Publications

Research interests:

Cure rate models; Pattern waiting times; Start-up demonstration tests; Random covering arrays; Scan statistics; Reliability theory; Markov chain embedding method; Applications of Advanced Statistical Methods and Quantitative Research Methods

Papers in refereed journals and edited volumes:

1. Papastamoulis, P., and Milienos, F.S. (2025). Bayesian inference and cure rate modeling  for event history data, Test, 34, 1-27

2. Lambropoulou, E., and Milienos, F.S. (2025). Prison policy as routine, International Criminology, to appear 

3. Asderaki, F., Mastrokoukou, S., Milienos, F.S., Rentzios, C., and  Karagiannopoulou, E. (2025). Ready or Not? Greek K-12 Teachers’ Psychological Readiness for Bringing the EU into the  Classroom. Education Sciences, to appear

4. Milienos, F.S., and Kalamatianou, A.G. (2024). The odyssey  of women in university education: stochastic growth models for studying access and graduation process, Communications in Statistics – Case Studies and Data Analysis, 10 (3–4), 239–276

5. Karagiannopoulou, E., Milienos, F.S., Desatnik, A., Retzios, Ch., Athanasopoulos, V., and Fonagy, P. (2024). A Short Version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validation in a Greek sample, PLoS ONE, 19 (2), available online

6. Chadjiconstantinidis, S., Koutras, M.V.  and Milienos, F.S. (2024). A new compound Markov distribution and applications, submitted

7. Papastamoulis, P., and Milienos, F.S. (2024). bayesCureRateModel: Bayesian Cure Rate Modeling for Time to Event Data in R, under review (preprint)

8. Daskalakis, N., and Milienos, F.S. (2024). Exploring the insurance product space and respective SMEs profiles in Europe, under review

9. Pachiti, I., Milienos, F.S., Papadopoulos, T., and Dimitropoulou, P. (2024). Child Training in the Child ViReal Support Program: Combining iVR-based cognitive training and CBT techniques in an RCT study, under review

10. Giannouli, V., and Milienos, F.S. (2024). Do sex and handedness influence general cognition, memory and financial capacity performance in aMCI patients and healthy older adults? A preliminary study, Porto Biomedical Journal, 9 (4), 258

11. Papastamoulis, P., and Milienos, F.S. (2024). Package 'bayesCureRateModel': Bayesian Cure Rate Modeling for Time-to-Event Data, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bayesCureRateModel

12. Donche, V., Chauliac, M., Karagiannopoulou, E., Longobardi, C., Mastrokoukou, S., Milienos, F.S., and Gijbels, D. (2024). The prevalence of careless responding in student learning surveys: relationship with individual differences, under review

13. Lambropoulou, E., and Milienos, F.S. (2023). Tracing the elements of prison violence. Crimen, 14 (3), 248-269

14. Chadjiconstantinidis, S., Koutras, M.V.,  and Milienos, F.S. (2023). The distribution of extended discrete random sums and its application to waiting time distributions. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, available online

15. Lambropoulou, E., and Milienos, F.S. (2023). Factors of violence: a study in Greek prisons. Criminology - The Online Journal, 5 (1), 29-51

16. Pachiti, I., Milienos, F.S., and Dimitropoulou, P. (2023). Child ViReal Support Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study for Effective Support of Parents Raising Children with Attention Deficits, Behavioral Sciences, 13 (8), 691

17. Milienos, F.S. (2022). On a reparameterization of a flexible family of cure models. Statistics in Medicine, 41 (21), 4091–4111

18. Balakrishnan, N., Barui, S., and Milienos, F.S. (2022). Piecewise linear approximations of baseline under proportional hazard and COM-Poisson cure rate models. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 53 (3), 1135-1160

19. Karagiannopoulou, E., Milienos, F.S., and Rentzios, C. (2022). Grouping learning approaches and emotional factors to predict students' academic progress. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 10 (2), 258-275

