[Forum SIS] Conference in honour of Corrado Gini (Padua, 7-8 September 2015)

[Monica Boscolo Anzoletti]

Conference in honour of Corrado Gini 

 (Padua, 7-8 September 2015)

 

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Remembrance of a Master

(7 September 2015, ‘Archivio Antico’ at University of Padua)

 

Programme (draft)

 

14:00 – 14:30     Authorities’ speeches

                              Prof. Giuseppe Zaccaria, Rector of Padua
University

                              Prof.ssa Alessandra Salvan, Director of the
Department of Statistical Sciences

                              Prof. B. Vittorio Frosini, President of ASA –
Association for Applied Statistics

                              Prof. Nicola Torelli, President of SIS –
Italian Statistical Society

                                                          

                              Chair: Director of Statistical Sciences
Department, prof. Alessandra Salvan

14.30 – 16.00     Introductory speech by prof. Giuseppe Leti (Sapienza
University of Rome) ‘Corrado Gini as a Master in Statistics’

Discussants: prof. Italo Scardovi (University of Bologna), 

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

 

16:00 – 16:30     Coffee break

 

                              Chair: prof. Felice Vian (Università di
Padova)

16:30 – 17:00     ‘Corrado Gini, professor of Statistics at Padua
University’, prof. Silio Rigatti Luchini (University of Padua) 

 

17:00 – 18:00     ‘Gini’s contribution to economics studies’, prof. Luciano
Greco (University of Padua)

Discussants: prof. Michele Zenga (Bicocca University of Milan), 

prof. Andrea Furlan (University of Padua)

 

18:00                   Remembrance day closing 




 

 

National Conference on

 

‘Statistics for juridical, forensic and educational studies’

8 September 2015

Santa Caterina Complex at Padua University 

(Via C. Battisti 241)

 

Scientific programme (draft)

 

 

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

9:00 – 10:30       Plenary session: Round table on ‘Statistics for
forensics’, 

prof. Paolo Garbolino (IUAV University of Venice) 

                              prof. Julia Mortera (University Roma Tre)

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

“Full-profile conjoint analysis: some measuring, modeling  and levels of
aggregation“ prof. Franco Taroni (University of Lausanne, CH) 

 

10:30 – 11:00     Coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:00     I Session of Contributed Papers (chair: prof. Simona
Balbi, ‘Federico II’ University of Naples)

‘A Bayesian non parametric approach for the fundamental problem of forensic
statistics’ (prof. Giulia Cereda, University of Lausanne, CH)

‘Quality of web data: A statistical approach for forensics’ (eng. Vito
Santarcangelo, eng. A. Buondonno, eng. A. Romano, iInformatica srls, eng.
Egidio Cascini, Accademia Italiana del Sei Sigma)

‘A practical analysis about legal evidence and free conviction’, dr. M.
Desiré Montesano, dr. N. Montesano, and dr. F.P. Montesano, Studio Legale
Montesano, Matera)

 

12:00 – 13:00     Plenary session: ‘Human capital of migrants out of Italy’
prof. Furio Camillo (University of Bologna), prof. Giorgio Vittadini
(Bicocca University of Milan), 

                              Discussants: prof. Gian Carlo Blangiardo
(State University of Milan)

                              Prof. Luigi Campiglio (Catholic University of
Sacred Heart of Milan)

 

13:00-14:30        Lunch

 

14:30 – 15:30     II Session of Contributed Papers (chair: prof. Antonio
Giusti, University of Florence)

‘Ranking performances of a group of items’ (eng. Egidio Crescini, Accademia
Italiana del Sei Sigma)

‘A fractional design to elicit graduates’ preferences for job
characteristics’ (Luigi Fabbris, Francesca Miari and Manuela Scioni,
University of Padua)

‘A multivariate ordered probit model in presence of missing values’ (dr.
Euloge Clovis Kenne Pagui, University of Padua, and Antonio Canale,
University of Turin)

 

15:30 – 16:30     III Session of Contributed Papers (chair: eng. Egidio
Cascini, AISS – Accademia Italiana del Sei Sigma)

‘Methodology of regional statistics planning: Support for development
decisions’ (dr. Maria Teresa Coronella, Veneto District, and prof. Felice
Vian, formerly University of Padua)

‘How to deal with negative values in the calculation of the Gini
coefficient’ (prof. E. Raffinetti, prof. E Siletti and prof. Achille
Vernizzi, University of Milan)

‘‘The psychological capital for labour: A survey on fresh graduates from the
University of Padua’ (prof. Angelo Boccato, prof. Luigi Fabbris, prof.
Roberta Maeran, prof. Egidio Robusto, dr. Manuela Scioni, and dr. Federica
Tolin, University of Padua)

 

16:30 – 17:00     Coffee break

 

17:00 – 18:00     Plenary session: ‘Criteria for extending inferences to
populations’, prof. Fortunato Pesarin (University of Padua)

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

                                            Prof. Luigi Biggeri (University
of Florence)

 

18:00                   Conference closing

 

 

Main topics dealt with at the conference

-        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

 

 

Partner journals 

Genus

Metron

Statistica Applicata – Italian Journal of Applied Statistics

Statistica 

 

 

Social dinner (7 September 2015)

Participants and accompanying persons are invited to have dinner together at
a Padua restaurant. Alumni of the Padua Statistical Faculty and
representatives of Gini’s family will also be invited to attend the dinner. 

