In problems of species counts, the interest is more on the number of different species and their relative abundance rather than on counts of representatives of specific species. This kind of problems originated in Genetics, where species are alleles of a gene, but are also common in other...

Repeated screening is a 100% sampling inspection of a batch of items followed by removal of the defective items and further iterations of inspection and removal. The reason for repeating the inspection is that the detection of a defective item happens with probability "p"1. A missed defective...

We present an application of nonparametric estimation of survival in the presence of left-truncated and right-censored data. We confirm the well-known unstable behavior of the survival estimates when the risk set is small and there are too few early deaths. However, in our real scenario where...

A statistical marketing consulting project financed by RAI, the public Italian television, is illustrated. Two alternative models have first been used, a statistical regression model and a data mining one, of a more empirical nature. Then the two models are hybridised in a third model, a...