In the food industry, sensory analysis can be useful to direct marketing decisions concerning not only products, for example product positioning with respect to competitors, but also market segmentation, customer relationship management, advertising strategies and price policies. In this paper...

A general statistical model for ordinal or rating data, which includes some existing approaches as special cases, is proposed. The focus is on the CUB models and a new class of models, called Nonlinear CUB, which generalize CUB. In the framework of the Nonlinear CUB models, it is possible to...

In order to provide composite indicators of latent variables, for example of customer satisfaction, it is opportune to identify the structure of the latent variable, in terms of the assignment of items to the subscales defining the latent variable. Adopting the reflective model, the impact of...

In this paper we propose a portfolio selection procedure specifically designed to protect investments during financial crisis periods. To this aim, we focus attention on the lower tails of the returns distributions and use a combination of statistical tools able to take into account the joint...

<i> Comportamenti dei giovani nell’Università. Primi risultati dell’indagine avviata dal progetto "Giovani e fumo" dell’Università di Verona </i> (di Paola Zuccolotto) - ABSTRACT: Il progetto "Giovani e fumo" è stato concepito ed organizzato con lo scopo di sensibilizzare i giovani verso il...