More Than a Dozen Alternative Ways of Spelling Gini
The Gini equivalents of the covariance, the correlation and the regression coefficient
Decompositions of the GMD
The Lorenz curve and the concentration curve
The extended Gini family of measures
Gini Simple Regressions
Multiple Regressions
Inference on Gini-based parameters -estimation
Inference on Gini-based parameters -testing
Inference on Lorenz and on Concentration curves
Introduction to applications
Social welfare, relative deprivation and the Gini coefficient
Policy Analysis.- Policy Analysis Using the Decomposition of the Gini by non-marginal analysis.- Incorporating poverty in Policy Analysis - the Marginal Analysis case
Introduction to applications of the GMD and the Lorenz curve in finance
The mean-Gini portfolio and the pricing of capital assets
Applications of Gini methodology in regression analysis
Gini's multiple regressions: two approaches and their interaction
Mixed OLS, Gini and extended Gini regressions.- An application in statistics - ANOGI
Suggestions for further research
Introduction
More Than a Dozen Alternative Ways of Spelling Gini
The Gini equivalents of the covariance, the correlation and the regression coefficient
OPENSTAT REFERENCE MANUAL.- PREFACE.- TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.- INSTALLING OPENSTAT.- STARTING OPENSTAT.- FILES.- CREATING A FILE.- ENTERING DATA.- SAVING A FILE.- DISTRIBUTIONS.- DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSES.- VERSUS Y PLOTS.- VERSUS MULTIPLE Y PLOT.- CORRELATION.- COMPARISONS.- MULTIVARIATE.- NON-PARAMETRIC.- MEASUREMENT.- STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL .- LINEAR PROGRAMMING.- THE ITEM BANKING PROGRAM.- NEURAL NETWORKS.- USING THE PROGRAM.- EXAMPLES
INDEX
OPENSTAT REFERENCE MANUAL.- PREFACE.- TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.- INSTALLING OPENSTAT.- STARTING OPENSTAT.- FILES.- CREATING A FILE.- ENTERING DATA.- SAVING A FILE.- DISTRIBUTIONS.- DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSES.- VERSUS Y PLOTS.- VERSUS MULTIPLE Y PLOT.- CORRELATION.- COMPARISONS.- MULTIVARIATE.- NON-PARAMETRIC.- MEASUREMENT.- STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL .- LINEAR PROGRAMMING.- THE ITEM BANKING PROGRAM.- NEURAL NETWORKS.- USING THE PROGRAM.- EXAMPLES
Part 1: Introduction to Statistical Surveys: Critical Points, Challenges and Need for Development (Luigi Biggeri)
Part 2: Questionnaire Design: Measurement Scales for Scoring or Ranking Sets of Interrelated Items (Luigi Fabbris)
Assessing Multi‐Item Scales for Subjective Measurement (Cristina Davino and Rosaria Romano)
Statistical Tools in the Joint Analysis of Closed and Open‐Ended Questions (Simona Balbi and Nicole Triunfo)
The Use of Self‐Anchoring Scales in Social Research: The Cantril Scale for the Evaluation of Community Action Orientation (Immacolata Di Napoli and Caterina Arcidiacono)
Part 3: Sampling Design and Error Estimation: Small Area Estimation of Poverty Indicators ( Monica Pratesi, Caterina Giusti and Stefano Marchetti)
Non‐Sampling Errors in Household Surveys: The Bank of Italy’s Experience (Giovanni D’Alessio and Giuseppe Ilardi)
Part 4: Data Integration: Enriching a Large Scale Survey from a Representative Sample by Data Fusion: Models and Validation (Tomàs Aluja‐Banet, Josep Daunis‐i‐Estadella and Yan Hong Chen)
A Business Survey on Job Vacancies: Integration with Other Sources and Calibration (Diego Bellisai, Stefania Fivizzani and Marina Sorrentino)
Part 1: Introduction to Statistical Surveys: Critical Points, Challenges and Need for Development (Luigi Biggeri)
Part 2: Questionnaire Design: Measurement Scales for Scoring or Ranking Sets of Interrelated Items (Luigi Fabbris)
Assessing Multi‐Item Scales for Subjective Measurement (Cristina Davino and Rosaria Romano)
Introduction: Benefits and challenges of the panel design
