OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Statistical Methods and Applications is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
When did coronavirus arrive in Europe?	21
The relationship between longevity and lifespan variation	16
Bayesian graphical models for modern biological applications	15
The mathematics of Benford’s law: a primer	14
Studying the relationship between anxiety and school achievement: evidence from PISA data	12
Exact parametric causal mediation analysis for a binary outcome with a binary mediator	12
Semiautomatic robust regression clustering of international trade data	11
A Bayesian bivariate hierarchical model with correlated parameters for the analysis of road crashes in Italian tunnels	11
Estimating drift parameters in a non-ergodic Gaussian Vasicek-type model	10
Including covariates in a space-time point process with application to seismicity	10
robROSE: A robust approach for dealing with imbalanced data in fraud detection	8
Goodness-of-fit test for $$\alpha$$-stable distribution based on the quantile conditional variance statistics	7
Symbolic interval-valued data analysis for time series based on auto-interval-regressive models	7
Weighted likelihood latent class linear regression	7
Forum on Benford’s law and statistical methods for the detection of frauds	6
Bayesian network structural learning from complex survey data: a resampling based approach	6
Automatic robust Box–Cox and extended Yeo–Johnson transformations in regression	6
Weighted stochastic block model	6
Financial contagion through space-time point processes	6
A multivariate test for detecting fraud based on Benford’s law, with application to music streaming data	5
Distortion representations of multivariate distributions	5
A mixture model approach to spectral clustering and application to textual data	5
Effective transfer entropy to measure information flows in credit markets	5
A network analysis of student mobility patterns from high school to master’s	5
Control charts for monitoring the median in non-negative asymmetric data	4

Can Bayesian, confidence distribution and frequentist inference agree?	4
Support provided by elderly in Italy: a hierarchical analysis of ego networks controlling for alter–overlapping	4
A measure of interrater absolute agreement for ordinal categorical data	3
Interaction among three substitute products: an extended innovation diffusion model	3
Influence measures in nonparametric regression model with symmetric random errors	3
Parametric modeling of quantile regression coefficient functions with count data	3
Covariance matrix estimation of the maximum likelihood estimator in multivariate clusterwise linear regression	3
Robust Wald-type tests in GLM with random design based on minimum density power divergence estimators	3
Modelling time-varying covariates effect on survival via functional data analysis: application to the MRC BO06 trial in osteosarcoma	3
Semiparametric model for regression analysis with nonmonotone missing data	3
Detecting economic insecurity in Italy: a latent transition modelling approach	3
Generalized proportional reversed hazard rate distributions with application in medicine	3
Predictions of machine learning with mixed-effects in analyzing longitudinal data under model misspecification	3
Online network monitoring	3
Chunk-wise regularised PCA-based imputation of missing data	3
An empirical comparison of two approaches for CDPCA in high-dimensional data	2
Perceived climate change risk and global green activism among young people	2
On CUSUM test for dynamic panel models	2
Inference for non-probability samples under high-dimensional covariate-adjusted superpopulation model	2
Procrustes-based distances for exploring between-matrices similarity	2
Maximum likelihood estimation of missing data probability for nonmonotone missing at random data	2
Student’s-t process with spatial deformation for spatio-temporal data	2
On a bivariate copula for modeling negative dependence: application to New York air quality data	2
A pseudo-values regression model for non-fatal event free survival in the presence of semi-competing risks	2
Hierarchical Bayes small area estimation for county-level health prevalence to having a personal doctor	2
A Bayesian approach to model individual differences and to partition individuals: case studies in growth and learning curves	2
Transition models for count data: a flexible alternative to fixed distribution models	2
Bayesian inference of multiple structural change models with asymmetric GARCH errors	2
Statistical matching of sample survey data: application to integrate Iranian time use and labour force surveys	2
A multiple inflated negative binomial hurdle regression model: analysis of the Italians’ tourism behaviour during the Great Recession	2
Nonparametric semi-supervised classification with application to signal detection in high energy physics	2
Heterogeneity in general multinomial choice models	2
A COVINDEX based on a GAM beta regression model with an application to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	2
A spatial mixed-effects regression model for electoral data	2
