Luca La Rocca

"You know a dream is like a river
Ever changin' as it flows
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores..."

Binary data modelling

Alberto Roverato, Monia Lupparelli & Luca La Rocca (2013). Log-mean linear models for binary data. Biometrika, Advance Access article. Evolved from arXiv:1109.6239 [stat.ME] e-print.
Monia Lupparelli & Luca La Rocca (2012). Binary models of marginal independence: a comparison of different approaches. In: Proceedings of the XLVI Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, June 20-22.

Bayesian model comparison

Davide Altomare, Guido Consonni & Luca La Rocca (2013). Objective Bayesian search of Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models for ordered variables with non-local priors. Biometrics, Early View article. Evolved from Quaderno #263 (03-11) del Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, Pavia, Italy. Software available on CRAN.
Guido Consonni & Luca La Rocca (2012). Objective Bayes factors for Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 39, 743-756. Evolved from Quaderno #264 (03-11) del Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, Pavia, Italy.
Guido Consonni & Luca La Rocca (2011). Moment priors for Bayesian model choice with applications to directed acyclic graphs. In: Bayesian Statistics 9, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. With discussion.
Guido Consonni & Luca La Rocca (2011). Comments on "Nonparametric Bayesian networks" by Ickstadt et al. In: Bayesian Statistics 9, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Guido Consonni, Jonathan J. Forster & Luca La Rocca (2010). Enhanced objective Bayesian testing for the equality of two proportions. Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute Methodology Working Paper M10/13, Southampton, UK.
Luca La Rocca & Guido Consonni (2009). Non local alternative priors for Gaussian directed acyclic graphical models. In: Proceedings of S.Co. 2009, Milano, September 14-16. Revised version and corrigendum available.
Guido Consonni & Luca La Rocca (2008). Tests based on intrinsic priors for the equality of two correlated proportions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, 1260-1269. Evolved from arXiv:0707.3877 [math.ST] e-print.
Luca La Rocca, Guido Consonni & Simplice Dossou-Gbete (2008). A Bayesian test for Poissonnes. Poster presented at the 3rd IMS-ISBA Joint Meeting, Bormio, Italy, January 9-11.
Eleonora Baviera, Guido Consonni & Luca La Rocca (2006). Bayesian analysis of matched categorical data. Poster presented at the Eight Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, Benidorm, Spain, June 1-6.

Miscellanea

Mascia Ferrari & Luca La Rocca (2010). Innovation and performance: some evidence from Italian firms. In: Performance Measurement and Management Control: Innovative Concepts and Practices, Emerald, Bingley, UK.
Luca La Rocca & Cristina Guardiano (2008). Counting the languages we could speak. In: Proceedings of the XLIV Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, University of Calabria, Italy, June 25-27. Presented in poster form.
Luca La Rocca, Claus Dethlefsen & Jens Henrik Badsberg (2008). Package giRaph for graph representation in R. In: COMPSTAT 2008, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, DE. Preliminary poster presented at the Second International R User Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 15-17, 2006.

Markov equivalence of chain graphs

Luca La Rocca & Alberto Roverato (2008). Chain graph models: topological sorting of meta-arrows and efficient construction of B-essential graphs. Statistical Methods and Applications, 17, 73-83.
Alberto Roverato & Luca La Rocca (2006). On block ordering of variables in graphical modelling. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 33, 65-81. Evolved from Research Report n. 29-04 del Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Cognitive e Quantivative, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Luca La Rocca & Alberto Roverato (2005). Efficient construction of B-essential graphs. In: Proceedings of S.Co. 2005, Brixen, September 15-17. Submitted version available.

Bayesian hazard rate estimation

Luca La Rocca (2008). Bayesian non-parametric estimation of smooth hazard rates for seismic hazard assessment. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 35, 524-539.
Luca La Rocca (2005). On Bayesian nonparametric estimation of smooth hazard rates with a view to seismic hazard assessment. Research Report n. 38-05 del Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Cognitive e Quantivative, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Presented in poster form at the 25th European Meeting of Statisticians & Young Statisticians Training Camp.

Luca La Rocca (2004). On Bayesian analysis of the proportional hazards model. In: Proceedings of the XLII Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, University of Bari, Italy, June 9-11. Slides from the talk available.

Web data analysis

Lilla Di Scala, Luca La Rocca & Guido Consonni (2004). A Bayesian hierarchical model for the evaluation of a Website. Journal of Applied Statistics, 31, 15-27. Evolved from Quaderno #150 (02-03) del Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, Pavia, Italy. Preliminary poster presented at the Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, Tenerife, Spain, June 1-6, 2002.
Lilla Di Scala & Luca La Rocca (2002). A Markovian mixture model for Web data. Statistica Applicata, 14, 143-154.
Lilla Di Scala & Luca La Rocca (2002). Probabilistic modelling for clickstream analysis. In: Data Mining III, WIT Press, Southampton, UK. Slides from the talk available.