Group Members

Maria Giovanna Ranalli

Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Perugia
Department:
Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica - Via Pascoli, 06123 PERUGIA
Position:
Ricercatore

Telephone: 075 585 5939
Fax: 075 585 5950
E-Mail: giovanna@stat.unipg.it
WWW: http://www.stat.unipg.it/~giovanna

  • Survey sampling; model-assisted and design-based inference; regression estimators and nonparametric regression estimators; small area estimation.
  • Environmental statistics; Geoadditive models.
  • Health statistics; IRT and latent class models.
  • Performance indicators; ranking of public services.
  • Robust regression; Quantile and M-quantile regression.
  • Generalized linear (mixed) models with applications in criminology; age-period-cohort models, random effects models and biliner models.

    •  

    List of publications:

    - G.E. Montanari, M.G. Ranalli (2002) Asymptotically Efficient Generalised Regression Estimators Journal of Official Statistics

    - G.E. Montanari, M.G. Ranalli (2005) Multiple model calibration in survey sampling (in italiano) in Metodi statistici per l'integrazione di dati da fonti diverse, volume finale del progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale (COFIN2002), Franco Angeli

    - G.E. Montanari, M.G. Ranalli (2005) Nonparametric methods in survey sampling , in New Developments in Classification and data Analysis, M. Vichi, P. Monari, S. Mignani, A. Montanari (Eds.), Springer, Berlin

    - G.E. Montanari, M.G. Ranalli (2005) Nonparametric model calibration estimation in survey sampling Journal of the American Statistical Association

    - G.E. Montanari, M.G. Ranalli (2006) A mixed model-assisted regression estimator that uses variables employed at the design stage Statistical methods and applications,

    - H. Wang, M.G. Ranalli (2007) Low-Rank Smoothing Splines on Complicated Domains Biometrics

    - F.J. Breidt, J.D. Opsomer, A.A. Johnson, M.G. Ranalli (in corso di stampa) Semiparametric model-assisted estimation for natural resource surveys Survey Methodology

    Working papers

    - J.D. Opsomer, G. Claeskens, M.G. Ranalli, G. Kauermann, F.J. Breidt (2006) Nonparametric small area estimation using penalized spline regression . Preprint Series #05-01, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. Resubmitted to Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B.

    - M. Pratesi, M.G. Ranalli, N. Salvati (2007) Nonparametric M-quantile Regression using Penalized Splines