Personal data:

•             Date of birth: April 8, 1978 (Belgrade, Serbia)

•             e-mail: anastic78@gmail.com

Education:

•             B.S.        Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics      University of Niš               2003

•             MPhil    Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics      University of Niš               2008

•             PhD        Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics      University of Niš               2012

•             Magisterium Thesis: Non-negative Integer-Valued Autoregressive Processes, (in Serbian), Univ. of Niš, 2008 (Supervisor: M. M. Ristić);

•             Ph. D. Thesis: Contribution to the Analysis of nonnegative Integer Valued Time Series Generated by Geometric Counting Series (in Serbian), Univ. of Niš, 2012 (Supervisor: M. M. Ristić).

Professional Experience:

Full time occupation:

•             University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics , Junior Teaching Assistant, 2004-2009

•             University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Teaching Assistant,  2009 – 2012

•             University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics,  Assistant Professor, 2012- 2015

·                     University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics,  Associate Professor, 2015- october 2020

·                     University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics,  Full Professor, from october 2020.

Visiting professor:

•             Professor and mentor at PhD School of Mathematics

•             Professor at University of Niš, Faculty of Occupational Safety

•             Professor at University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Agronomy

Teaching courses:

•             Multivariate analysis

•             Sampling theory and design of experiments

•             Mathematical Statistics

•             Econometrics

•             Statistics

•             Decision theory

•             Statistical software in Economics

•             Statistical Modelling

•             Time series in economics

•             Regression analysis in finance

•             Regression analysis

•             Methods of Statistical Analysis

•             Experimental statistics

PhD and Mphil mentorships and  committiees engagements

•             Supervision of 2 PhD disertations and over 15 MPhil thesis

•             External Assessor of one foreign PhD thesis

•             Participation in over 5 Phd defense committiees

•             Participation in more than 20 MPhil defense committiees

Memberships:

•             Member of the Serbian Scientific Mathematical Society

Research Speciality:

•             Main:    Integer-valued autoregressive processes

•             Other:   Time series analysis, Programming in Statistics, Multivariate analysis

 

EDITORING:

·         Journal of Applied Statistics-SE

·         Filomat- SE,

·         Communications in Statistics - Theory and methods-SE,

·         Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation-SE

·         Facta universitatis- Series in Mathematics and informatics-SE

·         ProbStat forum-AE

 

 

Research Grants and professional training:

•             Republic Science Foundation of Serbia Grant, Belgrade, the project "Discrete and continuous stochastic models with applications" 1834, (2004)

•             Republic Science Foundation of Serbia Grant, Novi Sad, the project "Numerical linear algebra, stochastics and statistics with applications" 144025, (2006-2010)

•             Republic Science Foundation of Serbia Grant, Novi Sad, the project "Developement of information computing and processing metods: theory and applications" 174013, (2011-present)

•             EC Biomathematics Summer School: “Parameter Estimation in Physiological models”, 13.09.2009 – 26.09.2009. Lipari, Italy, in organization of European Commission and Marie Curie Actions

•             Regular and rapid variation and applications, 08.09.2014.-13.09.2014. Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, in organization of DAAD Project, Center of Excellence for Applications of Mathematics

•             MATHDebate-Searching Excellence in Math Education through Increasing the Motivation for Learning, Republic of Macedonia, 01.07.2018.-03.07.2018, Ohrid, Northern Republic of Macedonia, in organization of: Sojuz na istrazhuvachi na Makedonija-SIM Skopje.

•             Virtual Learning Environment in University Laboratory Classes, 10.04.2019.-24.04.2019. University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, in organization of: Centre for Professional Development and NETCHEM project.

Refereeing and Reviewing:

·         Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,

·         Advances in Difference Equations,

·         Annals of Data Science,

·         Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods,

·         Communications in Statistics: Case Studies and Data Analysis,

·         Communications in Statistics: Simulations and Computations,

·         Statistica Neerlandica,

·         Journal of Applied Mathematics,

·         Journal of Applied Statistics

·         Statistics and Probability Leters,

·         Facta universitatis- Series in Mathematics and informatics,

·         Statistical Papers

·         Filomat

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

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Master Thesis

1.            A. S. Nastić (2008) Non-negative Integer-Valued Autoregressive Processes, University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics (in Serbian).

