Classification, (Big) Data Analysis and Statistical Learning

Francesco Mola is full professor of Statistics at the Department of Business and Economics at the University of Cagliari. He received his Ph.D in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis from the University of Naples Federico II. His research interests are in the field of multivariate data analysis and statistical learning, particularly data science and computational statistics. He has published more than sixty papers in international journals, encyclopedias, conference proceedings, and edited books. Claudio Conversano is associate professor of Statistics at the Department of Business and Economics at the University of Cagliari. He received his Ph.D in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis from the University of Naples Federico II. His research interests include nonparametric statistics, statistical learning and computational finance. He has published more than forty papers in international journals, encyclopedias, conference proceedings, and edited books. Maurizio Vichi is full professor of Statistics and head of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is president of the Federation of European National Statistical Societies (FENStatS), former president of the Italian Statistical Society, and of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS). He is coordinating editor of the journal Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, editor of the international book series Classification, Data Analysis and Knowledge Organization, and the series Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, published by Springer. He is a member of ESAC