Mira Antonietta

Biography

Born in Pavia, Italy, on December 21, 1967 Current position Full Professor at the University of Insubria, Department of Economics, Varese, Italy, since 2006 Education PhD in Statistics , University of Minnesota, MN, 1998 Advisor: Prof. Luke Tirney Thesis title: Ordering, Slicing and Splitting Monte Carlo Markov Chains Master in Statistics , University of Minnesota, MN, 1996 Doctorate in Theorical Statistics , University of Trento, Italy, in 1995 Degree in Economics , Summa cum Laude, University of Pavia, Italy, in 1991 Misc Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the second joint IMS-ISBA world conference. Member of the Scientific Committee of the International University M.Sc. Degree in Complexity and its Interdisciplinary Applications Awarded of the Dissertation Fellowship of the U. of Minnesota for the academic year 1997/98 and awarded by the LJ Savage Thesis Award 1998

Research Interest

Time-invariance Estimating Equations Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods; Statistical computing Perfect simulation; Slice Sampler Bayesian analysis; decision making with information prior Mining; Knowledge data discovery Probabilistic expert systems; Intelligent data analysis. Filtering and Smooting problems; Signal reconstruction Nonparametric Bayesian Change Point Problems Asymptotic convergence; Measure of skewness; Tests for symmetry