Research Area
Active Research fields
1) Generalized Linear Mixed Modelsi: methodological developments
2) Mediation Analysis: generalisations of the Causal Inference and the Path Analysis approaches to non-Gaussian variables and non-linear relationships
3) Models and measures for Multiple Phenotypes Concomitance (Concomitanza di Fenotipi Multipli) in epidemiology
Research projects of the last 5 years
Statistical methods for spatio-temporal data applied to environmental analysis, monitoring and prediction.
Research project funded by University of Palermo - 2012 - Codice di Ateneo 2012-ATE-0332
Collaborations
Over the past three years, a scientific collaboration has been active with the Biostatistics Unit of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health in Basel (Switzerland)