Associate Professor

University of Piraeus

Department of Statistics and Insurance Science

arakitz@unipi.gr , rakitzis.athanasios@ac.eap.gr ,  arakitz@gmail.com 

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Date of birth: December 14, 1980

• Nationality: Greek

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• 2025-... : Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece.

• 2021- 2025 : Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece. 

• 2018- 2021 : Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Greece.

• 2017- 2018 : Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of the Aegean, Greece.

• 2015-2017 : Lecturer, Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematis), University of the Aegean, Greece.

• 2013- 2015 : Post-Doctoral researcher (Marie Curie fellow) in the University of Nantes, Nantes, France.

• 2011-2013 : Visiting Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

• 2010-2011 : Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Greece.

• 2010 : Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Regional Economic Development, University of Central Greece, Greece.

OTHER POSITIONS

• 2012-2013 & 2015-2020: Teaching Staff, MSc Program “Quality Assurance” (from 2016, "Management & Quality Technology"), Hellenic Open University, Greece.

• 2011-2012: Post-Doctoral researcher, Dept. of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece. Research topic: “A Study on Stopping Times and Stopped Sums with Applications in Finance and Production”. Supervisor: Assistant Prof. Michael Boutsikas (mbouts@unipi.gr). The research work 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.

• between 2004 and 2011: Several semesters as Teaching assistant and Lab instructor at Dept. of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece.

EDUCATION

• 2008 : PhD in Statistics, title: "Theory of Runs and Patterns in Statistical Quality Control". Advisor: Associate Prof. Antzoulakos Demetrios (dantz@unipi.gr), defended June 2008, Department of Statistics & Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece.

• 2005 : MSc in Applied Statistics, Department of Statistics & Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece.

• 2002 : BSc in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece.

TEACHING TOPICS

• Basic Statistics

• Statistical Quality Control

• Linear, Generalized Linear and Non-linear Models

• Biostatistics

• Introduction to Informatics with Applications in Statistics

• Nonparametric Statistics

• Reliability Theory

• Mathematical Statistics

• Econometric Models

RESEARCH TOPICS

• Statistical Process Control

• Theory and Applications of Run and Scan Statistics

• Applications of Stopping Time and Stopped Sum distributions

GRANTS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

• 2013-2015 : Marie Curie Actions - Intra-European Fellowships, Project number 328037, Project SMPHS (Improved Statistical Monitoring Procedures for Attributes with Applications in Public Health Surveillance). Scientist-in-charge: Philippe Castagliola (philippe.castagliola@univ-nantes.fr).

• 2011-2012 : One-year Scholarship for Post-Doctorate Research in Greece from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece, Subject “Mathematics–Informatics”.

• 2004-2008 : Three-year scholarship for PhD studies in Greece from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (after written examinations). Subject “Applied Statistics”.

• 2002-2004 : Scholarship award from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece for best performance during the two years of MSc program “Applied Statistics” in the Department of Statistics & Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece. 

COLLABORATIONS

• Demetrios ANTZOULAKOS, University of Piraeus, Piraues, Greece.

• Michael BOUTSIKAS, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.

• Philippe CASTAGLIOLA, University of Nantes, Nantes, France.

• Subhabrata "Subha" CHAKRABORTI, University of Alabama, USA.

• Markos KOUTRAS, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.

• Nirpeksh KUMAR, Banaras Hindu University, India.

• Petros MARAVELAKIS, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.

• Kim Phuc TRAN, ENSAIT (Graduate School), Roubaix, France.

• Christian WEISS, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany.

CONFERENCES (Selected, most recent)

• International Conference on Advances in Statistical Methods, Data Science and Official Statistics (ICASDO) 2025, "Control charts for monitoring binomial counts with autocorrelation: A comparative study", 19-21 June 2025, India (Virtual)

• 21st Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society (ASMDA) 2025, "Phase II Monitoring of a Shifted Exponential Process using CUSUM Charts with Individual Observations", Piraeus, 10-13 June 2025, Greece.

