Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Ruolo attuale:: Ricercatore Legge 240/10 a tempo determinato
SSD:: STAT-02/A - Statistica economica
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni 'G. Parenti' (DiSIA)

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Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Biografia

Ricercatore-RTD A, SECS-S/03

Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni 'Giuseppe Parenti'

Viale Morgagni, 59 - 50134 Firenze

e-mail: n.nikiforova@unifi.it

Titoli di studio

2019: Dottore di Ricerca in Matematica, Informatica, Statistica, curriculum Statistica, ciclo XXXI, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Università degli Studi di Firenze. Tesi di Dottorato: “Three Projects for the Design of Experiments: Choice Experiments, Kriging and Split-Plot Designs”, Relatrice: Prof.ssa Rossella Berni.
2015: Laurea Magistrale in Statistica, Scienze Attuariali e Finanziarie, Curriculum: Statistica (Classe LM-82), Università degli Studi di Firenze. Tesi: “Controllo di qualità e marketing: 1) un’analisi aziendale per la distribuzione e il confezionamento del prodotto; 2) modelli log-lineari non convenzionali per l’analisi delle brand associations”, Relatrice: Prof.ssa Rossella Berni.

Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Curriculum

CV di Nedka D. Nikiforova

Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Interessi

Interessi di ricerca:

Disegno degli Esperimenti, Progettazione Robusta, Metodologia delle Superficie di Risposta con applicazioni nell’ambito tecnologico.
Disegni Ottimi.
Choice Experiments and modelling.
Computer Experiments e Kriging modelling.

Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Pubblicazioni

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Tesi di Dottorato

Patrizi, Gabriele; Martiri, Luca; Pievatolo, Antonio; Magrini, Alessandro; Meccariello, Giovanni; Cristaldi, Loredana; Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova (2024). A Review of Degradation Models and Remaining Useful Life Prediction for Testing Design and Predictive Maintenance of Lithium-Ion Batteries. SENSORS, vol. 24, pp. 3382-3397, ISSN:1424-8220 DOI

Rossella Berni; Francesco Bertocci ;Alessandro Magrini; Nedka D. Nikiforova (2024). Reliability with multiple causes of failures: modeling and practice through a case study on ultrasound probes for medical imaging. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METROLOGY AND QUALITY ENGINEERING, vol. 15, pp. 1-14, ISSN:2107-6839 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Rossella Berni; Nedka D. Nikiforova; Patrizia Pinelli (2024). An Optimal Design through a Compound Criterion for Integrating Extra Preference Information in a Choice Experiment: A Case Study on Moka Ground Coffee. STATS, vol. 7, pp. 521-536, ISSN:2571-905X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Federico Mattia Stefanini; Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova; Eleonora Peruffo; Martina Bisello; Chiara Litardi; Massimiliano Mascherini (2023). Monitoring Convergence in the European Union with the convergEU Package for R. AUSTRIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS, vol. 52, pp. 46-94, ISSN:1026-597X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova (2023). Fashion Brands and Social Networks: Influencers' Narratives, Sponsorship, and Consumers' Engagement. In: Theodore Tarnanidis, Eyridiki Papachristou, Michail Karypidis, Vasileios Ismyrlis. Social Media and Online Consumer Decision Making in the Fashion Industry, pp. 92-107 IGI Global, ISBN:9781668487532. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Pievatolo, Antonio; Magrini, Alessandro; Meccariello, Giovanni; Cristaldi, Loredana; Patrizi, Gabriele; Nikiforova, Nedka D. (2023). Experimental Design and Maintenance: Towards a Decision-Making Approach Driven by Degradation Models, with Application to Lithium-Ion Batteries. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), IEEE, pp. 395-400, ISBN:979-8-3503-0080-2 DOI

Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova (2023). A novel approach to study influencers' language in sponsored versus not sponsored posts and consumers' engagement. INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS LAW, vol. 12, pp. 9-36, ISSN:2047-8747

Rossella Berni, Nedka D. Nikiforova, Patrizia Pinelli (2023). Consumers’ Preferences for Coffee Consumption: A Choice Experiment Integrated with Tasting and Chemical Analyses. In: Eugenio Brentari, Marcello Chiodi, Ernst-Jan Camel Wit. Models for Data Analysis, pp. 41-52, Switzerland: Springer, ISBN:978-3-031-15884-1. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova; Rossella Berni; Luciano Cantone (2022). A proposal for multiresponse Kriging optimization. In: 22nd Annual ENBIS Conference, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NTNU Trondheim, pp. 43-43, ISBN:978-82-303-5470-4

Berni, Rossella; Cantone, Luciano; Magrini, Alessandro; Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova (2022). Hierarchical optimal designs and modeling for engineering: A case-study in the rail sector. APPLIED STOCHASTIC MODELS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, vol. 38, pp. 1061-1078, ISSN:1526-4025 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova; Rossella Berni; Jesús López-Fidalgo (2022). Optimal approximate choice designs for a two-step coffee choice, taste and choice again experiment. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. SERIES C, APPLIED STATISTICS, vol. 71, pp. 1895-1917, ISSN:1467-9876 DOI

