| Subject: | Probability and Statistics |
| Degree: | Department of Mathematics, University of Patras |
| PhD: | Department of Mathematics, University of Patras PhD Thesis: Strawderman-type estimators for scale parameters |
| Research Interests: | Decision Theory, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Parametric Statistical Inference, Survival Analysis and Censored Data |
| Office: | 219, 2nd Floor, Building Β |
| Contact with students: | Monday 15:00-16:00 & Tuesday 11:00-12:00 |
| Tel: | +3022310 60172 |
| E-mail: | pbobotas@uth.gr |
| Personal Webpage: | http://pbobotas.users.uth.gr |
Panayiotis Bobotas is a graduate of the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras. He obtains an MSc degree in “Computer Mathematics and Decision Making” from the Interdepartmental Program of Postgraduate Studies of the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD degree by the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras. His research interests are mainly in Decision Theory, Parametric Statistical Inference, Multivariate Analysis, Survival Analysis with Censored Data. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the Institute of Statistics, RWTH Aachen University in Germany, as well as at the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton in UK. In addition, he has served as a Research Associate at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. He has taught a variety of courses at the Technological Education Institute of Patras, the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, and the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras. He has authored papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and has participated in international and panhellenic conferences. He is a referee for scientific journals of the field.
- Bobotas P. and Kourouklis S. (2009). Strawderman-type estimators for a scale parameter with application to the exponential distribution. J. Statist. Infer. 139, 3001-3012.
- Bobotas P., Iliopoulos G. and Kourouklis S. (2012). Estimating the ratio of two scale parameters: a simple approach. Inst. Statist. Math. 64, 343-357.
- Bobotas P. and Kateri M. (2015). The step-stress tampered failure rate model under interval monitoring. Stat. Meth. 27, 100-122.
- Bobotas P. and Kourouklis S. (2017). Estimation of the smallest normal variance with applications to variance components models. Prob. Lett. 131, 38-45.
- Bobotas P. (2019). Estimation of the smallest scale parameter of two-parameter exponential distributions. Commun Statist. –Theory Meth. 48(11), 2748-2765.
- Bobotas P. (2019). Improved estimation of the smallest scale parameter of gamma distributions. Korean Statist. Soc. 48, 97-105.
- Bobotas P. and Koutras M.V. (2019). Distributions of the minimum and maximum of a random number of random variables. Statist. Prob. Lett. 146, 57-64.
- Bobotas P. and Kateri M. (2019). Optimal designs for step-stress models under interval censoring. J. Stat. Theory Pract, 13:54.
