Daniel Peña Sánchez de Rivera (

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, 1948) is a Spanish engineer and statistician.

Education

Peña obtained a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Madrid and studied sociology and statistics at

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and business administration

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. He is an active researcher in statistics and econometrics and was rector of

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in 2007–2015.

Career

He has been professor at Technical University of Madrid, and visiting professor at

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and

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. He is now Emeritus professor at

. He has been director of the Journal ''Revista Estadística Española'' and President of ''Sociedad española de Estadística e Investigación Operativa'', Vicepresident of the ''Interamerican Statistical Institute'' and President of ''European Courses in Advanced Statistics''. He has published fourteen books and more than 250 research articles in time series analysis, multivariate methods, Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics that have received more than 10,000 references. He is fellow of the ''American Statistical Association'', ''The Institute of Mathematical Statistics'' and member of the ''International Statistical Institute'' and member of the Royal Academie of Sciences in Spain. He has received the ''Youden Prize'' in 2006, from ASA and ASQ, the ''Premio Rey Jaime I'' for his research in 2011 and the first "Premio Nacional de Estadística" of Spain in 2020.

References

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