Raquel Prado (born 1970) is a Venezuelan Bayesian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the

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of the

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, and has been elected president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2019 term.

Contributions

Prado specializes in

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for

time series In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. ...

data. With Mike West, she is the author of the book ''Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference'' (Texts in Statistical Science, CRC Press, 2010).

Education and career

Prado was born on 24 April 1970, in

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

, and graduated from Simón Bolívar University in 1993. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at

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in 1998. Her dissertation, ''Latent Structure in Non-Stationary Time Series'', was supervised by Mike West. After completing her Ph.D. she returned to Simón Bolívar University as a faculty member before moving to Santa Cruz.

Recognition

In 1999, Prado and her co-authors Andrew Krystal and Mike West won the Outstanding Statistical Application Award of the

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for their work on statistical analysis of

electroencephalography Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The biosignal, bio signals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in ...

data. In 2013, Prado became a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prado, Raquel 1970 births Living people American statisticians Venezuelan statisticians Women statisticians Duke University alumni University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Academic staff of Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) Venezuelan women educators Bayesian statisticians People from Caracas