• 37th Panhellenic and 3rd International Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, "On the Performance of a Control Chart for Rates and Proportions when Process Parameters are estimated", Larissa 24-27 April 2025, Greece.

• 18th International Joint Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics and Computational and Methodological Statistics (CFE-CMStatistics 2024), "Control Charts for Monitoring a BINARCH(1) Process: Comparisons and Applications ", London 14-16 December 2024, UK.

• 24th Annual Conference of the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS24), "CUSUM Charts based on Individual Observations for Monitoring a Shifted Exponential Process", Leuven 16-19 September 2024, Belgium.

•  AUEB Statistical Data Science & Economics Conference 2024, "A Shewhart control chart for monitoring continuous proportions with estimated parameters",  Aegina 28-30 August 2024, Greece.

• 7th International Symposium on Statistical Process Monitoring (ISSPM 2023), "Monitoring Inflated Processes Using Control Charts with Runs Rules", Valencia 3-7 July 2023, Spain.

• 10th International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP 2023), "A Two-sided Control Chart for Monitoring General Inflated Processes", Thessaloniki 7-10 June 2023, Greece.

• 35th Panhellenic and 1st International Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, "Upper One-Sided Control Charts with Estimated Parameters for Zero-Inflated Processes", Athens 25-28 May 2023, Greece.

• International Hybrid Webinar in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science in Industry 4.0, "Improved Statistical Monitoring Procedures for Attributes with Applications in Public Health Surveillance",  Dong A University, 14 July 2022, Viet Nam,

• 7th Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference, "On the Design and Performance of Upper One-Sided Charts for Zero-Inflated Processes with Estimated Parameters",  Athens 7-10 June 2022, Greece.

• 34th Annual Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, "Control Charts with Runs Rules  for Times Between Events",  Athens, 19-22 May 2022, Greece.

• 33rd Annual Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, "On the Use of Runs-based Tests in Phase I Analysis of Control Charts ", Larissa, 23-26 September 2021, Greece (Virtual).

• 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress, "Control Charts with Memory for Monitoring Integer-Valued Autocorrelated Processes", 11-16 July, 2021 (Virtual).

• 19th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society (ASMDA) 2021, "EWMA Control Charts for Monitoring Rates and Proportions: A Comparative Study", Athens (virtual), 1-4 June 2021, Greece.

SUPERVISION

• BSc Thesis

  • Papamichail Eirini, "Synthetic control charts for zero-inflated Binomial distribution",  BSc thesis, Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended June 2019.

• MSc Thesis

  • Petrou Argiri, "Control charts based on geometric distribution for low fraction nonconforming processes" (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Assurance”, Hellenic Open University of Greece, defended May 2013.

  • Charitidis Konstantinos, "Control charts for monitoring observations from exponential distribution" (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of Aegean, defended May 2016.

  • Spanoudis Athanasios, "CUSUM control charts for monitoring process variation" (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of Aegean, defended October 2016.

  • Koniakos Charalampos, "Comparison and Evaluation of Quality Standards in the Process and Standardization of Edible Olive: A Case Study" (in Greek), MSc Program "Quality Management and Technology”, Hellenic Open University of Greece, defended September 2017.

  • Kyriakou Andreas, "Control Chart for High Quality Processes" (in Greek), MSc Program "Quality Management and Technology”, Hellenic Open University of Greece, defended September 2017.

  • Kanidou Maria, "Standards and certification procedures on energy issues: The case of electrical installations" (in Greek), MSc Program "Quality Management and Technology”, Hellenic Open University of Greece, defended September 2017.

  • Lambrou Dimitra, "An Application of Control Charts in Water Quality Control" (in Greek), MSc Program "Quality Management and Technology”, Hellenic Open University of Greece, defended September 2017.

  • Mastoridis Athanasios, "Applications of Statistical Techniques in Data related to Foreign Language Certificates: A Case Study" (in Greek), MSc Program "Quality Management and Technology”, Hellenic Open University of Greece, defended September 2017.

  • Filippi Maria, "Geometric Distribution of Order k and Applications" (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of Aegean, defended October 2017.

