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]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is González and the second or maternal family name is Farías.

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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