Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian

Slovenians

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 mathematician

Mathematician

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, born 1947 in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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, Slovenia

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, whose work in network analysis

Network analysis

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 research is internationally recognized. Her interests include multivariate analysis (constrained and multicriteria clustering), social networks (measurement quality and blockmodeling), and survey methodology (reliability and validity of measurement). She is Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology

European Academy of Sociology

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She is Professor of Multivariate statistical methods at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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 and head of the graduate program on Statistics at the University of Ljubljana. She is also editor of the journal Advances in Methodology and Statistics (Metodoloski zvezki) since 2004 and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Classification, Social Networks, Statistic in Transition, Methodology

Methodology

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, Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropology and Related Sciences.

She was a Fulbright scholar in 1990 and visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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. She was awarded the title of Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia in 1997.

Selected bibliography

• Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj
  Vladimir Batagelj
  Vladimir Batagelj is a Slovenian mathematician, born 1948 in Idrija, Slovenia, who works mainly in data analysis, discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization and applications of IT in education....
  
  , Anuška Ferligoj, Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), Generalized Blockmodeling (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2004 (ISBN 0-521-84085-6)
• ResearcherId: A-3675-2009

External links

• http://videolectures.net/icots2010_ferligoj_ugs/