Regional Statistics Conference 2026

A Lightweight and Interpretable Machine Learning Framework as a Robust Alternative to Deep Learning in Medical Image Classification

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A Sparse weighted consensus method for multi-view clustering

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A Spatial Fay Herriot Model when Auxiliary Variables are Measured with Error

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A human-in-the-loop method for classifying short survey free-text responses in official statistics

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AI as enabler for Comprehensive Data Governance

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Co-author:

• Bilyana Bogdanova
• Edward Lambe

Adaptive distance-based clustering of spatial interval-valued time series

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Addressing model discrepancy in emulation and calibration of environmental models

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Advances in Bayesian Adversarial Machine Learning

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Advancing SAS to R Translation with Generative AI

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Analysis of the Household Budget Survey: A Distributional Data Approach

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Co-author:

• Antonio Pedro Duarte Silva

Analyzing total fertility rate by environmental, demographic, and economic indicators: Hierarchical cluster analysis for selected European countries

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Applications and Outlook for Continuous Time Dynamic Models in Psychology

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Atrial digital twins for in silico trials

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Bayesian multi-observation latent Gaussian models with inlabru

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Best practices from the ISLP Network for the promotion of statistical literacy

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Bias and Explainability for Software Engineering in the Age of LLMs

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Bias reduction frameworks for generalized Hill estimators

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Causal Inference and External Validity in Observational Studies: Methodological Challenges for Modern Health Research

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Causality-Preserving Information-Theoretic Smoothing: For Financial Time Series Forecasting.

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Characterisation of the Conditions For Obtaining Exact Balanced Sampling

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Closed-loop effects from vasodilator treatment for pulmonary hypertension: uncertainty quantification using synthetic data with empirical noise

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Clustering geo-referenced time series through the Gromov–Wasserstein distance

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Coarsened data in small area estimation: a Bayesian two-part model for mapping smoking behaviour

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Collective Outlier Detection and Enumeration with Conformalized Closed Testing

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Conformalised Neural Operators for Transferable Super-Resolution

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Co-author:

• William Ryan
• David Dalton
• Vinny Davies
• Dirk Husmier

Constrained Neural Networks and Their Applications to Nonparametric Regression and Adversarial Learning

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Correspondence Analysis in Archaeology: who, when, why and what for?

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Crumbs Make a Loaf: Using Product Price Data to Nowcast Food Inflation

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Cultural and Intergenerational Dynamics of Trust in Female Scientists: Evidence from Five Countries

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Data Science – a solution to Maths’ EDI issues?

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Decoding the content of working memory with functional data analysis

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Deep Conditional Generative Learning for Optimal Individualized Treatment Rules

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Detection of EGFR Gene Mutations in Brain Tumors: Leveraging Information Complexity for AI-Based Decision Support Systems

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Developing the Statistical Infrastructure for Frames and Population Datasets at CSO, Ireland

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Developing urban and rural indicators to support evidence-based policies

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Digital Poverty in Italy: new measures and regional comparisons among Young People (6-19 years)

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Disaggregated Data in Canada: Leveraging Citizen Data to Complement Official Statistics

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Dispersion in the distribution of primary income or gross wage at the regional level in the EU

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Distance-based methods for archaeological data

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Distributional income accounts for households – methodological challenges and exploratory results

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Distributional wealth accounts for households – results and use cases

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Do services and tourism reduce population loss in functional rural areas in the EU?

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Embracing Measurement Model Dynamics with Latent Markov Factor Analysis

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Emulation strategies for systems described by differential equations

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Enhancing Data Quality in Financial Micro-Data: Insights from EMIR and MMSR Dual-Sided Reporting

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Estimation of a multivariate von Mises distribution for contaminated torus data

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Ethics, Gender and AI: Statistical Methods for Fairness in Data-Driven Social Sciences

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Exact Solutions to the Sparse Clustering Problem

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Explanation Types Revisited: From Counterfactuals to Ensure–enabled Explanations in the Confidence–Uncertainty Space

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Faster Convergence for Diffusion-Based Generative Models

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Finding redundancies between data collection: an AI-based approach

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Co-author:

• Tiago Oliveira

First results on the joint distribution of income and wealth in Italy consistent with national accounts

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Co-author:

• Andrea Neri

Flexible Deep Neural Networks for Partially Linear Survival Data

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Forecasting with AI: A Deep Learning Approach to Time Series Analysis of Malta's Foreign Trade

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From "it worked on my notebook" to production-ready machine learning: bridging the gap with MLOps

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From block-circularity to block-compound symmetry and block-sphericity

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GHR tools: streamlining climate and health workflows including data harmonization, modelling and early warning systems

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Gender as a Moderator in Education Production Functions: A Graphical Modeling Approach Using Students’ Careers

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Generative AI for Dissemination: From Metadata to Automated Statistical Narratives at Eurostat

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Generative Bayesian Computation

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Co-author:

• Vadim Sokolov

ISI Academy as a promoter of statistical literacy and capacity building

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Co-author:

• Fabrizio Ruggeri

Improved Inference by optimal transport when data are scarse.

