Department of Applied Statistics 

Last modified: 16. November 2022

The legal predecessor umbrella institution of the Department of Applied Statistics was the College of Horticulture and Viticulture that became independent in 1953. The legal predecessor department of our Department was established in 1966 titled as Department of Mathematics, Physics and Agrometeorology by merging the research groups of the College of Horticulture and Viticulture of these disciplines. After several transformations, from 1983 the department was titled as the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, from 2013 to 2021 it was renamed to Department of Biometrics and Agricultural Informatics. Since 2021, the teaching duties of introductory IT subjects has been removed from the Department's profile. The staff of the Department are responsible for a smaller part of the mathematics courses at the University and for a larger part of the statistics, mainly in the frame of biometrics courses. With the exception of one colleague from Keszthely, the staff of the department work on the Buda Campus.

The Department's main research areas are the following:

• mathematical-statistical modeling,
• applied statistical methods,
• multivariate methods,
• machine learning,
• artificial intelligence, big data methods,
• applications of statistical methods in the fields of ecology, agricultural and food sciences, and mental health,
• biostatistics,
• geostatistics,
• meteorological data analysis, climate modeling,
• precision crop cultivation,
• fuzzy relational databases, analysis of the structure of functional dependencies,
• mathematical applications in landscape architecture, real-time analyses,
• partial differential equations,
• free surface problems,
• linear algebra,
• systems of linear equations with interval coefficients,
• educational methodology.