Description
Chair Maria Iannario
Business and consumers survey data are the basis for several indicators describing the trend of macro-economic variables that are fundamental for monitoring the overall performance of the economic system. Qualitative surveys typically ask interviewees to express their perceptions or expectations about the current or future tendency of a reference economic variable (such as inflation or...
Standard models for categorical and ordinal data, such as log-linear, association models and logistic regression models for binary or ordinal responses, as well as the Mallows model for rank data are revisited and defined through statistical information theoretic properties in terms of the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence. In the sequel, replacing the KL by the φ-divergence, which is a family...
There is a growing interest in the analysis of replication studies of original findings across many disciplines. When testing a hypothesis for an effect size, two Bayesian approaches stand out for their principled use of the Bayes factor (BF), namely the replication BF (Verhagen and Wakenmalers, 2014) and the skeptical BF (Pawel and Held, 2022). In both cases replication data are used to...
