**About the Authors**

*Taly Purwa* received his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Statistics from the Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Statistik (STIS), or Politeknik Statistika STIS, in 2010 and his Master’s Degree in Statistics from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Surabaya in 2019. He currently working as a statistician at BPS-Statistics of Bali Province. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 research papers with his research interests include, but not limited to the following areas: economic development, disaster risk, econometrics, time series analysis, and small area estimation. He also contributes as a reviewer in several national peer reviewed journals.

***Wahyu Wibowo*** received Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya in 1997. Meanwhile Master’s Degree in Mathematics was received from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta in 2005. Then he completed Doctoral’s Degress in Mathematics in 2015 from Gadjah Mada University. Currently he is Professor at Department of Business Statistics, Faculty of Vocational Studies, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia. His research interest is regression modeling and machine learning. He actively publish articles in several international conference and journal. He also contributes as reviewer in some international publications.

*Elya Nabila Abdul Bahri, PhD* is a Senior Lecturer under the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Universiti Malaya (UM). She has been teaching in macroeconomics, econometrics, international economics, quantitative analysis, business, and management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for more than 10 years. Her research activity is in the area of economic development, applied econometrics, financial economics, international economics, and labor economics. She can be reached through her email at elyanabila@um.edu.my.