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,{{r|profile}} and has been elected president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2019 term.{{r|alumelect}}

Contributions

Prado specializes in Bayesian inference for time series data.{{r|profile}} With Mike West, she is the author of the book Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference (Texts in Statistical Science, CRC Press, 2010).{{r|ts}}

Education and career

Prado was born on 24 April 1970, in Caracas,

and graduated from Simón Bolívar University in 1993.{{r|duke}}

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.{{r|duke|mgp}}

After completing her Ph.D. she returned to Simón Bolívar University as a faculty member before moving to Santa Cruz.{{r|biv}}

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.{{r|outapp}}

In 2013, Prado became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{r|fellow}}

References

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{{citation|url=https://stat.duke.edu/news/duke-statsci-alums-and-faculty-elected-isba-leadership-positions|title=Duke StatSci alums and faculty elected to ISBA leadership positions|date=January 2, 2018|publisher=Duke University Statistical Science|accessdate=2018-10-27}}

{{citation|url=http://www.est.ufmg.br/~loschi/LAvenezuela.htm|title=Bayesians in Venezuela|first=Bruno|last=Sansó|accessdate=2018-10-27}}

{{citation|url=https://stat.duke.edu/people/raquel-prado|title=Raquel Prado|publisher=Duke University Statistical Science|accessdate=2018-10-27|archive-date=2015-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704064407/https://stat.duke.edu/people/raquel-prado|url-status=dead}}. See also [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160308231909/http://www2.stat.duke.edu/people/theses/raquel.pdf Prado's dissertation], via Duke University Statistical Science.

{{citation|url=http://magazine.amstat.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Amst_October2013.pdf|title=Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony|pages=20–23|journal=AMSTATNews|date=October 2013|volume=436}}

{{citation|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/American-Statistical/113102|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|title=American Statistical Association Honors 15 at Annual Meeting|first=Susan|last=Ganley|date=August 25, 1999}}

{{citation|url=https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/raquel|title=Raquel Prado|work=People|publisher=Jack Baskin School of Engineering|accessdate=2018-10-27}}

Reviews of Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference: