BRENTARI Eugenio

Full professor, Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Brescia (Italy).
Academic Experience
Since 1988 teaching in various Italian Universities.
From 1994 teaching statistical courses at University of Brescia, Faculty of Economics:
- Statistics and Probability, undergraduate course (year 2)
- Inference, undergraduate course (year 3)
- CRM System, undergraduate course (year 5)
- Total Quality Control, undergraduate course (year 5)
From 2000 teaching Mixture Distributions, “Statistics and Applied Methodological Ph.D”, University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
From 2002 to 2009 teaching Statistics and Econometrics, “Master in Money and Finance”, University of Brescia (Italy)
Research Group Membership

Recent projects:
2011: Statistical Methods and Models for Constructing and Analyzing Simple and Composite Indicators, chief of project
2011: The weighting of the indices of rank correlation (coordinator Maurizio Carpita)
2010: Simple and Weighted Co-graduation Indices, chief of project
2009: Regression Models with measurement errors in the variables (coordinator Maurizio Carpita)
2008: Job Satisfaction in the Public Utility Services, chief of project
2007: Job Quality Indices for the Italian Social enterprises (coordinator Maurizio Carpita)
2006: Job and Customer Satisfaction in the Public Utility Services, chief of project
2005: Statistic models for assessing the quality of work, chief of project
2004: Economic role of no-profit organizations (national coordinator: Professor Carlo Borzaga, coordinator of University of Brescia: Professor Maurizio Carpita), PRIN MIUR project.

Ex-Academic Activities
Currently:
- From November 2011: president of the Council of the B.S. "Banking and Finance" and the M.S: "Money, Finance and Risk Management"
- From March 2011: member of Research Council, University of Brescia
- From March 2011: president of "Unique Committee of Guarantee for equal opportunities, for promoting the welfare of working people and against discrimination", University of Brescia
- From January 2011: editor in Chief of the international review Statistica & Applicazioni [Statistics & Applications]
- From December 2003: chief of informatics laboratories, Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia
- Member of Scientific board of the research centre Dati, Metodi e Sistemi [Data, Methods and Systems]
- Member of Scientific board of the International Academy of Sensory Analysis (I.A.S.A.)
- From January 2006: chairman of the Orientation board, Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia.
- From November 2001 to October 2004 member of the administration board of the University of Brescia.
- April-May 2005 and October-December 2008: administrative staff examination committee
- 2005: chairman of Business Consultant examination committee
- Member of S.I.S. (Società Italiana di Statistica) [Italian Statistical Society], A.I.C.Q. (Associazione Italiana Cultura Qualità) [Italian Association for Quality Culture] and I.A.S.A. [International Academy of Sensory Analysis - Member of Scientific board]

Research Interests
o Test of hypotheses on the parameters of the multinomial distribution with k classes
o Modern approach to the study of skewness
o Confidence intervals for income concentration measures
o Biases in the relationship between Median and skewness of the distributions
o Problem of Behrens-Fisher
o Sample Biases in Gini index
o Multilevel models
o Statistics for sensorial analysis
o Statistics tools for evaluation of Quality and Customer Satisfaction in firms and services
o Rasch Model for measuring Job Satisfaction