Graspa conference 2005

Statistics for Environmental Decisions

Bertinoro April 21 st -23rd 2005

 

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Thursday 21st

 

 

 

 

afternoon

 

 

 

Registration and opening session

 

14.00

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14.30

Session 1

Health and Environment (MISA)

14.30

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16.30

Chair A. Biggeri

 

 

 

 

P. Bellini

Meta-analysis of the Italian Studies on Short-term Effects of Air pollution

14.30

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14.50

S.Hajat

Heat effects on health given the proposed increases in global temperatures and the impact of last years heat-wave in Europe

14.50

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15.10

M. Martuzzi

How estimates on the health impact of environmental factors can be really used in decisions on mitigation measures

15.10

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15.30

V. Muggeo

Modelling Interaction Between Temperature and Pollutant in the studies on Short-term Effects of Air pollution

15.30

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15.50

M. Baccini

Health impact estimate of Air Pollutants

15.50

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16.10

discussion

 

16.10

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16.30

 

Coffe break

16.30

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17.00

Session 2

Spatial sampling

17.00

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18.20

Chair G. Arbia

 

 

 

 

G. Lafratta

Sampling Strategies for Threshold Exceedances of Air and Soil Pollutants

17.00

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17.20

L.Fattorini

Performing Horvitz-Thompson estimation in complex spatial sampling: a computer-intensive perspective

17.20

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17.40

L.Barabesi

Monte Carlo integration strategies for design-based regression estimators of the spatial mean

17.40

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18.00

discussion

 

18.00

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18.20

 

Dinner

 

 

 


 

 

Friday 22nd

 

 

 

 

morning

 

 

 

Session 3

Spatio-temporal models

9.00

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11.30

Chair A. Fassò

 

 

 

 

J. Mateu

Recent Advances in Spatio-temporal Modelling for Environmental Processes

9.00

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9.20

L. Ippoliti

Exploring Spatio-Temporal Variability Using Eigen-Decomposition Techniques

9.20

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9.40

E. Porcu

Building New Classes of Nonseparable Spatio-temporal Variograms through Copulas

9.40

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10.00

E. Dreassi

Parametric and non-parametric Bayesian analysis of disease risk around a point source

10.00

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10.20

C. Trivisano, F Greco

Statistical Modelling of PM10 Pollution in Emilia-Romagna

10.20

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10.40

discussion

 

10.40

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11.00

 

Coffe break

11.00

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11.30

Session 4

Integration of heterogeneous data

11.30

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12.50

Chair G. Lovison

 

 

 

 

G. Jona Lasinio, F. Divino, A. Biggeri

Risk assessment in the Toscana Region: a proposal

11.30

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11.50

O. Nicolis, R. Ignaccolo

Integration of different data and spatio-temporal analysis in the air quality evaluation

11.50

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12.10

Benedetti R., Espa G., Martino L.

Integration of forest inventory with crop survey

12.10

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12.30

discussion

 

12.30

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12.50

 

Lunch

12.50

 

13.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

afternoon

 

 

 

Session 5

Poster

13.40

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15.00

 

 

 

 

 

Session 6

Non parametric models for extreme values

15.00

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16.40

Chair G. Jona Lasinio

 

 

 

 

A. Grimvall

Nonparametric approaches to the estimation environmental responses

15.00

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15.20

S. Coles

Spatial modelling of extreme values

15.20

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15.40

C. Gaetan, M Chiogna

Semiparametric modelling of zero inflated Poisson model

15.40

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16.00

G. Arbia

Exploring non-linear spatial dependence in the tails: a simulation study

16.00

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16.20

discussion

 

16.20

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16.40

 

Coffe break

16.40

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17.00

Session 7

Panel discussion on "Environmental Statistics and Institutions"

17.00

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18.30

Chair M. Chiogna

 

 

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I. Pierantoni

 

G. Jona Lasinio

 

R. Caracciolo e

M.C.  Giunta

Statistics demand and environment in official statistics: knowledge, information and decision

Statistics for the environment: academy and official statistics looking for common ground

Statistical Methods for environmental indicators in APAT: deveploments and open problems

 

 

 

Chair D. Cocchi

GRASPA Committee

18.30

 

 

 

Dinner

 

 

 


 

 

Saturday 23rd

 

 

 

 

morning

 

 

 

Session 8

Statistics for environmental decision, environmental indices and standard

9.30

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11.10

Chair L. Fattorini

 

 

 

 

P. Guttorp

Advances on environmental standard

9.30

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9.50

M. Scott

Decisions about the environment and setting policy: what is the statistician’s role

9.50

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10.10

G. Lovison

Statistical analysis of the Posidonia O. growth: modelling and design of indicators for
environmental policies

10.10

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10.30

M. Cammarrota

European waste statistics regulation: limitations, potentials and statistician's tasks for its implementation

10.30

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10.50

F. Bruno, M Raggi

Recovering the information from synthetic environmental indices

10.50

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11.10

discussion

 

 

 

 

 

Coffe break

11.10

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11.50

Session 9

Chair  D. Cocchi

Panel discussion on "European Environmental Networks"

11.50

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13.00

 

Lunch and greetings