PhD MARIA CHIARA PAGLIARELLA

Via Speluca, 68 • 03029 Veroli • FROSINONE (Italy) MOBILE +39 328 73 80 520 • EMAIL mariachiara.pagliarella@gmail.com

Date of birth 09-11-1982 • Nationality Italian _______________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION PhD in Quantitative Methods University of Cassino (Italy) 2008-2011 MA Degree in Economics (with Honours) University of Cassino (Italy) 2005-2007 BA Degree in Economics University of Cassino (Italy) 2001-2004 ________________________________________________________________________________ RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral Research Fellow present 2013-2014 Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena (Italy)

Post-doctoral scientist investigating on development of design based specialization methods of complex spatial sampling with data related to environmental investigations. Simulation experiments in order to test and prove the efficiency and accuracy gain. Programming with Fortran90. Achievements

Report of the simulation results of the complex spatial sampling procedure developed within the fulfilment of research objectives

Attendance and presentation of results at international meetings Production in progress of paper for publication

Postdoctoral Research 2012 Instituto de Estadistica y Cartografia de Andalucia (Spain)

Junior post-doctoral scientist investigating on design based small area estimators for labour force survey data of Andalucía Provinces, by programming with R-project. Achievements

Presentation of estimates and graphical results to be reported to the regional administration

Regular attendance and presentation of results in line with the research objectives and within grant timelines

Consultant as Statistician 2011 Department of Economics, University of Cassino (Italy)

Statistical analysis and development of procedures for the estimation of the impact of the supply of the agricultural development services in Italy, within the national research project of the ministry of agriculture (MIPAF). Achievements

Report of the results of the statistical analysis and procedure developed within the research project fulfilment of research objectives

PhD Visiting and Research Technician 2009-2011 Centro de Investigación Operatíva, University Miguel Hernandez of Elche (Spain)

Theoretical analysis and application, by programming with open source software R-project, of area level time series models for small area estimation methods as part of the deliverables of the European project on poverty and living conditions estimates, within the European Research project S.A.M.P.L.E. (Small Area Methods for Poverty and Living Condition Estimates) N° SSH-CT-2008-217565, EU-FP7-SSH-2007-1 Achievements

Thesis on “Area-level partitioned time models for small area estimation” Report of the final deliverables for the European Project objectives and manual of use

of the software R developed Attendance and presentation of results at international meetings

Consultant as Statistician 2008 Laboratory of Social Antropology "Ernesto de Martino" of Cassino University and CESV (Italy)

Collaboration as statistician at the research project promoted by the CESV (Centre of Services for Voluntary work) and the Laboratory of Anthropology of the University of Cassino for the survey on young people in voluntary civil service, with the aim to perform the social profile of the volunteers. Achievements

implementation of the design survey focus group meetings realization of the questionnaire in collaboration with sociologist data entry data analysis graphical representation and interpretation of the results

Key Research Skills survey sampling small area estimation methods model based and design based sampling methods linear mixed models R software programming complex spatial sampling ________________________________________________________________________________ AWARDS PhD Graduate Scholarship (3years Funding Grant) MA Undergraduate Scholarship BA Undergraduate Scholarship ________________________________________________________________________________ TEACHING EXPERIENCE Nomination for teaching academic course on Survey Sampling (University of Cassino, 5

ECTS, 2012,2013), gaven up due to the impossibility to take on the role working abroad Teaching assistant, as PhD student, delivering practical and tutorial sessions for the course in

Economic Statistics (University of Cassino, 5 ECTS, 2008), assisting groups of up to 150 students, 4 hours per week, with practical exercises and demonstrations on courses contents, helping students to perform the assignments required at the final examination

Teaching assistant as BA graduated, for the course on Introduction to Statistics, (University of Cassino, 5 ECTS, years 2005-2007), assisting with the practical exercises assigned for home on course topics, helping students to perform the assignments required at the final examination

Tutorial and coaching to freshmen in order to introduce them to practical knowledge of the organizational aspects and contents of the academic courses (University of Cassino, 2005)

As volunteer, teaching activities to support some university colleagues in statistical studies ________________________________________________________________________________ RELEVANT SKILLS & COURSES Course at IECA Institute on Synthetic Indicators by Professor José Luis Pino Mejías (June

2012) Course ISI/IASS on Small area statistics with software R held by Professor Isabel Molina

(University of Trier, August 2011) Course ECAS on Small area statistics in Theory and Practice held by Professors: P. Lahiri, D.

Pfeffermann, R. Chambers, J.N.K. Rao (University of Trier, August 2011) Attended PhD Training courses on: Algebra and Optimization, Data Analysis in R, Applied

Multivariate Analysis, Course in SAS, Applied Econometrics, Stochastic Processes and Applications in Finance, sample surveys (University of Cassino, 2008)

