Pub Date : 2021-04-09DOI: 10.1007/s40300-021-00205-w
G. Giorgi
{"title":"Some notes on Iddo Eliazar’s monograph “Power Laws: A Statistical trek”","authors":"G. Giorgi","doi":"10.1007/s40300-021-00205-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-021-00205-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"79 1","pages":"255 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40300-021-00205-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43043451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-25DOI: 10.1007/s40300-021-00204-x
Carlo Cavicchia, P. Sarnacchiaro
{"title":"A multi-group higher-order factor analysis for studying the gender-effect in Teacher Job Satisfaction","authors":"Carlo Cavicchia, P. Sarnacchiaro","doi":"10.1007/s40300-021-00204-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-021-00204-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"80 1","pages":"23 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40300-021-00204-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52703567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-22DOI: 10.1007/s40300-023-00239-2
T. T. Mai
{"title":"Simulation comparisons between Bayesian and de-biased estimators in low-rank matrix completion","authors":"T. T. Mai","doi":"10.1007/s40300-023-00239-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-023-00239-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44795970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-08DOI: 10.1007/s40300-021-00202-z
A. D’Ambra, Pietro Amenta, A. Crisci, A. Lucadamo
{"title":"The generalized Taguchi’s statistic: a passenger satisfaction evaluation","authors":"A. D’Ambra, Pietro Amenta, A. Crisci, A. Lucadamo","doi":"10.1007/s40300-021-00202-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-021-00202-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"80 1","pages":"41 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40300-021-00202-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52703537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-08DOI: 10.1007/s40300-021-00203-y
M. Bourguignon, M. Santos-Neto, Mário de Castro
{"title":"A new regression model for positive random variables with skewed and long tail","authors":"M. Bourguignon, M. Santos-Neto, Mário de Castro","doi":"10.1007/s40300-021-00203-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-021-00203-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"79 1","pages":"33 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40300-021-00203-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46036930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-26DOI: 10.1007/s40300-020-00194-2
S. De Iaco, S. Maggio
{"title":"Using multilevel models to evaluate the attitude of separate waste collection in young people","authors":"S. De Iaco, S. Maggio","doi":"10.1007/s40300-020-00194-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-020-00194-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"80 1","pages":"77 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40300-020-00194-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52703494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1007/s40300-021-00198-6
A. Vanacore, Maria Sole Pellegrino
{"title":"A weighted distance metric for assessing ranking dissimilarity and inter-group heterogeneity","authors":"A. Vanacore, Maria Sole Pellegrino","doi":"10.1007/s40300-021-00198-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-021-00198-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"80 1","pages":"175 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40300-021-00198-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47115787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-06-28DOI: 10.1007/s40300-021-00213-w
Marco Riani, Mia Hubert
Starting with 2020 volume, the journal Metron has decided to celebrate the centenary since its foundation with three special issues. This volume is dedicated to robust statistics. A striking feature of most applied statistical analyses is the use of methods that are well known to be sensitive to outliers or to other departures from the postulated model. Robust statistical methods provide useful tools for reducing this sensitivity, through the detection of the outliers by first fitting the majority of the data and then by flagging deviant data points. The six papers in this issue cover a wide orientation in all fields of robustness. This editorial first provides some facts about the history and current state of robust statistics and then summarizes the contents of each paper.
{"title":"Editorial, special issue on \"Advances in Robust Statistics\".","authors":"Marco Riani, Mia Hubert","doi":"10.1007/s40300-021-00213-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-021-00213-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Starting with 2020 volume, the journal Metron has decided to celebrate the centenary since its foundation with three special issues. This volume is dedicated to robust statistics. A striking feature of most applied statistical analyses is the use of methods that are well known to be sensitive to outliers or to other departures from the postulated model. Robust statistical methods provide useful tools for reducing this sensitivity, through the detection of the outliers by first fitting the majority of the data and then by flagging deviant data points. The six papers in this issue cover a wide orientation in all fields of robustness. This editorial first provides some facts about the history and current state of robust statistics and then summarizes the contents of each paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"79 2","pages":"121-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40300-021-00213-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39147679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-10-19DOI: 10.1007/s40300-021-00223-8
Jabed H Tomal, Hafizur Rahman
Statistical thresholds occur when the changes in the relationships between a response and predictor variables are not linear but abrupt at some points of the predictor variable values. In this paper, we defined a piecewise-linear regression model which can detect two thresholds in the relationships via changes in slopes. We developed the corresponding Bayesian methodology for model estimation and inference by proposing prior distributions, deriving posterior distributions, and generating posterior values using Metropolis and Gibbs sampling algorithm. The parameters in our model are easy to understand, highly interpretable, and flexible to make inferences. The methodology has been applied to estimate threshold effects in housing market pricing data in two cities - Kamloops and Chilliwack - in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings revealed that the implementation of changes in the government property tax policies had threshold effects in the market price trend. The proposed model will be useful to detect threshold effects in other correlated time series data as well.
{"title":"A Bayesian piecewise linear model for the detection of breakpoints in housing prices.","authors":"Jabed H Tomal, Hafizur Rahman","doi":"10.1007/s40300-021-00223-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40300-021-00223-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Statistical thresholds occur when the changes in the relationships between a response and predictor variables are not linear but abrupt at some points of the predictor variable values. In this paper, we defined a piecewise-linear regression model which can detect two thresholds in the relationships via changes in slopes. We developed the corresponding Bayesian methodology for model estimation and inference by proposing prior distributions, deriving posterior distributions, and generating posterior values using Metropolis and Gibbs sampling algorithm. The parameters in our model are easy to understand, highly interpretable, and flexible to make inferences. The methodology has been applied to estimate threshold effects in housing market pricing data in two cities - Kamloops and Chilliwack - in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings revealed that the implementation of changes in the government property tax policies had threshold effects in the market price trend. The proposed model will be useful to detect threshold effects in other correlated time series data as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":51716,"journal":{"name":"Metron-International Journal of Statistics","volume":"79 3","pages":"361-381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8523943/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39551722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}