Teachers and Students: a Statistically Perfect Collaboration

Stat Journal published the work of a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences student, Pietro Tebaldi, realized with Marco Bonetti (Bocconi) and Marcello Pagano (Harvard).

The article "M Statistic Commands: Interpoint Distance Distribution Analysis" (Stata Journal, vol. 11, n. 2, 2011), authored by M.Sc. student Pietro Tebaldi, describes a software package that allows users of the statistical program Stata to easily implement the "M statistic" method of Bonetti and Pagano.

The article and the package are the result of the collaboration among Pietro Tebaldi, Marco Bonetti (Bocconi, Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management), and Marcello Pagano (Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University).

After working on a Stata programming project under the supervision of Bonetti in Milan, Tebaldi spent three months in 2010 within the Department of Biostatistics of Harvard University (School of Public Health). While there, he worked as a Research Assistant like Ph.D. students in Biostatistics of the department, with his own office and access to the many resources of the host institution. His programming work, directed by Pagano, produced the current statistical package

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