Ana María Fernández Militino is a Spanish spatial statistician. She is a professor of statistics and

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

at the

Public University of Navarre The Public University of Navarre (; ), also known by its acronym UPNA or NUP, is a public university created in 1987 by the government of the Spanish autonomous region of Navarre (Basque: ''Nafarroa'', ). It has three campuses, located in Pamplon ...

. Despite the usual conventions for Spanish surnames, her English-language publications list her name as "Ana F. Militino".

Education and career

Militino studied mathematics at the

University of Zaragoza The University of Zaragoza, sometimes referred to as Saragossa University () is a public university with teaching campuses and research centres spread over the three provinces of Aragon (Spain). Founded in 1542, it is one of the List of oldest u ...

from 1976 to 1981, and completed a doctorate in statistics in 1984 at the

University of Extremadura University of Extremadura (in ) is a Spanish public university in Extremadura (Badajoz and Cáceres). It was founded in 1973 by Decree 991/1973, May 10 ( BOE May 18) of the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain. Currently the University ...

. After several years of work as a public administrator, she became a professor at the Public University of Navarre in 1990.

Books

Militino is the coauthor, with Alan T. Arnholt and María Dolores Ugarte, of the book ''Probability and Statistics with R'' (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2008), and is the author of several other statistics textbooks.

Recognition

In 2010 the

International Association for Mathematical Geosciences The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) is a nonprofit organization of geoscientists. It aims to promote international cooperation in the application and use of mathematics in geological research and technology. IAMG's act ...

gave Militino their John Cedric Griffiths Teaching Award.

References

External links

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