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Improving Financial Data Quality through Dual Reporting and Rule-Based Matching: Evidence from a Central Bank Transaction Reporting System

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Co-author:

• Pratiwi
• Rizky Riyadhi
• Melanie Sri Handayani

Improving stratified sampling designs in the digital era

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Inclusion in Statistics Teaching Practice and Students’ Sense of Belonging

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Inference and emulation in cardiac mechanics

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Inference for Deep Neural Network Estimators in Generalized Nonparametric Models

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Intersectional Data and Persons with Disabilities

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Invariant Coordinate Selection: An Overview and Recent Developments

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Investigating Missing Not at Random Mechanisms in Ecological Momentary Assessment: An Exploratory Analysis of Swiss Adolescent EMA Data

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Investigating different aspects of heterogeneity in temporal dynamics with a time-varying coefficient formulation of the multivariate normal

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Large language models for COICOP classification in Norway's household budget survey

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Latent Factor Multivariate INAR Models for Counts

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Localized Cluster Enhancement: TFCE Revisited with Valid Error Control

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Longitudinal study of the impact of environmental and social factors on rural migrations: Insights from Vojvodina

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Co-author:

• Milica Maričić

Measuring accessibility to essential services by looking at travel times

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Model-agnostic interpretability of deep learning models for car emissions assessment

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Modeling nonstationary spatial processes with normalizing flows

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Modeling the Impact of Green AI on Computational Efficiency and Low-Carbon Transitions

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Modified minimum distance estimation in a multiple linear regression model

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Monitoring Covariance Shifts in Multichannel Profiles

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Co-author:

• Biagio Palumbo
• Christian Capezza
• Antonio Lepore

Multiple Frame Surveys: from original roots to digital-era reassessment

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Multivariate semi-parametric empirical best predictions using latent variable models

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Network-Aware Functional Regression with Conformal Prediction

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Neural Inference with Incomplete Data

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Neural Simulation-Based Inference for Parameter Estimation and Conditional Simulation with Complex Spatial Processes

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On a Decision Analysis Framework for Prior Robustness

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Person-specific time-varying parameters in hierarchical Bayesian time series models

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Post-Selection Inference for Multiverse Analysis in Mixed-Effects Model

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Potential applications of the Bootstrap method in non-probability samples

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Prediction and Analysis of Groundwater Drought Class Transitions using Log-linear Models and ANOVA

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Quantification and Inference of Asymmetric Relations Under Generative Exposure Mappings

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Regional Disparities in Smart City Development: A Multidimensional Framework for Sustainable and Digital Service Provision

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Rethinking data quality in the age of citizen participation

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Riemannian Principal Component Analysis for Interval-Valued Variables

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Robust Amortized Bayesian Inference with Self-Consistency Losses on Unlabeled Data

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Scalable Bayesian inference for GAMs

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Simulation-based inference for trawl processes

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Small area estimation of categorical indicators using finite mixtures of multinomial logistic regression models

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Spatial confounding bias in spatial GAMs

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Spatio-temporal modeling and forecasting with Fourier neural operators (FNOs)

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Spatio-temporal modelling for environmental data

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Spatio-temporal modelling of fish species distribution

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Statistical Data Integration and Prediction in Climate Science

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Statistical Data Science for Water Catchments

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Structure-preserving Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems: A Case for Smaller Models

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Co-author:

• Nick Pepper
• David J Wagg

Survey Futures programme in the UK and the Effectiveness of the knock-to-nudge approach for establishing contact with respondents

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Symbolic networks

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Tail-Calibrated Quantile Treatment Effects for Extreme Event Attribution

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Testing Covariance Structures for High Dimensions

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Testing for multivariate association in microbiome multiomics with distance-based mutual information

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The AI-Powered Foundation for Data Governance to Strengthen Statistics Department

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The French Statistical Register of Individuals and Dwellings (RESIL)

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Co-author:

• Romain Avouac

The Immigration Index: How can it be modelled?

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Co-author:

• Milica Maričić
• Luna Radević

The joint distribution of income, wealth, and consumption in Germany

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Topological Data Analysis of Multiplexed Spatial Proteomics Data Using TOASTER

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Toward Robust Tree-Based Ensemble Learning for Genomic Prediction

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Trustworthy AI in Automotive Ecosystems: A Distributed Responsibility Perspective Grounded in Statistical Reliability

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Trustworthy and Reliable Post-Estimation Strategies for Sparse Regression Models

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Two-sided reporting as a driver of data quality

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Uncovering Hidden Gender Bias in STEM Evaluations: A Differential Item Functioning Approach

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Using T2 Big Data to Evaluate Cyber Vulnerabilities: An Empirical Case Study

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Using mismatches in dual-sided reporting in EMIR to improve DQ

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Visualizing and Diagnosing Distributional Generalized Additive Models with Intertwined Linear Predictors

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When Classifications Change but Deadlines Don’t: Scaling Recoding with LLMs

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pdglasso: an R package for Gaussian Graphical Models for paired data

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torchTextClassifiers: a unified framework for text classification with PyTorch, from a MLOps perspective

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