Raquel Prado
Raquel Prado (born 1970) is a Venezuelan Bayesian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Cruz,[1] and has been elected president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2019 term.[2]
Contributions
[edit]Prado specializes in Bayesian inference for time series data.[1] With Mike West, she is the author of the book Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference (Texts in Statistical Science, CRC Press, 2010).[3]
Education and career
[edit]Prado was born on 24 April 1970, in Caracas, and graduated from Simón Bolívar University in 1993.[4] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Duke University in 1998. Her dissertation, Latent Structure in Non-Stationary Time Series, was supervised by Mike West.[4][5]
After completing her Ph.D. she returned to Simón Bolívar University as a faculty member before moving to Santa Cruz.[6]
Recognition
[edit]In 1999, Prado and her co-authors Andrew Krystal and Mike West won the Outstanding Statistical Application Award of the American Statistical Association for their work on statistical analysis of electroencephalography data.[7] In 2013, Prado became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Raquel Prado", People, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, retrieved 2018-10-27
- ^ Duke StatSci alums and faculty elected to ISBA leadership positions, Duke University Statistical Science, 2 January 2018, retrieved 2018-10-27
- ^ Reviews of Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference:
- Seaver, William (August 2011), Technometrics, 53 (3): 328, JSTOR 23210418
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Robert, Christian P. (August 2011), International Statistical Review, 79 (2): 277–279, doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2011.00149_6.x, JSTOR 41305030
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Bakouch, Hassan S. (April 2012), Journal of Applied Statistics, 39 (4): 923, doi:10.1080/02664763.2012.657378
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Harvill, Jane L. (June 2012), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 107 (498): 851–853, doi:10.1080/01621459.2012.700814, JSTOR 23239624, S2CID 219595959
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Shanmugam, Ramalingam (July 2013), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 85 (7): 1495, doi:10.1080/00949655.2013.814268, S2CID 120871044
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- Seaver, William (August 2011), Technometrics, 53 (3): 328, JSTOR 23210418
- ^ a b Raquel Prado, Duke University Statistical Science, archived from the original on 2015-07-04, retrieved 2018-10-27. See also Prado's dissertation, via Duke University Statistical Science.
- ^ Raquel Prado at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Sansó, Bruno, Bayesians in Venezuela, retrieved 2018-10-27
- ^ Ganley, Susan (25 August 1999), "American Statistical Association Honors 15 at Annual Meeting", The Chronicle of Higher Education
- ^ "Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony" (PDF), AMSTATNews, 436: 20–23, October 2013
External links
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- American statisticians
- Venezuelan statisticians
- Women statisticians
- Duke University alumni
- University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Fellows of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- Academic staff of Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela)
- Venezuelan women educators
- Bayesian statisticians
- People from Caracas