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Papers, talks, sessions and other recent activities.

Recent publications, talks, conference sessions and other news from Luca Frigau, statistician at the University of Cagliari.
  • AnalisiMercato, a jamovi module for my Market Analysis course (sampling, hierarchical cluster analysis and principal component analysis, with an Italian interface), is now on GitHub.
  • At ENBIS 2026 in Florence I organized the ISBIS invited session Advances in Statistical Analysis for Large-Scale Dynamic Networks, Labour Market Outcomes, and Interpretable Ensemble Methods.
  • New book chapter on the territorial determinants of tourist arrivals in Italy, based on multivariate regression trees, in the Springer series of the Italian Statistical Society (doi:10.1007/978-3-032-30881-8_7).
  • At IFCS 2026 in Milan I organized the CLADAG invited session Advances in Latent Structure Modeling and co-authored three contributions, on regression trees, topic extraction and ensembles of oblique trees.
  • Our article on heaped counts and GAITD regression, with Thomas W. Yee and Chenchen Ma, appeared in The Annals of Applied Statistics. Read the story.
  • The R code of PARSEG, for the statistical validation of image segmentation, is now on GitHub.
  • A probability model for risk priority numbers in failure mode and effects analysis, with Rahim Mahmoudvand, Alessandro Fiori Maccioni and David Banks, published in Risk Analysis.
  • Invited talk at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague: Selecting Between Clustering Methods: An Innovative Approach.
  • I organized the invited session Statistical Learning and AI for Societal Challenges at the ISBIS 2025 conference in Amsterdam.
  • At CLADAG 2025 in Naples I presented local optimization-based clustering and organized the invited session Advances in Text Mining for Data Analysis.
  • TORS, the oblique regression tree developed with Andrea Carta, published in Computational Statistics. Read the story.
  • I became Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Cagliari.