Sonia Petrone is an Italian mathematical statistician, known for her work in Bayesian statistics, including use of

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s for nonparametric methods in

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. With Patrizia Campagnoli and Giovanni Petris she is the author of the book ''Dynamic Linear Models with R'' (Springer, 2009).

Education and career

Petrone earned a

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economic An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with t ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the o ...

from

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and comput ...

. She completed her Ph.D. in 1989 at the

University of Trento The University of Trento (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Trento'') is an Italian university located in Trento and nearby Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research, and international relations accord ...

. After working at the

University of Pavia The University of Pavia ( it, Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; la, Alma Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it on ...

from 1991 to 1998, and at the

University of Insubria The University of Insubria ( it, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria) is an Italian university located in Como and Varese, with secondary locations in Busto Arsizio and Saronno. It was founded in 1998, it has been named after the area where it i ...

from 1998 to 2001, she became a full professor of statistics at Bocconi University. Petrone was the president of the

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for the 2014 term. She was a co-editor of the journal Bayesian Analysis (2010–2014) and the editor of the journal ''

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'' for 2020–2022.

Recognition

With Sara Wade and Silvia Mongelluzzo, Petrone won the Lindley Prize of the

in 2010. She was a Medallion Lecturer of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts ...

for 2018. She is also a Fellow of the

, and an Elected Member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from gov ...

. She was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the

, for "significant and impacting contributions to the foundations of Bayesian statistics and Bayesian nonparametric inference and prediction, as well as long-standing professional service and dedicated mentoring throughout her career".

Selected publications

Articles

Book

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Petrone, Sonia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Italian statisticians Women statisticians Bocconi University alumni University of Trento alumni Academic staff of the University of Pavia Academic staff of Bocconi University Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellows of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Bayesian statisticians