Rakitzis Athanasios
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Rakitzis Athanasios
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science
Teaching Field
Statistics
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Athanasios C. Rakitzis is Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science of the University of Piraeus. His research interests are Statistical Quality Control/Statistical Process Control as well as the applications of run and scan statistics. He served as an Assistant Professor in the University of the Aegean (Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics) and as a visiting Professor (Lecturer) in the University of Cyprus (Department of Mathematics and Statistics). Also, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher under a Marie Curie Actions Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) in the Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Nantes, in Nantes, France. He has more than 50 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings. His research work has more than 450 citiations while he served as a referee for 27 international peer-review journals.
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Ι. Education
- 1998 – 2002. BSc in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens.
- 2002 – 2004 MSc in Applied Statistics, Postgraduate Program “Applied Statistics”, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus.
- 2004 – 2008 PhD in Statistics, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. Thesis title: “Theory of Runs and Patterns in Statistical Quality Control”. The research was supported by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece.
ΙΙ. Academic Positions
- 2021 – …: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus.
- 2018 – 2021: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean.
- 2017 – 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of the Aegean.
- 2015 – 2017: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of the Aegean.
- 2013 – 2015: Post-doctoral researcher (Marie Curie fellow), University of Nantes, Nantes, France.
- 2011 – 2013: Visiting Professor (Lecturer), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
- 2010 – 2011: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean.
- 2010: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Regional Economic Development, University of Central Greece.
ΙΙΙ. Other Positions
- 2012-2013 & 2015-2020: Teaching Staff with contract, Postgraduate program “Quality Assurance” (from 2016, “”από το 2016, “Quality Management and Technology “), Hellenic Open University.
- 2011 – 2012: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. Topic: “A Study on Stopping Times and Stopped Sums with Applications in Finance and Production”. Supervisor: Assistant Professor Michael Boutsikas (mbouts@unipi.gr). The research was supported by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece.
- 2009 – 2010: Mandatory military service
- 2008-2010: Statistics Teacher in Public Institutes of Vocational Training, Greece.
Teaching
Academic Year 2021-2022, Fall Semester
- Reliability Theory
- Topics in Data Science
Academic Year 2021-2022, Spring Semester
- Statistics I: Estimation
- Statistical Quality Control
Research
PUBLICATIONS
(i) International Peer Review Journals
- Maravelakis, E., Rakitzis, A. C. and Castagliola, P. (2022). Exponentially weighed moving average charts for monitoring zero-inflated proportions with applications in health care. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 31(5), 959-977. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802221074157.
- Godase, D. G., Mahadik, S. B. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2022). The SPRT control charts for the Maxwell distribution. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 38(4), 1713-1728. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3047.
- Anastasopoulou, M. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2022). One- and two-sided monitoring schemes for BINARCH(1) processes. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. 38(2), 262-286. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/asmb.2658.
- Perdikis, T., Psarakis, S., Castagliola, P., Rakitzis, A. C. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2022) The EWMA sign chart revisited: performance and alternatives without and with ties. Journal of Applied Statistics (accepted). DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2021.1982879.
- Wu, S., Castagliola, P., Rakitzis, A. C. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2022). Design of attribute EWMA type control charts with reliable run length performance. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation (accepted). DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2021.1955263.
- Anastasopoulou, M. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2022). EWMA control charts for monitoring correlated counts with finite range. Journal of Applied Statistics, 49(3), 553-573.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Chakraborti, S., Shongwe, S. C., Graham, M. A. and Khoo, M. B. C. (2019). An overview of Synthetic-type control charts: Techniques and methodology. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(7), 2081-2096.
- Mukherjee, A. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2019). Some simultaneous progressive monitoring schemes for the two parameters of a zero-inflated Poisson process under unknown shifts. Journal of Quality Technology, 51(3), 257-283.
- Tran, P. H., Tran, K. P. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2019). A Synthetic median control chart for monitoring the process mean with measurement errors. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(4), 1100-1116.
- Castagliola, P., Tran, K. P., Celano, G., Rakitzis, A. C. and Maravelakis, P. (2019). An EWMA-type sign chart with exact run length properties, Journal of Quality Technology, 51(1), 51-63.
- Koutras, M. V. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2019). Control charts with random interarrival times between successive samplings. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 35(3), 651-670.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Castagliola, P. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2018). CUSUM control charts for monitoring geometrically inflated Poisson processes: An application to infectious disease counts data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 27(2), 622-641.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Weiss, C. H. and Castagliola, P. (2017). Control charts for monitoring correlated counts with a finite range, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 33(6), 733-749.
- Kumar, N., Chakraborti, S. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2017). Improved Shewhart-type charts for monitoring times between events. Journal of Quality Technology, 49(3), 278-296.
