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As Leti has noted in the presentation of the volume, it is not uncommon for Italian statisticians to find, in foreign statistical literature, the elucidation of concepts and statistical indexes which originated in Italy, and, for many years, have been an important part of the cultural background of every Italian statistician. The reason for this situation is that Italian statistical work is relatively obscure to most foreign statisticians. In the last forty years the situation has changed quite a bit because English has essentially become the language of scientific communication and thus all important results appear in a limited number of scientific journals.