  • Anastasopoulou Maria, "Integer-Valued Autoregressive Time Series Models with Finite Range and Applications" (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of Aegean, defended October 2017.

  • Papachristodoulou Elisavet, "Six Sigma Using R" (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of Aegean, defended February 2018.

  • Karadimos Evangelos, "A Quality Assurance System for Data Networks" (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”, Open University of Greece, defended May 2018.

  • Kalogianni Ourania, "A Case Study on the Quality of Services of OPEKEPE",  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”, Open University of Greece, defended September 2018.

  • Marneli Eleftheria, "A Homogeneity Study of Baby Food Mixture based on Cereals with the Technique of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS): Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis",  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”, Open University of Greece, defended September 2018.

  • Karatzas Nikolaos, "Transaction Monitoring Systems: Statistical Monitoring of Alerts "  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2018.

  • Charalampous Maria, "Non Parametric Control Charts Using Sign Test"  (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of Aegean, defended September 2018.

  • Voganatsis Andreas, "Control Charts for Autocorrelated Data"  (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Mathematics (track of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), University of Aegean, defended September 2018.

  • Kamoutsi Dimitra, "Attributes control charts with exact in-control performance "  (in Greek),  MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended June 2019.

  • Kyrana Zacharenia, "Statistical data analysis on nutritional habits of the adolescents in Greece by using the statistical package R "  (in Greek), Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended June 2019.

  • Aikaterini Mylothropoulou, "An Application of Quality Assurance Standards in Agricultural Insurances"  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2019.

  • Papageorgoulis Periklis, "An Application of Statistical Process Control Techniques in the Education Process of Learning and Assessment of Secondary Mathematics: A Case Study "  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2019.

  • Vartholomidou Parthena, "Optimal Biogas Production Factors: A Case Study Using Quality Assurance Techniques "  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2019.

  • Panagiotidou Despoina, "Acceptance Sampling Plans for Attributes and Variables"  (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended September 2019.

  • Provelengiou Maria, "Control Charts with Estimated Parameters for Monitoring Zero-Inflated Processes"  (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended May 2020.

  • Pattakou Aristea, "Optimization Methods in Chocolate Production using Continuous Improvement Techniques and Performance Indicators"  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2020.

  • Sakeliou Anastasia, "An Application of Statistical Process Control Techniques in Rice Production"  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2020.

  • Tsamadias Theodoros, "Analysis of Efficiency, Availability and Quality of the Machine System in a Paint Manufacturing Industry"  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2020.

  • Sarli Asimina, "Statistical Analysis of Farming Data: A Case Study "  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2020.

  • Kapolitsa Aikaterini, "Process capability indices for data from discrete distributions "  (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended September 2020.

  • Lafatzi Agryro, "Control Charts for Rates and Proportions"  (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended June 2021.

  • Papaleksidis Nikolaos, "Modern Control Charts for Times Between Events"  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2021.

  • Pappa Panagiota, "Statistical Analysis of Temperature Data using Quality Assusrance Techniques"  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2021.

  • Stoikou Aikaterini, "Analysis of Quality Assurance Data from Foor Companies"  (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2021.

  • Saxoni Ioanna, "Multivariate Control Charts: Methods and Applications using R" (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended February 2022.

  • Maliaroudaki Anastasia, "Binomial Autoregressive Time Series Models of Order p with Finite Support: Theory and Applications. " (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended June 2022.

  • Kyriakopoulou Galateia, "Techniques for the Capability of a Measurement System." (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended June 2022.

  • Manta Evangelia, "On the Quality and Training of Airport Staff: A Case Study" (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2022.

  • Paraskevaidou Eirini, "Quality Assurance Methods in Chemical Analysis of Water" (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2022.

  • Petridou Zoi, "Risk Management and adaptation practice of Thrace farmers to climate change and its impact on agricultural crops" (in Greek), MSc Program “Quality Management and Technology”,  Open University of Greece, defended September 2022.

