Preface

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting our society under incredible health, emotional, and economic stress. Facing its harmful effects and their uncertainty, the Executive Board of the Italian Statistical Society SIS) and the Local Organizing Committee, to ensure the highest level of safety for members and delegates, deliberated to cancel the 50th Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society originally planned to be held in Pisa in June 2020 and to postpone the conference to June 2021. The Executive Board and the Local Organizing Committee continue to monitor closely the pandemic evolving situation, and keep the members of SIS and the researchers informed about the potential new dates for the next meeting. To give value to the work of those who prepared their presentation for the conference, the Program Committee decided to publish the volume Book of short papers - SIS 2020 despite the conference cancellation.