Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Undergraduate School:
Statistics (for the students of CLEACC)
Graduate School:
Data Analysis (for the students of AFC)
PhD School:
Statistical Theory II (for the students of the PhD in Statistics and Computer Science)
Biographical note
Degree in Mathematics (cum laude), Università degli studi di Milano, 1990.
Fellowship at I.A.M.I. (Istituto per le applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica), C.N.R., Milano, 1991.
Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) in Statistics at I.M.Q., Università Luigi Bocconi, Milano, 1996-2005. Associate Professor of Statistics at Department of Decision Sciences, Università L. Bocconi, Milano, 2006-present. Teaching activity in Applied Statistics at Lobachevsky State University in Nizhny Novgorod (Ru), 2000-2003. Teaching activity in Statistical Theory II for the students of the PhD in Statistics and Computer Science, Bocconi University, 2003-2021.
Research interests
Bayesian statistics: exchangeability and partial exchangeability, prior distributions for nonparametric models, functionals of the Dirichel process, inference on Fréchet and Lancaster classes
Population forecasting: stochastic population forecasting, forecasts based on conditional expert opinions
Confidence distributions: finite and large sample properties of confidence distributions, application to Rasch model, use of confidence distributions in hypothesis testing
Selected Publications
Confidence distribution for the ability parameter of the Rasch model
PSYCHOMETRIKA, 2021
Some asymptotic results for fiducial and confidence distributions
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS, 2018
Fiducial, confidence and objective Bayesian posterior distributions for a multidimensional parameter
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE, 2018
Stochastic Population Forecasting Based on Combinations of Expert Evaluations within the Bayesian Paradigm
DEMOGRAPHY, 51 (5): 1933-1954, 2014
Stochastic Population Forecasts based on Conditional Expert Opinions
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. SERIES A. STATISTICS IN SOCIETY, 2012
Approximating de Finetti's measures for partially exchangeable sequences
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS, 2000
Some New Results for Dirichlet Priors
ANNALS OF STATISTICS, 2000
Confidence distributions and hypothesis testing.
Statistical Papers, 2024