Education
He studied at Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas since 1958 until his Bachelor of Science in Statistics (1968), and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy.and Doctorate.I.C. from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1976) supervised by Sir David Cox. He also obtained an Master of Science in Operational Research (1970) and a Docent Free in Applied Statistics (1989) from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Career
In 2003 he spent a year working on a Project on Neural Networks in Statistics with Professor C.R. Rao at Penn State University on a postdoctoral grant from the Brazilian Government (Computer-Aided Paperless Examination System). He is employed by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro since 1970, in the Institute of Mathematics, Postgraduate School of Engineering (COPPE) and School of Medicine. He has supervised more than 70 thesis and dissertations.
His current statistical interests are Applications of Statistical Learning Methods in Medicine, acting mainly in choice of separated models, likelihood and Bayesian inference, time series,regression and survival analysis, neural networks in statistics.
Membership
He was Elected member of the International Statistical Institute.