María Dolores (Lola) Ugarte Martínez is a Spanish statistician specializing in

spatial analysis Spatial analysis is any of the formal Scientific technique, techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties, primarily used in Urban design, Urban Design. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techni ...

, spatio-temporal analysis,

epidemiology Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and Risk factor (epidemiology), determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent dise ...

, 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 con ...

. She is a professor in the Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics Department 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 ...

Education and career

Ugarte earned a degree in mathematics from 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 ...

in 1989, and completed her Ph.D. in 1996 at the

. After post-doctoral research at

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey, and ...

in Canada, 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. Her research focuses on the general field of

statistical modeling A statistical model is a mathematical model that embodies a set of statistical assumptions concerning the generation of sample data (and similar data from a larger population). A statistical model represents, often in considerably idealized form ...

and spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, a subject that has applications in many fields. As a professor, she has taught statistics as well as other similar undergraduate, master's and doctoral degree programs. 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 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, and Robert Haining, of the ''Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology'' (CRC Press, 2016).

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