Curriculum vitae et studiorum GIANFRANCO LOVISON Personal data Name Gianfranco Lovison Birth date May 27, 1955 Birth place Vicenza - Italy Home address Via Lincoln 19, 90133 Palermo - Italy Professional address Department of Statistical and Mathematical Sciences "S.Vianelli" University of Palermo Edificio 13 - Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo Tel.: (39) 091 23895237 Fax : (39) 091 485726 E-mail : gianfranco.lovison@unipa.it Present position Full Professor of Statistics Department of Statistical and Mathematical Sciences "S.Vianelli" Faculty of Economics University of Palermo Education M. Sc. in Statistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (U. K.), December 10, 1982 First Degree in Statistics (Laurea), Faculty of Statistical, Demographic and Actuarial Sciences, University of Padova, July 4, 1980 Professional experience Full Professor of Statistics, University of Palermo, 1994 - Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, 7.1.1990-1.31.1991. Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Padova, 1987-1994. Researcher in Statistics, University of Padova, 1983-1987. Junior statistician, CO. S. E. S. (local government agency for social planning and research, Venice), 1980-1983. 1
Teaching experience (a) Undergraduate level Basic Statistics Generalized Linear Models Multivariate Analysis Data Analysis Laboratory Elementary Statistics for political scientists Intermediate Statistics for business and economics Intermediate Statistical Inference Categorical Data Analysis Introductory Sampling Theory (b) Postgraduate level Statistical modelling Categorical Data Analysis Environmental Statistics Advanced statistical inference (c) Ph. D. Level Ph. D. program in Statistics, Padova Discrete data models, March 1990 Discriminant Analysis, April 1991 Continuous and Discrete Multivariate Analysis, February 1993 Discrete data models, October-November 1994 Generalized Linear Models, June 1995 Generalized Linear Models, June 1995 Discrete data models, June 1993 Ph. D. program in Statistics, Bari Ph. D. program in Applied Statistics, Palermo Discrete data models, April 1992 Parametric statistical inference, June 1995, June 1997, July 1998, June 2000 Generalized Linear Models, January 1996, February 1998 Categorical Data Models, February 1995, July 201 Ph. D. program in Statistics, Palermo Generalized Linear Models and extensions, March 2005, June 2009, May 2010 2
(d) Supervision of Ph.D. dissertations Comportamento asintotico delle stime di massima verosimiglianza per modelli grafici gaussiani (Asymptotic behaviour of maximum likelihood estimators for Gussian graphical models) (dott. A. Roverato, Ph. D. program in Statistics, Padova) Modelli grafici ordinali τ-valutati (τ-evaluated ordinal graphical models) (dott. P.Patusi, Ph. D. program in Applied Statistics, Palermo) Modelli di analisi delle associazioni spaziali in epidemiologia ambientale (Models for the analysis of spatial associations in epidemiology) (dott.ssa F. DiSalvo, Ph. D. program in Applied Statistics, Palermo) Effetti a breve termine dell inquinamento sulla salute umana: un analisi sulla città di Palermo (Short-term effects of air pollution on human health: an analysis on the city of Palermo) (dott. V. Muggeo, Ph. D. program in Applied Statistics, Palermo) La valutazione della qualità dei servizi ospedalieri: un approccio mediante modelli ad equazioni strutturali (Quality assessment of hospital services: an approach through structural equations models) (dott. A. Oliveri, Ph. D. program in Applied Statistics, Palermo) Alzheimer: fattori di rischio e familiarità. Uno studio per dati categoriali su unità dipendenti (Alzheimer: risk factors and familiarity. A study on dependent categorical data) (dott.ssa L.Viviano, Ph. D. program in Applied Statistics, Palermo) Inferential and diagnostic tools in Generalised Linear Mixed Models (dott.ssa M. Sciandra, Ph. D. program in Statistics, Palermo) Modelli statistici per il monitoraggio fiscale: problemi aperti e possibili avanzamenti metodologici (Statistical models for tax monitoring: open problems and possible methodological advancements) (dott. G. Ferrara, Ph. D. program in Statistics, Palermo) (b3) Supervision of research grants Research grant MURST, dr. Daria Mendola; research program: Statistical models for environmental risk assessment (November 2000 November 2004) Research grant MURST, dr. Lorena Viviano; research program: Generalised Linear Models in environmental statistics (August 2004 May 2007) Research grant MIUR, dr. Mariangela Sciandra; research program: Statistical modelling of complex ecological systems (July 2007 December 2008) (e) Other teaching experiences Course STAT462 (Applied Regression Methods), Fall Semester 1990, while visiting the Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University. 3
