Published papers

  • Accepted - Ascari, R., Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. A new Dirichlet-multinomial mixture regression model for the analysis of microbiome data. Statistics in Medicine, 10.1002/sim.70220.

  • 2025 - Giampino, A., Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. A flexible mixed-membership model for community and enterotype detection for microbiome data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108181.

  • 2025 - Conforti, F., Nekljudova, V., Sala, I., Ascari, R., et al. Surrogate end points for overall survival in neoadjuvant randomized clinical trials for early breast cancer, Journal of Clinical Oncology, 10.1200/JCO-24-01360.

  • 2024 - Colicino, E., Ascari, R., Saddiki, H., et al. Cross-cohort mixture analysis: a data integration approach with applications on gestational age and DNA-methylation-derived gestational age acceleration metrics. Biometrical Journal, 66(8), 10.1002/bimj.202300270.

  • 2024 - Gerli, S., Ascari, R., Migliorati, S., Cigna, T., Borrotti, M. Beyond human labelling: an automatic topic identification framework for big web data. Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis, 17(03), 545–571, 10.1285/i20705948v17n3p545.

  • 2024 - Ongaro, A., Migliorati, S., Ascari, R., Ripamonti, E. Testing practical relevance of treatment effects. Statistical Papers, 65, 4121–4145, 10.1007/s00362-024-01549-x.

  • 2024 - Ascari, R., Giabelli, A., Malandri, L., Mercorio, F., Mezzanzanica, M. A Fistful of Vectors: A Tool for Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Embeddings. Cognitive Computation, 16, 949–963, 10.1007/s12559-023-10235-3.

  • 2024 - Ascari, R., Di Brisco, A.M., Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. A Multivariate Mixture Regression Model for Constrained Responses. Bayesian Analysis, 19(2), 377–405, 10.1214/22-BA1359.

  • 2021 - Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. A new regression model for overdispersed binomial data accounting for outliers and an excess of zeros. Statistics in Medicine, 40(17), 3895–3914, 10.1002/sim.9005.

  • 2021 - Oliveira dos Anjos, T.B., [et al., including Ascari, R.]. Eutrophic status influences the impact of pesticide mixtures and predation on Daphnia pulex populations. Ecology and Evolution, 11(9), 4046–4057, 10.1002/ece3.7305.

  • 2021 - Sorrentino, S., Ascari, R., et al. (2021). Microglial heterogeneity and its potential role in driving phenotypic diversity of alzheimer’s disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(5), 2780, 10.3390/ijms22052780.

  • 2021 - Maranzano, P., Ascari, R., Chiodini, P.M., Manzi, G. Analysis of sustainability of bike-sharing customers using Partially Ordered Sets methodology. Social Indicator Research, 157, 123–138, 10.1007/s11205-020-02333-8.

  • 2020 - Ongaro, A., Migliorati, S., Ascari, R. A new mixture model on the simplex. Statistics and Computing, 30, 749-770, 10.1007/s11222-019-09920-x.

  • 2015 - Scandroglio, A., Finco, G., [et al, including Ascari, R.]. Cardiac surgery in 260 octogenarians: a case series. BMC Anesthesiology, 15. 10.1186/1471-2253-15-15.

  • 2015 - Pieri, M., Landoni, G., [et al, including Ascari, R.]. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus species in a cardiac surgical intensive care unit. Signa Vitae, 10(2), 65–68, 10.22514/SV102.122015.5.

Submitted papers

  • FlexReg: an R package for fitting regression models on bounded univariate responses. To be resubmitted. Joint work with Agnese M. Di Brisco, Sonia Migliorati, and Andrea Ongaro.

Contribution as book chapter

  • 2025 - Montagna, S. Ascari, R., Khorrami Chokami, A. Spectral Synchronicity of EMG Signals: An Application to the Erector Spinae Muscles of Sitting Violinists. 10.1007/978-3-031-96033-8_9.

  • 2025 - Di Brisco, A.M., Ascari, R., Fiori, A.M., Nicolussi, F. Exploring Dependencies in Compositional Data with Graphical Models. 10.1007/978-3-031-95995-0_22.

  • 2025 - Giampino, A., Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. Microbiome Enterotype Detection via a Latent Variable Allocation Model. 10.1007/978-3-031-64447-4_16.

  • 2025 - Ascari, R., Di Brisco, A.M., Migliorati, S. A New Distribution for Overdispersed Count Data. 10.1007/978-3-031-64431-3_14.

  • 2024 - Giampino, A., Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. A Flexible Generalization of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation. 10.1002/9781394316915.ch8.

  • 2023 - Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. A New Regression Model for the Analysis of Microbiome Data. 10.1007/978-3-031-09034-9_5.

  • 2022 - Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. A new regression model for count compositions. 10.1002/9781394165544.ch2.

  • 2022 - Di Brisco, A.M., Ascari, R., Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. The State of the Art in Flexible Regression Models for Univariate Bounded Responses. 10.1002/9781394165513.ch8.

  • 2022 - Di Brisco, A.M., Ascari, R., Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. Simulation Studies for a Special Mixture Regression Model with Multivariate Responses on the Simplex. 10.1002/9781394165513.ch9.

  • 2021 - Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. A full mixture of experts model to classify constrained data. 10.36253/978-88-5518-340-6.

  • 2021 - Ascari, R., Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. The Double Flexible Dirichlet: A Structured Mixture Model for Compositional Data. 10.1002/9781119821724.ch10.

  • 2019 - Ascari, R., Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. Bayesian inference for a mixture model on the simplex. 10.1007/978-3-030-21140-0_11.