Lurdes Inoue
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Lurdes Inoue | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of São Paulo Duke University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics |
| Thesis | Bayesian Design and Analysis of Clinical Experiments (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Don Berry |
| Doctoral students | Rebecca Hubbard |
Lurdes Yoshiko Tani Inoue is a Brazilian-born statistician of Japanese descent, who specializes in Bayesian inference. She works as a professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health.[1]
Inoue's grandparents emigrated from Japan to Brazil in the 1930s; she was born in São Paulo, where she grew up.[1]
She earned bachelor's and master's degree from the University of São Paulo in 1992 and 1995,[2] and received a fellowship from the Brazilian government to continue her studies in the US.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1999 from Duke University,[2] under the supervision of Don Berry.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Texas, she joined the University of Washington in 2002.[1] In 2019, she became the chair of the biostatistics department.[4]
