Lurdes Inoue

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]

With Giovanni Parmigiani, she is the author of the book Decision Theory: Principles and Approaches (Wiley, 2009).[4] This book won the DeGroot Prize of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for 2009.[5]

In 2014, Inoue was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for substantial and fundamental contributions to Bayesian decision theory and innovation in the statistical modeling of disease progression with applications to cancer research; for outstanding mentoring of junior researchers; and for exemplary service to the profession."[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Close up August 2012: Lurdes Inoue, University of Washington School of Public Health, retrieved 2016-07-13.
  2. 1 2 Faculty profile, University of Washington School of Public Health, retrieved 2016-07-13.
  3. ↑ Lurdes Inoue at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Bornkamp, Björn (February 2010), "G. Parmigiani and L. Inoue: Decision theory–principles and approaches", Statistical Papers, 52 (4): 985–986, doi:10.1007/s00362-010-0318-5.
  5. ↑ DeGroot Prize, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, retrieved 2016-07-13.
  6. ↑ ASA Honors 63 New Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, June 11, 2014, retrieved 2016-07-11.
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