Tamas Rudas

Professor
Recurrent Visiting Professor at CEU
Head, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eotvos Lorand University
Affiliate Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of Washington
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Qualifications: 
Dr. rer. nat. (mathematics), Eötvös Loránd University
Candidate of Science (mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements: 

Tamas Rudas is Dr. rer. nat. (mathematics), Eötvös Loránd University; Candidate of Science (mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He completed his Habilitation (sociology), Eötvös Loránd University and holds a Széchenyi Professorship. He is also a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (sociology). Tamas Rudas had visiting positions at Pennsylvania State University; University of Toledo; Educational Testing Service, Princeton; Center for Surveys, Methodology and Analysis, Mannheim; Fields Institute, Toronto; University of Graz, Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, Koeln; University of Erfurt; University of Ljubljana; University of Washington. His research interests are in multivariate statistics, analysis of categorical data, survey methodology, and applied statistics.

Recent important publications in Biometrika and Statistical Methodology.

Honours
- Erdei Prize of the Hungarian Sociological Association for the application of statistical methods in sociology, 1988
- Szechenyi Professorship, 2000-2003
- Chairman of the Board, TARKI Foundation, 2003-
- Vice President, European Association of Methodology, 2008-
- Affiliate Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of Washington, 2008-
- Golden Memorial Medal of the Eötvös Loránd University, 2009
- Chairman of the Advisory Board, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010-
- Faculty Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, 2010
- Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology 2010-

 

 

Academic/Research Areas: 
Political Science

Projects with involvement of Tamas Rudas

Publications

Book
Book Chapter
Rudas, T.. "Probability Theory in Statistics." In Handbook of probability : theory and applications, 69-84. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2008.
Rudas, T.. "Probability." In Encyclopedia of survey research methods, edited by P. Lavrakas. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2008.
Batyrshin, I., and T. Rudas. "Invariant Hierarchical Clustering Schemes." In Perception-based data mining and decision making in economics and finance, edited by I. Batyrshin, 181-206. Berlin: Springer, 2006.
Rudas, T.. "A hibahatár a becsült mennyiség függvényében : a mért pártpreferenciák téves értelmezésének egyik forrása." In Mérésről mérésre : a választáskutatás módszertani kérdései : MA tankönyv, edited by R. Angelusz and R. Tardos, 17-40. Budapest: Demokrácia Kutatások Magyar Központja Közhasznú Alapítvány, 2006.
Rudas, T.. "Odds and odds ratios." In Encyclopedia of statistics in behavioral science, edited by B. Everitt and D. C. Howell, 1462-1467. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley, 2005.
Journal Article
Miscellaneous
Rudas, T.. Probability theory : a primer In Quantitative applications in the social sciences. Vol. 142. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2004.
Rudas, T.. Odds ratios in the analysis of contingency tables In Quantitative applications in the social sciences. Vol. 119. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1998.
Rudas, T., and R. Zwick. Estimating the importance of differential item functioning In Program statistics research technical report. Vol. 95-3. Princeton, N.J.: Educational Testing Service, 1995.
Leimer, H. - G., and T. Rudas. Contingency tables with prescribed conditional odds ratios or prescribed log-linear parameters In Berichte zur Stochastik und verwandten Gebieten. Vol. 88-1. Mainz: Fachbereich Mathematik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, 1988.
Thesis