Erasmus University Rotterdam,  Universiteit Antwerpen and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: “Optimal design of experiments in the presence of covariate information.”
• Giacomo Aletti – Università degli Studi di Milano: “Is it possible a design of experiment with puzzling dynamic data?”

 

Title: Advances in Functional data analysis

Organizer: Piercesare Secchi

• Davide Pigoli – University of Cambridge: “Growth processes in forensic entomology: a functional data perspective”
• Enea Bongiorno – Università del Piemonte Orientale: “Hilbert data classification based on Small Ball Probability”
• Alessia Pini  – Politecnico di Milano: “Permutation methods for multi-aspect local inference on functional data”  

 

Title: Heterogeneity and new statistical models

Proposer: Francesca Greselin. Organizer: Giorgio Vittadini

• Angelo Mazza, Antonio Punzo, Salvatore Ingrassia – University of Catania: “Fitting Cluster-Weighted Models in R.”
• Paolo Berta, Fulvia Pennoni – University of Milano-Bicocca, Veronica Vinciotti – Brunel University: “Outcome evaluation in healthcare: The Multilevel Logistic Cluster Weighted Model”
• Veronica Vinciotti – Brunel University: “A hidden Markov model for detecting enrichment from ChIP-seq experiments.”

 

Title: Designing clinical trials

Organizer: Chiara Tommasi

• Nancy Flournoy – University of Missouri: “To rise of early phase clinical trials.”
• Adrian Mander – University of Cambridge: “Adaptive dose-finding designs to identify multiple doses that achieve multiple response targets.” 
• Maroussa Zagoraiou – Università della Calabria: “A new design strategy for hypothesis testing under response adaptive randomization.”

 

Title: Advances in Ordinal and Preference Data

Organizer: Antonella Plaia

• Maria Iannario, Rosaria Simone – University of Naples Federico II:“Zero inflated CUB models for the evaluation of Leisure time activities”
• Antonio D’Ambrosio, Carmela Iorio e Roberta Siciliano – University of Naples Federico II: “Constrained consensus bucket order”
• Antonella Plaia, Mariangela Sciandra, Roberta Murò – University of Palermo: “Ensemble methods for Ranking Data”.

 

Title: Network Analysis with applications on biological, financial and social networks

Organizers: Antonella Plaia, Monica Chiogna, Chair: Antonino Abbruzzo

• Maria Prosperina Vitale, Domenico De Stefano, Susanna Zaccarin – University of Trieste: “Co-authorship Network in Statistics: methodological issues and empirical results.”
• Veronica Vinciotti, Ernst Wit – University of Groningen: “Network inference in genomics.”
• Daniele Durante, Emanuele Aliverti – Università di Padova: “Spatial modeling of brain connectivity data.”

 

Title: Advances in Biostatistics

Organizer: Monica Chiogna

• Giuliana Cortese –  University of Padova: “Regression models for the restricted residual mean time for right-censored and left-truncated data”
• Vera Djordjilovic –  University of Oslo: “Estimating mediation effects in epigenomic studies”
• Davide Risso – Weill Cornell Medicine, Fanny Perraudeau, Sandrine Dudoit  – University of California Berkeley, Svetlana Gribkova and Jean-Philippe Vert – U900 Paris: “Statistical challenges in Single-cell RNA sequencing”

 

Title: Classification models in economics and business

Organizer: Jozef Pociecha

• Adam Sagan – Cracow University of Economics, Eugeniusz Kąciak – Kozminski University, Warsaw “Poland on Global Consumer Markets – Multilevel Segmentation of Market”.
• Barbara Pawełek, Jozef Pociecha – Cracow University of Economics  “Sensitivity Analysis in Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction”

 

Title: Innovative applications of multidimensional scaling and related techniques

Organizer: Akinori Okada

• Giuseppe Bove – Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Stefano Mastandrea Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Nicole Ruta – Cardiff Metropolitan University:“Preference judgments of curvature and angularity in architectural façades”
• Miki Nakai – Ritsumeikan University: “Changes in couples’ breadwinning patterns and wife’s economic role in Japan”
• Akinori Okada – Tama University, Hiroyuki Tsurumi – Yokohama National University: “Individual differences in brand switching”

 

Title: Advances in Credit Risk Modeling

Proposer: Giuliano Galimberti, Organizers: Caterina Liberati and Galina Andreeva

• Viani Djeundje,  Jonathan Crook – University of Edinburgh, “ Incorporating heterogeneity and macroeconomic variables into multi-state delinquency models for credit cards“
• Paolo Giudici, Branka Hadij-Misheva – Università di Pavia: “Scoring Models for P2P Lending Platforms An Evaluation of Predictive Performance”
• Mauro Bernardi – University of Padova, Roy Cerqueti – University of Macerata, Arsen Palestini – Sapienza University of Rome, “Advances in risk measurement in a distressed banks scenario”
   
