Personal information

Education:
1975-1979undergraduate studies at the VSE, specialization: Economic and Mathematical Computing
1981-1988postgraduate PhD studies at the VSE, thesis: Software Systems for Data Analysis
1988-1991postgraduate studies at the Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Logic, specialization: Mathematical Methods for Automated Data Analysis in Experimental Research
Positions:
1978-1990Programmer (Computing Center of the VSE) 
1990-1994 Lecturer (Department of Statistics and Probability of the VSE)
1994-2008Associate Professor (Department of Statistics and Probability of the VSE)
1998-2001Vice-Dean in Charge of Student Study Programmes (Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the VSE)
2001-2018Vice-Head of the Department of Statistics and Probability of the VSE
2008-Professor (Department of Statistics and Probability of the VSE)
Scientific Councils:
1996-2001Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the VSE
2007-2010Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
2010-2017VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
2015-2019Czech Statistical Council of the Czech Statistical Office
2012-Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the VSE
2013-Faculty of Social and Economic Studies of the J. E. Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem

Steering Comittees of Journals:

Statistika Statistics and Economy Journal
Slovak Statistics and Demography - foreign adviser
Neural Network World International Journal on Non-Standard Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Advanced Engineering and Computation
Forum Statisticum Slovacum Scientific Peer-Reviewed Journal Published by the Slovak Statistical and Demographical Society

Memberships:

Czech Statistical Society (1990-2019 member of the board, 2013-2017 president)

Main Interests:

  • categorical data analysis
  • cluster analysis

    Books and Chapters:

  • Statistical Thinking and Tools for Data Analysis (Hebák et al.) - in Czech
  • Analysis of Data from Questionnaire Surveys, Fourth edition - in Czech
  • Cluster Analysis, Second extended edition (Rezankova, Husek, Snasel) - in Czech
  • Multivariate Statistical Methods, Second extended edition (Hebák et al.) - in Czech
  • Web Data Management Practices (Vakali & Pallis Eds.)

    PhD Students:

  • doc. RNDr. Marta Zambochova, Ph.D. (thesis: Cluster Analysis of Large Data Sets: New Approaches Based on the k-means Method, defense in 2010)
  • Ing. Tomas Loster, Ph.D. (thesis: Evaluation of Cluster Analysis Methods, defense in 2011)
  • Mgr. Lukas Pastorek, Ph.D. (thesis: Bio-Inspired Prototype-Based Models and Applied Gompertzian Dynamics in Cluster Analysis, defense in 2015)
  • Ing. Zdenek Sulc, Ph.D. (thesis: Similarity Measures for Nominal Data in Hierarchical Clustering, defense in 2017)
  • Mgr. Jana Cibulková, Ph.D. (thesis: Similarity Measures for Data Sets with Binary Variables and Their Application in Agglomerative Cluster Analysis, defense in 2023)





    Family

    Links: to my sons - , , to my husband -

    Photogallery

    Graduation ceremony (Ing.) of the University of Economics, Prague (1979)

    Vice-Dean (promoter) at the graduation ceremony at the University of Economics, Prague (2000)

    My son Pavel after graduation ceremony (Ing.) of the Institute of Chemical Technology (2006)

    Talk of  Pavel at the graduation ceremony (Mgr.) at the Charles University (2006)

    Pavel after graduation ceremony at the Charles University (2006)

    Talk of my son Michal at the graduation ceremony (Mgr.) at the Charles University (2007)

    Michal after graduation ceremony at the Charles University (2007)

    Graduation ceremony of professors (2008)

    Pavel at the graduation ceremony (RNDr.) at the Charles University (2009)

    Pavel at the graduation ceremony (Ph.D.) of the Institute of Chemical Technology (2011)

    Michal at the graduation ceremony (RNDr.) at the Charles University (2011)

    Michal at the graduation ceremony (Ph.D.) at the Charles University (2012)

    My husband Tomas at the graduation ceremony (DSc.) at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2013)

    Pavel at the graduation ceremony (doc.) of the Institute of Chemical Technology (2014)

    Michal at the graduation ceremony (doc.) of the Institute of Chemical Technology (2021)