María Dolores (Lola) Ugarte Martínez is a Spanish statistician specializing in
spatial analysis, spatio-temporal analysis,
epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.
It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidenc ...
, and
small area estimation
Small area estimation is any of several statistical techniques involving the estimation of parameters for small sub-populations, generally used when the sub-population of interest is included in a larger survey.
The term "small area" in this conte ...
. She is a professor in the Statististics, Computer Science, and Mathematics Department at the
Public University of Navarre
The Public University of Navarre ( eu, Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa; es, Universidad Pública de Navarra) is a public university created in 1987 by the government of the Spanish autonomous region of Navarre ( es, Navarra, Basque: ''Nafarr ...
.
Education and career
Ugarte earned a degree in mathematics from the
University of Zaragoza in 1989, and completed her Ph.D. in 1996 at the Public University of Navarre. After post-doctoral research at
Simon Fraser University, she became an associate professor at the Public University of Navarre in 1997, and full professor in 2009. She chaired the statistics department there from 2007 to 2012.
Ugarte served as vice president of the Spanish Statistical Society from 2010 to 2013, and as co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''TEST'' of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research from 2017 to 2020. She is treasurer of the Federation of European National Statistical Societies.
Books
Ugarte is the coauthor, with
Ana Fernández Militino
Ana María Fernández Militino is a Spanish spatial statistician. She is a professor of statistics and operations research at the Public University of Navarre. Despite the usual conventions for Spanish surnames, her English-language publications ...
and Alan T. Arnholt, of the textbook ''Probability and Statistics with R'' (CRC Press, 2008; 2nd ed., 2016). She is co-editor, with Andrew B. Lawson,
Sudipto Banerjee
Sudipto Banerjee (born October 23, 1972) is an Indian-American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and inference for spatial data analysis. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the ...
, and Robert Haining, of the ''Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology'' (CRC Press, 2016).
References
External links
Home page*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Spanish statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Zaragoza alumni
Academic staff of the Public University of Navarre