Raquel Prado

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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]

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Contributions

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

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

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

  1. 1 2 "Raquel Prado", People, Jack Baskin School of Engineering , retrieved 2018-10-27
  2. ↑ Duke StatSci alums and faculty elected to ISBA leadership positions, Duke University Statistical Science, 2 January 2018, retrieved 2018-10-27
  3. ↑ Reviews of Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference:
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ Raquel Prado at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Sansó, Bruno, Bayesians in Venezuela , retrieved 2018-10-27
  7. ↑ Ganley, Susan (25 August 1999), "American Statistical Association Honors 15 at Annual Meeting", The Chronicle of Higher Education
  8. ↑ "Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony" (PDF), AMSTATNews, 436: 20–23, October 2013
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