Lurdes Yoshiko Tani Inoue is a Brazilian-born statistician of Japanese descent, who specializes in

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. She works as a professor of

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in the

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.Close up August 2012: Lurdes Inoue

, retrieved 2016-07-13.

Education and career

Inoue's grandparents emigrated from Japan to Brazil in the 1930s; she was born in

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, where she grew up. She earned bachelor's and master's degree from the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...

in 1992 and 1995,Faculty profile

, retrieved 2016-07-13. and received a fellowship from the Brazilian government to continue her studies in the US. She completed her Ph.D. in

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in 1999 from

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, under the supervision of Don Berry. After postdoctoral research at the

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, she joined the University of Washington in 2002. In 2019, she became the chair of the biostatistics department.

Book

With Giovanni Parmigiani, she is the author of the book ''Decision Theory: Principles and Approaches'' (Wiley, 2009). This book won the DeGroot Prize of the

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for 2009.

Recognition

In 2014, Inoue was elected as a

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of the

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"for substantial and fundamental contributions to Bayesian decision theory and innovation in the statistical modeling of disease progression with applications to cancer research; for outstanding mentoring of junior researchers; and for exemplary service to the profession.".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Inoue, Lurdes Yoshiko Tani Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians Brazilian statisticians Women statisticians Biostatisticians Brazilian people of Japanese descent American academics of Japanese descent University of São Paulo alumni University of Washington faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association