- Rakitzis, A. C. (2017). On the performance of modified runs rules charts with estimated parameters. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 46(2), 1360-1380.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Weiss, C. H. and Castagliola, P. (2017). Control charts for monitoring correlated Poisson counts with an excessive number of zeros. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 33(2), 413-430.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Castagliola, P. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2016). On the modeling and monitoring of general inflated Poisson processes. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 32, 1837-1851.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Castagliola, P. (2016). The effect of parameter estimation on the performance of one-sided Shewhart control charts for zero-inflated processes. Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 45(14), 4194-4214.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2016). Run sum control charts for the monitoring of process variability. Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, 13(1), 58-77.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Maravelakis, P. E. and Castagliola, P. (2016). CUSUM control charts for the monitoring of zero-inflated binomial processes. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 32(2), 465-483.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Castagliola, P. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2016). A two-parameter general inflated Poisson distribution: Properties and applications. Statistical Methodology, 29, 32-50.
- Boutsikas, M. V., Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2016). On the number of claims until ruin in a two-barrier renewal risk model with Erlang mixtures. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 294, 124-137.
- Rakitzis, A. C. (2016). Monitoring exponential data using two-sided control charts with runs rules. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 86(1), 149-159.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Castagliola, P. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2015). A new memory-type monitoring technique for count data. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 85, 235-247.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2015). Start-up demonstration tests with three-level classification, Statistical Papers, 56(1), 1-21.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2014). Control charts with switching and sensitizing runs rules for monitoring process variation. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84(1), 37-56.
- Boutsikas, V., Antzoulakos, D. L. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2014). On the joint distribution of stopping times and stopped sums in multistate exchangeable trials. Journal of Applied Probability, 51(2), 483-491.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2013). A start-up demonstration test based on exchangeable binary trials. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 62(3), 736-745.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2011). On the improvement of one-sided S control charts. Journal of Applied Statistics, 38(12), 2839-2858.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2011). Chi-Square control charts with runs rules. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 13(4), 657-669.
- Antzoulakos, D. L. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2010). Runs rules schemes for monitoring process variability. Journal of Applied Statistics, 37(7), 1231-1247.
- Antzoulakos, D. L., Koutras, M. V. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2009). Start-up demonstration tests based on run and scan statistics. Journal of Quality Technology, 41(1), 48-59.
- Antzoulakos, L. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2008). The modified r out of m control chart. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 37(2), 396-408.
- Antzoulakos, L. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2007). The revised m of k runs rule. Quality Engineering, 20(1), 75-81.
(ii) Book Chapters
- Anastasopoulou, M. and Rakitzis, A.C. (2022) Monitoring a BAR(1) Process with EWMA and DEWMA Control Charts. In: Tran K.P. (eds) Control Charts and Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83819-5_4.
- Chakraborti, S. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2021). Control charts, synthetic. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. Accepted for Publication. DOI: 10.1002/9781118445112.stat08340.
- Bersimis, S., Koutras, M. V. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2020). Run and scan rules in statistical process monitoring. In: Glaz J., Koutras M. (eds) Handbook of Scan Statistics. Springer, New York, NY Invited contribution to the Handbook of Scan Statistics (Eds. J. Glaz, MV Koutras), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8414-1_55-1.
(iii) In Proceedings of International Conferences
- Tran, P. H., Rakitzis, A. C., Nguyen, H. D., Nguyen, Q. T., Tran, H., Tran, K. P. and Heuchenne, C. (2020). New methods for anomaly detection: Run rules multivariate coefficient of variation control charts. Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), pp. 40-44. IEEE.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Koutras, M. V. (2017). The Compound Run Length Distribution: Properties and applications. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society (ASMDA), London, UK, June 6-9, 839-852.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Maravelakis, P. E. and Castagliola, P. (2014). A comparative study of control charts for zero-inflated binomial processes, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Fribourg, Switzerland, September 8-12, 2014, pp. 421-425.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Castagliola, P. (2014). Control charts for zero-inflated processes with estimated parameters, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Data Analysis, Lisbon, Portugal, June 11-14, 2014, pp. 631-641.
- Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2012). A start-up demonstration test under exchangeability, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Data Analysis, Chania, Greece, June 5-8, 2012, pp. 627-633.
