Gaetano Pietra

Gaetano Pietra also played an important role in the organization of supplies during World War I before dedicating himself to scientific statistics, held an official position (as president of the political sciences and law faculties at the University of Padua) until the regime’s fall in July 1943.

In April 1945, he was appointed vice-commissar, and from January 1946, president of Udine’s Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture.

Variability and concentration measures, concordance between cyclical series.

Full professor of statistics at the University of Padua and Ferrara (up to 1949), member of the Istituto interno di Statistica, member of the Istituto veneto di scienze lettere ed arti.

He provided important and original contributions to the relationships between variability and concentration, and concordance between cyclical series.