Research Activities
Statistics has developed in the last decades in an extremely fast form due to the new technological advances and the computatonal ease. Application areas, such as Image Processing, Biotechnology, Official Statistics, Pattern Recognition, Reliability, and Criminology, placed many new challenges for statistical methodology. In the same time, Bayesian philosophy and methodology acquired a spatial status and entered in basically all areas of Statistics, including those where applications of Statistics appeared remote.
Research in contemporaneous topics including Analysis of Spatio-temporal Data, Extreme Value Theory, Spatial Statistics, Stochastic Processes and Survival and Reliability Analysis, is developed at our Graduate Program at UFRJ, with applications to Actuaries, Environmental Sciences, Epidemiology, Finance, Hidrology,… Many of our faculty use the Bayesian methodology as philosophical basis but also as a tool to solve state-of-the-art problems in the most different areas of Statistics.
Our main lines of research (with the respective researchers, listed in alphabetical order) are: