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1. How student characteristics affect mobility choices at the university level: insights from two surveys in the campania region (Rondinelli, R., Policastro, V., Scolorato, C.)
2. Multivariate techniques for analyzing and presenting official statistics indicators (Kenett, R.S.)
3. Tax evasion and cash payment cap. does really exist a relationship? (Antolini, F., Cesarini, S.)
4. A comparative study on univariate outlier winsorization methods in data science context (Abuzaid, A., Alkrunz, I.)
5. Determinants of students’ attitude towards online learning in higher education during Covid-19 (del Gobbo E., Guarino, A., Cafarelli, B., Fontanella, L.)
This volume includes a selection of the papers presented at the ASA (Association for Applied Statistics) scientific conference held in Bologna from 6 to 8 September 2024. The volume keeps the title of the meeting “Statistics, Technology and Data Science for Economic and Social Development”.
This volume was annexed as a supplement of the volume 35-3 (2023) of the scientific journal Statistica Applicata – Italian Journal of Applied Statistics. Scholars can freely download the articles in an open access format, with the only obligation to cite the paper, possibly as follows:
Author(s) (Year). Paper title. In L. Fabbris, S. Mignani, G. Tassinari (eds) , Technology and Data Science for Economic and Social Development. Book of Short Papers of the ASA Bologna Conference. Padua: Cleup (pages).
1. Special issue in memory of Simona Balbi: Editorial (Blasius, J., Fabbris, L., Greenacree, M., Scepi, G., Spano, M.)
2. Counting the poor in Italy (Fabbris, L.)
3. From plain to sparse correspondence analysis: a generalized SVD approach (Habdi, H., Guillemot, V., Liu, R., Niang, N., Saporta, G., Yu, J.-C.)
4. Multilingual textual data: an approach through multiple factor analysis (Kostov, B., Alvarez-Esteban, R., Bécue-Bertaut, M., Husson, F.)
5. Visualization of textual data: a complement to autorship attribution (Lebart, L.)
1. The relationship between players’ average marginal contributions and salaries: an application to NBA Basketball using the generalized Shapley value (Biancalani, F., Gnecco, G., Metulini, R.)
2. Evaluation of off-the-ball actions in soccer (Wu, L., Swartz, T.)
3. A survival analysis to discover which skills determine a higher scoring in basketball (Macis, A., Manisera, M., Sandri, M., Zuccolotto, P.)
4. Football analytics based on player tracking data using interpolation techniques for the prediction of missing coordinates (Karlis, D., Kontos, C.)
5. Gender comparison of in-match psychological traits of tennis players: dynamic network analysis (Milekhina, A., Breznik, K., Restaino, M.)
1. Thematic issue on "Statistics for performance and match analysis in sports - Editorial" (Carpita, M., Metulini, R., Van Eetvelde, H.)
2. Multivariate permutation MCNEMAR’S test with application to performance evaluation of basket players (Bonnini, S., Corain, L., Pesarin, F., Salmaso, L.)
3. When is 2 better than 3 in basketball? (Gjøen, P.S.-U., Hvattum, S. A., Moltubak, E.M., Hvattum, L.M.)
4. Using (copula) regression and machine learning to model and predict football results in major European leagues (van der Wurp, H., Groll, A.)
5. welo: an R package for weighted and standard ELO rates (Candila, V.)
6. A causal investigation of pace of play in soccer (Dona, N.E., Swartz, T.B.)
1. In memory of Prof. Ettore Marubini (Valsecchi, M.G., Cesana, B.M., Decarli, A.)
2. Smart mobility in Milan, Italy. A cluster analysis at district level (Cornali, N., Seminati, M., Maranzano. P., Chiodini, P.M.)
3. Identity Capital Model in Italian university students: Evaluation of the Italian versions of the Multi-Measure Agentic Personality Scale and Identity Stage Resolution Index (Sica, L.S., Di Palma, T., Aleni Sestito, L., Ragozini, G.)
4. Connected aspects of risk measure and inequality indices with reliability concepts (Behdani, Z., Borzadaran, G.R.M.)
5. Antecedents of distance learning perception of the students during the COVID-19 pandemic (Iannario, M., Iodice D’Enza, A., Romano, R.)
1. Thematic issue on "Learning and Teaching Statistics: new challenges and frontiers" (Banos, R., Markos, A., Palumbo, F., Vistocco, D., Wilhelm, A.F.X.)
2. Heterogeneity in class: clustering students’ attitudes toward statistics (Aschenbruck, R. S. G., Lübke, K., Wilhelm, A. F.X.)
3. The protective role of intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, and self-regulation strategies against procrastination and statistics anxiety (Folgado-Alufre, M., Serrano-Mendizábal, M., Miragall, M., Desdendato, L., García-Ubiedo, L., Baños, R.M.)
4. Successful factors in statistics learning for non-STEM courses students: a PLS-PM approach (Fabbricatore, R., Parola, A., Pepicelli, G., Palumbo, F.)
5. Evaluation of distance measures for nonparametric classification in small-scale educational settings (Markos, A., Themelis, E., Moschidis, S.)
6. The learning style of teenagers with callous-unemotional traits (Rossi, L., Camminatiello, I., Zanetti, M.)
1. On Zero Inflated Generalized Poisson-Sujatha Distribution and its Applications (Aderoju, S.A., Adeniyi, I.A.)
2. Learning Online: Remote Teaching and University Students’ Engagement (Russo, M., Alboni, F., Morlini, I., Pavone, P., Sartori, L.)
3. Did Transition to Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Students’ Performance? Evidence from a Statistics Course (Leorato, S.)
4. Split-plot Designs and Multi-response Process Optimization: A Comparison Between Two Approaches (Berni, R., Piattoli, L., Anderson-Cook, M.C., Lu, L.)
5. Circular Economy in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the European Union: Heterogeneity Between and Within Countries (Bassi, F., Costa, D.)
6. Job Satisfaction and Teleworking: A Study on Public Administration Workers in Italy (Capecchi, S., Orientale Caputo, G.)
1. Covid-19 and Possible Bias in Statistical Information: Pandemic Indicators and the Risk of Infodemic (Antolini F., Cesarini S.)
2. A Soldering Reliability Study: A Comparison among Alloy-surface Finish Combinations Considering Different Component Packaging (Berni R., Catelani M., Fiesoli C., Scarano V.L.)
3. Analysis of Young People neither in Employment nor in Education and Training: A Fuzzy MCA Based Approach (Parola A., Iodice D’Enza A.)
4. Administrative Database and Official Statistics: The Case of the Real Estate Analysis (Marini C., Nicolardi V.)
1. Measurement Errors in Survey Data and the Estimation of Poverty and Inequality Indices (D’Alessio G.)
2. An Application of Spatially Adjusted Kolmogorov-smirnov Test in Comparing Heart PET Scans (Zheng W., Lai D., Wang Z., Johnson N.P., Gould K.L.)
3. The Visual Acuity Measurement and its Multiple Testing for Patients Implanted with Intraocular Lenses During the Cataract Surgery (Mita N., Sasaki H., Yamauchi T., Kani K., Tabuchi A., Hara H.)
4. Higher-Order PLS-Path Modeling: A Useful Tool for the Reduction of the Length of the Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire (Cataldo R., Galasso R., Grassia M.R., Marino M.)
1. Open data: Applications in social care and health (Galeone, C., Bonzi, R.)
2. Bayesian networks for the analysis of inpatient admissions (Conigliani, C., Petitti, T., Vitale, V.)
3. Joint models for time-to-event and multivariate longitudinal data: a likelihood approach (Mazzoleni, M.)
4. Graph data base: an enabling technology for drug prescription patterns analysis (Giordani, I., Archetti, F., Candelieri, A., Arosio, G., Mattina, R.)
5. Company requirements and monetary evaluation in the italian healthcare industry (Marletta, A.)
1. A Bibliometric Study on the Evolution of Conjoint Analysis in 1998-2017 (Misuraca, M., Scepi, G., Spano, M.)
2. Applying Conjoint Analysis to the Labour Market: Analysing the Position of Ict Assistant in the Italian Electus Project (Mariani, P., Marletta, A., Zenga, M.)
3. Full-profile Conjoint Analysis: Some Measuring, Modeling and Levels of Aggregation (De Luca, A.)
4. Using Partial Least Squares Regression for Conjoint Analysis (Russolillo, G., Saporta G.)
5. A Path-modeling Approach to Preference Data Analysis (Balzano S., Giordano G., Lauro N.C.)
6. Componential Segmentation Based Conjoint Analysis vs Cluster analysis (De Luca, A.)
1. Measuring the efficiency of academic departments: an empirical study (Buzzigoli, L., Giusti, A., Grassini, L., Viviani, A.)
2. The ideal candidates for the hotel industry vacancies: a conjoint analysis of managers’ preferences (Aria, M., Balbi, S., Balzano, S., Piscitelli, A.)
3. The effects of persistence and non-response in short-term statistics (Bacchini, F., Ceccarelli, C., Iannaccone, R.)
4. A family of theory-based parametric lag shapes for distributed-lag linear regression (Magrini, A.)
The Journal is now published in collaboration with Firenze University Press (FUP). Authors and interested readers are kindly requested to visit the new Journal's homepage at