  • Papavramidis Themistoklis, "Non-parametric Memory-Type Charts for Monitoring Location " (in Greek), MSc Program "Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended September 2022.

  • Toka Maria, "Control Charts for Rates and Proportions: The Case of the Kumaraswamy Distribution" (in Greek), Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended September 2023.

  • Kaliakouda Foteini, "Indexes for Selecting the Best Number of Clusters: An Empirical Comparative Study" (in Greek), Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, defended September 2024.

• PhD Thesis

  • Anastasopoulou Maria, "Control Charts for Integer-Valued Time Series Models". Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended June 2023.

  • Mamzeridou Eftichia, "Improved Control Charts for General Inflated Processes", Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, defended May 2024.

REFEREEING

• Reviewer for Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Cogent Mathematics, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Computational Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Computers and Industrial Engineering, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, International Journal of Production Research, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions A: Science, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Mathematics, Operational Research: An International Journal, Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Sensors, Sequential Analysis, Statistical Methods and Applications, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Statistics and Probability Letters, Stochastics and Quality Control.

PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED JOURNALS

1.  M Anastasopoulou, AC Rakitzis (2025). On the monitoring of BINARCH(1) processes with CUSUM-type charts. Quality and Reliability Engineering International (accepted). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.70019. 

2. DL Antzoulakos, KG Fountoukidis, AC Rakitzis (2025). A Max-type run sum chart for monitoring a shifted exponential process. Quality and Reliability Engineering International 41(5), 2199-2215.

3. DL Antzoulakos, KG Fountoukidis, AC Rakitzis (2025).  The variable sample size and sampling interval run sum Max chart. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 22(2), 321-344.

4. AC Rakitzis, A. Lafatzi (2025). On the performance of two-sided EWMA charts in the monitoring of continuous proportions. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 54(2), 489-509.

5. SR Shinde, SB Mahadik, AC Rakitzis (2024). New Lepage-type control charts for joint monitoring of location and scale. Computers & Industrial Engineering (accepted). DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2024.110614.

6. E. Mamzeridou, AC Rakitzis (2024). On the design and performance of upper one-sided Shewhart charts for zero-inflated Poisson processes with estimated parameters. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 21(5), 611-632.

7. N Kumar, AC Rakitzis, S Chakraborti, T Singh (2024). Statistical design of ATS-unbiased charts with runs rules for monitoring exponential times between events. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 53(3), 815-833. 

8. E. Mamzeridou, AC Rakitzis (2024). Synthetic-type control charts for monitoring general inflated Poisson processes. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 53(6), 2763-2777.

9. S Bersimis, S Chakraborti, AC Rakitzis (2024). Pattern detection in Phase I monitoring  using runs-based tests. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 53(6), 2675-2691. 

10. E. Mamzeridou, AC Rakitzis (2023). A combined runs rules scheme for monitoring general inflated Poisson processes. Mathematics, 11(22), 4671. DOI:10.3390/math11224671

11. S Wu, P Castagliola, AC Rakitzis, PE Maravelakis (2023). Design of attribute EWMA type control charts with reliable run length performance. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 52(9), 4193-4209.

12. DL Antzoulakos, KG Fountoukidis, AC Rakitzis (2023). A Phase II run sum chart for monitoring process mean and variability. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 93(13), 2276-2296. 

13. T Perdikis, S Psarakis, P Castagliola, V Giner-Bosch, PE Maravelakis, AC Rakitzis (2023). An EWMA Sign Chart for dispersion with exact Run Length properties. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 93(11), 1799-1829.

14. T Perdikis, S Psarakis, P Castagliola, AC Rakitzis, PE Maravelakis (2023). The EWMA Sign Chart Revisited: Performance and Alternatives without and with Ties. Journal of Applied Statistics, 50(1), 1790-194.

15. DG Godase, AC Rakitzis, SB Mahadik, MBC Khoo (2022). Deciles-based EWMA-type sign charts for process dispersion. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 38(7), 3726-3740. 

