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Hi! I am a statistician with a Ph.D. from Bocconi University, currently working at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Bank of Italy, Rome.
Research interests
Bayesian parametric and non-parametric statistics, statistical methods for large datasets, statistics for preference learning, statistical applications
Please note that this is my private website. All the views expressed on these pages are my own and do not involve the responsibility of the Bank of Italy.
Me, Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, UK (April, 2017)
Papers
"It's a match! Linking foreign counterparts in Italian customs data to their balance sheets" (International Economics, in press 2024) with F. P. Conteduca
"A tool to nowcast tourist overnight stays with payment data and complementary indicators" (The Italian Economic Journal, 2024) with V. Mariani
"Do people pay attention to climate change: Evidence from Italy" (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024) with M. Loberto
"Efficient and accurate inference for mixtures of Mallows models with Spearman distance" (Statistics and Computing, 2023) with C. Mollica, V. Astuti, L. Tardella
"The role of majority status in close elections studies" (Political Analysis, 2023) with M. Alpino
"Informative priors for the consensus ranking in the Mallows model" (Bayesian Analysis, 2022, Advance Publication) with I. Antoniano-Villalobos
"BayesMallows: An R Package for the Bayesian Mallows model" (R journal, 2020) with Ø. Sorensen, Q. Liu, and V. Vitelli
"Dependence properties and Bayesian inference for asymmetric multivariate copulas" (JMVA, 2019) with J. Arbel, and S. Girard
"Model-based learning from preference data" (ARSIA, 2019) with Q. Liu, I. Scheel, V. Vitelli, A. Frigessi
"A Bayesian Mallows approach to non-transitive pair comparison data: how human are sounds?" (AOAS, 2019) with V. Vitelli, E. Arjas, N. Barrett and A. Frigessi
"Probabilistic preference learning with the Mallows rank model" (JMLR, 2018), with V. Vitelli, Ø. Sorensen, A. Frigessi, E. Arjas
"The Impact of 3-D Sound Spatialisation on Listeners’ Understanding of Human Agency in Acousmatic Music" (JNMR, 2018), with N. Barrett
"Understanding dependency patterns in structural and functional brain connectivity through fMRI and DTI data" (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 2018) with S. Ranciati, S. D’Angelo, and A. Mira
Working papers
"Bridging Policy and Prices: Causal Evidence of Housing Renovation Subsidies on Property Values in Italy" (submitted) with M. Loberto
"MSmix: An R package for clustering partial rankings via mixtures of Mallows Models with Spearman distance" (in preparation) with C. Mollica and L. Modugno
"Textual analysis of a Twitter corpus during the COVID-19 pandemics" (Bank of Italy Occasional Paper) with V. Astuti, M. Langiulli, J. Marcucci
"A mixture of experts Mallows model" (in preparation) with L. Modugno and C. Mollica
PhD Thesis: "Bayesian Learning of Ranking data” (revised Nov 2017) pdf
Policy
"Statistical Learning from ranking data: Italian firms' strategies and preferences during COVID-19 crisis" (Mimeo, 2021) link to the paper
E-mail: crispino.marta8[at]gmail.com