Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born April 17, 1952) is a Brazilian
engineer
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,
mathematician
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History
On ...
and
statistician who has made significant contributions to the theory of
statistical inference, mainly through
asymptotic theory
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As an illustration, suppose that we are interested in the properties of a function as becomes very large. If , then as bec ...
and
applied probability.
Education
He received his PhD in statistics in 1982 at
Imperial College London
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supervised by
David Roxbee Cox and
Peter McCullagh.
Research
Currently, Cordeiro is a Class A researcher of the Brazilian Research Council-
CNPq
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, Full Professor at
Federal University of Pernambuco
Federal University of Pernambuco ( pt, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE) is a public university in Recife, Brazil, established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses. , UFPE had 35,000 students and 2,000 ...
(
Brazil
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) and Member of the Graduate Program in Statistics at the same university. He has published more than 360 research articles in international scientific journals with referee practice (2015) and supervised more than 60 MSc dissertations and DSc theses. He was also president of the
Associação Brasileira de Estatística Associação Brasileira de Estatística (ABE; en, Brazilian Statistical Association) is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science. It also acts as a debating place for any profes ...
, 2000–2002. He was one of the founder editors of the
Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics
The ''Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics'' ( pt, Revista Brasileira de Probabilidade e Estatística) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published four times a year by the Brazilian ...
and its Editor in Chief between 1995 and 2000. Cordeiro's main research interests in Statistics include Asymptotic Theory, Distribution Theory and Regression Models. He created, developed and organized several statistical meetings in Brazil and abroad. 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. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Pernambuco (Brazil).
Books
* An Introduction to Bartlett Correction and Bias Reduction. Printed by
Springer Verlag, 2014.
* 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 Estatística Associação Brasileira de Estatística (ABE; en, Brazilian Statistical Association) is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science. It also acts as a debating place for any profes ...
(ABE), 2004.
* Introdução à Teoria Assintótica (Introduction to Asymptotic Theory). Printed by
Associação Brasileira de Estatística Associação Brasileira de Estatística (ABE; en, Brazilian Statistical Association) is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science. It also acts as a debating place for any profes ...
(ABE), 1999.
* Introdução à Teoria de Verossimilhança (Introduction to Likelihood Theory). Printed by
Associação Brasileira de Estatística Associação Brasileira de Estatística (ABE; en, Brazilian Statistical Association) is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science. It also acts as a debating place for any profes ...
(ABE), 1992.
* Modelos de Regressão para Análise de Dados Univariados (Regression Models for Analysis of Univariate Data). Printed by
Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (SBM), 1989.
* Modelos Lineares Generalizados (Generalized Linear Models). Printed by
Associação Brasileira de Estatística Associação Brasileira de Estatística (ABE; en, Brazilian Statistical Association) is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science. It also acts as a debating place for any profes ...
(ABE), 1986.
Personal life
He married in 1975 and has two daughters. His beloved son Lucas died on June 28, 2022.
References
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1952 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
21st-century Brazilian mathematicians
Brazilian statisticians
Brazilian male writers
Presidents of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística
Federal University of Pernambuco alumni
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Academic staff of the Federal University of Pernambuco
Mathematical statisticians