15/07/2016 – Workshop on “Recent Advances in Quantile and M-quantile Regression”

By | Wednesday June 15th, 2016

15/07/2016 – Workshop on “Recent Advances in Quantile and M-quantile Regression”

Contact information: nicola.salvati@unipi 

Website: http://www.sp.unipg.it/surwey/events/26-workshop.html

8.30

Registration opening

8.50

Workshop opening

9:00-9:40

Regression modeling of geometric rates

Matteo Bottai (Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet)

9:40-10:20

What if…? Robust Prediction Intervals for Unbalanced Samples

Ray Chambers (NIASRA, University of Wollongong)

10:20-10:50

On the Lp-quantiles for the Student t distribution

Mauro Bernardi (Università di Padova), Valeria Bignozzi (Sapienza Università di Roma), Lea Petrella (Sapienza Università di Roma)

10:50-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-11:45

Handling heterogeneity among units in Quantile Regression

Cristina Davino (Università di Macerata), Domenico Vistocco (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale)

11:45-12:15

Finite mixtures of quantile and M-quantile regression models

Marco Alfò (Sapienza Università di Roma), M. Giovanna Ranalli (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Nicola Salvati (Università di Pisa)

12:15-12:45

Statistical modelling of gained university credits to evaluate the role of pre-enrolment assessment tests: An approach based on quantile regression for counts

Leonardo Grilli (Università di Firenze), Carla Rampichini (Università di Firenze), Roberta Varriale (ISTAT, Roma)

12:45-14:00

Lunch