 

 

Contest with prizes for best papers

A contest with two prizes of 700 and 350 Euros has been 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. The scientific contribution of the contestant must be
elicited from the paper. The prize is sponsored by the Franca and Diego De
Castro Foundation.

 

 

Workshop (7 September 2015)

A half-day workshop on “Compositional data (CoDa) methods in the analysis of
customer surveys” is going to be organized by prof. Ron Kenett in the
morning of 7 September. The workshop is addressed to both early graduates
and people whose job involves customer surveys. In this workshop
applications of CoDa methodology to the analysis of customer surveys are
presented and findings are compared to what is presented in the book by
Kenett and Salini (2011). The workshop will last 4 hours with one coffee
break.
 

 

Multimedia exhibit

The multimedia exhibit on ‘Corrado Gini and Statistics in the First Half of
the Nineteenth Century’ is aimed at situating Gini in the emerging age of
statistics as a scientific discipline, both in Italy and abroad. The exhibit
will travel from university to university and to other institutions where
Gini worked and will be finally located at Istat, the institute chaired by
Gini from 1926 on, where he served as president for six years.

 

Fees

 

Attendance at Gini’s remembrance (7 September, 2015)   free               

 

Attendance at Padua conference (8 September, 2015):      70 Euros

 

Attendance at Padua Workshop, September 7:

-        Normal fee
25 Euros

-        Students
free

 

 

Relevant deadlines

30 July, 2015: abstract submission for contributed papers

07 August, 2015: acceptance of abstracts for paper presentation at the
conference

30 November, 2015: submission of full paper for the ‘young statisticians’
contest 

 

 

Conference supported by:

‘Franca & Diego De Castro’ Foundation

Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto

The Commune of Motta di Livenza

University of Padua

'Marco Fanno' Department of Economics and Management, Padua University

Request for economic support was submitted to other institutions

 

 

Local Organizing Committee:

prof. Felice Vian (University of Padua, chair)

prof. Mario Bolzan (University of Padua)

Mrs. Maria Teresa Coronella (Regione del Veneto)

prof.ssa Monica Chiogna (University of Padua)

Eng. Roberto Lago (Province of Padua)

Dr Lorenzo Maragoni (University of Padua)

prof. Stefano Mazzuco (University of Padua)

prof. Corrado Provasi (University of Padua)

prof. Bruno Scarpa (University of Padua)

prof. Silio Rigatti Luchini (University of Padua)

 

Scientific Committee:

prof. Luigi Fabbris (University of Padua, ASA, chair)

prof. Francesca Bassi (University of Padua, SIS)

prof. Giovanna Capizzi (University of Padua)

prof. Corrado Crocetta (University of Foggia)

prof. B. Vittorio Frosini (Catholic University of Sacred Hearth of Milan,
ASA)

prof. Ron Kenett (University of Turin, KPA)

prof. Giuseppe Leti (Sapienza University of Rome)

prof. Paola Monari (University of Bologna)

prof. Fortunato Pesarin (University of Padua)

prof. Giuseppe Puggioni (University of Cagliari)

prof. Fabrizio Ruggeri (CNR-IMATI, ISI)

prof. Germana Scepi (Federico II University of Naples)

 

Secretariat

Mrs. Monica Boscolo Anzoletti

 

Web Designers and Supervisors

Mr. Mirko Moro

Mrs. Silvia Sartorelli

 

BIOGRAPHY OF GINI

Corrado Gini was born in Motta di Livenza, Treviso, in 1884. He graduated
from Bologna University in Law in 1905 with a thesis on the ratio between
genders at birth. He used a quantitative approach, which was the start of
his passion for statistics, at that time a subject for the enlightened few.

He left his mark wherever he went:

-        At the University of Cagliari he started his activities in 1909 as
a full professor and held a Chair in Statistics.

-        At the University of Padua he founded the Institute of Statistics
at the Law Faculty in 1913 and also founded Metron, a journal in which
Fisher and other outstanding statisticians published fundamental papers in
statistics.

-        At the University of Rome he served as a professor from 1925 and
was the first Dean of the Faculty of Statistics

-        In Rome he also founded and served as the first president of Istat,
the Italian Institute of Statistics, from 1926 to 1932.

Even today the concentration index that Gini proposed almost a century ago
is used all over the world and by scholars in all disciplines concerned with
a scientific-quantitative approach. His brilliance was also revealed through
the innovations he brought to various statistical fields that are today
considered schools of thought (among others, the empirical Bayesian
approach) and the quantitative approach he instilled in social disciplines
such as demography, sociology, economics and forensics.

 

 

 

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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