Ph. D. Thesis

2.            A. S. Nastić (2012) Contribution to the Analysis of nonnegative Integer Valued Time Series Generated by Geometric Counting Series, University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics (in Serbian).

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Books

1.            B. Č. Popović, A. S. Nastić, M. S. Djordjević, Problems in Mathematical Statistics, University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, 2014, (in Serbian), ISBN 978-86-6275-030-3

2.             A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić, Decision Theory, University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, 2018, (in Serbian), ISBN 978-86-6275-078-5

3.            M.M. Ristić, A.S. Nastić, B.V. Popović, Mathematical Statistics, University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, 2021, (in Serbian), ISBN 978-86-6275-118-8

4.            M.M. Ristić, A.S. Nastić, M. S. Djordjević, (2022) Time Series Analysis, University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, 2021, (in Serbian),  ISBN: 978-86-6275-136-2

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Seleected Research Articles published in journals with Impact Factor

24. Lidija Popović Dragonjić, Maja Jovanović, Miodrag Vrbić, Aleksandar Nastić, Miodrag Djordjević, Milica Veljković (2022) The Occurrence of Acute Pancreatitis in Adult Patients during a Measles Outbreak from November 2017 to May 2018 in Southeastern Serbia, Medicina 58, no. 11: 1650. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58111650 (IF=2,948)

 

23. Pirković , B. A., Ristić, M. M., & Nastić, A. S. (2022) Random Environment Integer-Valued Autoregressive Process with Discrete Laplace Marginal Distributions: Accepted: February 2022. REVSTAT-Statistical Journal. Retrieved from https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/430 (IF=1,250)

 

22. B. A. Pirkovic, P. N. Laketa, A. S. Nastić (2021) On Generalized Random Environment INAR Models of Higher Order: Estimation of Random Environment States, FILOMAT, vol. 35, no. 13, 4545–4576, https://doi.org/10.2298/FIL2113545P (IF=0.844)

        https://journal.pmf.ni.ac.rs/filomat/index.php/filomat/article/view/16879

 

21. P. M. Popović, P. N. Laketa, A. S. Nastić (2019) Forecasting with two generalized integer-valued autoregressive processes of order one in the mutual random environment, SORT Statistics and Operations Research Transactions, vol. 43, no.2, pages. 355–384. DOI:10.2436/20.8080.02.92  (IF=1.125)

https://www.idescat.cat/sort/sort432/43.2.8.popovic-etal.pdf

20. M. M. Ristić, M. Bourguignon, A. S. Nastić (2019) Zero-Inflated NGINAR(1) process,  Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 48, no. 3, pages. 726-741. (IF =0.424)

https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2018.1435808

19. A. S. Nastić, P.N. Laketa, M. M. Ristić (2019) Random environment INAR models of higher order, RevStat: Statistical Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, pages. 35–65. (IF=0.365)

https://www.ine.pt/revstat/pdf/REVSTAT_v17-n1-3.pdf

18. P.N. Laketa , A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić (2018) Generalized random environment INAR models of higher order, Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, vol. 15, no.1, (IF=1.181)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-017-1054-z

17. A. V. Miletić-Ilić , M. M. Ristić, A. S. Nastić, H. S. Bakouch (2018) An INAR(1) model based on a mixed dependent and independent counting series, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. 88, no. 2, pages. 290-304.  (IF=0.767)

https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2017.1388380

16. P. M. Popović , A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić (2018) Residual Analysis with Bivariate INAR(1) models, RevStat: Statistical Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, pages. 349–363.  (IF=0.365)

https://www.ine.pt/revstat/pdf/REVSTAT_v16-n3-5.pdf

15. A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić, Ana D. Janjić (2017) A mixed thinning based geometric INAR(1) model, Filomat, vol. 31, no. 13, pages. 4009–4022. (IF= 0.635)