Conference organization Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Giornate di Analisi dei Dati Multidimensionali" conference, Naples, 30-31 October 1995. Discussant for the Specialised session "Statistical analysis in Biomedicine: some current issues", XXXVIII Scientific Conference of the Italian Statistical Society, Rimini, 9-13 April 1996. Organiser of the Specialised session "Collection and analysis of environmental data", XIX Scientific Conference of the Italian Statistical Society, Sorrento, 16 April 1998. Member of the Scientific Committee of the XL Scientific Conference of the Italian Statistical Society, Florence, 26-29 April 2000. Organiser of the Final Workshop - Research Program of National Interest cofin. MURST 1998 Statistical methods for the analysis of the environment and the environment-health interactions, Erice, 26-28 October 2000. Organiser of the Invited papers session "Linear, mixed linear and dynamic linear models in environmetrics", TIES-2002 (The Intenational Environmetrics Society), Genova, June 2002. Organiser of the Final Workshop - Research Program of National Interest cofin. MURST 2000 Statistics in environmental risk assessment, Erice, 29-30 September / 1 October 2002. Member of the Executive Committee of the SPRUCE VI Conference, Lund (Sweden), 15-19 June 2003. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Statistical Society Conference Statistics and Environment, Messina, 21-23 September 2005. Organiser of the Specialised session "Statistical contributions to risk analysis and forecasting in ecology and environmental sciences", Italian Statistical Society Conference, Venice, 6-8 June 2007. Editorial activities Referee of: Statistical Methods & Applications; Statistica Applicata; Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics; Statistical Papers; Biometrika, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. Editorial Collaborator of Environmental and Ecological Statistics. Associate Editor of Statistical Methods & Applications. Research evaluation activities External referee of research grant proposals for the Universities of Padova and Trento. External referee of research grant proposals for The Italian Ministry of Education and University. External examiner of Ph.D. dissertations at the Univeristy of Lisbon, Florence, Perugia, Padova. 4
Service activities Head of Department - Department of Statistical and Mathematical Sciences S.Vianelli, University of Palermo, November 2004 - November 2010. Coordinator of the Ph. D. Teaching Board - Ph. D. Program in Statistics, University of Palermo, October 2002 January 2009. Director of the Master Course in Statistics for Environment and Regional Management, University of Messina, January 2000 September 2002. Chairman of the Degree Board - First Degree (Laurea) in Statistical and Economic Sciences, University of Palermo, November 1995 November 1998. Director of the Computing Section - Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, September 1992 - October 1994. Member of the Boards of Directors of the University of Padova, October 1987 - October 1991. Research interests (numbers in brackets refer to the List of Selected Publications in English below) 1. Markovian models of the educational process (2). 2. Categorical data analysis: analysis of contingency tables with small expected frequencies (6); analysis of categorical data from complex sampling schemes (1, 3); models of agreement, with applications to data quality analysis and matched control-case data (4, 5, 9); generalised symmetry models (11, 14); relations between continuous and categorical multivariate analyses (15); Generalized Linear Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models (18, 22); analysis of dependent categorical data (12, 13, 19). 3. Statistical methods in environmental monitoring and management: environmental applications of composite sampling (7,8,10) ; short terms effects of pollution on health (16); use of categorical data in environmetrics (17); monitoring of complex ecological systems by means of Generalized Linear Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models (20, 21, 23) Palermo, 30.09.2011 5
