Edited Book

ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation

Book of short papers of the opening conference
  • Edited by:
  • Bruno Bertaccini,
  • Luigi Fabbris,
  • Alessandra Petrucci,

This book includes 25 peer-reviewed short papers submitted to the Scientific Opening Conference titled “Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation”, aimed at promoting new statistical methods and applications for the evaluation of policies and organized by the Association for Applied Statistics (ASA) and the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications DiSIA “G. Parenti” of the University of Florence, jointly with the partners AICQ (Italian Association for Quality Culture), AICQ-CN (Italian Association for Quality Culture North and Centre of Italy), AISS (Italian Academy for Six Sigma), ASSIRM (Italian Association for Marketing, Social and Opinion Research), Comune di Firenze, the SIS – Italian Statistical Society, Regione Toscana and Valmon – Evaluation & Monitoring.

  • Keywords:
  • Statistical Information Systems,
  • Policy evaluation,
  • Evaluation Of Educational Systems,
  • Health and Well-Being,
  • Tourism and Gastronomy,
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Bruno Bertaccini

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5816-2964

Luigi Fabbris

University of Padua, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8657-8361

Alessandra Petrucci

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9952-0396

Bruno Bertaccini is Associate Professor of Statistics at the “G. Parenti” Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Applications of the University of Florence. After earning his PhD in Applied Statistics, he became an expert in the effectiveness assessment of public policies, with particular attention to the evaluation of the quality of higher education and academic policies.

Luigi Fabbris is a freelance researcher in the field of statistics and social science; President of the ASA, (Italian) Association for Applied Statistics; formerly Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Padua; he has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers or books.

Alessandra Petrucci is Professor of Social Statistics and she holds a PhD in Applied Statistics. Her research interests include survey sampling methods, spatial statistics, multivariate statistical analysis applied to social and environmental issues. She is the author and co-author of numerous scientific papers published in national and international journals, and she has been a member of research projects and scientific committees for several national and international conferences.

Rosa Arboretti, Riccardo Ceccato, Luigi Salmaso

Nonparametric methods for stratified C-sample designs: a case study
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pp.17-22


Pasquale Anselmi, Daiana Colledani, Luigi Fabbris, Egidio Robusto, Manuela Scioni

Measuring content validity of academic psychological capital and locus of control in fresh graduates
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pp.23-28


Giulia Vannucci, Anna Gottard, Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini

Random effects regression trees for the analysis of INVALSI data
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pp.29-34


Valentina Tocchioni, Alessandra Petrucci, Alessandra Minello

Short-term and long-term international scientific mobility of Italian PhDs: An analysis by gender
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pp.35-40


Bruno Bertaccini, Riccardo Bruni, Federico Crescenzi, Beatrice Donati

Measuring logical competences and soft skills when enrolling in a university degree course
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pp.41-46


Rosanna Cataldo, Laura Antonucci, Corrado Crocetta, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Marina Marino

A bibliometric study of global research activity in relation to the use of partial least squares for policy evaluation
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pp.49-54


Rosanna Cataldo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Paolo Mazzocchi, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca

Innovation and sustainability: the Italian scenario
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pp.71-76


Claudia Segre, Serena Spagnolo, Valentina Gabella, Valentina Langella

The Financial Wellbeing Index: “Donne al quadrato” and the relevant impact measurement
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pp.77-82


Lucio Palazzo, Pietro Sabatino, Riccardo Ievoli

Determinants of social startups in Italy
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pp.85-90


Venera Tomaselli, Giulio Giacomo Cantone

Multipoint vs slider: a protocol for experiments
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pp.91-96


Daria Mendola, Anna Maria Parroco

Life satisfaction of refugees living in Germany
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pp.97-102


Cristina Davino, Marco Gherghi, Domenico Vistocco

A quantitative study to measure the family impact of e-learning
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pp.103-107


Corrado Cuccurullo, Luca D’Aniello, Maria Spano

Thematic atlas of Italian oncological research: the analysis of public IRCCS
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pp.109-114


Pietro Renzi, Alberto Franci

Frameworks and inequalities in healthcare: some applications
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pp.115-120


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pp.121-126


Giulia Caruso, Adelia Evangelista, Stefano Antonio Gattone

Profiling visitors of a national park in Italy through unsupervised classification of mixed data
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pp.135-140


Gianpaolo Zammarchi, Giulia Contu, Luca Frigau

Using eye-tracking to evaluate the viewing behavior on tourist landscapes
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pp.141-146


Maurizio Romano, Francesco Mola, Claudio Conversano

Decomposing tourists’ sentiment from raw NL text to assess customer satisfaction
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pp.147-151


Nicoletta D’Angelo, Mauro Ferrante, Antonino Abbruzzo, Giada Adelfio

Determinants of spatial intensity of stop locations on cruise passengers tracking data
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pp.159-164


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ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation

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Book of short papers of the opening conference

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Bruno Bertaccini, Luigi Fabbris, Alessandra Petrucci

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2021

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