Monica Pratesi

Monica Pratesi is Full Professor of Statistics at the University of Pisa, Ph.D. in Applied Statistics University of Florence in 1993.

She is holder of the Jean Monnet Chair “Small Area Methods for Monitoring of Poverty and Living Conditions in EU” 2015-2018
(http://sampleu.ec.unipi.it).
President elected of the Italian Statistical Society, she is member of the Board of the ISTAT (2016).
Since 2012 she is member of the International Statistical Institute and since 2014 she is vice President elected of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS).

Her research fields include small area estimation, poverty mapping, inference in elusive populations, nonresponse in telephone and Internet surveys, design effect in fitting statistical models. She was scientific coordinator of the following research projects on Small Area Statistics funded by the European Commission and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN projects Programma di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale): SAMPLE project (Small Area Methods for Poverty and Living Condition Estimates, http://www.sample-project.eu) financed under the 7th FP (SSH-2007- 6.3 - 217565), duration 36 months from 1.03.2008; PRIN project on “Inference in the presence of imperfect auxiliary information: sampling from elusive populations and estimation for unplanned domains” (Protocol Number 2007RHFBB3_003) duration 24 months from October 2008. At present she is involved as reference person of the DEM-UNIPI in the project EFRAME (European FRAmework for MEasuring progress) funded under the 7th FP http://www.eframeproject.eu/ and in the project INGRID (Integrating Expertise in Inclusive Growth) funded under FP7 capacities.

Concise list of pubblications in UNIMAP Anagrafe della Ricerca arp.unipi.it