Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography III

Alessio Pollice is a Full Professor of Statistics at the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.Paolo Mariani is a Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

• Preface.- Contributed Sessions.- Efficient Bayesian estimation of spatial Poisson auto-regression with Leroux random effects.- Approximate Inference for the Bayesian Discrepancy Measure for Precise Statistical Hypotheses.- Generalized Additive Mixed Models in medicine a case study on LDL cholesterol in people living with HIV under different antiretroviral regimens.