Director: Nakas Christos , Professor, Biometry

Other Members:

Dr Eleni Verykouki, Researcher, Biostatistician

Dr Ioanna Karamichali, Post doc, Bioinformatician

George Dimakopoulos, PhD student, Biostatistician

Eleftheria-Maria Alexandri, PhD student, Mathematician-Statistician

Natalia Papadimitriou, PhD student, Mathematician-Statistician

Laboratory Mission:

To support teaching, research, and to offer consulting services in applied statistics and biostatistics — especially for the biosciences — with an emphasis on data analysis methods, machine learning, experimental design, and decision support.

Courses:

 Faculty 1: Christos Nakas

Undergraduate courses

1. Applied Mathematics and Statistics for the Agricultural Sciences

eclass: https://eclass.uth.gr/courses/AGR_U_153/

2. Biometry and Agricultural Experimentation

eclass: https://eclass.uth.gr/courses/AGR_U_115/

3. Bioinformatics

eclass: https://eclass.uth.gr/courses/AGR_U_116/

Postgraduate courses:

Postgraduate program name: Plant Medicine and Environment

1. Methods of Biostatistics for Plant Medicine and the Environment

eclass: https://eclass.uth.gr/courses/AGR_P_106/

Research Interests:

 Faculty 1: Biometry/Biostatistics, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Assessment of Diagnostic Methods, Omics, Survival Analysis, Assessment of Agreement, Goodness-of-fit Techniques.

Selected Publications:

 Faculty 1:

1. Nakas, C.T., Bantis, L.E., & Gatsonis, C.A. (2023). ROC Analysis for Classification and Prediction in Practice (1st ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429170140
2. Nakas, C.T. and Yiannoutsos, C.T. (2004), Ordered multiple-class ROC analysis with continuous measurements. Statist. Med., 23: 3437-3449.https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.1917
3. Bantis, L.E., Nakas, C.T. and Reiser, B. (2014), Construction of Confidence Regions in the ROC Space After the Estimation of the Optimal Youden Index-Based Cut-Off Point,Biometrics, 70(1): 212–223,https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.12107
4. Nakas, C.T. and Alonzo, T.A. (2007), ROC Graphs for Assessing the Ability of a Diagnostic Marker to Detect Three Disease Classes with an Umbrella Ordering,Biometrics, 63(2), 603–609,https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00715.x 
5. 5. Xyrafis, E. G., Fraga, H., Nakas, C. T., & Koundouras, S. (2022). A study on the effects of climate change on viticulture on Santorini Island. OENO One, 56(1), 259–273. https://doi.org/10.20870/oeno-one.2022.56.1.4843

Selected Research Projects:

 Faculty 1:

1. Principal investigator, 4559.01 Biometry Lab, Various, Budget ~350Κ.
2. Principal investigator, 4559.02 Consulting in Data Science, University of Bern, Budget ~70Κ.
3. Principal investigator, 7773 Improvement of Drosophila Suzukii Quality Control Tests…, International Atomic Energy Agency, Budget 30Κ.
4. Team member (primary), 6197 FF-IPM, European Union, Budget ~800Κ.
5. Primary investigator Selected Research Projects, 3931.10 Surveillance program for certain harmful organisms, Benakeio Phytopathological Institure, Budget ~17.5Κ.