https://doi.org/10.2298/FIL1713009N

14. A.S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić, A. V. Miletić-Ilić (2017) A geometric time series model with an   alternative dependent Bernoulli counting series, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 47, no. 2, pages. 770-785. (IF=0.353)

https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2015.1005100

13. A. S. Nastić, P.N. Laketa, M. M. Ristić (2016) Random Environment Integer-Valued Autoregressive process, Journal of Time Series Analysis, vol.37, no. 2, pages. 267–287. (IF=0.975)

https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsa.12161

12. P. M. Popović, M. M. Ristić, A. S. Nastić (2016) A geometric bivariate time series with different marginal parameters, Statistical Papers, vol. 57, no.3, pages. 731-753. (IF=0.727)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-015-0677-z

11. A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić, M. Djordjević (2016) An INAR model with discrete Laplace marginal distributions, Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, vol. 30, no. 1, pages. 107–126. DOI: 10.1214/14-BJPS262 (IF=0.419)

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1453211805

10. A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić, P. M. Popović (2016) Estimation in a Bivariate Integer-Valued Autoregressive Process, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 45, no. 19, pages. 5660 - 5678. (IF=0.311)

https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2014.948203

9. M. M. Ristić, A. S. Nastić, A. V. Miletić-Ilić (2013) A geometric time series model with dependent Bernoulli counting series, Journal of Time Series Analysis, vol. 34, no. 4, pages.  466-476. (IF=0.808)

https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsa.12023

8. M. M. Ristić, A. S. Nastić, K. Jayakumar, H. S. Bakouch (2012) A bivariate INAR(1) time series model with geometric marginals, Applied Mathematics Letters, vol. 25, no. 3, pages. 481-485. (IF=1.501)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aml.2011.09.040

7. A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić, H. S. Bakouch (2012) A combined geometric INAR(p) model based on negative binomial thinning, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 55, no. 5-6, pages. 1665-1672., (IF=1.420)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2011.10.080

6. M. M. Ristić, A. S. Nastić (2012) A mixed INAR(p) model,  Journal of Time Series Analysis  vol. 33, no. 6, pages. 903–915. (IF=0.787)

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9892.2012.00806.x

5. A. S. Nastić. (2012), On shifted geometric INAR(1) models based on geometric counting series, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 41, no. 23, pages. 4285-4301. ( IF=0.298)

https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2011.573164

4. A. S. Nastić, M. M. Ristić (2012) Some geometric mixed integer-valued autoregressive (INAR) models, Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 82, no. 4, pages. 805-811. (IF=0.531)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2012.01.007

3. M. M. Ristić, A. S. Nastić, H. S. Bakouch (2012) Estimation in an integer-valued autoregressive process with negative binomial marginals (NBINAR(1)), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 41, no. 4, pages. 606-618. (IF=0.298)

https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2010.529528

2. M. M. Ristić, H. S. Bakouch, A. S. Nastić (2009) A New Geometric First-Order Integer-Valued Autoregressive (NGINAR(1)) Process, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,  vol. 139, no. 7, pages. 2218-2226. (IF=0.725)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2008.10.007

1. M. M. Ristić, B. Č, Popović, A. Nastić, M. Djordjević (2008), A bivariate Marshall and Olkin exponential minification process, Filomat , vol. 22, no.1, pages. 69-75. (IF=0.101). http://operator.pmf.ni.ac.rs/www/pmf/publikacije/filomat/2008/22-1-2008/f22-1-7.pdf

 

 

Other Research Articles

2. P. N. Laketa,  A. S. Nastić, (2019) Conditional least squares estimation of the parameters of higher order Random environment INAR models, Facta Universitatis, Series: Mathematics and Informatics, vol. 34, no. 3, pages. 525-535. https://doi.org/10.22190/FUMI1903525L

http://casopisi.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/FUMathInf/article/view/4316

1. A. S. Nastić, (2014), On suitability of negative binomial marginal and geometric counting sequence in some applications of combined INAR(p) model, Facta Universitatis, Series: Mathematics and Informatics, vol. 29 no.1, pages 25-42.

     http://casopisi.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/FUMathInf/article/download/160/pdfc