20. Milienos, F.S.,  Rentzios, C.,  Catrysse, L., Gijbels, D.,  Mastrokoukou, S., Longobardi, C., and Karagiannopoulou, E. (2021). The contribution of learning and mental health variables in first-year students' profiles.  Frontiers in Psychology, available online

21. Balakrishnan, N., and Milienos, F.S. (2020). On a class of non-linear transformation cure rate models. Biometrical Journal, 62 (5), 1208–1222

22. Nanou, E., Mavridou, E., Milienos, F.S., Papadopoulos, G., Tempere, S., and Kotseridis, Y. (2020). Odor characterization of white wines produced by Greek indigenous varieties using the frequency of attribute citation method with trained assessors. Foods, 9 (10), 1396

23. Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2020). Approximating the distribution of the multiple scan statistic, In: Glaz, J., Koutras, M. (eds) Handbook of Scan Statistics. Springer, New York

24. Karagiannopoulou, E., Milienos, F.S., Kamtsios, S., and Rentzios, C. (2020). Do defence styles and approaches to learning ‘fit together’ in students’ profiles? Differences between years of study. Educational Psychology, 40 (5), 570-591 

25. Karagiannopoulou, E., Milienos, F.S., and Athanasopoulos, V. (2018). Associations between defense styles, approaches to learning, and achievement among university students. Frontiers in Education, available online

26. Balakrishnan, N., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2018). A weighted Poisson distribution and its application to cure rate models. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 47, 4297-4310

27. Karagiannopoulou, E., and Milienos, F.S. (2018). Experiences of the teaching-learning environment and approaches to learning. Testing the structure of the "Experiences of Teaching and Learning" in relation to earlier analyses. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30 (3), 506-521

28. Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2017). A flexible family of transformation cure rate models. Statistics in Medicine, 36, 2559-2575

29. Boutsikas, M.V., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2017). Asymptotic results for the multiple scan statistic. Journal of Applied Probability, 54, 320-330

30. Balakrishnan, N., Barui, S., and Milienos,F.S. (2017).Proportional hazards under Conway-Maxwell-Poisson cure rate model and associated inference. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 26, 2055-2077

31. Balakrishnan, N., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2017). On the identifiability of start-up demonstration mixture models. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 69, 717-735

32. Balakrishnan, N., Koutras, M.V., Milienos, F.S., and Pal, S. (2016). Piecewise linear approximations for cure rate models and associated inferential issues. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 18, 937-966

33. Karagiannopoulou, E., and Milienos, F.S. (2015). Testing two path models to explore relationships between students’ experiences of the teaching-learning environment, approaches to learning and academic achievement. Educational Psychology, 35, 26-52

34. Balakrishnan, N., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2014). Start-up demonstration tests: models, methods and applications, with some unifications. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 30, 373-413 (discussion paper)

35. Balakrishnan, N., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2014). Some binary start-up demonstration tests and associated inferential methods. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 66, 759-787

36. Karagiannopoulou, E., and Milienos, F.S. (2013). Exploring the relationship between experienced students’ preference for open and closed-book examinations, approaches to learning and achievement. Educational Research and Evaluation, 19, 271-296

37. Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2012). Exact and asymptotic results for pattern waiting times. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 142, 1464-1479

38. Godbole, A.P., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2011). Binary consecutive covering arrays. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 63, 559-584

39. Godbole, A.P., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2010). Consecutive covering arrays and a new randomness test. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140, 1292-1305

40. Boutsikas, M. V., Koutras, M.V., and Milienos, F.S. (2009). Extreme Value Results for Scan Statistics. In Scan Statistics Methods and Applications (Eds.,Glaz, Pozdnyakov and Wallenstein), 57-82, Birkhauser

41. Milienos, F.S., and Koutras, M.V. (2008). A lower bound for reliability function of multiple failure mode systems. Statistics and Probability Letters, 78, 1639-1648

Scientific editing for the Greek version of books:

1. Agresti, A. (2021, in Greek). Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (5th ed.), Pearson, Boston (with M. Symeonaki, in Tziolas Publications).