16. PE Maravelakis, AC Rakitzis, P Castagliola (2022). EWMA Charts for Monitoring Zero-Inflated Proportions with Applications in Health-Care. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 31(5),  959-977.

17. DG Godase, SB Mahadik, AC Rakitzis (2022). The SPRT Control Charts for the Maxwell Distribution. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 38(4), 1713-1728.

18. M Anastasopoulou, AC Rakitzis (2022). One- and Two-Sided Monitoring Schemes for BINARCH(1) Processes. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 38(2), 262-286 .

19. M Anastasopoulou, AC Rakitzis (2022). EWMA control charts for monitoring correlated counts with finite range. Journal of Applied Statistics, 49(3),  553-573.

20. AC Rakitzis, S Chakraborti, SC Shongwe, MA Graham, MBC Khoo (2019). An overview of Synthetic-type control charts: Techniques and methodology. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(7), 2081-2096.  

21. A Mukherjee, AC Rakitzis (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. 

22.  PH Tran, KP Tran, AC Rakitzis (2019).  A Synthetic median control chart for monitoring the process mean with measurement errors. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(4), 1100-1116. 

23. P Castagliola, KP Tran, G Celano, AC Rakitzis, P Maravelakis (2019). An EWMA-type sign chart with exact run length properties, Journal of Quality Technology, 51(1), 51-63.

24. MV Koutras, AC Rakitzis (2018). Control charts with random interarrival times between successive samplings. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, (accepted), DOI: 10.1002/asmb.2358.

25. AC Rakitzis, P Castagliola, P Maravelakis (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.

26. AC Rakitzis, CH Weiss, P Castagliola (2017). Control charts for monitoring correlated counts with a finite range, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 33(6), 733-749.

27. N Kumar, S Chakraborti, AC Rakitzis (2017). Improved Shewhart-type charts for monitoring times between events. Journal of Quality Technology, 49(3) , 278-296.

28. AC Rakitzis (2017). On the performance of modified runs rules xbar charts with estimated parameters. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 46(2), 1360-1380.

29. AC Rakitzis, CH Weiss, P Castagliola (2017). Control charts for monitoring correlated Poisson counts with an excessive number of zeros. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 33, 413-430.

30. AC Rakitzis, P Castagliola, PE Maravelakis (2016). On the modeling and monitoring of general inflated Poisson processes. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 32, 1837-1851.

31. AC Rakitzis, P Castagliola (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.

32. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2016). Run sum control charts for the monitoring of process variability. Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, 13(1), 58-77.

33. AC Rakitzis, PE Maravelakis, P Castagliola (2016). CUSUM control charts for the monitoring of zero-inflated binomial processes. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 32(2), 465-483.

34. AC Rakitzis, P Castagliola, PE Maravelakis (2016). A two-parameter general inflated Poisson distribution: Properties and applications. Statistical Methodology, 29, 32-50.

35. MV Boutsikas, AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (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.

36. AC Rakitzis (2016). Monitoring exponential data using two-sided control charts with runs rules. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 86(1), 149-159.

37. AC Rakitzis, P Castagliola, PE Maravelakis (2015). A new memory-type monitoring technique for count data. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 85, 235-247.

38. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2015). Start-up demonstration tests with three-level classification. Statistical Papers, 56(1), 1-21.

39. MV Boutsikas, DL Antzoulakos, AC Rakitzis (2014). On the joint distribution of stopping times and stopped sums in multistate exchangeable trials. Journal of Applied Probability, 51(2), 483-491.

40. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2014). Control charts with switching and sensitizing runs rules for monitoring process variation. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84(1), 37-56.

41. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2013). A start-up demonstration test based on exchangeable binary trials. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 62(3), 736-745.

42. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2011). On the improvement of one-sided S control charts. Journal of Applied Statistics, 38(12), 2839 – 2858.

43. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2011). Chi-Square control charts with runs rules. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 13(4), 657 – 669.

44. DL Antzoulakos, AC Rakitzis (2010). Runs rules schemes for monitoring process variability. Journal of Applied Statistics, 37(7), 1231 – 1247.

