CURRICULUM VITAE

Maria Kateri
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Insurance Science
University of Piraeus, Greece

Karaoli & Dimitriou Str. 80
185 34 Piraeus, Greece

Tel.: +30 210 4142467
Fax: +30 210 4142340
e-mail: mkateri@unipi.gr


STUDIES
B.Sc. in Mathematics (1989) :    Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece.
M.Phil. in Statistics (1992)    :    Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, U.K.
PhD in Statistics (1996)         :    Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece.


ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1996-1997:    Temporary Teaching Staff, Department of History, Ionian University, Greece.
1997-1999:    Temporary Teaching Staff, Department of Tourist Business, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Greece.
1999-2003:    Temporary Teaching Staff, Department of Philosophy-Education–Psychology, University of Ioannina, Greece
2000-2003:    Assistant Professor, Department of Tourist Business, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Greece.
2003 -       :     Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece

TEACHING
Α. Undergraduate Courses
Hypothesis Testing – Biostatistics – Applied Data Analysis – Statistics for Business – Economical Mathematics – Elements of Statistical Methodology and Research – Statistical Applications in Social Sciences – Methodology of Research and Statistics with Applications in Psychology – Statistics & SPSS
    
Β. Graduate Courses
Categorical Data Analysis – Applied Multivariate Analysis – Biostatistics – Clinical Trials

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Categorical Data Analysis, Biostatistics, Analysis of Repeated Measures, Bayesian Inference, Reliability.

PUBLICATIONS
(a)   Statistics
Kateri, Μ. (1993), ‘Fitting Asymmetry and Non-independence Models with GLIM’, GLIM Newsletter, 22, 46-50.
Kateri, Μ. and Papaioannou, T. (1995), ‘f-divergence association models’, International Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Science, 3, 179-203.
Kateri, M. and Papaioannou, T. (1996), ‘Symmetry and Asymmetry Models for Rectangular Tables’, Biometrical Journal,  38, 203-220.
Kateri, Μ., Papaioannou, Τ. and Ahmad, R. (1996), ‘New Association Models for the Analysis of Sets of Two-Way Contingency Tables’, Statistica Applicata, 8, 537-551.
Kateri, M. and Papaioannou, T. (1997), ‘Asymmetry Models for Contingency Tables’, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92, 1124-1131.
Kateri, M., Ahmad, R. and Papaioannou, T. (1998), ‘New Features in the Class of Association Models’, Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, 14, 125-136.
Kateri, M., Papaioannou, T. and Dellaportas, P. (2001), ‘Bayesian Analysis of Correlated Proportions’, Sankhya B, 63, 270 – 285.
Kateri, M. and Papaioannou T. (2003), ‘A correspondence between point-symmetric and classical log-linear models ’,  Metron, LXI, 5-11.
Kateri, M. and Iliopoulos, G. (2003), ‘On collapsing categories in two-way contingency tables’, Statistics 37, 443-455.
Kateri, M., Nicolaou, A. and Ntzoufras, I. (2005). ‘Bayesian Inference for the RC(M) association model’, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 14, 116-138.
Iliopoulos, G., Kateri, M. and Ntzoufras, I. (2007). ‘Bayesian estimation of unrestricted and order-restricted association models for a two-way contingency table’, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 51, 4643-4655.
Kateri, M. and Agresti, A. (2007). ‘A class of ordinal quasi symmetry models for square contingency tables’, Statistics & Probability Letters, 77, 598-603.
Kateri M. and Balakrishnan, N. (2008). ‘Statistical evidence in contingency tables analysis’, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 873-887.
Balakrishnan, N. and Kateri, M. (2008). ‘On the maximum Likelihood Estimation of Parameters of Weibull Distribution based on Complete and Censored Data’, Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 2971-2975.
Kateri, M. and Balakrishnan, N. (2008). ‘Inference for a Simple Step-Stress Model with Type-II Censoring and Weibull Distributed Lifetimes’, IEEE on Reliability, 57, 616-626.
Balakrishnan, N., Castillo, E., Fernández-Canteli, A. and Kateri, M. (2009). ‘An Exponential Model for Damage Accumulation’, Communications in Statistics: Computation & Simulation, 38, 215-232.
Balakrishnan, N., Beutner, E. and Kateri, M. (2009). ‘Order Restricted Inference for Exponential Step-Stress Models’, IEEE on Reliability, 58, 132-142.
Eleftheraki, A., Kateri, M. and Ntzoufras, I. (2009). ‘Bayesian Analysis of Dependent 2x2 Contingency Tables’, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 2724-2732.
Kateri, M., Kamps, U. and Balakrishnan, N.  (2009). ‘A Meta-Analysis Approach for Step-Stress Experiments’, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, (to appear).
Iliopoulos, G., Kateri, M. and Ntzoufras, I. (2009). ‘Bayesian Model Comparison for the Order Restricted RC Association Model’, Psychometrika (to appear).
Balakrishnan, N, Kamps, U. and Kateri, M. (2009). ‘Step-Stress Minimal Repair Times’, Statistics & Probability Letters (to appear).
 
(b)  Contribution to ‘Discussion’ paper
Kateri, M. (2005). Discussion for the paper by Liu, I. and Agresti, A.: ‘The analysis of ordered categorical data: An overview and a survey of recent developments’, Test, 14, 1-73, (Comment: p. 36-39).

(c)   Applications
Bartzokas, A., Metaxas, D.A., Kateri, M. and Exarchos, N. (1991), ‘Sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean. Statistical properties’, Rivista di Meteorogia Aeronautica, V.LI-N. 1-2, 47-64.
Marselos, M, Boutsouris, K., Liapi, H., Malamas, M., Kateri, M. and Papaioannou, T. (1997), ‘Epidemiological aspects on the use of cannabis among university students in Greece’, European Addiction Research, 3, 184-191.
Danielides, V., Nousia, C.-S., Bartzokas A., Lolis, C., Kateri M. and Skevas, A. (2002), ‘Weather conditions and sudden sensorineural hearing loss’ BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders, 2:2 ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/medicine/)
Tzoufi, M., Mantas, Ch., Pappa, S., Kateri, M. Hyphantis, T., Pavlou, M., Mavreas, V. and Siamopoulou-Mavridou, A. (2005), ‘The impact of childhood chronic neurological diseases on Greek families’ Child: Care, Health and Development, 31, 109-115.
Makis, A.C., Tzoufi, M., Kateri, M.D., Bourantas, K.L. and Papadopoulou, Z.L. (2005), ‘Valproate-induced eosinophilia in children with epilepsy: role of interleukin-5’ J. Child Neurol., 20, 150-152.
Papadopoulos, A. A., Kateri, M., Triantafyllou, K., Ladas, K. D., Tzathas, C., Koutras, M., Ladas, S. (2006), ‘Hospitalisation rates for cholelithiasis and acute cholecystitis doubled for the aged population in Greece over the past 30 years’ Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology (to appear).

(d)    Other Publications
Kateri, Μ. (1993), ‘Models in two-way contingency tables’, Biometrics 49, 950-51 (Correspondence Section).
Kateri, M. and Papaioannou, T. (2001), ‘Quasi symmetry and asymmetry models for contingency tables’, in the ‘project QS’ (http:\\www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/Project_QS) of Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilités, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.