Michele La Rocca is a Full Professor of Statistics at the University of Salerno, Italy. He has published scientific papers on empirical likelihood, nonlinear time series and neural networks, resampling techniques, with applications to biological and financial data. He is an elected member of ISI and a former member of the Charting Committee of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics.

Brunero Liseo has been a Full Professor of Statistics at the School of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, since 2002. He has published more than 60 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include Bayesian inference, distribution theory, official statistics, and stochastic processes. He is the Director of the Ph.D. School of Economics, Sapienza, and a member of the Advisory Board of ISTAT, and of NADO Italia - the National Anti-Doping Organization, the Italian chapter of WADA.

Luigi Salmaso is a Full Professor of Statistics at the Department of Management and Engineering at the University of Padua, Italy. He is the author and creator of the NonParametric Combination Test software for multivariate and multistrata permutation tests. He has published more than 100 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. His main research interests include nonparametric statistics, multivariate analysis, conjoint analysis, big data analytics, and biostatistics. He has received over 3000 citations and written a leading book on permutation testing. He is an Associate Editor for various international ISI journals.