Graciela González Farías

Graciela María de los Dolores González Farías is a Mexican statistician whose research involves multivariate analysis, time series, and the estimation of shape parameters of skewed data. She is a researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT), the director of CIMAT's branch campus in Monterrey, Mexico, and a former president of the Asociación Mexicana de Estadística (Mexican Statistical Association).[1]

Education and career

González studied mathematics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1979. She earned a master's degree from the Colegio de Postgraduados in 1986, and completed a PhD in 1992 at the North Carolina State University.[1] Her doctoral dissertation, A New Unit Root Test for Autoregressive Time Series, was jointly supervised by David Dickey and Peter Bloomfield.[2]

She became a researcher at CIMAT in 1999, and was named director of CIMAT Monterrey in 2010. She served as president of the Mexican Statistical Association for the 2005–2007 term.[1]

Recognition

González is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[3]

References

  1. "González Farías Graciela María de los Dolores", Researcher profiles (in Spanish), CIMAT, retrieved 2022-11-14
  2. Graciela González Farías at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2022-11-14
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