Pierpaolo De Blasi

Assistant Professor of Statistics



Ph.D in Statistics, Bocconi University, 2006

Laurea in Economics, Bocconi University, 2002

Phone: +39 011 670 5282

Fax: +39 011 670 5088

E-mail: pierpaolo.deblasi@unito.it

Department of Statistics and Economics

University of Torino

corso Unione Sovietica 218/bis

10134 Torino - Italy

 

Publications


Theoretical and methodological papers

[1] De Blasi, P., Walker, S.G. (2011). Bayesian asymptotics with misspecified models. Statistica Sinica, to appear.

[2] De Blasi, P., James, L.F., Lau, J.W. (2010). Bayesian nonparametric estimation and consistency of Mixed Multinomial Logit choice models. Bernoulli 16, 679-704. (pdf)

[3] De Blasi, P., Favaro, S., Muliere, P. (2010). A class of neutral to the right priors induced by superposition of beta processes. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 140, 1563-1575. (pdf)

[4] De Blasi, P., Peccati, G., Pruenster, I. (2009). Asymptotics for posterior hazards. The Annals of Statistics 37, 1906-1945. (pdf)

[5] De Blasi, P., Hjort, N.L. (2009). The Bernstein-von Mises theorem in semiparametric competing risks models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 139, 2316-2328. (pdf)

[6] De Blasi,P., Hjort, N.L. (2007). Bayesian survival analysis in proportional hazard models with logistic relative risks. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 34, 229-257. (pdf)

[7] De Blasi, P. (2007). Simulation of the beta-Stacy process with application to analysis of censored data. In Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability. F. Ruggeri, R.S. Kennet and F. Fatin (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, UK, pp.1814-1819. (pdf)


Applied papers

[8] Nardone, R., De Blasi, P., Zuccoli, G., Tezzon, F., Golaszewski, Trinka, E. (2012). Transient beneficial effects of theta burst stimulation in a patient with phonological agraphia after left supramarginal gyrus infarction. Brain and Language, to appear.

[9] Nardone, R., De Blasi, P., Seidl, M., Caleri, F., Lochner, P., Tezzon, F., Ladurner, G., Golaszewski, S., Trinka, E. (2011). Cognitive function and cholinergic transmission in patients with subcortical vascular dementia and microbleeds: a TMS study. Journal of Neural Transmission 118, 1349-1358.

[10] Nardone, R., De Blasi, P., Bergmann, J., Caleri, F., Tezzon, F., Ladurner, G., Golaszewski, S., Trinka, E. (2011). Theta burst stimulation of dorsolateral prefontal cortex modulates pathological language switching: a case report. Neuroscience Letters 487, 378-382.

[11] Nardone, R., Bergmann, J., Kronbichler, M., De Blasi, P., Lochner, P., Caleri, F., Tezzon, F., Ladurner, G., Golaszewski, S. (2010). Cholinergic dysfunction and amnesia in patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: a TMS study. Journal of Neural Transmission 117, 385-391.

[12] Nardone, R., Bergmann, J., Kronbichler, M., De Blasi, P., Caleri, F., Tezzon, F., Ladurner, G., Golaszewski, S. (2010). Functional involvement of the cerebral cortex following paramedian bithalamic infarction. Neurocase 16, 286-292.

Submitted Papers


[18] De Blasi, P., Lijoi, A., Pruenster, I. An asymptotic analysis of a class of discrete nonparametric priors.

[19] De Blasi, P., Schweder, T. Tail symmetry of confidence curves based on the log-likelihood ratio.

Conference proceedings and other publications


[13] De Blasi, P., Lijoi, A., Pruenster, I. (2011). On consistency of Gibbs-type priors. Proceedings of ISI 2011 Dublin.

[14] De Blasi, P., Schweder, T. (2011). High-order asymptotics for tail symmetry of confidence curves. Proceeding of S.Co. 2011, Universita' di Padova.

[15] De Blasi, P., Peccati, G., Pruenster, I. (2010). On the asymptotic behaviour of random cumulative hazards. In JSM Proceedings, Section of Nonparametric Statistics. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 1063-1074.

[16] De Blasi, P., Favaro, S., Muliere, P. (2009). Superposition of beta processes. Proceedings of S.Co. 2009, Politecnico di Milano, 139-144.

[17] De Blasi, P. (2006). Semiparametric models in Bayesian event history analysis using beta processes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Bocconi University.