Policymakers, experts and the general public heavily rely on the data that are being reported in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. Daily data releases on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths provide information on the course of the pandemic. This paper presents common pitfalls that have...

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers are reporting findings of randomized trials comparing standard care with care augmented by experimental drugs. The trials have small sample sizes, so estimates of treatment effects are imprecise. Seeing imprecision, clinicians reading research...

Italian Abstract Il lavoro fornisce un quadro delle informazioni statistiche sul rischio di credito gestite dalla Banca d'Italia. L'Istituto ha una lunga tradizione nella raccolta sistematica e dettagliata di informazioni dal sistema finanziario. Con particolare riferimento a quelle sul rischio...

The advancement of information technologies such as Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing and the increasing deployment and use of the Internet of Things have promoted the capture, processing and storage of data over the last few years at a rate not seen before. The amount of data that are created,...

This Review and Inputs paper covers the following UNSD publications:(pp. 2-6)1/ Issues and Opportunities. Notes on the revision of the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System. The Hague, July 2020Re: Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3...

How costly will rising temperature due to climate change be for the U.S. economy? Recent research has used the well-identified response of output to weather to estimate this cost. But agents may adapt to the new climate. We propose a methodology to infer adaptation technology from the...

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest household survey in the United States and indispensable for detailed analysis of specific places and populations. This paper introduces a technique to produce “small area” (e.g. census tract) estimates of any person- or household-level...

To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...

Global firms finance themselves through foreign subsidiaries, often shell companies in tax havens, which obscures their nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and restate bilateral investment positions to better...

Several diagonal-based tail dependence indices have been suggested in the literature to quantify tail dependence. They have well-developed statistical inference theories but tend to underestimate tail dependence. For those problems when assessing the maximal strength of dependence is important...