[Forum SIS] Call for Papers: Padua conference in honour of Corrado Gini (7-8 September 2015)

[Monica Boscolo Anzoletti]

Conference in honour of Corrado Gini 

 

Padua University, Italy

7-8 September 2015

 
 

A two-day conference is going to be held at the University of Padua on 7 and
8 September 2015, to honour the memory of Corrado Gini, fifty years after
his death. The conference will consist of a ceremony of remembrance to
recall the leading role of Gini as a scholar, a professor and a
culture-promoting agent (7 September) and of a scientific conference dealing
with topics to which Gini contributed as a scholar (8 September).

The scientific conference is aimed at enhancing applications and methodology
of statistics to improve juridical, forensic and educational studies. The
main topics for contributed papers are listed underneath. The official
language for paper presentation is English. Other information on the
conference can be found at the website:
<http://convegnogini.stat.unipd.it> http://convegnogini.stat.unipd.it

 

 

Call for Contributed Papers

Contributed papers are welcome. Concerned scholars are invited to submit to
the Scientific Committee an abstract in English of no more than 4,000
characters, title, authors, company or institution they belong to, and email
included. The Committee, after acceptation, will contact the authors.

The conference organizers will allow publishing, after refereeing, full
texts of the invited papers and of a selection of the contributed papers.
The journals interested to host such papers are: Statistica Applicata –
Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, Statistica, Metron and Genus. All
journals publish in English.

 

A contest with two prizes of 700 and 350 Euros is announced for the best
papers on applied statistics submitted by young scholars for publication,
after refereeing, to any of the official journals of the conference. The
contest is open to scholars aged 39 or less as of 8 September 2015. 

 


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Main Topics for Contributed Papers

 

·         Corrado Gini as a professor at University of Padua

·         Juridical and forensic statistics

·         Evidence evaluation in forensics

·         Social capital and competency analysis

·         Graduates’ employment and labour market analysis

·         Brain and arms drain 

·         Choice experiments and preference elicitation

·         Measurement scales vs. conjoint measurement

·         Ranking and rating for quality improvement

·         Ranking and rating for marketing 

·         Vignettes analysis

·         Techniques for data quality evaluation

·         Integrating survey and administrative data

·         Selection-biased samples

·         Indirect observation of phenomena

·         Missing or censured, though informative, data

·         Dangers caused by statistics

·         Challenging problems in statistics

 

Keynote speakers

 

prof. Luigi Biggeri (University of Florence)

prof. Andrea Cammelli (University of Bologna, AlmaLaurea)

prof. Furio Cammillo (University of Bologna)

prof. Luigi Campiglio (Catholic University of Sacred Hearth of Milan)

prof. Giovanni Costa (University of Padua)

prof. Giovanni A. Fava (University of Bologna, State University of New York
at Buffalo)

prof. B. Vittorio Frosini (Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milan)

prof. Paolo Garbolino (IUAV University of Venice) 

prof. Giovanni Maria Giorgi (Sapienza University of Rome)

prof. Giuseppe Leti (Sapienza University of Rome)

prof. Julia Mortera (Third University of Rome)

prof. Fortunato Pesarin (University of Padua)

prof. Carlo Rosati (Virginia Commonwealth University, FBI, USA) 

prof. Italo Scardovi (University of Bologna)

prof. Franco Taroni (University of Lausanne, CH) 

prof. Giorgio Vittadini (Biccoca University of Milan)

prof. Michele Zenga (Bicocca University of Milan)

 

Deadlines

Abstract submission                           15 June, 2015

Abstract acceptance                           30 June, 2015

Submission of full papers for prize contest         30 November, 2015

 

 

 

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Monica Boscolo Anzoletti

Department of Statistical Sciences
University of Padova

Via Cesare Battisti 241

35121 Padova

tel. 0039 049 8274161

fax  0039 049 8271524

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dott.ssa Monica Boscolo Anzoletti

Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche

Università degli Studi di Padova

Via Cesare Battisti 241 – 35121 - Padova

tel. 049 8274161  fax 049 8271524

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