2. Schacter, D.L., Gilbert, D.T., Nock, M.K, and Wegner, D.M. (2018, in Greek). Psychology (4th ed.), Worth Publishers, Macmillan Learning, NY (Editing only for Ch.2: Methods in Psychology, in Utopia Publications).

Publications in conference proceedings:

1. Milienos, F.S. (2017). A new family of cure rate models. Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR, France)

2. Milienos, F.S., Balakrishnan, N. and Koutras, M.V. (2015). On the start-up demonstration test theory. Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR, Tokyo)

3. Milienos, F.S., Balakrishnan, N. and Koutras, M.V. (2015). Semi-parametric inference forcure rate models. Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR, Tokyo)

4. Koutras, M.V., Balakrishnan, N. and Milienos, F.S.(2015). Mixed start-up demonstration tests. Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR, Tokyo)

5. Koutras, M.V., Balakrishnan, N. and Milienos, F.S. (2013). Start-up demonstration tests: A general approach. 26st Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute (in Greek)

6. Milienos, F.S. and Koutras, M.V. (2011). Asymptotic results for pattern waiting times. 24th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, 221-229 (in Greek)

7. Milienos, F.S., Koutras, M.V. and Godbole, A.P. (2008). Random covering arrays. 21st Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, 223-230 (in Greek)

8. Milienos, F.S., Koutras, M.V. and Tsitmidelis, S. (2007). Optimization of a class of reliability bounds. 20th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, 259-266 (in Greek)

9. Milienos, F.S. and Koutras, M.V. (2006). A lower bound for the reliability function of a multiple failure mode systems.19th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute,333-341 (in Greek)

10. Milienos, F.S., Koutras, M.V., Tsitmidelis, S. and Zissimopoulos, V. (2005). Study of a class of reliability bounds. 18th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, 225-235 (in Greek)

Conference and Seminar Presentations (selected):

• Statistical Modeling with Applications (ΣtatMod, 2025)

• Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis (SMTDA, 2024)

• Workshop on “Discrete Distributions” (Harokopio, Greece, 2024)

• Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA, Greece, 2023)

• 35th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute  (Athens, Greece, 2023)

• 34th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute  (Athens, Greece, 2022)

• International E-Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (ICOMSS’22, Konya, Turkey, 2022)

• Data Science Week 2021, Purdue University Fort Wayne (USA, 2021)

• Spring  School 2021: Learning, Psychological Factors and Pace of Study in Higher Education.  Organizers: University of Ioannina (Greece), University of Turin (Italy), University of Antwerp (Belgium)

• Statistics seminars of Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens  (Greece, 2021)

• Statistics seminars of Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece, 2020)

• Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR, Grenoble, France, 2017)

• Statistics seminars of Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina (Greece, 2017)

• Ordered Data and their Applications in Reliability and Survival Analysis (ODRS, Hamilton, Canada, 2016)

• International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP, Toronto, Canada, 2016)

• Statistics seminars of Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean (Samos, Greece, 2016)

• Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR, Tokyo, Japan, 2015)

• Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA, Piraeus, Greece, 2015)

• Seminars of Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, University of Ioannina (Greece, 2015)

• Biostatistics Seminars, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada, 2015)

• International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP, Antalya, Turkey, 2014)

• Statistics seminars of School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand, 2014)

• Statistics seminars of Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada, 2014)

• Statistics seminars of Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada, 2013)

• Statistics seminars of Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus, 2012)

• 24th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute  (Patra, Greece, 2011)

• European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS, Piraeus, Greece, 2010)

• International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP, Compiègne, France, 2008)

• European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS, Athens, Greece, 2008)

• 21st Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute (Samos, Greece, 2008)

• 20th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute (Nicosia, Cyprus, 2007)

• 19th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute (Kastoria, Greece, 2006)

• 18th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute (Rodos, Greece, 2005)