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Volume 363, month 8, 2026

Advances in statistical modelling for social science: part 1—measuring and structuring social complexity pp. 1-7

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Susanna Levantesi and Andrea Nigri

Social sustainability in Italy: a model-based hierarchical composite indicator pp. 9-34

Giorgia Zaccaria and Cinzia Di Nuzzo

Sensitivity-based weighting method for composite indicators pp. 35-67

Viet Duong Nguyen and Chiara Gigliarano

Unveiling multidimensional poverty across Italian Provinces using small area estimation and penalized power means pp. 69-86

Gloria Polinesi, Mariateresa Ciommi, Francesca Mariani and Chiara Gigliarano

Estimating and predicting the human development index with uncertain data: a common weight fuzzy benefit-of-the-doubt machine learning approach pp. 87-125

Hashem Omrani, Zijiang Yang and Raha Imanirad

Forecasting human development with an improved Theta method based on forecast combination pp. 127-146

Raffaele Mattera, Germana Scepi and Parmjit Kaur

A fuzzy posetic toolbox for multi-criteria evaluation on ordinal data systems pp. 147-173

Marco Fattore, Lucio De Capitani, Alessandro Avellone and Andrea Suardi

A new q-AHPSort II to classify STEM master’s degree programme pp. 175-196

Gerarda Fattoruso, Paola Mancini, Gabriella Marcarelli and Massimo Squillante

OWA-based multi-criteria decision making based on fuzzy methods pp. 197-231

Pierpaolo D’Urso, Jalal Chachi, Ahmad Kazemifard and Livia De Giovanni

Parsimonious parametrizations of transition matrices of Markov chain and hidden Markov models pp. 233-266

Francesco Bartolucci, Silvia Pandolfi and Fulvia Pennoni

Hierarchical mixtures of Unigram models for short text clustering: the role of Beta-Liouville priors pp. 267-301

Massimo Bilancia and Samuele Magro

Fuzzy Reduced $$\mathbf {\textit{K}}$$ -Means for analyzing high-dimensional social phenomena pp. 303-327

Mariaelena Bottazzi Schenone and Maurizio Vichi

Fuzzy clustering with $$\hbox {L}_0$$ L 0 regularization pp. 329-352

Maria Brigida Ferraro, Marco Forti and Paolo Giordani

Cub model-based clustering of Likert-type data with a tourist satisfaction application pp. 353-368

Nicolò Biasetton, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Marta Disegna and Luigi Salmaso

An innovative approach to co-clustering of directional data: a methodological framework with an application on interregional mobility in the Italian national health care system pp. 369-383

Alessia D’Ambrosio, Giuseppe Gismondi, Marco Cardillo, Giuseppe Pandolfo and Antonio D’Ambrosio

Optimal multivariate mixture: a genetic algorithm approach pp. 385-406

Giacinto Angelo Sgarro, Luca Grilli and Domenico Santoro

Predicting depression in Italy using random forest through the E2Tree methodology pp. 407-424

Massimo Aria, Agostino Gnasso, Rebecca Rivieccio and Roberta Siciliano

Employees’ well-being, work-related factors, and digitalization: a decision-tree approach for imbalanced data pp. 425-453

Fabio Demaria and Maddalena Cavicchioli

A novel explainable artificial intelligence framework using knockoffs techniques with applications to sports analytics pp. 455-476

Tingting Zhao, Jeffrey Cabral and Guangyu Zhu

Which interactions make you unique? pp. 477-493

Giovanni Rabitti

Nonlinear forecasting with many predictors using mixed data sampling kernel ridge regression models pp. 495-514

Deliang Dai, Farrukh Javed, Peter Karlsson and Kristofer Månsson

A feature selection algorithm optimizing fitting and predictive performance of logistic regression: a case study on financial literacy and pension planning pp. 515-545

Rosaria Simone and Mariarosaria Coppola

Bayesian multilevel bivariate spatial modelling of Italian school data pp. 547-571

