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most citedA goodness of fit test for the Pareto distribution

2 citations · 9 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

stat.AP2025★ 2 cited

Going green across boundaries: Spatial effects of environmental policies on tourism flows

Riccardo Gianluigi Serio, Diego Giuliani, Maria Michela Dickson +1

This study investigates the relationship between environmental sustainability policies and tourism flows across Italian provinces using a Spatial Durbin Error Model (SDEM) within a…

stat.AP2025★ 1 cited

Youthful perspectives on sustainability: Examining pro-environmental behaviors in tourism through latent class cluster analysis

Riccardo Gianluigi Serio, Maria Michela Dickson, Giuseppe Espa +1

Tourism has emerged as a significant driver of the global economy. As its economic impact grows, concerns regarding environmental sustainability have intensified. This paper explor…

econ.GN2022

Toward environmental sustainability: an empirical study on airports efficiency

Riccardo Gianluigi Serio, Maria Michela Dickson, Diego Giuliani +1

The transition to more environmentally sustainable production processes and managerial practices is an increasingly important topic. Many industries need to undergo radical change…

econ.GN2020

The polarizing impact of numeracy, economic literacy, and science literacy on attitudes toward immigration

Lucia Savadori, Giuseppe Espa, Maria Michela Dickson

Political orientation polarizes the attitudes of more educated individuals on controversial issues. A highly controversial issue in Europe is immigration. We found the same polariz…

q-fin.GN2020★ 1 cited

Green production as a factor of survival for innovative startups. Evidence from Italy

Riccardo Gianluigi Serio, Maria Michela Dickson, Diego Giuliani +1

Many studies have analyzed empirically the determinants of survival for innovative startup companies using data about the characteristics of entrepreneurs and management or focusin…

stat.AP2020★ 1 cited

Modelling and predicting the spatio-temporal spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy

Diego Giuliani, Maria Michela Dickson, Giuseppe Espa +1

Official freely available data about the number of infected at the finest possible level of spatial areal aggregation (Italian provinces) are used to model the spatio-temporal dist…

stat.ME2019★ 1 cited

Reduced-bias estimation of spatial econometric models with incompletely geocoded data

Giuseppe Arbia, Maria Michela Dickson, Giuseppe Espa +2

The application of state-of-the-art spatial econometric models requires that the information about the spatial coordinates of statistical units is completely accurate, which is usu…

math.ST2019★ 1 cited

Double-calibration estimators accounting for under-coverage and nonresponse in socio-economic surveys

Maria Michela Dickson, Giuseppe Espa, Lorenzo Fattorini

Under-coverage and nonresponse problems are jointly present in most socio-economic surveys. The purpose of this paper is to propose a completely design-based estimation strategy th…

stat.ME2018★ 2 cited

A goodness of fit test for the Pareto distribution

Emanuele Taufer, Flavio Santi, Giuseppe Espa +1

The Zenga (1984) inequality curve is constant in p for Type I Pareto distributions. This characterizing behavior will be exploited to obtain graphical and analytical tools for tail…

stat.ME2018

On a property of the inequality curve

Emanuele Taufer, Flavio Santi, Giuseppe Espa +1

The Zenga (1984) inequality curve is constant in p for Type I Pareto distributions. We show that this property holds exactly only for the Pareto distribution and, asymptotically, f…

stat.ME2017

Measuring the spatial balance of a sample: A new measure based on the Moran's I index

Yves Tillé, Maria Michela Dickson, Giuseppe Espa +1

Measuring the degree of spatial spreading of a sample can be of great interest when sampling from a spatial population. The commonly used spatial balance index by Grafström et al.…