Athanassios Katsis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Statistics in Educational Research
Contact
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Education
Ph.D., Statistics, The George Washington University, USA, 1997
Master of Philosophy, Statistics, The George Washington University, USA, 1995
B. Sc., Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece, 1990
Employment
• Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese,
Korinthos, Greece, 2004—present
• Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Aegean,
Samos, Greece, 2002-2004
• Center for Educational Research, Athens, Greece, 2000-2002
• The World Bank, Washington, 1996-1998
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus & Toledo, Ohio
Research interests
Bayesian Statistics, sample size determination, statistical modeling in educational data
Journal articles
1. Moniarou-Papaconstantinou V., Tsatsaroni, A., Katsis, A., Koulaidis, V., (2010).
LIS as a field of study: socio-cultural influences on students’ decision making, Aslib
Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, Vol. 62, 3, 321-344
2. Katsis, A., Nistazakis, H. E. and Tombras, G. S. (2009). Bayesian and frequentist
estimation of the performance of free space optical channels under weak
turbulence conditions. Journal of the Franklin Institute, 346, 4, 315-327.
3. Apostolopoulos, C., Psalidas, A., Hatzinikita, V., and Katsis, A. (2008). Studying
Greek Students’ Performance on PISA Science Items. The International Journal of
Learning, 15, 8, 1-10.
4. Katsis, A., Martzoukos, S., and Yannacopoulos, A. (2008). Bayesian Statistical
Expert Opinion in Option Pricing. Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications, 7,
33-50.
5. Stamey, J., and Katsis, A. (2007). A sample size determination for comparing two
Poisson rates with underreported counts. Communications in Statistics, Statistics and
Simulation, 36, 483-492.
6. Katsis, A., and Nistazakis H. E. (2007). A flexible Bayesian algorithm for sample
size determination in the case of misclassification. Applied Mathematics and
Computation, 184, 86-92.
7. Limakopoulou, A., and Katsis A. (2006). Bayesian sample size calculations
involving the reliability coefficient of a scale in social sciences. Journal of Statistical
Theory and Applications, 4, 381-390.
8. Koulaidis, V., Dimopoulos, K., Tsatsaroni, A., and Katsis, A. (2006). Young
People’s relations to Education: The Case of Greek Youth. Educational Studies,
32, 343-359.
9. Katsis, A., and Ntzoufras, I. (2005). Bayesian Hypothesis Testing for the
Distribution of Insurance Claim Counts Using the Gibbs Sampler. Journal of
Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, 5, 201-214.
10. Katsis, A., and Nistazakis, H. E. (2005). An interval-based criterion for sample
size determination in the case of misclassification. Journal of Statistical Theory
and Applications, 4, 325-340.
11. Katsis, A. (2005). Sample size determination of binomial data with the presence
of misclassification. Metrika, 62, 323-329.
12. Ntzoufras, I, Katsis, A., Karlis, A. (2005). Bayesian Assessment of the
Distribution of Insurance Claim Counts Using the Reversible Jump Algorithm.
North American Actuarial Journal, 9, 90-105.
13. Katsis, A. (2004). Sample size for testing the homogeneity of two a priori
dependent binomial populations using the Bayesian approach. Journal of Applied
Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 8, 33-42.
14. Katsis, A., and Toman, B. (2004). A Bayesian Double Sampling Scheme for
Classifying Binomial Data. The Mathematical Scientist, 29, 49-53.
15. Katsis, A. (2003). New Bayesian Criteria for Optimizing the Combined Sample
Size for Dependent Binomial Populations. Journal of Statistical Theory and
Applications, 2, 267-277.
16. Katsis, A. and Toman, B. (2002). A Bayesian Design for the Optimal Allocation
of Binomial Samples. Journal of Applied Statistical Science, 11, 297-306. (έχει
αναδημοσιευθεί στο Focus on Applied Statistics (2003), editor: Ahsanullah, M.,
185-194, Nova Science Publishers, New York).
17. Katsis, A. (2001). Calculating the Optimal Sample Size for Binomial Populations.
Communications in Statistics, Part A, Theory & Methods, 30, 665-678.
18. Katsis, A., and Toman, B. (1999). Bayesian Sample Size calculations for binomial
experiments. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 81, 349-362.
19. Katsis, A., Psacharopoulos, G., and Mattson, R. (1999). Explaining the
Educational Development in Pakistan: An Analysis of the 1991 Household
Survey. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, XII, 17-36.
20. Drosos, G., Stavropoulos, N., Katsis, A., Kesidis, K., Kazakos, K., and Verettas,
D (2008). Post-Operative Pain After Knee Arthroscopy and Related Factors. The
Open Orthopaedics Journal, 2, 110-114.
21. Halkiadakis, I., Kipioti, A., Emfietzoglou, I., Grigoropoulos, V., Katsis, A.,
Alimisi, S., Vergados, I., Theodossiadis, P., and Theodossiadis, G. (2008).
Comparison of Optical Coherence Tomography and Scanning Laser Polarimetry
in Glaucoma, Ocular Hypertension, and Suspected Glaucoma. Ophthalmic
Surgery, Lasers & Imaging, 39, 2, 125-132.
