SONIA PETRONE

Laureata in Discipline economiche e sociali presso l'Università Bocconi. Dottorato di ricerca in Statistica metodologica, Università di Trento (1989).

Ha ottenuto l'idoneità come Professore di prima fascia nel 2002. Ha insegnato precedentemente presso l'Università di Pavia e l'Università dell'Insubria. E' membro dell'Institute of Mathematical Statistics, dell'American Statistical Association, della Società Italiana di Statistica. E' membro del Board of Directors dell'International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Ha svolto periodi di ricerca presso diverse università e istituti di ricerca, fra cui Stanford University, University of Cornell, University of Washington, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications - University of Minnesota, Indian Statistical Institute, Russian Academy of Science.

Ha fatto parte del comitato scientifico e organizzatore di numerosi convegni scientifici internazionali, fra cui la serie di workshop su "Bayesian nonparametrics" e "Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Processes" (BISP).

Ha ottenuto i riconoscimenti "indennità di eccellenza nella ricerca" dell'Università Bocconi per il 2002 e 2003, e per il 2008, e  "research profile", 2010-2012.

Inferenza statistica, in particolare nell'impostazione bayesiana. Inferenza bayesiana nonparametrica. Modelli per dati eterogenei; modelli "mistura"; modelli a variabili latenti. Modelli per sistemi dinamici e state space models.  

Petrone, S., Guindani, M. and Gelfand, A.E. (2009) "Hybrid Dirichlet mixture models for functional data", Journal Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B, 71, 755-782.
Petris, G., Petrone, S. and Campagnoli, P. (2009) Dynamic linear models with R, Springer, N.Y..   Trippa, L., Bulla, P. and Petrone, S. (2009) "Extended Bernstein prior via reinforced urn processes", Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2009).   Petrone, S. and Veronese, P. (2008) "Feller operators and mixture priors in Bayesian nonparametrics" (Statistica Sinica, 2010, 20, 379-404 ). N.L.Hjort and Petrone, S. (2007) "Nonparametric quantile inference with Dirichlet processes", in: Advances in Statistical Modeling and Inference. Essays in Honor of Kjell A Doksum,  V. Nair Ed., 463-492.  A.E. Gelfand, M. Guindani and Petrone, S. (2007) "Bayesian nonparametric modelling for spatial data using Dirichlet processes" (with discussion), in: Bayesian Statistics 8, J.M. Bernardo, J.O. Berger, Dawid, A.P. and A.F.M. Smith Eds, Oxford University Press. Petrone, S. (2007) Discussion on "Approximating interval hypothesis: p-values and Bayes factors", by J. Russeau; in:  Bayesian Statistics 8, J.M. Bernardo, J.O.Berger, Dawid, A.P. and A.F.M. Smith Eds., Oxford University Press. Petrone, S. (2003) "A predictive point of view  on Bayesian nonparametrics"; in: Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, P. Green, N. Hjort and S. Richardson Eds, Oxford University Press. Petrone, S. and Wasserman, L. (2002) Consistency of Bernstein Polynomial Density Estimators, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B, 64, 79-100; Petrone, S. and Veronese, P. (2002) Non Parametric Mixture Priors Based on an Exponential Random Scheme, Statistical Methods and Applications, 11, 1-20. Campagnoli, P., Muliere,P. and Petrone, S. (2001) Generalized Dynamic Linear Models for Financial Time Series, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 17, 27-39; Petrone, S. and Corielli, F. (2005) Dynamic Regression Using Bernstein Polynomials with Application to Estimation of the Term Structure of Interest Rates Studi Statistici 61, IMQ, Università Bocconi;  Petrone, S. (1999) Random Bernstein Polynomials, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics , 26, 373-393; Petrone, S. (1999)  Bayesian Density Estimation Using Bernstein Polynomials, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 27, 105-126; Petrone, S. (1999) Discussion on "Bayesian nonparametric inference for random distributions and related functions", by Walker, S.G., Damien, P., Laud, P.W., Smith, A.F.M., Journal of the Royal  Statistics Society, Ser. B, 61, 522-523. Petrone, S., Roberts, G.O. and Rosenthal, J.S. (1999) A Note on Convergence Rates of Gibbs Sampling for Nonparametric Mixtures, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 3, 213-225; Petrone, S. and Raftery, A.E. (1997) A Note on the Dirichlet Process Prior in Bayesian Nonparametric Inference with Partial Exchangeability, Statistics and Probability Letters, 36, 69-83. Mira, A. and Petrone, S. (1996) Bayesian Hierarchical Nonparametric Inference for Change-point Problems; in: J.M. Bernardo, J.O. Berger, A.P. Dawid, A.F.M. Smith (eds.), Bayesian Statistics 5, Oxford University Press, 693-703. Muliere, P. and Petrone, S. (1993) A Bayesian predictive approach to sequential searching for  an optimal dose: parametric and nonparametric models, Journal of the  Italian Statistical Society, 3, 349-364. Muliere, P. and Petrone, S. (1992) Generalized Lorenz curve and monotone  dependence orderings, Metron, L, 19-38.