Ivana Horová
e-mail:
horova@math.muni.cz,
fax: +420-5-49498021,
tel.: +420 549 494 429
POSITION:
Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics (since 1997)
EDUCATION:
- Mathematical analysis, Faculty of Science MU (1961-1966)
- PhD - Approximate and numerical methods, MU (1966-1969)
- PhD thesis : Linear positive operators of convex functions defended at the Komensky University of Bratislava
EMPLOYEMENT:
- Masaryk University, Faculty of Science
- Assistant professor : 1969 - 1990
- Associate professor : 1990 - 2003
- Professor : since 2003
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES :
- Member of the Scientific Board of Ostrava University
- Member of The International Environmetrics Society
- Chair and coorganiser of summer school DATASTAT
- Coorganiser of the conference ESES'96, Brno
- Coorganiser of Perspectives in Modern Statistical Inference 1998, 2002, 2005
- Conference chair of the 18th TIES conference, Mikulov CZ, 2007
- Board member (representative for Europe) of the International Envronmetrics Society (TIES)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmetrics
- Director-coordinator of the Jaroslav Hajek Center of Theoretical and Applied Statistics
RESEARCH INTERESTS :
- approximation theory and linear positive operators,
- properties of linear positive operators and their application,
- different approaches to data processing, nonparametric regression analysis,
- kernel smoothing and its relation to additive models,
- application to climatological data sets environmetrics and medicine,
- estimates of hazard functions and ROC curves,
- variational principles and optimal control theory.
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