Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro
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Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born April 17, 1952) is a Brazil
ian engineer
, mathematician
and statistician
of international recognition who has made
significant contributions to the theory of statistical inference
,
mainly through asymptotic theory
and applied probability
.
He received his PhD in Statistics in 1982 at Imperial College
(London
) under Sir David R. Cox. Currently, Cordeiro is a Class A
researcher of the Brazilian Research Council-CNPq, Associate Professor
at Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (Brazil
) and Member of the
Pos-Graduate Program in Mathematics
at Federal University of Pernambuco
.
He has published more than 145 research articles in scientific international
journals (2010) and supervised more than 40 MSc 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 the Editor in Chief of this journal between 1995-2000.
Cordeiro's main research interests in statistics include asymptotic theory,
probability distributions and regression models. He created, developed and organized
several statistical meetings in Brazil. He has acted as referee for several
important statistical journals. In 2010, Cordeiro awarded from the Brazilian
Government the National Medal for Scientific Merit at the order of Comendador.
In 1975 he married Zilma Cordeiro, and they have two daughters, Lelaine and Lillian (both are medical doctors), and a son Lucas (economist) and two grandchildren (Luiza and Mariana).
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 engineer
Engineer
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
, mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
and statistician
Statistician
A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
of international recognition who has made
significant contributions to the theory of statistical inference
Statistical inference
In statistics, statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions from data that are subject to random variation, for example, observational errors or sampling variation...
,
mainly through asymptotic theory
Asymptotic theory
Asymptotic theory or large sample theory is the branch of mathematics which studies properties of asymptotic expansions.The most known result of this field is the prime number theorem:...
and applied probability
Applied probability
Much research involving probability is done under the auspices of applied probability, the application of probability theory to other scientific and engineering domains...
.
He received his PhD in Statistics in 1982 at Imperial College
(London
London
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) under Sir David R. Cox. Currently, Cordeiro is a Class A
researcher of the Brazilian Research Council-CNPq, Associate Professor
at Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (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...
) and Member of the
Pos-Graduate Program in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
at Federal University of Pernambuco
Federal University of Pernambuco
The Federal University of Pernambuco is a public university located in Recife, Brazil, and established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses. As of 2007, UFPE had near 35,000 students and about 2,000 professors. The university has three campuses: Recife, Vitória...
.
He has published more than 145 research articles in scientific international
journals (2010) and supervised more than 40 MSc and DSc theses.
He was also president of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística
Associação Brasileira de Estatística
Associação Brasileira de Estatística , is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science, and sometimes acts as a debate place for any professional body that has interest in statistics....
, 2000-2002. He was one of the founder editors of the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics
Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics
The Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published triannually by the Brazilian Statistical Association with the support of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics...
and the Editor in Chief of this journal between 1995-2000.
Cordeiro's main research interests in statistics include asymptotic theory,
probability distributions and regression models. He created, developed and organized
several statistical meetings in Brazil. He has acted as referee for several
important statistical journals. In 2010, Cordeiro awarded from the Brazilian
Government the National Medal for Scientific Merit at the order of Comendador.
In 1975 he married Zilma Cordeiro, and they have two daughters, Lelaine and Lillian (both are medical doctors), and a son Lucas (economist) and two grandchildren (Luiza and Mariana).
Books
- Modelos Lineares Generalizados (Generalized Linear Models). Printed by Regional Brasileira da Sociedade Internacional de Biometria (RBRAS), 2007
- Modelos Paramétricos (Parametric Models). Printed by Associação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de Estatística , is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science, and sometimes acts as a debate place for any professional body that has interest in statistics....
(ABE), 2004. - Introdução à Teoria Assintótica (Introduction to Asymptotic Theory). Printed by Associação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de Estatística , is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science, and sometimes acts as a debate place for any professional body that has interest in statistics....
(ABE), 1999. - Introdução à Teoria de Verossimilhança (Introduction to Likelihood Theory). Printed by Associação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de Estatística , is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science, and sometimes acts as a debate place for any professional body that has interest in statistics....
(ABE), 1992. - Modelos de Regressão para Análise de Dados Univariados (Regression Models for Analysis of Univariate Data). Printed by Sociedade Brasileira de MatemáticaSociedade Brasileira de MatemáticaThe Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática is a profissional association founded in 1969 at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada to promove the math education in Brazil....
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), 1989. - Modelos Lineares Generalizados (Generalized Linear Models). Printed by Associação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de EstatísticaAssociação Brasileira de Estatística , is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science, and sometimes acts as a debate place for any professional body that has interest in statistics....
(ABE), 1986.
Articles in scientific periodicals
- "Improved likelihood ratio statistics for generalized linear models", JRSS-B, 1983.
- "On the Corrections to the Likelihood Ratio Statistics", Biometrika, 1987.
- "Improved likelihood ratio statistics for exponential family nonlinear models", Biometrika, 1989.
- "Bias correction in generalized linear models", JRSS-B, 1991.
- "A mofidified score test statistic having chi-squared distribution to order
", Biometrika, 1991. - "Improved score tests for generalized linear models", JRSS-B, 1993.
- "Nonnull asymptotic distributions of three classic criteria in generalized linear models", Biometrika, 1994.
- "Improved likelihood ratio tests for dispersion models", Int. Statist. Rev.", 1994.
- "Bias correction in ARMA models", Statist. Prob. Lett., 1994.
- "On Bartlett and Bartlett-type corrections, Econometric Reviews", 1996.
- "Improved likelihood ratio tests for exponential censored data", J. Statist. Comp. Simul., 1997.
- "Improved estimatores for generalized linear models with dispersion covariates", J. Statist. Comp. Simul., 1998.
- "A formula to improve score test statistics", J. Statist. Comp. Simul., 1998.
- "Improved heteroscedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimators", Biometrika, 2000.
- "Higher order asymptotic refinements for score tests in proper dispersion models", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2001.
- "Three corrected score tests for generalized linear models with dispersion covariates", Statistica Neerlandica, 2003.
- "On Pearson´s residuals in generalized linear models", Statistics and Probability Letters, 2004.
- "A third-order bias corrected estimate in generalized linear models", Test, 2007.
- "A generalized modified Weibull distribution for lifetime modeling", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2008.
- "The distribution of Pearson residuals in generalized linear models", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2009.
- "Transformed generalized linear models", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2009.
- "Power series generalized nonlinear models", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2009.
- "The log-exponentiated Weibull regression model for interval-censored data", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2010.
- "The beta modified Weibull distribution", Lifetime Data Analysis, 2010.
- "The Kumaraswamy Weibull distribution with application to failure data", Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2010.
- "The beta generalized half-normal distribution", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2010.
External links
- Cordeiro's website (in Portuguese)
- Curriculum vitae of Cordeiro (in Portuguese)