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Claudio Fuentes

Associate Professor
Department of Statistics

Claudio Fuentes

Associate Professor
Department of Statistics

Research

Research Interests

  • Clustering and Classification Problems
  • Post-selection Inference
  • Bayesian Methods
  • Applied Statistics

Background

Education

Ph.D. Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2011

M.S. Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2008

M.S. Statistics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2003

B.S. Mathematics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2001

College strategic research areas

Data Science

Publications

  • Fuentes, C., Casella, G., and Wells, M.T (2018), “Confidence Intervals for the Means of the Selected Populations,” Electronic Journal of Statistics, 12 (1), pp. 58-79.
  • León-Novelo, L., Fuentes, C., and Emerson, S. C. (2017), “Marginal Likelihood Estimation of Negative Binomial Parameters with Applications to RNA-Seq Data,” Biostatistics, 18 (4), pp. 58-79.
  • De la Cruz, R., Fuentes, C., Meza, C., Lee, D. J., and Arribas-Gil, A. (2017), “Predicting Pregnancy Outcomes Using Longitudinal Information: A P-Splines Mixed-Effects Model Approach,” Statistics in Medicine, 36 (13), pp. 2120-2134.
  • Gopal, V., Fuentes, C., and Casella, G. (2012), “bayesclust: An R package for Testing and Searching for Significant Clusters,” Journal of Statistical Software, 47 (14), pp. 1-21.
  • Fuentes, C., and Casella, G. (2009), “Testing for the Existence of Clusters” (with discussions), Statistics and Operations Research Transactions (SORT), 33 (2), pp. 115-158.