作者: Adalbert F. X. Wilhelm

Cristina Davino is an Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Her fields of interest and areas of expertise are multidimensional data analysis, data mining, quantile regression, statistical surveys, quality of life assessment, evaluation of university education processes, construction and validation of composite indicators and analysis of learning processes. She has been involved in many research projects whose results have been disseminated in international journals and conferences. Francesco Palumbo is a Professor of Statistics at Federico II University of Naples, Italy. He teaches Statistics and Psychometric Statistics in basic and advanced courses. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Italian Journal of Applied Statistics and an Associate Editor of Computational Statistics. He has collaborated on numerous European projects and has participated in and coordinated several national research projects. His main research interests are in classification and data analysis. Adalbert Wilhelm holds a Professorship in Statistics at Constructor University, Bremen, Germany. He is also the Vice Dean of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). His main research is on statistical visualization, exploratory data analysis and data mining and his recent work addresses questions of digitalization and big data applied to a broad range of disciplines such as economics, business administration, political science, sociology and psychology. Hans A. Kestler is currently a Professor and the Head of the Institute of Medical Systems Biology and the Core Unit Bioinformatics within the Faculties of Computer Science and Medicine, Ulm University, Germany. He is also an Associated Group Leader with the Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena. He has published more than 330 articles in journals, books, and conferences. His research interests include methodological foundations of pattern recognition, bioinformatics, molecular systems biology, and digital health.