RESEARCH INTERESTS
S. Giordano's research interest mainly focuses on: models for categorical and ordinal data, mixture models, models for longitudinal data and time series, latent variables, graphical models, modelling dependence through copula functions, new distribution families for categorical and quantitative variables, models for risk perceptions and financial vulnerability. She contributed with some advances in inference issues like non-standard hypotheses testing, misspecification, constrained statistical inference, stochastic orderings. Her research is often driven by curiosity and by a desire to discover different areas and approaches. This is why she is stimulated by national and international scientific collaborations and, albeit with less continuity, she devoted attention also to themes such as stress-strength methods, reliability, order statistics, survival analysis and randomised response techniques for sensitive questions. In her research work, the usefulness of the proposed models is backed up by applications in various fields mainly concerning finance, economics, psychology, social sciences, environment, health, behaviors, ethnicity, working conditions, genetics. She is the author of an R–package (hmmm: hierarchical multinomial marginal models) and her methodological contributions are usually accompanied by computational developments.
CURRENT POSITION
- Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Calabria, Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance “Giovanni Anania” (from 4/2015)
PAST POSITION
- Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Calabria (1/2005–3/2015)
VISITING POSITIONS
- Visiting Professor of Statistics, Institute of Statistics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2/2017, 5/2018-6/2018)
- Visiting Scholar of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, USA (1/2006-5/2006)
- Staff mobility for teaching Erasmus +, University of Plymouth, UK (9/2017)
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Methodological Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca (7/2003)
- Laurea (cum laude) in Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Calabria (5/1999)
SELECTED INVITED TALKS
In Seminars
- Rating scale mixture model to account for the tendency to middle and extreme categories, University of Bologna, Italy, July 1, 2021
- A family of mixture models for multivariate rating scale data, University of Padova, Italy, May 17, 2019
- A multivariate mixture model for responses to rating questions allowing for uncertainty, University of Plymouth, UK, Royal Statistical Society South West Local Group Meeting, September 27, 2017
- Modelling ordinal responses: a hierarchical marginal model with latent uncertainty components, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, February 8, 2017
- A measure of financial fragility, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, July 13, 2012
In Invited Sessions
- Financial capability: a longitudinal perspective through hidden Markov models, ``15th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics'', Hybrid Conference, King’s College London, UK, December 18–20, 2021
- Accounting for response behavior in longitudinal rating data, ``13-th Scientific Meeting Classification and Data Analysis Group”, Virtual Conference, University of Firenze, Italy, September 9-11, 2021
- A family of models for multivariate rating scale data accounting for response styles, ``11th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics”, University of Pisa, Italy, December 14-16, 2018
- A flexible distribution to handle response styles when modelling rating scale data, ``Advances in Statistical Modelling of Ordinal Data”, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, October 24–26, 2018
- A bivariate latent Markov model for repeated ordinal responses, ``Challenges for Categorical Data Analysis”, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, October 22–23, 2018
- Modelling uncertainty in bivariate models for ordinal responses, ``48th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society”, University of Salerno, Italy, June 8-10, 2016
- Accounting for two types of uncertainty in a multidimensional CUB model, ``Statistical Models for Complex data”, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, June 26, 2015
- A multivariate CUB model, ``7th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics”, University of Pisa, Italy, December 6–8, 2014
- The Sarmanov CUB model, Workshop SUNOVA & SHAPE (Statistics with Unobservable Variables and Statistical Models for Human Perception and Evaluation), University of Brescia, Italy, October 21, 2014
- Nested continuation logit models for ordinal variables, ``Advances in Statistical Modelling of Ordinal Data”, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, November 25-26, 2013
RECOGNITIONS
- Award for the participation at ``Winter Workshop on Longitudinal Data Analysis” - with work intitled: Marginal models for bivariate Markov chains and Granger non-causality - University of Florida, January 2005
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor of
- Journal of Statistical Methods & Applications (Methods) (from 01/2022)
- Statistica (from 01/2019)
Member of Editorial Committee of
- Statistica e Applicazioni (from 01/2017)
MEMBERSHIP TO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND WORKING GROUPS
- Società Italiana di Statistica
- ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics
- Statistical Modelling Society
RECENT SERVICES IN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION
Scientific Committee Activities
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the 15th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2022), King's College London, UK, December 17-19, 2022
Organizing Committee Activities
- Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the XLIV Riunione della Società Italiana di Statistica, University of Calabria, June 25-28, 2008
Organization of Sessions
- Financial capability: models and empirical evidence, ``15th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2021)”, Hybrid Conference King's College London, UK, December 18-20, 2021
- Advanced tree methods and applications, ``13th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics” (CMStatistics 2020)”, Virtual Conference King's College London, UK, December 19-21, 2020
- Categorical data: advances and challenges, ``12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2019)”, King's College London, UK, December 14-16, 2019
MAIN REFEREEING ACTIVITIES
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society-Serie C, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Statistical Methodology, Journal of Classification, Advances in Statistical Analysis, Biometrical Journal, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Statistical Papers, Communications in Statistics–Theory and Methods, Statistical Methods and Applications, Statistical Modelling, Risk Analysis, Statistics & Applications, Statistica, QdS–Journal of Methodological and Applied Statistics, Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis, Metron
GRANTED RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Principal Investigator of the Project “Analisi dei modelli statistici in uso per l’identificazione di una metrica di quality of service sui servizi di customer caring a livello internazionale”, funded by Abramo Customer Care SPA, Italy (11/2018-11/2019)
- Member (Expert in Statistics) of the Project “Antartic National Research Program 2020 (PNRA)”: AntaGPS – Antarctica as a global pollution sensor: aquatic and terrestrial organisms as bio–indicators and meta–analysis of pollutant trends (Principal Investigator: Dr. D. Pellegrino, University of Calabria)
- Member (Expert in Statistics) of the “Project PON HORIZON 2020”: ALCMEONE – Gestione clinica integrata del paziente cefalalgico: innovativi modelli organizzativi e avanzata piattaforma tecnologica di servizi a supporto dell'integrazione degli ambienti, processi e percorsi di assistenza e cura (Principal Investigator: Prof. D. Conforti, University of Calabria)
- Member of the “Project PRIN 2012 (B-Consolidator)”: Household wealth and youth unemployment: new survey methods to meet current challenges (Principal Investigator: Prof. MG Ranalli, University of Perugia)
- Member (Expert in Statistics) of the “Project PON 2007–2013”: Landslides early warning: sistemi integrati per il monitoraggio, l’early warning e la mitigazione del rischio idrologico lungo le grandi vie di comunicazione (Principal Investigator: Prof. L. Versace, University of Calabria)
- Member of the “Project STAR 2012 – 2014 (Sostegno Territoriale alle Attività di Ricerca)”: Statistical model for human perception and evaluation (Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Iannario, University of Napoli Federico II)
- Member of the “Project INAIL 2011 – 2014 (Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione Infortuni sul Lavoro)”: La valutazione del rischio in un'ottica di genere (Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Stranges, University of Calabria)
- Member of the “Project PRIN 2002”: Metodi statistici per ordinamenti stocastici con applicazioni socio sanitarie ed ambientali (Principal Investigator: Prof. A. Forcina, University of Perugia)
- Member of the “Project PRIN 2001”: Modelli distributivi per fenomeni socio–economici (Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Zenga, University of Milano-Bicocca)
CURRENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- Statistical Methods for Data Science – Master Degree course in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (in English)
- Models for Categorical Data – Master Degree course in Data Science for Business Analytics (in Italian)
- Statistics – Bachelor degree course in Statistics for Data Science (in Italian)
MAIN INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Director of Master II level in Data Science (University of Calabria), from January 2021
- Vice-Coordinator of Bachelor Degree in Statistics for Data Science and Master Degree in Data Science for Business Analytics (University of Calabria), from November 2019
- Member of Faculty Board of PhD in Economics and Business (University of Calabria), from November 2008
- Quality Assurance Delegate for the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance (University of Calabria), November 2015 – April 2018
- Elected Representative of the Associate Professor category in the Council Support Committee (Giunta) for the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance (University of Calabria), December 2016 – October 2018
- Member of Teaching Committee for the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance (University of Calabria), November 2015 – October 2018