Leonardo Cefalo, Alessio Pollice and Virgilio Gómez - Rubio

Hierarchical spatial network models for road accident risk assessment pp. 573-608

Gian Paolo Clemente, Francesco Della Corte and Diego Zappa

Innovation and digitalisation in European regions: addressing spatial issues through GWR-SAR approach pp. 609-636

Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano, Gennaro Punzo and Luca Salvati

A local regression approach to studying single-person households and social isolation in the main Spanish cities: a new pathway of socio-spatial polarization? pp. 637-658

Federico Benassi and Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual

Betting against mono-centrism? The impact of economic crisis on city vertical profiles in metropolitan Athens, Greece pp. 659-684

Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano, Gennaro Punzo and Luca Salvati

An operational classification of rural and urban areas based on Zipf’s Law pp. 685-703

Luca Salvati, Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo and Alessandro Muolo

Italian investments for soil defence: retrieving and visualizing data by the PublicWorksFinanceIT R Package pp. 705-732

Lorena Ricciotti and Alessio Pollice

A divide-and-conquer approach for spatio-temporal analysis of large house price data from Greater London pp. 733-774

Kapil Gupta and Soudeep Deb

Understanding the dynamics of the global FDI architecture: a network analysis pp. 775-800

Alessandro Spelta, Nicolò Pecora, Hung-Ju Chen and Bihong Huang

Exploring Collaborative Dynamics among Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology: An ERGM Approach pp. 801-829

Sara Preti, Enrico di Bella and Luca Gandullia

An empirical analysis of multi-actor knowledge sharing on knowledge creation: the moderating mediation of platform empowerment pp. 831-852

Jia-Lu Shi, Guo-Hong Chen, Andrea Appolloni and Kai-Rong Liang

Dynamics of online debates: insights from textual network analysis pp. 853-873

Nicola Pronello, Alex Cucco, Emiliano del Gobbo, Sara Fontanella and Lara Fontanella

A network-based matching design for text mining of controversial online reviews pp. 875-894

Giulio Giacomo Cantone and Venera Tomaselli

Detecting fake news on social networks via linguistic features and information-seeking patterns during the Covid-19 period pp. 895-918

Petr Hajek, Jean-Michel Sahut, Michal Munk and Dasa Munkova

Determining well-being during a crisis based on Twitter data pp. 919-956

Xiao Wang, Bram Janssens, Matthias Bogaert, Liesel Vanderbauwhede and Lisa Schetgen

Promoting sustainability goals: innovation trajectories of Fintech through patent analysis pp. 957-993

Giovanna Ferraro, Antonio Iovanella, Alessandro Ramponi and Giulia Rotundo

The statistical mechanics of innovation diffusion pp. 995-1016

Giacomo Masali, Maria Elena Bruni and Guido Perboli

Advances in statistical modelling for social science: part 2—longevity, risk, and the socio-economic structure pp. 1017-1022

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Susanna Levantesi and Andrea Nigri

Actuarial Bayesian nonparametric regression modelling for survival data pp. 1023-1046

Francesco Ungolo, Torsten Kleinow and Angus S. Macdonald

Gompertzian survivorship ages: modeling and numerical evidence pp. 1047-1066

Marino Mario and Sbaiz Gabriele

Multi-population mortality modelling and forecasting with divergence bounds pp. 1067-1085

Salvatore Scognamiglio

A holistic approach to interpretable modelling and forecasting of human mortality by gender and country pp. 1087-1112

Ana Debón, Steven Haberman and Gabriella Piscopo

Change-point detection in functional time series: applications to age-specific mortality and fertility pp. 1113-1131

Han Lin Shang

Functional disability in the Health and Retirement Study: a semi-Markov multi-state analysis pp. 1133-1160

Domenico De Giovanni, Massimiliano Menzietti, Marco Pirra and Fabio Viviano

Longer healthy life, but for how many? A stochastic analysis of healthy lifespan inequality pp. 1161-1178