Good programmer with R, Fortran, Latex, SAS, SPSS, STATA Languages: English (B2 certified), Spanish (B2) and French (A1) _____________________________________________________________________________ PUBLICATIONS Pagliarella M.C., Salvatore R. (to appear in 2014) Unit level spatio-temporal models, a Wiley book on Analysis of Poverty Data by Small Area Methods, edited by M. Pratesi (University of Pisa, Italy) L.Fattorini, M.C. Pagliarella (2013) Areal sampling strategies for estimating forest cover and deforestation at large scale. In: Conference Proceedings of the 1st Southern European conference on Survey Methodology, University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, 12-14 December 2013 Morales D., Pagliarella M.C. and Salvatore R. (submitted on 2013) Small area estimation of poverty indicators under partitioned area-level time models, SORT-Statistics and Operations Research Transactions CONFERENCE PAPERS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS M. C. Pagliarella, R. Salvatore (2013) Diagnostics and influence analysis in the multivariate Fay-Herriot model. In: Book of Abstract, Third Italian Conference on Survey Methodology, University Bicocca of Milan, 26-28 June 2013, ISBN: 978-88-6292-390-3 L.Fattorini, M.C. Pagliarella (2013) Complex areal sampling strategies for estimating forest cover and deforestation at large scale. In: Book of Abstracts, Seventh International Workshop on Simulation, University of Bologna, 21-25 May 2013, Quaderni di Dipartimento Serie Ricerche 2013, n. 3 ISSN: 1973-9346 M.C. Pagliarella, R. Salvatore (2012) The diagnostics of the mean squared error of the Eblup in small area estimation models. In: Conference Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Italian

Statistical Society, University “Sapienza” of Rome, 20-22 June 2012, Cleup Editore, ISBN: 978-88-6129-882-8 D. Morales, M.C. Pagliarella, R. Salvatore (2011) Some diagnostics and influence analysis tools for small area estimation models. In: Conference Proceedings on Small Area Estimation, p.66-69, University of Trier (Germany), 11-13 August 2011 N.Salvati, C.Giusti, S.Marchetti, M.Pratesi, N.Tzavidis, I.Molina Peralta, D.Morales, M.D.Esteban, A.Sánchez, L.Santamaría, Y.Marhuenda, A.Pérez, M.C.Pagliarella, R.Chambers, J.N.K. Rao, C.Ferretti (2011) Software on small area estimation. Deliverable 22, Workpackage 2, European Project S.A.M.P.L.E. SSH-CT-2008-217565, EU-FP7-SSH-2007-1 (http://www.sample-project.eu/es/the-project/deliverables-docs.html) M.C. Pagliarella (2011) Area-level partitioned time models in small area estimation. In: Survey Research Methods and Applications, Conference Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Conference on Survey Methodology, University of Pisa, 27-29 June 2011, ISBN: 978-88-8492-772-9 D. Morales Gonzalez, M.C. Pagliarella, R. Salvatore (2010) Influence analysis in small area estimation. In: Conference Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, University of Padua, 16-18 June 2010, Cleup Editore, ISBN: 978-88-6129-566-7 M.Pratesi, C.Giusti, S.Marchetti, N.Salvati, N.Tzavidis, I.Molina, M.Durbán, A.Grané, J.M.Marín, M.H.Veiga, D.Morales, M.D.Esteban, A.Sánchez, L.Santamaría, Y.Marhuenda, A.Pérez, M.C.Pagliarella, J.N.K. Rao, C.Ferretti (2010) Pilot Applications. Deliverable 17, Workpackage 2, European Project S.A.M.P.L.E. N° SSH-CT-2008-217565, EU-FP7-SSH-2007-1 (http://www.sample-project.eu/es/the-project/deliverables-docs.html) M.C.Pagliarella, C.Russo, R.Salvatore (2009) Selection of covariates in Small Area Estimation with multilevel models. In: Wywial J. L., Zadlo T.. Survey Sampling in Economic and Social Research. p. 76-87, Katowice, ISBN/ISSN: 978-83-7246-540-5 L. Bartoli, M.C.Pagliarella, L. Palombo, R.Salvatore (2009) Comparing native versus immigrants’ occupational choices of Italian labour force: a generalized linear mixed model approach. In: Conference Proceedings of International Scientific Conference challenges for analysis of the economy, the business, and social progress, University of Sezged, 19-21 November 2009, ISBN: 978-963-06-9558-9 M.C.Pagliarella, C.Russo, R.Salvatore (2009) Pseudo-EBLUP estimation in assessing stochastic production frontier models. In: Conference Proceedings of 1st Italian Conference on Survey Methodology, University of Siena, 10-12 June 2009 D.Cimillo, M.C.Pagliarella, R.Salvatore (2008) Two-level Model Small Domain Estimation using Reduction of Dimensionality. In: Book of Abstracts of the 7th RC33 International Conference on Social Science Methodology, University “Federico II” of Naples, 2-5 September 2008, ISBN: 978-882-43-1817-4

________________________________________________________________________________ REFEREES Domingo Morales González Departamento de Estadística, Matemáticas e Informática Centro de Investigación Operativa Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avenida de la Universidad s/n 03202 – ELCHE (Spain) Phone: +34 966 658709 E-mail: d.morales@umh.es Renato Salvatore Departiment of Economics and Law Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale Via S. Angelo - Località Folcara 03043 – CASSINO (Italy) Phone: +39 0776 2993411 E-mail: rsalvatore@unicas.it

Lorenzo Fattorini Departiment of Economics and Statistics Università di Siena Piazza San Francesco, 7 53100 – SIENA (Italy) Phone: +39 0577 232630 E-mail: lorenzo.fattorini@unisi.it Jose E. Molina Trapero Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía Servicio de Estudios, Síntesis y Métodos Estadísticos C/ Leonardo Da Vinci, s/n, Isla de La Cartuja 41071-SEVILLA (Spain) Phone: +34 955 033838 E-mail: josee.molina@juntadeandalucia.es