Models for Data Analysis

The 49th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society was held in June 2018 in Palermo, with more than 450 attendants. The meeting covered a wide area of applied as well as theoretical issues, according to the modern trends in statistical sciences. There were three plenary sessions on Rating data, Global climate dynamics and Computational methods in biomedicine; twenty specialized and twenty-five solicited sessions, as well as oral and poster- contributed sessions. The whole program is still available at the conference site: http://meetings3.sis-statistica.org/index.php/sis2018/49th. This book presents a selection of contributions of Authors who presented an extended version of their conference presentation, which are original unpublished works. As usual, every contribution has been submitted to standard double-blind refereeing, and the final result is a picture of the state of the art of statistical research in recent years. Unfortunately, there was some delay in publishing the final version also due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, but finally, we are here to present a collection of twenty papers that deal with modern methodological as well as applied topics of models for data analysis. To have a graphical idea of what SIS 2018 has been like, perhaps the best thing is to reproduce the conference word cloud.