Basilio de Bragança Pereira
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Basílio de Bragança Pereira (born 29 April 1945 in Rio de Janeiro
) is a Brazil
ian statistician.
He studied at Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas since 1958 until his BSc in Statistics (1968), and obtained his Ph.D.and D.I.C. from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1976) supervised by Sir David Cox
. He also obtained an MSc in Operational Research (1970) and a Docent Free in Applied Statistics (1989) from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
.
In 2003 he spent a year working on a Project on Neural Networks in Statistics with Professor C.R. Rao at Penn State University on a postdoctoral grant from the Brazilian Government (CAPES).
He is employed by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro since 1970, in the Institute of Mathematics, Postgraduate School of Engineering (COPPE) and School of Medicine.
He was Associate Professor at the Institute of Mathematics from 1970–1989 and 1994–1997, Professor Titular of Applied Statistics at COPPE from 1989 to 1994 (retired) and is currently Professor Titular of Biostatistics at the School of Medicine since 1998. He has supervised more than 50 thesis and dissertations.
He is an Elected member of the International Statistical Institute
. His current statistical interests are Statistical Methods and Applications in Medicine, acting mainly in discriminating separated models, likelihood and Bayesian inference, time series, survival analysis, neural networks in statistics.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
) is a Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian statistician.
He studied at Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas since 1958 until his BSc in Statistics (1968), and obtained his Ph.D.and D.I.C. from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1976) supervised by Sir David Cox
David Cox (statistician)
Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS is a prominent British statistician.-Early years:Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch.-Career:He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft...
. He also obtained an MSc in Operational Research (1970) and a Docent Free in Applied Statistics (1989) from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is one of the largest federal universities of Brazil, where public universities comprise the majority of the best and most qualified institutions...
.
In 2003 he spent a year working on a Project on Neural Networks in Statistics with Professor C.R. Rao at Penn State University on a postdoctoral grant from the Brazilian Government (CAPES).
He is employed by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro since 1970, in the Institute of Mathematics, Postgraduate School of Engineering (COPPE) and School of Medicine.
He was Associate Professor at the Institute of Mathematics from 1970–1989 and 1994–1997, Professor Titular of Applied Statistics at COPPE from 1989 to 1994 (retired) and is currently Professor Titular of Biostatistics at the School of Medicine since 1998. He has supervised more than 50 thesis and dissertations.
He is an Elected member of the International Statistical Institute
International Statistical Institute
The International Statistical Institute is a professional association of statisticians. The Institut International de Statistique or International Statistical Institute was founded in 1885 although there had been international congresses from 1853.. The Institute publishes a variety of books and...
. His current statistical interests are Statistical Methods and Applications in Medicine, acting mainly in discriminating separated models, likelihood and Bayesian inference, time series, survival analysis, neural networks in statistics.
Books
- PEREIRA, B. de B. ; RAO, Calyampudi Radhakrishna. Data Mining Using Neural Networks: A Guide for Statisticians. State College, Pennsylvania, 2009. 186 p.
- PEREIRA, B. de B. ; RODRIGUES, C V C . Redes Neurais em Estatística. Rio de Janeiro: , 1998. v. 1. 144 p. Associação Brasileira de Estatística
- PEREIRA, B. de B. ; SANT'ANNA, A. P. . Análise Econométrica de Séries Temporais. Rio de Janeiro: , 1989. 343 p. IM/UFRJ
- SALES, P. R. H. ; PEREIRA, B. de B. ; VIEIRA, A. M. . Identificação e Estimação Recursiva de Modelos de Séries Temporais Uni e Multivariadas. Rio de Janeiro: 1989. 60 p. Associação Brasileira de Estatística
- PEREIRA, B. de B. ; PAIS, M. B. Z. ; SALES, P. R. H. . Análise Espectral de Séries Temporais: Uma Introdução para Engenharia, Economia e Estatística. Rio de Janeiro: 1986. 109 p. Arte Final e Eletrobrás
- PEREIRA, B. de B. . Séries Temporais Multivariadas. , 1984. 219 p. Associação Brasileira de Estatística
- PEREIRA, B. de B. Tópicos em Séries Temporais: Métodos Automáticos de Previsão. PDD 07/80 COPPE/UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro, 1980