Tom Snijders (or with full initials, T.A.B. Snijders), is Professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences at Nuffield College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford (since October 1, 2006). Also he is Professor of Methodology and Statistics in the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands since 20 years. A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Template:Otherusescccc A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... College name Nuffield College Named after Lord Nuffield Established 1937 Sister College None Warden Stephen Nickell Undergraduates None Graduates 74 Homepage Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Front of the main building (Academiegebouw) of the University of Groningen The University of Groningen (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen or RUG) is a university in Groningen, Netherlands. ...

Tom Snijders was born in 1949, a son of Jan Snijders, professor of Psychology at Groningen University from 1949 to 1980) and Nan Snijders-Oomen, an internationally well-known child psychologist (author of the SON nonverbal intelligence test, 1943, 1978, 1991). Snijders grew up in the province of Groningen, in the northern part of the Netherlands. He was awarded a cum laude Ph.D. in Mathematics, specializing in mathematical statistics, for his thesis Asymptotic optimality theory for testing problems with restricted alternatives. Since 1985 he worked as a professor of various forms of mathematics serving social science. He was parttime professor of Mathematical Sociology at Utrecht University from 1989-1992 and is an honorary senior fellow of the University of Melbourne in Australia. Stockholm University made him an honorary doctor in 2005. Psychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. ... Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age. ... The flag of Groningen Groningen is the northeast province of the Netherlands with a typical dialect (Gronings) with regional nuances. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... In mathematics and applications, particularly the analysis of algorithms, asymptotic analysis is a method of classifying limiting behaviour, by concentrating on some trend. ... Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. ... A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. ... The Old Quad Building, formerly Old Law The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia, and the oldest in Victoria. ... Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet) is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum), not to be confused with an honours degree, is an academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ...

Snijders is a prominent researcher in the field of statistic methods in behavioural and social sciences. In 1998, together with others, he created Stocnet, an open software system for the advanced statistical analysis of social networks. Snijders is working especially in social network analysis: statistical methods for analysing social networks and in network evolution, in social science, mathematical sociology and mathematical response theory, and also in multilevel models analysis, about which he wrote a textbook, titled Multilevel Analysis. An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling (1999). Apart from this he developed new statistical methods for social science applications, often in combination with the development of computer software to implement these methods. Behavior (U.S.) or behaviour (U.K.) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... A social network is a map of the relationships between individuals, indicating the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial bonds. ... A network is a social structure made of nodes which are generally individuals or organizations. ... In statistics, multilevel models are used when some variable under study varies at more than one level. ... Software, or program, enables a computer to perform specific tasks, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). ...

External links

Nuffield College, Sociology Department

University of Groningen, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Social Network Analysis page of Tom Snijders

Website of Tom Snijders with a full list of functions, publications and interests.