Selected publications (only publications in English are listed) 1. Lovison G. (1985) A reformulation of the intraclass correlation coefficient as a measure of association for categorical variables. Metron, vol. XLIII, 1-2, 203-212. 2. Lovison G., Trivellato U. (1985) A Markovian model of the educational system: refinements and applications at sub-regional levels. Sistemi Urbani, 3, 259-281. 3. Lovison G.(1986) The expectation of the Pearson's X 2 statistic for goodness-of-fit on data from complex sampling schemes. Metron, vol. XLIV, 1-4, 365-375. 4. Bellini P., Lovison G. (1988) Square concordance tables in health data analysis. Rivista di Statistica Applicata, 4, 443-458. 5. Lovison G., Bellini P. (1989) Study on the Accuracy of Official Recording of Nosological Codes in an Italian Regional Hospital Registry. Methods of Information in Medicine, 28, 142-147. 6. Contini D., Lovison G. (1993) The effect of marginal disuniformity on the 2 approximation to the distribution of Pearson's X 2 in sparse contingency tables. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol. 16, 2, 185-199. 7. Lovison G. (1993) A unified linear model for estimation with composite sample data. In: G. P. Patil, C. R. Rao (eds), Multivariate Environmental Statistics, North-Holland Series in Statistics and Probability, vol.6, 255 287. 8. Lovison G., Gore S. D., Patil G. P. (1994) Design and analysis of composite sampling procedures: a review. In: Patil G. P., Rao C. R. (ed.), Handbook of Statistics. Volume 12: Environmental Statistics. North Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers, New York, 103 166. 9. Lovison G. (1994) Log-linear modelling of data from matched case-control studies. Journal of Applied Statistics, 21(3), 125 141. 10. Boswell M. T., Gore S. D., Lovison G., Patil G. P. (1996) Annotated bibliography of composite sampling. Part A: 1936 1992. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 3, 1 50. 11. Lovison G. (1996) Applications of generalized symmetry models to longitudinal and matched data. In: Forcina A., Marchetti G., Hatzinger R., Galmacci G.(ed.) Statistical Modelling. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Graphos, Cittá di Castello. 12. Lovison G. (1997) Some notes on binary data with overdispersion. Statistica Applicata, 9(3), 403-418. 13. Lovison G. (1998) An alternative representation of Altham's Multiplicative-Binomial distribution. Statistics & Probability Letters, 36, 415-420. 6
14. Lovison G. (2000) Generalized symmetry models for hypercubic concordance tables. International Statistical Review, 68(3), 323-338. 15. Bologna S., Lovison G. (2003) Second Order Interaction in a Trivariate Generalized Gamma Distribution. In: Bock H., Chiodi M., Mineo A. (eds.) Advances in Multivariata Data Analysis. Berlin: Spriger-Verlag, 219-231. 16. Lovison G., Mendola D. (2003) Car-free Sundays and Air Pollution. Communication at the ISI Conference on Environmental Statistics and Health, Santiago de Compostela, 16-18 July 2003. 17. Lovison, G. (2003) Categorical/categorized data in environmetrics. In: Atti del Convegno SCO.2003, Treviso, 4-6 settembre 2003, 284-289. 18. Lovison G. (2005) On Rao Score and Pearson X 2 Statistics in Generalized Linear Models. Statistical Papers, 46 (4), 555-574. 19. Lovison G. (2006) A matrix-valued Bernoulli distribution. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 97, 1573-1585. 20. Calvo S., Lovison G., Pirrotta M., Di Maida G., Tomasello A., Sciandra M. (2006) Modelling the relationship between sexual reproduction and rhizome growth in Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile. Marine Ecology, 27, pp. 361-371. 21. Tomasello A., Calvo S., Di Maida G., Lovison G., Pirrotta M., Sciandra M. (2007) Shoot age confounding on detecting response to perturbation of elongation and primary production in Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile. Journal of Experimental Marine Ecology and Biology, 243, 166-175. 22. Sciandra M, Muggeo V.M.R, Lovison G. (2008) Subject-specific odds ratios in binomial GLMMs with continuous response. Statistical Methods & Applications, vol. 17(3), pp. 309-320. 23. Lovison G., Sciandra M., Tomasello A., Calvo S. (2011) Modeling Posidonia oceanica growth data: from linear to generalized linear mixed models. Environmetrics, 22, 370-382. 7