Personal details

Surname: ROSINA
Name: ALESSANDRO
Date of birth: 04.07.1968
Nationality: Italian
Country of birth: Italy
 

Qualifications

Degree in Statistical and Demographic Sciences at the University of Padua (Italy).

PhD in Demography (Dottorato di Ricerca in Demografia)
obtained in the 1998
 

Residential courses (as a student)

Residential course (S.Miniato - Pisa, 20-24 November 1995)
Title: "Categorical Data Analysis"
Professor: Alan Agresti
Language: English.

I was at the University of Southampton, for two months (from 2nd of April to 2nd of July 1997)
as a part-time research student at the Department of Social Statistics.
The subject of my research was Statistical Modelling of Birth History Data.
During this period I followed the course "Epidemiological Models".
I was supervised by J. "Mac"  McDonald (Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics).

I attended the Historical Demography Summer School,
at the European University Institute in Fiesole (Florence) from 25th of August to 12th of September 1997.
Language: English and French
 

Some courses held as a lecturer

Period: from 3th of April to 5th of June 1998
Number of lectures held: 10 (two hours each)
Subject: exercices and S-Plus computer practice
Course: Statistics (Prof. Torelli)
Place: Faculty of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua.

Period: from 17th to 19th of June
Number of lectures held: 2
Subject: aggregative reconstruction techniques; IPD computer practice
Course: Historical Demography Summer School (organized by the Italian Society of Historical Demography)
Place: University of Molise, Campobasso.
 

Research activity

Historical demography
- Aggregative reconstruction techniques.
- The Veneto demographic transition.
- The Veneto demographic system at the end of great epidemics.
- Does cohort matter in pre-transitional mortality?
  Some perspectives of the Event History Analysis methodology for the study of past populations.

Event History Analysis
- Methodological aspects:
   mixture models, unobserved heterogeneity, multilevel models, Bayesian estimation (Gibbs sampling).
- Applications to:
   Fertility; Fecundability; Marital dissolutions.
 

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