Berni Rossella; Nikiforova Nedka Dechkova (2022). A Joint Multiresponse Split-Plot Design Modeling and Optimization Including Fixed and Random Effects. AUSTRIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS, vol. 51, pp. 83-101, ISSN:1026-597X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova, Rossella Berni, Gabriele Arcidiacono, Luciano Cantone, Pierpaolo Placidoli (2021). Latin Hypercube Designs based on Strong Orthogonal Arrays and Kriging Modelling to Improve the Payload Distribution of Trains. JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, vol. 48, pp. 498-516, ISSN:0266-4763 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Stefanini, Federico Mattia; Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova; Litardi, Chiara; Bisello, Martina; Peruffo, Eleonora; Mascherini, Massimiliano (2020). Monitoring upward convergence in the EU with R: The convergEU package. pp. 1-61 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Rossella Berni, Nedka D. Nikiforova, Silvia Ranfagni (2020). An integrated approach to estimate brand association matching and strength in virtual settings. JOURNAL OF GLOBAL FASHION MARKETING, vol. 11, pp. 117-136, ISSN:2093-2685 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Berni Rossella, Bertocci Francesco, Nikiforova Nedka Dechkova, Vining Geoffrey G. (2020). A Tutorial on Randomizing versus Not Randomizing Split-Plot Experiments. QUALITY ENGINEERING, vol. 32, pp. 25-45, ISSN:0898-2112 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova (2019). Three projects for the design of experiments: choice experiments, Kriging and split-plot designs. (Tutor: Rossella Berni)

Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova (2019). Measuring Matching among Brand Associations: a Case-Study in the Fashion Online Communities. MICRO & MACRO MARKETING, pp. 267-289, ISSN:1121-4228

G. Arcidiacono, R. Berni, L. Cantone, N.D. Nikiforova, P.Placidoli (2018). A Kriging modeling approach applied to the railways case. In: AIAS 2017 International Conference on Stress analysis, Pisa, 6-9 Settembre 2017, ELSEVIER, vol. 8, pp. 163-167. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ranfagni, Silvia; Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova (2018). An Integrated Approach For Measuring Matching And Strength In Green Brand Associations Through Text-Mining Techniques And Log-Linear Models. In: ENBIS Spring Meeting 2018, Firenze, 04/06-06/06/2019, ENBIS, pp. 1-1. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova; Pinelli, Patrizia (2018). Consumers’ Preferences About Coffee: A Choice Experiment Integrated With A Guided Tasting. In: ENBIS Spring Meeting 2018, ENBIS, pp. 1-1. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

G. Arcidiacono, R.Berni, L. Cantone, N.D. Nikiforova, P. Placidoli (2018). Fast method to evaluate payload effect on In-Train forces of freight trains. THE OPEN TRANSPORTATION JOURNAL, vol. 12, pp. 3-13, ISSN:1874-4478 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Pinelli Patrizia, Nikiforova Nedka Dechkova, Berni Rossella (2018). New trends in the coffee consumption assessment: organoleptic characteristics and chemical analysis evaluated through a choice experiment.. In: XXVIII CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI SCIENZE MERCEOLOGICHE, Firenze, 21-23 Febbraio 2018, Laboratorio Phytolab (Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic, Food supplement Technology and Analysis) – DiSIA Università degli Studi di Firenze, pp. 333-338, ISBN:978-88-943351-0-1

Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova; Pinelli, Patrizia (2017). The role of sensory assessment in consumers’ preferences for sustainable coffees: integrating a choice experiment with a guided tasting. In: 17th Annual Conference of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, Napoli, 9/09/2017-14/09/2017, ENBIS, pp. 1-1, ISBN:978-961-240-322-5 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Berni, Rossella; Nikiforova, Nedka D. (2016). Measurement error models for interlaboratory comparison measurement data. QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, vol. 32, pp. 2005-2015, ISSN:0748-8017 DOI

Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Biography

Researcher (Ricercatore-RTD A), SECS-S/03

Department of Statistics Computer Science Applications “G. Parenti”, University of Florence

Viale Morgagni, 59 - 50134 Florence

e-mail: n.nikiforova@unifi.it

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

2019-2022:Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship entitled “Studies and Innovative Developments for the Design of Experiments in the Fields of Technology and Quantitative Marketing, and Data Science Studies”, DepartmentofStatisticsComputerScienceApplications“G. Parenti”, UniversityofFlorence, Italy. Supervisor: Professor Rossella Berni.
2015-2018: PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, curriculum: Statistics, DepartmentofStatisticsComputerScienceApplications“G. Parenti”, UniversityofFlorence, Italy. PhD Thesis title: “Three Projects for the Design of Experiments: Choice Experiments, Kriging and Split-Plot Designs”. Supervisor: Professor Rossella Berni.
2012-2015:Master’s degree in Statistics, Actuarial and Financial Science; curriculum in Statistics. University of Florence, Italy. Master’s degree thesis entitled: “Statistical quality control and marketing: 1) packaging and supply chain analysis; 2) non-conventional log-linear models for the analysis of brand associations”. Supervisor: Professor Rossella Berni.

Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Curriculum

CV of Nedka D. Nikiforova

Nedka Dechkova NIKIFOROVA

Interest

Research Interests:

Design of Experiment, Robust Process Optimization, Response Surface Methodology with applications in the technological field.
Optimal Experimental Designs.
Choice Experiments and modelling.
Computer Experiments and Kriging methodology.