  

Title: Robust Clustering

Organizer: Giovanni Porzio

• Eustasio del Barrio – University of Valladolid: “Robust clustering tools based on optimal transportation”
• Domenico Perrotta – Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Francesca Torti – Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Andrea Cerioli – University of Parma, Marco Riani – University of Parma: “Advances in robust clustering for regression structures”
• Giuseppe Pandolfo – Carlos III University of Madrid: “Robustness aspects of DD-classifiers for directional data”

 

Title: Classification and Visualization

Organizer: Roberta Siciliano, Chair: Antonio D’Ambrosio

• Adalbert Wilhelm – Jacobs University Bremen: “Explorative visualization techniques for imbalanced classification tasks”
• Christian Hennig – University College London: “Calibrated cluster validity for comparing the quality of clusterings”
• Michele Staiano – University of Naples Federico II: “Visual Tools for Interactive Clustering of UE State Members via Metabolic Patterns“

 

Title: Advances in Classification and Clustering of Complex Data

Organizer: Francesco Mola, Chair: TBA

• Luca Frigau – University of Cagliari: “Combined methods in multi-label classification algorithms”
• Jaromir Antoch – Charles University of Prague: “Validation of experiments involving image segmentation of Botanic seeds”
• Carmela Iorio – University of Naples Federico II: “Time Series Clustering for Portfolio Selection”

 

Title: Advances in Robust Methods

Organizer: Pieralda Ferrari

• Luca Greco – University of Sannio, Claudio Agostinelli – University of Trento : “Weighted likelihood estimation of multivariate location and scatter”
• Antony C. Atkinson – London School of Economics: “Efficient robust methods for multivariate data via monitoring”
• Aldo Corbellini – University of Parma, Luigi Grossi – University of Verona, Fabrizio Laurini – University of Parma “A new robust estimator of multilevel models based on the forward search approach” 

 

Title: Hidden Markov Models for Longitudinal Data

Organizer: Raffaella Piccarreta

• Francesco Bartolucci, Silvia Pandolfi  – University of Perugia, Fulvia Pennoni – University of Milano Bicocca: “Package LMest for Latent Markov Analysis of longitudinal categorial data”
• Fulvia Pennoni – University of Milano Bicocca, Raffaella Piccarreta – Università Bocconi:“Dynamic sequential analysis of careers”
• Antonello Maruotti – Lumsa University, Antonio Punzo, Salvatore Ingrassia – University of Catania: “Multivariate hidden Markov regression models with random covariates”

 

Title: Analysis of partially ordered data in socio-economics

Proposer: Filomena Maggino, Organizers: Filomena Maggino, Marco Fattore

• Katia Iglesias, Christian  Suter, Tugce Beycan, B.P. Vani – University of Neuchatel: “Comparing three methodological approaches for synthesizing complex phenomena: confirmatory factor analysis, Alkire and Foster’s counting approach and partially ordered set approach”
• Marco Fattore, Mariangela Zenga – University of Milano-Bicocca: “New posetic tools for the evaluation of financial literacy”
• Enrico di Bella – University of Genoa: “Poset theory and policy making: three case studies”

  

Title: New Results in Robust Estimation

Organizer: Francesca Greselin

• Luis Angel Garcìa Escudero – University of Valladolid, Diego Rivera-García, Joaquín Ortega – CIMAT, Mexico and Agustin Mayo-Iscar – University of Valladolid: “A proposal for robust functional clustering based on trimming and constraints”
• Gunter Ritter – University of Passau: “Trimming in probabilistic clustering”
• Silvia Salini – University of Milano, Fabrizio Laurini, Marco Riani and Andrea Cerioli – University of Parma: “Covariance matrices of robust estimators in regression” 

  

Title: Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction

Organizer: Maurizio Vichi, Chair: Francesco Palumbo

• Roberto Rocci – University of Roma Tor Vergata, Maurizio Vichi – University of Roma La Sapienza Monia Ranalli  – University of Roma Tor Vergata: “Mixture Models for Simultaneous Classification and Reduction of Three-way Data”
• Laura Anderlucci, Francesca Fortunato and Angela Montanari – University of Bologna: “High-dimensional Clustering via Random Projections”
• Mario Fordellone, Maurizio Vichi -University of Roma La Sapienza : “Partial Least Squares path modelling and simultaneous clustering”