45. DL Antzoulakos, MV Koutras, AC Rakitzis (2009). Start-up demonstration tests based on run and scan statistics. Journal of Quality Technology , 41(1), 48 – 59.

46. DL Antzoulakos, AC Rakitzis (2008). The modified r out of m control chart. Communications in Statistics–Simulation and Computation, 37(2), 396 – 408.

47. DL Antzoulakos, AC Rakitzis (2007). The revised m of k runs rule. Quality Engineering, 20(1), 75 – 81.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. AC Rakitzis, E Mamzeridou, PE Maravelakis (2024).  The unconditional performance of control charts for zero-inflated processes with estimated parameters. In Statistical Methods and Applications in Systems Assurance & Quality (eds S. Bersimis, P. Economou, A.C. Rakitzis) of the book series Advanced Research in Reliability and System Assurance (accepted).

2. S Chakraborti, N Kumar, AC Rakitzis, R Sparks (2024).  Time Between Events Monitoring with Control Charts. In Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online (eds N. Balakrishnan, T. Colton, B. Everitt, W. Piegorsch, F. Ruggeri and J.L. Teugels). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08409. 

3. M Anastasopoulou, AC Rakitzis (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 .

4. S Chakraborti, AC Rakitzis (2021). Control charts, synthetic. In Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online (eds N. Balakrishnan, T. Colton, B. Everitt, W. Piegorsch, F. Ruggeri and J.L. Teugels). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08340 .

5. S Bersimis, MV Koutras, AC Rakitzis (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 .

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. AC Rakitzis, E Mamzeridou (2022). Upper one-sided charts for zero-inflated Poisson processes with estimated parameters. 7th Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis (SMTDA) International Conference, Athens, Greece, June 7-10,  143-156.

2. DL Antzoulakos, K Fountoukidis, AC Rakitzis (2022). The variable sampling interval run sum Max chart. 6th International Symposium of Researchers, Statisticians and Young Statisticians  (IRSYSC2022 ), Antalya, Turkey, November 3-6, 118-131. 

3. DL Antzoulakos, AC Rakitzis, K Fountoukidis (2021). A run sum Max control chart (in Greek). 33rd Greek Statistical Conference, Larissa, Greece,  September 23-26,  50-64. 

4. A. Lafatzi, AC Rakitzis (2021). EWMA control charts for monitoring rates and proportions: A comparative study (in Greek). 33rd Greek Statistical Conference, Larissa, Greece, September 23-261, 135-149. 

5. M Anastasopoulou, AC Rakitzis (2021). CUSUM control charts for monitoring BINARCH(1) processes. 33rd Greek Statistical Conference, Larissa, Greece, September 23-26, 219-232. 

6. PH Tran,  AC Rakitzis,  HD Nguyen, QT Nguyen, H Tran, KP Tran, C Heuchenne. (2020, October). New Methods for Anomaly Detection: Run Rules Multivariate Coefficient of Variation Control Charts. In 2020 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC) (pp. 40-44). IEEE.

7. Z Kyrana, AC Rakitzis (2019). Statistical data analysis of nutritional habits of adolescents in Greece (in Greek). 32nd Greek Statistical Conference, Ioannina, Greece, May 30 - June 1, 168-182.

8. M Anastasopoulou, AC Rakitzis (2019). EWMA control charts for monitoring processes with finite range (in Greek). 32nd Greek Statistical Conference, Ioannina, Greece, May 30 - June 1, 46-60.

9. M Anastasopoulou, AC Rakitzis (2018). Autoregressive integer-valued time-series models with finite range: A comparative application on eurozone inflation data (in Greek). 31st Greek Statistical Conference, Lamia, Greece, May 2 - May 5, 27-41.

10. AC Rakitzis, MV Koutras (2017). The Compound Run Length Distribution: Properties and applications. 17th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society (ASMDA), London, UK, June 6-9, 839-852.

11. AC Rakitzis, PE Maravelakis, P Castagliola (2014). A comparative study of control charts for zero-inflated binomial processes. 9th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Fribourg, Switzerland, September 8-12, 420-425.

