Forcina Antonio

Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica, Università di Perugia

Tel: +30 075 585 5227, Fax: +39 075 585 5950

forcina(at)stat.unipg.it

 

Research Interests: latent class models as a tool for causal inference;  marginal models for multiway tables and markov properties;

Likelihood inference for sets of equality and inequality constraints;  analysis of capture-recapture data; 

Recent publications:

 

-       Forcina, A.  (2012)  Smoothness of conditional independence models for discrete data.. .Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 106, 49-56.

-       Dardanon, V., Fiorini, M., Forcina, A. (2012)   Stochastic monotonicity  in intergenerational mobility tables. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27, 85-107

-       Forcina, A., Ganldi, M, Bracalente, B. (2012)  A revised  Brown and Payne model of voting behaviour applied to the 2009 elections in Italy. Statistical Methods and Applications, 21, 109-119.

-       Bracalente, B., Ganldi, M., Fprcina, A. (2012)  Elezioni 2012 nel comune di Milano: una analisi del comportamento di voto alla luce dei flussi elettorali. Submitted

-       Dardanoni, V., Forcina, A..  Li Donni, P. (2012)  Multivariate ordered regression. Submitted.

-       Forcina, A.,Giovagnoli, A., Stanghellini, E.,  (2011)  Non compliance in surgical patients with herniated lumbar discs: an application of an extended latent class model as selection model.   Statistical Modelling, 11(4), 311.323.

-       Forcina, A. (2011) The instrumental variable estimand as an average causal effect under partial compliance, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 35, 137-147.

-       Evans, R., Forcina, A. (2011)  Two algorithms for fitting constrained marginal models. Submitted

-       Forcina, A. (2911)  Modelling sources of ecological fallacy within a revised Brown and Payne model of voting transitions. Draft.

-       Forcina, A., Modica, S. (2011)  Education transmission: a two-latent-class model.  Submitted.

-       Forcina, A., Lupparelli, M., Marchetti, G. M. (2010) Conditional independence and marginal link functions for discrete data. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 2519-2527.

-       Forcina, A. Stime di flussi elettorali da dati aggregati, SIS Magazine, 30.11.2009,  http://www.sis-statistica.it/magazine/spip.php?article166

-       Dardanoni, V., Forcina, A. and  Modica, S. (2009) .Secondary effects in education transmission: a finite mixture model   Draft.

-       Paolo Giorgi Rossi , Jessica Mantovani, Eliana Ferroni , Antonio Forcina , Elena Stanghellini , Filippo Curtale , Piero Borgia, (2009)  Incidence of bacterial meningitis(2001-2005) in Lazio, Italy: the results of an integrated surveillance system.  BMC Infectious Diseases, 9:13, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/9/13.

-       Forcina, A., Marchetti, G.M. (2009) The Brown and Payne model of voter transition revisited. Cladag 2009.

-       Folletti, I., Forcina, A., Marabini, A., Bussetti, A., Siracusa, A.  (2008)   Have the prevalence and incidence of occupational asthma and rhinitis because of laboratory animals declined in the last 25 years? Allergy,  63: 834–841,

-       Forcina, A. (2008).  Identifiability of extended latent class models with individual covariates. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 5263-5268.

-       Forcina, A., Dardanoni, V.  (2008)  Regression models for multivariate ordered responses via the Plackett distribution,  Journal of Multivariate Analysis 99,   2472–2478).

-       Bartolucci, F., Colombi, R. and Forcina, A. (2007) An extended class of marginal link functions for modelling contingency tables by equality and inequality constraints,  Statistica Sinica, 17, 691-711.

-       Dardanoni, V., Forcina, A. (2008)  Multivariate ordered regression. Mimeo.

-       Bracalente B., Ferracuti L., Forcina A. (2006)  L?analisi dei flussi elettorali in Umbria: le elezioni dal 2004 al 2006. AUR&S,  http://www.aur-umbria.it/rivista_7_indice.htm

-       Bartolucci, F.,  Forcina, A. (2006). A class of lkatent marginal models for capture-recapture data sith individual covariates, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 786-794.

-       Forcina, A. (2006). Causal Effects in the presence of non compliance: a latent variable interpretation (with discussion),  Metron, 64,  265-302

-       Bartolucci F.,  Forcina A. (2005)  .Likelihood inference on the underlying structure of IRT models, . Psuchometrika,70,  31-43.

-       Forcina, A:, Bartolucci, F. (2004)  Modelling quality of life variables with non parametric mixtures, . Environmetrics, 15, 519-528.

-       Forcina A. (2003). Probabilistic Modelling: an Historical and Philosophical Digression. Foundations of Statistical Inference. Proceedings of the Shoresh Conference 2000, Eds. Y. Haitovsky, H. R. Lerche and  Y. Ritov, Springer, p.  69-76.

-       Bartolucci F., Colombi R., Forcina A. (2003)  An extended class of marginal link functions for modelling contingency tables by equality and inequality constraints.  Under revision

-       Bartolucci F., Forcina A. (2002). Extended RC Association Models allowing for Order Restrictions and Marginal Modelling.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97, 1192-99..

-       Bartolucci,  F., Forcina A. 2001) The Analysis of Capture-Recapture Data with a Rasch-Type Model allowing for Conditional Dependence and Multidimensionality. Biometrics, 57, 714-719.

-       Colombi R, Forcina A. (2001) Marginal regression modelsfor the analysis of positive association. Biometrika, 88, 1007-1019.

-       Bartolucci F., Dardanoni V., Forcina A. (2001)  Positive Quadrant Dependence and Marginal Modellingin Two-Way Tables with Ordered Margins. Journal of the American Statistical Association,

-       Bartolucci , F., Forcina A. (2000) A likelihood ratio test for MTP2 within binary variables. Annals of Statistics, 28, 1206-1218.

-       Colombi,  R., Forcina A.(2000)  Modellazione di dati discreti con vincoli di uguaglianza e di diseguaglianza. STATISTICA, 195-214.

-       Dardanonu V., Forcina F. (1999) Inference for the Lorenz curve orderings. The Econometrics Journal, 2, 1999, 49-75.

-       Siracusa A., Paggiaro P. .L, Forcina A., Talini D., Marabini A., Benvenuti A.,Viegi G., Chan-Yeung M. (1999) Dyspnoea is associated with pulmonary function impairment in exposed workers. Respiratory Medecine, 93, 39-45.