SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (International journals and refereed collections)


Michael V. Boutsikas

[1] Boutsikas M.V. and Koutras M.V. (2000). Reliability Approximation for Markov Chain Imbeddable Systems. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 2:4, 393-411

Preprint (PDF, 260KB),                 Published Article (Kluwer)

[2] Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000) A bound for the distribution of the sum of discrete associated or negatively associated random variables. The Annals of Applied Probability 10, 1137-1150.

Preprint (PDF, 187KB),                Published Article (An Official Journal of The Institute of Mathematical Statistics )

[3] Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000) Generalized reliability bounds for coherent structures. Journal of Applied Probability 37, 778-794.

Preprint (PDF, 318KB),                Published Article (Applied Probability Trust)

[4] Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2001) Compound Poisson Approximation for sums of dependent random variables. In Probability and Statistical Models with Applications: A volume in honor of Prof. T. Cacoullos (Eds. Ch.A. Charalambides, M.V. Koutras, N. Balakrishnan), 63-86, Chapman and Hall/CRC press.

Preprint (PDF, 232KB),                Published Volume (CRC Press)

[5] Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002) On the number of overflown urns and excess balls in an allocation model with limited urn capacity. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 104, 259-286.

Preprint (PDF, 300KB),                Published Article (Elsevier)

[6] Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002) On a Class of Multiple Failure Mode Systems. Naval Research Logistics 49, 167-185.

Preprint (PDF, 266KB),                Published Article (Wiley)

[7] Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002) Modelling claim exceedances over thresholds. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 30, 67-83.

Preprint (PDF, 463KB),                Published Article (Elsevier)

[8] Boutsikas M.V. and Vaggelatou, E. (2002) On the distance between convex-ordered random variables. Advances in Applied Probability 34, 349-374.

Preprint (PDF, 332KB),                Published Article (Applied Probability Trust)

[9] Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2003) Bounds for the distribution of two dimensional binary scan statistics. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 17, 509-525.

Preprint (PDF, 290KB),                Published Article (Cambridge Journals)

[10] Boutsikas, M.V. (2006) Compound Poisson process approximation for locally dependent real valued random variables via a new coupling inequality. Bernoulli 12, no3, 501-514.

Preprint (PDF, 173KB),                Published Article (Bernoulli Society, International Statistical Institute, IMS supported)

[11] Boutsikas M.V. and Koutras M.V. (2006) On the asymptotic distribution of the discrete scan statistic. Journal of Applied Probability 43, 1137-1154.

Preprint (PDF, 216KB),                Published Article - (Applied Probability Trust)
[12] Antzoulakos D.L. and Boutsikas M.V. (2007) A direct method to obtain the joint distribution of successes, failures and patterns in enumeration problems. Statistics and Probability Letters 77, 32-39.

Preprint (PDF, 118KB),                Published Article - (Elsevier)

[13] Boutsikas M.V., Koutras M.V., and Milienos F.S. (2009) Extreme Value Results for Scan Statistics. Chapter 3 In Scan Statistics: Methods and Applications , Glaz, Pozdnyakov and Wallenstein (Eds.). Birkhauser

Preprint (32 pages PDF, 337KB),  Published Volume (Birkhauser)

[14] Boutsikas M.V. and Vaggelatou E. (2010) A new method for obtaining sharp compound Poisson approximation error estimates for sums of locally dependent random variables, Bernoulli  16, 301-330.

Preprint (26 pages PDF, 271KB), Published Article (Bernoulli Society, International Statistical Institute, IMS supported)

[15] Boutsikas M.V. (2011) Asymptotically optimal Berry-Esseen type bounds for distributions with an absolutely continuous part, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 141, no3, 1250-1268.

Preprint (27 pages PDF, 308KB), Published Article (Elsevier)

[16] Boutsikas M.V., Rakitzis A.C. and Antzoulakos D.L (2011) On the relation between the distributions of stopping time and stopped sum via Wald's Identity with applications, Submitted

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