- Antzoulakos, D. L., Koutras, M. V. and Rakitzis, A. (2007). A new start-up demonstration test, Proceedings of the 8th Hellenic European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, Athens, Greece, September 20-22, 2007. URL: http://www.aueb.gr/pympe/hercma/proceedings2007/H07-FULL-PAPERS-1/PSARAKIS-MINI-FULL-PAPERS-1/ANTZOULAKOS-KOUTRAS-RAKINTZIS-1.pdf
- Rakitzis, A. and Bersimis, S. (2005) Detection of non-random patterns in Shewhart control charts: methods and applications, Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, Athens, Greece, September 22-24, 2005. URL: http://www.aueb.gr/pympe/hercma/proceedings2005/H05-FULL-PAPERS-1/H05-STATS-1/hercma-2005-rakitzis-bersimis.pdf
Antzoulakos, D. L. and Rakitzis, A. (2005). New sensitizing runs rules for Shewhart type control charts with applications, Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, Athens, Greece, September 22-24, 2005. URL:http://www.aueb.gr/pympe/hercma/proceedings2005/H05-FULL-PAPERS-1/hercma-2005-antzoulakos-rakitzis.pdf και arXiv: 3225
(iv) In Proceedings of Greek Conferences
- Lafatzi, A., Rakitzis, A. C. (2021). EWMA charts for monitoring rates and proportions: a comparative study (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Larissa, 23-26 September 2021 (accepted).
- Antzoulakos, D., Rakitzis, A. C., Fountoukidis, K. (2021). The Run sum Max chart (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Larissa, 23-26 September 2021 (accepted).
- Anastasopoulou, Μ., Rakitzis, A. C. (2021). CUSUM control charts for monitoring BINARCH(1) processes. In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Larissa, 23-26 September 2021 (accepted).
- Anastasopoulou, M., Rakitzis, A. C. (2019). EWMA-type charts for monitoring processes with finite range (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Ioannina May 30 – June 1 2019, pp. 46-60.
- Kyrana, Z., Rakitzis, A. C. (2019). Statistical analysis of the nutrition habits of the adolescents in Greece (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Ioannina May 30 – June 1 2019, pp. 168-182.
- Anastasopoulou, M., Rakitzis, A. C. (2018).Integer-valued autoregressive time series models with finite range: a comparative study in Eurozone inflation data (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 31st Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Lamia 2-5 May 2018, pp. 27-41.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Boutsikas, M. V., Antzoulakos, D. L. (2013). Stopping time and stopped sum distributions in multistate exchangeable trials (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Piraeus 8-12 May 2013, pp. 201-210.
- Rakitzis, A. C. (2012). The modified r-out-of-k control chart with estimated parameters (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Volos. 18-22 April 2012, pp. 198-206.
- Boutsikas, M. V., Rakitzis, A. C., Antzoulakos, D. L. (2011). On the distribution of stopped sum: applications in quality control (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Patras. 27 April – 1 May 2011, pp. 312-320.
- Rakitzis, A. C., Antzoulakos, D. L. (2011). Start-up demonstration tests with two failure levels (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Patras. 27 April – 1 May 2011, pp. 303-311.
- Rakitzis, A., Antzoulakos, D. (2010). A new χ2 control chart with runs rules (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Veroia 7-11 April 2010, pp. 264-271.
- Rakitzis, A. (2010). Adaptive features in control charts for monitoring dispersion (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Veroia 7-11 April 2010, pp. 255-263.
- Antzoulakos, D., Rakitzis, A. (2008). Multivariate control chart with variable sampling intervals and runs rules (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 21st Conference of the Greek Statistica Institute, Samos 30 April – 5 May 2008, pp. 61-70.
- Antzoulakos, D., Rakitzis, A. (2007). Improved r-out-of-m control charts (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Nicosia, 11-15 April 2007, pp. 95-102.
- Antzoulakos, D., Koutras, M., Rakitzis, A. (2006). A study of start-up demonstration tests using run and scan statistics (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Kastoria 26-29 April 2006, pp. 109-117.
- Rakitzis, A., Antzoulakos, D. (2005). Shewhart control charts with sensitizing rules based on the theory of runs (in Greek). In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Rhodes 4-7 May 2005, pp. 325-331.
(v) Technical Reports / Other Publications
- Tran, P. H., Rakitzis, A. C., Nguyen, H. D., Nguyen, Q. T., Tran, K. P. and Heuchenne, C. (2020). Monitoring the multivariate coefficient of variation using run rules type control charts, arxXiv:2001.00996v2.
- Boutsikas, M. V., Rakitzis, A. C. and Antzoulakos, D. L. (2010). On the relation between the distributions of stopping time and stopped sum with applications, arXiv:1008.0116v2.
- Antzoulakos, D. L. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2006). The modified r/ m control chart for detecting small process average shifts. Technical Report #7, University of Piraeus, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science.
Books
- Bersimis S., Rakitzis A., Sachlas A. (2021). Statistical Quality Control (in Greek). 1st Edition, Publisher: Tziolas, Athens. ISBN: 978-960-418-894-9.
- Batsides A., Papastamoulis P., Petropoulos C., Rakitzis A. (2021). Nonparametric Statistics : Theory and Applications using R and S.P.S.S. (in progress). Supported by Kallipos+, Open Academic Editions.
