Raquel Prado
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Raquel Prado (born 1970) is a Venezuelan Bayesian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Cruz,[1] and has been elected president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2019 term.[2]
Prado specializes in Bayesian inference for time series data.[1] With Mike West, she is the author of the book Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference (Texts in Statistical Science, CRC Press, 2010).[3]
Education and career
Prado was born on 24 April 1970, in Caracas, and graduated from Simón Bolívar University in 1993.[4] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Duke University in 1998. Her dissertation, Latent Structure in Non-Stationary Time Series, was supervised by Mike West.[4][5]
After completing her Ph.D. she returned to Simón Bolívar University as a faculty member before moving to Santa Cruz.[6]
