Mattia Stival

Mattia Stival is a Researcher at the Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, with a focus on social statistics (SSD: STAT-03/B). His work bridges Bayesian and computational statistics with applications in public health and sports science.

• Current statistician for the Planet4Health project
• Previously postdoctoral researcher for the Age-it project on multi-morbidity modeling
• PhD in Statistical Sciences (University of Padua, 2022) with thesis on Sports Performance Analysis with State Space Models

Research Interests combine methodological innovation with real-world impact:

• Applied: Health inequalities, aging population dynamics, sport-for-health promotion, competitive sports analytics (talent identification, performance monitoring), diffusion models
• Methodological: Bayesian inference, computational statistics, spatio-temporal modeling, machine learning, Monte Carlo methods

Publications demonstrate interdisciplinary trends across:

• Sports statistics (decathlon/heptathlon scoring, youth-to-elite transition)
• Bayesian spatio-temporal health modeling
• Missing data patterns in longitudinal athlete datasets

Scientific Recognition:

• 2023 Honorable Mention for Best PhD Thesis in Applied Statistics by the Italian Statistical Society (SIS)

Teaching includes statistics exercises for economics degrees and R coding in finance analytics. Office hours: Wednesday 10-12 by appointment.