Virginia Zarulli and Hal Caswell

The age pattern of the gender gap in mortality: stylized evidence across COVID-19 pandemic times pp. 1179-1198

Giovanna Apicella, Eliseo Navarro, Pilar Requena and Marilena Sibillo

Poisson autoregressions for forecasting extreme events: earthquakes and heatwaves in Italy pp. 1199-1212

Giovanni Angelini and Mauro Costantini

Tourism demand forecasting with multi-source data: a hybrid model incorporating seasonal-trend decomposition pp. 1213-1243

Zhen Zhang, Ziyu Xu and Wenyu Yu

Balancing the grid: mitigating the effects of renewable energy in Italy via skew modeling and forecasting pp. 1245-1283

Giacomo Ascione, Michele Bufalo, Giuseppe Orlando and Roberto Quadrini

Cost and severity of natural catastrophes in extreme events: implications for society and insurances pp. 1285-1325

Giacomo Ascione, Michele Bufalo and Giuseppe Orlando

Detecting turning points in high-frequency financial data analysis pp. 1327-1354

Yaosong Zhan and Zhenya Liu

Bayesian dynamic quantile model averaging pp. 1355-1383

Mauro Bernardi, Roberto Casarin, Bertrand B. Maillet and Lea Petrella

Swarm-optimized time-varying epidemiological model incorporating multi-dose vaccinations, vaccine efficacy and restriction policies pp. 1385-1414

Naresh Kumar and Seba Susan

Exploring household economic insecurity in Italy and spain: insights from a trivariate probit regression analysis pp. 1415-1446

Antonella D’Agostino, María Navarro, Laura Neri and Angeles Sánchez

Income inequality under partial observability: What can we learn from incomplete survey data? pp. 1447-1477

Ernesto San Martín, Marcela Perticara, Inés M. Varas and Eduardo Alarcón-Bustamante

Quantile regression approach to analyze gender disparities in STEM university credit distribution pp. 1479-1499

Riccardo De Santis, Antonella D’Agostino, Nicola Salvati and Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo

Imputed price indices via matrix completion pp. 1501-1525

Federico Crescenzi

Defining the Open Manager: features and attitudes of a new professional figure pp. 1527-1538

Paolo Bruttini, Paolo Mariani, Andrea Marletta, Lucio Masserini and Mariangela Zenga

Should one (be allowed to) replace the Cipollini’s? pp. 1539-1557

Marcel Ausloos

Sustainability and Financial Risk: the Green Mean-to-CVaR Efficient Frontier pp. 1559-1584

Vittoria Di Felice and Giacomo Morelli

Measuring contextuality in investment preferences pp. 1585-1615

Polina Khrennikova

Portfolio decision analysis for pandemic sentiment assessment based on finance and web queries pp. 1617-1647

Roy Cerqueti, Francesco Cesarone and Valerio Ficcadenti

Economic keywords in political communications and financial markets pp. 1649-1672

Valerio Ficcadenti and Roy Cerqueti

On the relationship between U.S. crude oil and natural gas for economic resilience prospects pp. 1673-1700

Hayette Gatfaoui

Copulas to model non-monotonic dependency: an application on the relationship between temperature and mortality pp. 1701-1717

Davide Biancalana, Fabio Baione and Manfred Marvin Marchione

On the fragility of the Italian economic territories under SARS-COV2 lockdown policies pp. 1719-1753

Simone Giansante, Andrea Flori and Alessandro Spelta

Federated propensity score matching: a method for estimating average treatment effect based on data in Islands pp. 1755-1797

Yang Liu, Nan Wang and Xin Ye

Socially responsible investing: a fair-weather commitment pp. 1799-1830

Kevyn Stefanelli and Saverio Storani

Advancing sustainability in complex systems: integrating environmental strategy with statistical modelling pp. 1831-1866

Shahrooz Bamdad