Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born April 17, 1952) is a Brazilian

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and statistician who has made significant contributions to the theory of statistical inference, mainly through

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and applied probability.

Education

He received his PhD in statistics in 1982 at

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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-

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, Full Professor at

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(

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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

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, 2000–2002. He was one of the founder editors of the

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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

(ABE), 2004. * Introdução à Teoria Assintótica (Introduction to Asymptotic Theory). Printed by

(ABE), 1999. * Introdução à Teoria de Verossimilhança (Introduction to Likelihood Theory). Printed by

(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

(ABE), 1986.

Personal life

He married in 1975 and has two daughters. His beloved son Lucas died on June 28, 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cordeiro, Gauss Moutinho 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