Outline of the book
Audience and prerequisites
Acknowledgements
Managing panel data: The nature of panel data
The basics of panel data management
Three case studies on poverty in Germany
How to represent a population with panel data?- Conclusion and further reading
Describing and modeling panel data: Some basic terminology
Measurements over time are not independent
Describing the dependent variable
Explaining the dependent variable over time: typical explanatory variables
Modeling panel data.- Estimating models for panel data
Overview of subsequent chapters
Panel analysis of continuous variables: Modeling the level of Y
Modeling the change of Y.- Conclusion and further reading
Panel analysis of categorical variables: Modeling the level of Y: Discrete response models for panel data
Modeling the change of Y: Discrete-time event history models for panel data
Conclusion and further reading
Conclusion: How to do your own panel analysis
A: Functions of random variables
B: Estimation and testing: Ordinary least squares
How to compute a regression model fitting the data?- Sampling and sampling errors
How to choose between different estimation methods?- How to estimate the parameters of an unknown population with a sample of data?- How to test parameters of an unknown population with a sample of data?- Maximum likelihood
C: Web site of the textbook
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Benefits and challenges of the panel design
Part I Statistical Theory: Default Priors Based on Pseudo-likelihoods for the Poisson-GPD Model (Stefano Cabras)
Robustness, Dispersion and Local Functions in Data Depth (Mario Romanazzi and Claudio Agostinelli).- New Distribution-free Plotting Position Through an Approximation to the Beta Median (Pasquale Erto and Antonio Lepore)
On Gaussian Compound Poisson Type Limiting Likelihood Ratio Process (Sergueï Dachian and Ilia Negri)
Archetypal Symbolic Objects (M.R. D’Esposito, F. Palumbo, G. Ragozini)
Lorenz Zonoids and Dependence Measures: A Proposal (Emanuela Raffinetti, Paolo Giudici)
Algebraic Generation of Orthogonal Fractional Factorial Designs (Roberto Fontana and Giovanni Pistone)
Part II Methods for Time Series, Spatial and Functional Data: A Functional Spatio-Temporal Model for Geometric Shape Analysis (Lara Fontanella, Luigi Ippoliti and Pasquale Valentini)
Vector Threshold Moving Average Models: Model Specification and Invertibility (Marcella Niglio, Cosimo Damiano Vitale)
A Regionalization Method for Spatial Functional Data Based on Variogram Models: An Application on Environmental Data (Elvira Romano, Antonio Balzanella, and Rosanna Verde)
Spectral Decomposition of the AR Metric (Maria Iannario and Domenico Piccolo)
Nonlinear Nonstationary Model Building by Genetic Algorithms (Francesco Battaglia and Mattheos K. Protopapas)
Using the Autodependogram in Model Diagnostic Checking (Luca Bagnato and Antonio Punzo)
Part III Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis: Refined Estimation of a Light Tail: an Application to Environmental Data (M. Ivette Gomes, Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues and Frederico Caeiro)
Model-based Classification of Clustered Binary Data with Non Ignorable Missing Values (Francesco Lagona)
A Model for Correlated Paired Comparison Data (Manuela Cattelan and Cristiano Varin)
Closed Skew Normal Stochastic Frontier Models for Panel Data (Roberto Colombi)
How far can Man go? (Isabel Fraga Alves, Laurens de Haan and Cláudia Neves)
Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data: Challenges and Future Directions (Dimitris Rizopoulos)
A Class of Linear Regression Models for Imprecise Random Elements (Renato Coppi, Maria Brigida Ferraro and Paolo Giordani)
A Model-based Dimension Reduction Approach to Classification of Gene Expression Data (Luca Scrucca and Avner Bar-Hen)
