Ioannis Ntzoufras

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  1. Egidi L. and Ntzoufras I. (2019). A Bayesian Quest for Finding a Unified Model for Predicting Volleyball Games  (submitted), arXiv: 1911.01815, stat.AP. 

  2. Ntzoufras I, Palaskas V. and Drikos S. (2019).  Bayesian Prediction of Volleyball Sets Using the Truncated Skellam and the Ordered Multinomial Models (submitted), arXiv: 1911.04541, stat.AP.

  3. Staerk C., Kateri M. & Ntzoufras, I. (2019). High-Dimensional Variable Selection via Low-Dimensional Adaptive Learning (submitted).  arXiv: 1905.00105,  stat.CO.

  4. Fouskakis D., Ntzoufras I.  (2019). Power-Expected-Posterior Priors as Mixtures of g-Priors for Bayesian Model Averaging  (under submission).  

 

  1. Mantzouni, K., Ntzoufras I. and Kateri M. (2019). Bayesian model comparison of association models in contingency table analysis using power priors.

  2. Leriou I. and Ntzoufras I. (2019). Objective Variable Selection for Survival Models Using a Generalized Beta Distribution.

  3. Leriou I., Ntzoufras I.  and Karlis D. (2019). Bayesian Survival Analysis of Goal Arrival Times in Football.

  4. Matzorakis K., Kehagias S. and Ntzoufras, I. (2019). Bayesian Water Polo Analytics.

  5. Nikolakopoulos S. and Ntzoufras I. (2019). Using Evidence Synthesis Techniques in Bayesian Variable Selection for large n - small p datasets.

  6. Palaskas V., Ntzoufras I. and Drikos, S. (2019). Bayesian Modelling of Volleyball Sets

  7. Egidi L. and Ntzoufras I. (2019). Modelling volleyball data using a Bayesian approach

  1. Manasis, V., Ntzoufras, I. and Reade, J. (2015). Measuring Competitive Balance and Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis in European Football, arXiv:1507.00634v1 [stat.AP].

  2. Vitoratou, S. and Ntzoufras, I. (2014).  A note on the total covariation of multivariate random variables.

  3. Ntzoufras I. and Tarantola C. (2008). Bayesian Analysis of Marginal Log-Linear Graphical Models for Three Way Contingency Tables.arXiv:0807.1001v1 [stat.ME]  [first version 22/5/2008].

Presentations & Posters

  1. February 6, 2019: Hub Science, Athens, Greece: "Football Analytics: Problems, Methods & FunStats". [Slides]. [Video] by Bodosaki Lectures on Demand (BLOD) - in Greek.

  2. December 19–22, 2018: Greek Stochastics κ’, Athens, Greece: "Can we make Objective Bayesian Model comparisons in a subjective Bayes world?"

  3. November 26-27, 2018: 3rd AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (SAW2018), Athens, Greece: "An overview of Football Analytics".

  4. October 22–23, 2018: Challenges in Categorical Data Analysis, Aachen, Germany: "Objective Bayes Model Comparisons for Categorical Data".

  5. June 24-29, 2018: ISBA 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland: "Probability Based Independence Sampler for Bayesian Quantitative Learning in Graphical Log-Linear Marginal Models" (poster).

  6. November 7, 2017: 2nd AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (SAW2017), Athens, Greece: "Statistical Properties of indices of competitive balance" .

  7. July 14-17, 2017: Greek Stochastics ι′, Milos Island, Greece: "Properties of Variations of Power-Expected-Posterior Priors".

  8. July 3-5, 2017: Statistics4@florence: 4th Meeting on Statistics, Florence, Italy, "Properties of Variations of Power-Expected-Posterior Priors".

  9. May 8–12, 2017, 9th EMR-IBS and Italian Region conference, Thessaloniki, Greece: "Bayesian Variable Selection Using Power-Expected-Posterior Priors in GLMs".

  10. November 29, 2016: 1st AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (SAW2016), Athens, Greece: "Measuring Competitive Balance in Team Sports".

  11. June 13-17, 2016: ISBA 2016, Sardinia, Italy: "Power-Expected-Posterior Priors in Generalized Linear Models" (poster).

  12. May 13, 2016: National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Grece: "Power-Expected-Posterior Priors in Generalized Linear Models".

  13. February 10, 2016: Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, "Data Science in the 21th Century & Power-Expected-Posterior Priors in Generalized Linear Models".

  14. June 29 - July 1, 2015: MathSport International 2015, Loughborough, UK, "Skills Importance across Ages for Men’s Volleyball" (presented by S.Drikos).

  15. June 29 - July 1, 2015: MathSport International 2015, Loughborough, UK, "Measuring Competitive Balance and Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis in European Football".
    June 24, 2015    : Statistics3@athens: 3rd Meeting on Statistics, Athens, Greece, "Power-Expected-Posterior Priors in Generalized Linear Models".

  16. June 3, 2015: OBayes15, Valencia, Spain: "Power-Expected-Posterior Priors in Generalized Linear Models".

  17. November 5, 2013: Stat Thinking Seminar, AUEB, Greece: "Uncertainty, Competitive Balance and Professional Football" .

  18. June 6, 2013: International MathSport 2013, Leuven, Belgium: "Modeling goal arrival times in Association Football".

  19. June 4, 2013: RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Power-Expected-Posterior Priors for Variable Selection in Gaussian Linear Models.

  20. August 25-28, 2012: Greek Stochastics δ, Kalamata, Greece: "Joint Specification of Model Space and Parameter Space Prior Distributions" .

  21. December 7, 2010, Emeis+Emeis Seminar Series, AUEB, Athens. "On Bayesian Variable Selection Using Lasso and the specification of the shrinkage parameter".

  22. 23–25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010, 2nd Greco Italian Meeting on Statistics, Sardinia, Italy. “On Bayesian Variable Selection Using Lasso”.

  23. June 2, 2010, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK. Incorporating cost in Bayesian Variable Selection, with application to cost-effective measurement of quality of health care. 

  24. May 30 - June 1, 2010, Workshop on Model Uncertainty, CRISM, University of Warwick, UK, “Population-Based Reversible-Jump MCMC for Bayesian Variable Selection and Evaluation Under Cost-Limit Restrictions.”

  25. December 3, 2009, Department of Mathematics, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greence. Incorporating cost in Bayesian Variable Selection, with application to cost-effective measurement of quality of health care.

  26. September 25, 2009, London School of Economics, London, UK, Incorporating cost in Bayesian Variable Selection, with application to cost-effective measurement of quality of health care.

  27. September 23, 2009, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, Population-Based Reversible-Jump MCMC for Bayesian Variable Selection and Evaluation Under Cost-Limit Restrictions.

  28. September 22, 2009,  Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, An Introductory Tutorial on Bayesian Variable Selection.

Software

  1. Football Analyzer by Nikos Moustakidis (supervised by I.Ntzoufras).
  2. Bivpois R-package by Karlis and Ntzoufras (2011).

Unpublished Technical Reports

  • Ghosh P. and Ntzoufras I. (2005). Testing Population and Individual Bioequivalence: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach.

  • Karlis, D. and Ntzoufras, I. (2000), Discrete Distributions with Applications in Sports, Technical Report 64, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business. Download.

  • Ntzoufras, I., Dellaportas, P. and Forster, J.J. (1999). MCMC Variable and Link Determination in Generalised Linear Models. Technical Report 65, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business.Download.

 

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