Random Survival Forest for Censored Functional Data 

 Giuseppe Loffredo, Elvira Romano, Fabrizio Maturo

Fuzzy Centrality Measures in Social Network Analysis: Theory and Application in a University Department Collaboration Network 

Annamaria Porreca, Fabrizio Maturo, Viviana Ventre

Supervised Learning via Ensembles of Diverse Functional Representations: the Functional Voting Classifier

Donato Riccio, Fabrizio Maturo, Elvira Romano 

Explainable Gradient Boosting for Corporate Crisis Forecasting in Italian Businesses 

Fabrizio Maturo, Donato Riccio, Andrea Mazzitelli, Giuseppe Maria Bifulco, Francesco Paolone

The Moderating Role of Government Intervention in the Relationship between Investment in Artificial Intelligence and the Development of Financial Markets

Ortega Perals P, MATURO F, Cruz Rambaud S, Sánchez García J

Asymmetric effects of regulatory quality in bank risk-taking: the moderation effect of long-term interest rates

Ortega Perals P, MATURO F, Cruz Rambaud S, Sánchez García J

The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Research: Ethical and Methodological Challenges in the Peer Review Process

 Fabrizio Maturo, Annamaria Porreca, Aurora Porreca

Environmental Loss Assessment via Functional Outlier Detection of Transformed Biodiversity Profiles

Fabrizio Maturo, Annamaria Porreca 

A Novel Classification Algorithm Based on the Synergy Between Dynamic Clustering with Adaptive Distances and K-Nearest Neighbors

M Sabri, R Verde, A Balzanella, F Maturo, H Tairi, A Yahyaouy, J Riffi

Characterizing the Jellinek curve using a discounting model with time deformations

Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Viviana Ventre, Roberta Martino, Fabrizio Maturo, Annamaria Porreca

Exploring Intertemporal Decision-Making Dynamics through Functional Data Analysis: Investigating Variations in Different Discount Function's Dimensions

Roberta Martino, Porreca Annamaria, Viviana Ventre, Fabrizio Maturo 

An original approach to anomalies in intertemporal choices through functional data analysis: theory and application for the study of Hikikomori syndrome

Viviana Ventre, Roberta Martino, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Fabrizio Maturo, Annamaria Porreca

Surveillance and farmer perception of gastrointestinal nematode infections in sheep farms: a 10-year retrospective study

Martone, Giuseppe; Bosco, Antonio; Maturo, Fabrizio; Santaniello, Mirella; Ciuca, Lavinia; Cringoli, Giuseppe; Rinaldi, Laura; Mannocci, Alice 

Robust Prediction of Colorectal Cancer via Gut Microbiome 16S rRNA Sequencing Data

Annamaria Porreca, Eliana Ibrahimi, Fabrizio Maturo, Laura Judith Marcos Zambrano, Melisa Meto, Marta B Lopes

Combining unsupervised and supervised learning techniques for enhancing the performance of functional data classifiers

Fabrizio Maturo, Rosanna Verde

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Identifying Anomalous Patterns in Ecological Communities' Diversity: Leveraging Functional Boxplots and Clustering of Normalized Hill's Numbers and their Integral Functions

Annamaria Porreca, Fabrizio Maturo 

Pooling random forest and functional data analysis for biomedical signals supervised classification: theory and application to electrocardiogram data 

Fabrizio Maturo, Rosanna Verde

Selected as one of the most downloaded papers in Statistics in Medicine in 2022.

Selected as one of the most cited papers in Statistics in Medicine in 2022-2023 in WOS.

Selected as the weekly worldwide feature paper by STATS & DATA SCIENCE VIEWS on 18th April 2022 

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Augmented Functional Analysis of Variance (A-fANOVA): Theory and Application to Google Trends for Detecting Differences in Abortion Drugs Queries

Fabrizio Maturo, Annamaria Porreca 

Supervised classification of curves via a combined use of functional data analysis and tree-based methods

Fabrizio Maturo, Rosanna Verde

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Outliers detection in assessment tests' quality evaluation through the blended use of functional data analysis and item response theory

Fabrizio Maturo, Francesca Fortuna, Tonio Di Battista

Cardiac resynchronization therapy with multipoint pacing via quadripolar lead versus traditional biventricular pacing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies on hemodynamic, clinical and prognostic parameters

Cristiano Massacesi, Laura Ceriello, Fabrizio Maturo, Annamaria Porreca, Enrico Di Girolamo, Marianna Appignani

Population attributable fractions for continuously distributed exposures

John Ferguson, Fabrizio Maturo, Salim Yusuf, Martin O’Donnell

How does family management affect innovation investment propensity? The key role of innovation impulses 

Stefania Migliori, Alfredo De Massis, Fabrizio Maturo, Francesco Paolone

AnnuityRIR: An R package to approximate the value of an annuity according to the non-central moments of the capitalization factor

Salvador Cruz, Fabrizio Maturo, Ana Maria Sanchez Perez, Massimo Squillante 

A fuzzy functional k-means approach for monitoring Italian regions according to health evolution over time  

Fabrizio Maturo, John Ferguson, Tonio Di Battista, Viviana Ventre

Building Statistical Indicators of Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being in a Functional Framework 

Fabrizio Maturo, Antonio Balzanella, Tonio Di Battista

Graphical comparisons of relative disease burden across multiple risk factors

John Ferguson, Neil O’Leary, Fabrizio Maturo, Salim Yusuf, Martin O’Donnell

Unsupervised classification of ecological communities ranked according to their biodiversity patterns via a functional principal component decomposition of Hill’s numbers integral functions

Fabrizio Maturo

Rated as excellent during the Research Quality Assessment (VQR 2015-2019) by anonymous experts of the Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (ANVUR) 

Clustering functional data streams: unsupervised classification of soccer top players based on google trends

Francesca Fortuna, Fabrizio Maturo, Tonio Di Battista 

Testing equality of functions across multiple experimental conditions for different ability levels in the IRT context: the case of the IPRASE TLT 2016 survey

Fabrizio Maturo, Francesca Fortuna, Tonio Di Battista 

Measuring and monitoring diversity in organizations through functional instruments with an application to ethnic workforce diversity of the U.S. Federal Agencies

Fabrizio Maturo, Stefania Migliori, Francesco Paolone 

A functional approach to Hill's numbers for assessing changes in species variety of ecological communities over time

Fabrizio Maturo, Tonio Di Battista 

K-means clustering of item characteristic curves and item information curves via functional principal component analysis

Francesca Fortuna, Fabrizio Maturo 

A subjective approach to fuzzy events and their coherent probability assessment for decision making under uncertainty

Fabrizio Maturo

BioFTF: An R package for biodiversity assessment with the functional data analysis approach

Tonio Di Battista, Francesca Fortuna, Fabrizio Maturo 

Rated as excellent during the Research Quality Assessment (VQR 2015-2019) by anonymous experts of the Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (ANVUR) 

On an extension of the Dubins conditional probability axiomatic to coherent probability of fuzzy events 

Fabrizio Maturo

Parametric Functional Analysis of Variance for Fish Biodiversity Assessment

Tonio Di Battista, Francesca Fortuna, Fabrizio Maturo 

Rated as excellent and extremely relevant during the Research Quality Assessment (VQR 2015-2019) by anonymous experts of the Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (ANVUR) 

Environmental monitoring through functional biodiversity tools

Tonio Di Battista, Francesca Fortuna, Fabrizio Maturo 

Rated as excellent during the Research Quality Assessment (VQR 2015-2019) by anonymous experts of the Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (ANVUR)