Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro

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Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro

(1952-04-17) April 17, 1952 (age 71)
NationalityFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
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  • Asymptotic Theory
  • Probability Distributions
Scientific career
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Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born April 17, 1952) is a Brazilian engineer, mathematician and statistician [1] who has made significant contributions to the theory of statistical inference, mainly through asymptotic theory and applied probability.

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Education

He received his PhD in statistics in 1982 at Imperial College London supervised by David Roxbee Cox and Peter McCullagh. [2]

Research

Currently, Cordeiro is a Class A researcher of the Brazilian Research Council-CNPq, Full Professor at Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and Member of the Graduate Program in Statistics at the same university. He has published more than 360 research articles in international scientific journals with referee practice (2015) and supervised more than 60 MSc dissertations and DSc theses. He was also president of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística, 2000–2002. He was one of the founder editors of the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics and its Editor in Chief between 1995 and 2000. Cordeiro's main research interests in Statistics include Asymptotic Theory, Distribution Theory and Regression Models. He created, developed and organized several statistical meetings in Brazil and abroad. He has acted as referee for several important statistical journals[ citation needed ]. In 2010, Cordeiro awarded from the Brazilian Government the National Medal for Scientific Merit at the order of Comendador. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Pernambuco (Brazil).

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Personal life

He married in 1975 and has two daughters. His beloved son Lucas died on June 28, 2022.

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References

  1. Cordeiro, Gauss M.; Peter McCullagh (1991). "Bias Correction in Generalized Linear Models". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 53 (3): 629–643. JSTOR   2345592.
  2. Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project