Mattia STIVAL

Position
Researcher
E-mail
mattia.stival@unive.it
Academic discipline
Social statistics [STAT-03/B]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/mattia.stival(personal record)
Office
Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe

Office hours

Wednesday, 10-12, by email appointment. . Office E.201 (Plesso E, San Giobbe)

Thesis supervision

I am available to supervise bachelor and master theses, as long as they contain a statistical component and are aligned with the research interests of both myself and the Department. Typically—though not necessarily—the student proposes the research topic. Master students may also have the opportunity to be involved in ongoing research projects.
From an applied perspective, some of my research interests include:
  1. Health inequalities;
  2. The relationship between humans, the environment, and health;
  3. Issues related to population aging;
  4. Sports as a tool for health promotion;
  5. Competitive sports (any discipline): talent identification, multidisciplinary approaches, performance prediction and monitoring;
  6. Diffusion models for innovations.
From a methodological perspective, some of my research interests include:
  1. Bayesian statistics;
  2. Computational statistics;
  3. State-space and time series models;
  4. Machine Learning;
  5. The Bass model and its generalizations;
  6. Monte Carlo methods, MCMC, and SMC;
  7. Explainability.

Teaching activity current year

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ETR30]
Laurea

ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY [EMR15]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

TOURISM MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY [EMR9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Teaching activity previous years

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Statistica sociale [STAT-03/B]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
Statistica [STAT-01/A]
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Ambiente Linea: Clima
Area: Ambiente Linea: Pianificazione territorio
Area: Statistica Linea: Not-for-profit - Modelli e metodi
Area: Statistica Linea: Not-for-profit - politiche e gestione
Planet 4 Health
SSD:
SECS-S/05
Other members of the research group:
Gaia BERTARELLI
Stefano CAMPOSTRINI
Planet 4 Health
Funding body:
EU - Horizon
Type:
HorizonEurope - Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://planet4health.eu/
Starting date:
Year: 2024 Length in months: 48
Other members of the research group:
Gaia BERTARELLI
Stefano CAMPOSTRINI

Publication highlights

Brustio, Paolo Riccardo; Stival, Mattia; Cardinale, Marco; Mulasso, Anna; Rainoldi, Alberto; Boccia, Gennaro Performance pathways in elite middle- and long-distance track and field athletes: The influence of a successful youth in JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT (ISSN 1440-2440)
DOI 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5060601


Stival, Mattia, Schiavon, Lorenzo Mattia Stival and Lorenzo Schiavon’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Flexible marked spatio-temporal point processes with applications to event sequences from association football’ by Narayanan, Kosmidis and Dellaportas in JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. SERIES C, APPLIED STATISTICS, vol. 72, pp. 1132-1133 (ISSN 1467-9876)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5031123


Stival, Mattia; Bernardi, Mauro; Cattelan, Manuela; Dellaportas, Petros Missing data patterns in runners’ careers: do they matter? in JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C-APPLIED STATISTICS, vol. 72, pp. 213-230 (ISSN 0035-9254)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5052961


Riccardo Paolo Brustio; Mattia Stival; Gennaro Boccia Relative age effect reversal on the junior-to-senior transition in world-class athletics in JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES, vol. 41, pp. 903-909 (ISSN 0264-0414)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5032900


Mattia Stival, Schiavon Lorenzo, Stefano Campostrini A Bayesian approach to model local and temporal heterogeneity in repeated cross-sectional health surveys in JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. SERIES A. STATISTICS IN SOCIETY, vol. 189 (ISSN 0964-1998)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5083970


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

I am currently working as a statistician on the Planet4Health project, collaborating with the Venetian research team. My research interests primarily involve the development of statistical models for the analysis of complex data, with a particular focus on Bayesian methods for social and environmental sciences. Prior to my work on the Planet4Health project, I served as a post-doctoral researcher at Ca' Foscari University, contributing to the Age-it project for about a year. In this role, I developed statistical models and methods to study multi-morbidity dynamics in Italy. I got my Ph.D. from the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Padova in May 2022. My dissertation, supervised by M. Bernardi (University of Padova) and P. Dellaportas (Athens University of Economics and Business, University College of London), was titled "Sports Performance Analysis with State Space Models" and received an honorable mention in the 2023 "Best PhD Thesis in Applied Statistics" award of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS). I keep this research theme active by collaborating with experts in the field of sports science.

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