12. AC Rakitzis, P Castagliola (2014). Control charts for zero-inflated processes with estimated parameters. 3rd Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis (SMTDA) International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 11-14.

13. AC Rakitzis, MV Boutsikas, DL Antzoulakos (2013). Distributions of stopping times and stopped sums in multistate exchangeable trials (in Greek). 26th Greek Statistical Conference, Piraeus, Greece, May 8 – May 12, 201-210.

14. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2012). A start-up demonstration test under exchangeability, 2nd International Conference on Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Data Analysis, Chania, Greece, June 5-8, 627-633.

15. AC Rakitzis (2012). The modified r out of k control chart with estimated parameters (in Greek). 25th Greek Statistical Conference, Volos, Greece, April 18 – April 22, 198-206.

16. AC Rakitzis, MV Boutsikas, DL Antzoulakos (2011). On the distribution of stopped sum with applications in quality control (in Greek). 24th Greek Statistical Conference, Patras, Greece, April 27 - May1, 312-320.

17. AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2011). Start-up demonstration tests with two failure states (in Greek). 24th Greek Statistical Conference, Patras, Greece, April 27 - May1, 303-311.

18. A Rakitzis, D Antzoulakos (2010). A new chi-square control chart with runs rules (in Greek). 23rd Greek Statistical Conference, Veroia, Greece, April 7 -11, 264-271.

19. A Rakitzis (2010). Adaptive features in control charts for process variation (in Greek). 23rd Greek Statistical Conference, Veroia, Greece, April 7 -11, 255-263.

20. D Antzoulakos, A Rakitzis (2008). Multivariate control charts with variable sampling intervals and runs rules (in Greek). 21st Greek Statistical Conference, Samos, Greece April 30 – May 5, 61-70.

21. DL Antzoulakos, MV Koutras, A Rakitzis (2007). A new start-up demonstration test, 8th Hellenic European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, Athens, Greece, September 20-22.

22. D Antzoulakos, A Rakitzis (2007). Improved r out of m control charts (in Greek). 20th Greek Statistical Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 11-15, 95-102.

23. D Antzoulakos, M Koutras, A Rakitzis (2006). A study on start-up demonstration tests using scan statistics (in Greek). 19th Greek Statistical Conference, Kastoria, Greece, April 26-29, 109-117.

24. A Rakitzis, D Antzoulakos (2005). Shewhart control charts with sensitizing rules based on the theory of runs (in Greek). 18th Greek Statistical Conference, Rhodes, Greece, May 4-7, 325-331.

25. DL Antzoulakos, A Rakitzis (2005).  New sensitizing runs rules for Shewhart type control charts with applications, 7th Hellenic European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, Athens, Greece, September 22-24.

26. A Rakitzis, S Bersimis (2005) Detection of non-random patterns in Shewhart control charts: methods and applications, 7th Hellenic European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, Athens, Greece, September 22-24.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. AC Rakitzis (2025). On the performance of a two-sided Shewhart chart for continuous proportions with estimated parameters. arXiv:2502.02296v1.

2. A Lafatzi, AC Rakitzis (2022). Two-sided EWMA charts for monitoring double bounded processes, arXiv:2206.07793v1. 

3. PH Tran, AC Rakitzis, HD Nguyen, QT Nguyen, KP Tran, C Heuchenne (2020). Monitoring the multivariate coefficient of variation using run rules type control charts, arXiv:2001.00996.

4. MV Boutsikas, AC Rakitzis, DL Antzoulakos (2010). On the relation between the distributions of stopping time and stopped sum with applications, arXiv:1008.0116v2.

5. DL Antzoulakos, AC Rakitzis (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

1. Bersimis, S., Rakitzis, A., Sachlas, A. (2021). Statistical Quality Control (in Greek). Publisher: Tziolas, 1st Edition.

2. Batsidis, A., Papastamoulis, P., Petropoulos, C., & Rakitzιs, A. (2022). Nonparametric Statistics [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-102 (in Greek).