1 Department of Biosciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
2 Department GEPLI, Libera Università Maria Ss Assunta, Rome, Italy.
3 Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
4 Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
5 Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
6 Department of Medicine, Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy.
7 Department GEPLI, Libera Università Maria Ss Assunta, Rome, Italy; Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Electronic address: a.maruotti@lumsa.it.