Book of Short Papers SIS 2018

This book includes the papers presented at the "49th Meeting of the Italian Statistic Society". The conference has registered 445 participants, 350 reports divided into 4 plenary sessions, 20 specialised sessions, 25 sessions solicited, 27 sessions spontaneous, 2 poster sessions. The high number of participants, the high quality of the interventions, the productive spirit of the conference, the ability to respect the time table, are the main indices of the full success of this conference. The meeting hosted also, as plenary sessions, the ISTAT annual report 2018, and a round table on statistics and job markets. Methodological plenary sessions concerned with ordinal data, the dynamics of climate change and models in biomedicine. Moreover, two related events were held: Start-up Research (SUR) and Stats Under the Stars (SUS4). The SUS4 event attracted many sponsors of statistical, financial, editorial fields as well as numerous students, not only from Italy but also from abroad (Groningen, Tyumen, Barcelona, and Valencia): 98 students for a total of 25 teams. The SUR was a 2-day meeting where small research groups of young scholars, advised by senior researchers with well-established experience in different areas of Statistics, was asked to develop innovative methods and models to analyse a common dataset from the Neurosciences.