Laura Pontiggia Assistant Professor of Statistics 215.596.8914 Office: STC 209 E-mail: l.pontig@usp.edu
Ph.D, Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis M.S., Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Doctor of Economics Summa Cum Laude, University of Pavia, Italy
Dr. Pontiggia’s original research interest is non-cooperative stochastic games. In particular she has been studying variations of a two-person, non-cooperative stochastic game, inspired by the famous red-and-black gambling problem presented by Dubins and Savage. Currently, her major interest in game theory concerns developing a cooperative game theory approach to classification analysis, based on the use of the Shapley Value imputation. Her newest research interest concerns statistical methods for pharmaceutical and public health research. In particular she is working on the development of statistical methods that can be used to model data originated in the pharmaceutical and public health fields.
L. Pontiggia (2007) Non-constant sum red-and-black games with bet-dependent win probability function, Journal of Applied Probability, 44, 2.
A.M. Paganoni and L. Pontiggia (2007) Laboratorio di Statistica con Excel, Pearson Education.
L. Pontiggia (2005), Two-person red-and-black with bet-dependent win probabilities, Advanced Applied Probability, 37, 75-89