Exploiting Multivariate Outcomes in Bayesian Inference for Causal Effects With Noncompliance (Alessandra Mattei, Fabrizia Mealli and Barbara Pacini)
Fuzzy Composite Indicators: An Application for Measuring Customer Satisfaction (Sergio Zani, Maria Adele Milioli, Isabella Morlini)
Part IV Survey Methodology and Official Statistics: Symmetric Association Measures in Effect-control Sampling (Riccardo Borgoni, Piero Quatto and Donata Marasini)
Spatial Misalignment Models for Small Area Estimation: A Simulation Study (Matilde Trevisani and Alan Gelfand)
Scrambled Response Models Based on Auxiliary Variables (Giancarlo Diana and Pier Francesco Perri)
Using Auxiliary Information and Nonparametric Methods in Weighting Adjustments (Emilia Rocco)
Open Source Integer Linear Programming Solvers for Error Localization in Numerical Data (Gianpiero Bianchi, Renato Bruni, Alessandra Reale)
Integrating Business Surveys: Guidelines and Principles Based on the Belgian Experience (Maria Caterina Bramati)
Part V Social Statistics and Demography: A Measure of Poverty Based on the Rasch Model (Maria Cristiana Martini and Cristiano Vanin)
Chronic Poverty in European Mediterranean Countries (Daria Mendola and Annalisa Busetta)
Do Union Formation and Childbearing Improve Subjective Well-being? An application of Propensity Score Matching to a Bulgarian Banel (Emiliano Sironi and Francesco C. Billari)
Health and Functional Status in Elderly Patients Living in Residential Facilities in Italy (Giulia Cavrini, Claudia Di Priamo, Lorella Sicuro, Alessandra Battisti, Alessandro Solipaca and Giovanni de Girolamo)
Dementia in the Elderly:. Health Consequences on Household Members (Egidi V., Salvatore M.A., Gargiulo L., Iannucci L., Sebastiani G., Tinto A.)
Asset Ownership of the Elderly Across Europe: A multilevel Latent Class Analysis to Segment Countries and Households (Omar Paccagnella and Roberta Varriale)
The Longevity Pattern in Emilia Romagna, Italy: A Spatio-temporal Analysis (Giulia Roli, Rossella Miglio, Rosella Rettaroli and Alessandra Samoggia)
Material Deprivation and Incidence of Lung Cancer: A Census Block Analysis (Laura Grisotto, Dolores Catelan and Annibale Biggeri)
Mining Administrative Health Databases for Epidemiological Purposes: A Case Study on Acute Myocardial Infarctions Diagnoses (Francesca Ieva, Anna Maria Paganoni and Piercesare Secchi)
Part VI Economic Statistics and Econometrics: Fractional Integration Models for Italian Electricity Zonal Prices (Angelica Gianfreda and Luigi Grossi)
A Generalized Composite Index Based on the Non-Substitutability of Individual Indicators (Matteo Mazziotta and Adriano Pareto)
Evaluating the Efficiency of the Italian University Educational Processes Through Frontier Production Methods (Luigi Biggeri, Tiziana Laureti, Luca Secondi)
Modeling and Forecasting Realized Range Volatility (Massimiliano Caporin and Gabriel G. Velo)
Clusters and Equivalence Scales (Gustavo De Santis and Mauro Maltagliati)
The Determinants of Income Dynamics (Gustavo De Santis and Giambattista Salinari)
Benchmarking and Movement Preservation: Evidences From Real-life and Simulated Series (Tommaso Di Fonzo and Marco Marini)
Cumulation of Poverty Measures to Meet New Policy Needs (Vijay Verma, Francesca Gagliardi, Caterina Ferretti)
Long Memory in Integrated and Realized Variance (Eduardo Rossi and Paolo Santucci de Magistris)
Part I Statistical Theory: Default Priors Based on Pseudo-likelihoods for the Poisson-GPD Model (Stefano Cabras)
Robustness, Dispersion and Local Functions in Data Depth (Mario Romanazzi and Claudio Agostinelli).- New Distribution-free Plotting Position Through an Approximation to the Beta Median (Pasquale Erto and Antonio Lepore)
On Gaussian Compound Poisson Type Limiting Likelihood Ratio Process (Sergueï Dachian and Ilia Negri)
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