Structural learning and estimation of joint causal effects among network-dependent variables	2
Bootstrap confidence intervals for correlation between continuous repeated measures	2
Statistical indicators based on mobile phone and street maps data for risk management in small urban areas	2
Bayesian optimal designs for multi-factor nonlinear models	2
Multiplexity analysis of networks using multigraph representations	2
Recurrence relations and Benford’s law	2
Semiparametric estimation of INAR models using roughness penalization	2
Iterative threshold-based Naïve bayes classifier	2
Unified Bayesian conditional autoregressive risk measures using the skew exponential power distribution	2
The relative importance of ability, luck and motivation in team sports: a Bayesian model of performance in the English Rugby Premiership	2
Bridge closure in the road network of Lombardy: a spatio-temporal analysis of the socio-economic impacts	2
Using sentiment analysis to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Italy’s country reputation and stock market performance	2
Population size estimation based upon zero-truncated, one-inflated and sparse count data	2
A split questionnaire survey design in the context of statistical matching	1
The variation of the posterior variance and Bayesian sample size determination	1
Does education protect families' well-being in times of crisis? Measurement issues and empirical findings from IT-SILC data	1

Sensitivity analysis for unobserved confounding in causal mediation analysis allowing for effect modification, censoring and truncation	1
Yule–Simpson’s paradox: the probabilistic versus the empirical conundrum	1
Locating $$\gamma$$-ray sources on the celestial sphere via modal clustering	1
Alternative fixed-effects panel model using weighted asymmetric least squares regression	1
Quantile varying-coefficient structural equation model	1
Three-fold Fay–Herriot model for small area estimation and its diagnostics	1
Spare time use: profiles of Italian Millennials (beyond the media hype)	1
Markov models for duration-dependent transitions: selecting the states using duration values or duration intervals?	1
Group penalized quantile regression	1
Generalized linear mixed model with bayesian rank likelihood	1
Point and probabilistic forecast reconciliation for general linearly constrained multiple time series	1
Generalised calibration with latent variables for the treatment of unit nonresponse in sample surveys	1
A multilevel structured latent curve model for disaggregating student and school contributions to learning	1
Kernel regression for errors-in-variables problems in the circular domain	1
Estimating regional unemployment with mobile network data for Functional Urban Areas in Germany	1
Modelling interaction patterns in a predator-prey system of two freshwater organisms in discrete time: an identified structural VAR approach	1
School climate and academic performance of Italian students: the role of disciplinary behaviour and parental involvement	1
Counterdiagonal/nonpositive tail dependence in Vine copula constructions: application to portfolio management	1
Hidden Markov models for longitudinal rating data with dynamic response styles	1
Analysis of correlated unit-Lindley data based on estimating equations	1
Model detection and variable selection for mode varying coefficient model	1
A Bayesian variable selection approach to longitudinal quantile regression	1
A unified approach to permutation testing for equivalence	1
A simple yet efficient method of local false discovery rate estimation designed for genome-wide association data analysis	1
Recycled two-stage estimation in nonlinear mixed effects regression models	1
A predictive model for planning emergency events rescue during COVID-19 in Lombardy, Italy	1
Estimators for ROC curves with missing biomarkers values and informative covariates	1
Asymptotic properties of QMLE for seasonal threshold GARCH model with periodic coefficients	1
Clustering alternatives in preference-approvals via novel pseudometrics	1
Bayesian local bandwidths in a flexible semiparametric kernel estimation for multivariate count data with diagnostics	1
Improved wrong-model inference for generalized linear models for binary responses in the presence of link misspecification	1
When does morbidity start? An analysis of changes in morbidity between 2013 and 2019 in Italy	1
Quantile regression for count data: jittering versus regression coefficients modelling in the analysis of credits earned by university students after remote teaching	1
A flexible link for joint modelling longitudinal and survival data accounting for individual longitudinal heterogeneity	1
A new measure for the attitude to mobility of Italian students and graduates: a topological data analysis approach	1
A procedure for testing the hypothesis of weak efficiency in financial markets: a Monte Carlo simulation	1
Estimation and computations for Gaussian mixtures with uniform noise under separation constraints	1
On the predictive performance of a non-optimal action in hypothesis testing	1
Assessing maths learning gaps using Italian longitudinal data	1