Tom Snijders

Tom Snijders (2015)

Thomas "Tom" Augustinus Benedictus Snijders (* 26. September 1949 in Tilburg , The Netherlands) is a professor of statistics and methodology at the University of Groningen and Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College of Oxford University .

Life

Tom Snijders is the son of Jan Snijders, Professor of Psychology at the University of Groningen from 1949 to 1980, and Nan Snijders-Oomen, a child psychologist. Snijders grew up in the province of Groningen . At the University of Groningen there, he studied mathematics ( M.Sc. in 1973) where he received his doctorate in 1979 with a dissertation on the subject of Asymptotic optimality theory for testing problems with restricted alternatives (German: Asymptotic optimality theory for test problems with limited alternatives ) (grade: cum laude). From 1972 he worked in various academic professions at the University of Groningen. Between 1989 and 1992 he was Professor of Mathematical Sociology at the University of Utrecht . Between 1992 and 2002 he returned to the University of Groningen as a professor of methodology and statistics. In 2002 he became visiting professor at Lille University , 2006 professor at Nuffield College, Oxford University and 2008 visiting professor at Paris-South University . In 2008 and 2009 he was an honorary professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . He is Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University and Associate Editor of Social Networks , Annals of Applied Statistics and Journal of Social Structure . He lives with Lonnie ter Braak with whom he has three children Anke (* 1979), Tineke (* 1979) and Paul (* 1981).

research

Snijders is known for his research in the field of statistical methods in the behavioral and social sciences . In 1998, together with other StOCNET , he developed an open source program for statistical analysis of social networks , Snijders' main field of research. He deals with the statistical methods of network analysis , the analysis of network developments, mathematical sociology, the theory of response behavior and multi-level analysis . According to Snijders, it is very important to be able to incorporate the theoretical knowledge into practical applications, if possible also in the form of statistical software. For the analysis of longitudinal data from social networks, he developed Siena , which is available as R -Packet RSiena .

Honors

• 1999: Member of the International Statistical Institute
• 2005: Honorary doctorate from Stockholm University
• 2008: Order of the Dutch Lion
• 2008: Fellow Royal Statistical Society
• 2011: Honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-Dauphine

Publications (selection)

• 1979: Asymptotic optimality theory for testing problems with restricted alternatives. Dissertation (University of Groningen; edited by the Mathematical Center, Amsterdam).
• 1992: Kanssteekproeven. With J. Muilwijk and JJA Moors. Leiden: Stenfert Kroese.
• 1993: Gissen en mikken. University of Groningen, inaugural lecture.
• 1999: PINT, (Power IN Two-level designs). Estimating standard errors of regression coefficients in hierarchical linear models for power calculations. User's manual. With Roel J. Bosker and Henk Guldemond. Second version, 2003.
• 1999: Multilevel Analysis. An introduction to basic and advanced multilevel modeling. With Roel Bosker, Sage Publishers. Second edition, 2012.
• 2001: The statistical evaluation of social network dynamics. Sociological Methodology 31: 361-395.
• 2006: New specifications for exponential random graph models. With PE Pattison, GL Robins, and M. Handcock. Sociological Methodology, 36: 99-153.
• 2010: Dynamic networks and behavior: Separating selection from influence. Sociological Methodology 40: 329-393.
• 2011 (with later updates): Manual for SIENA version 4.0. Oxford, University of Oxford, Department of Statistics. With R. Ripley and K. Boitmanis.

Web links

• Tom Snijders CV on the Oxford University website
• List of publications by Tom Snijders on the Oxford University website

Individual evidence

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