Department: Métodos cuantitativos

Centre: Facultad de Economía y Empresa

Institute: Instituto de Economía Pública

Campus: Bizkaia

Field of knowledge: Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas

Area: Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics

Research group: Econometrics Research Group - GIC 21/185

Email: vicente.nunezanton@ehu.eus

Personal web: https://www.ehu.eus/vicente.nunezanton/

Full Professor of Statistics at The University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU in Bilbao, Spain. He was awarded an undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering (1987) at ESPOL in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a Master in Theoretical Statistics (1989) and a Ph.D. in Statistics (1993) from The University of Iowa, USA. He has published more than 100 scientific articles in the areas of longitudinal data analysis, survival data, nonparametric estimation methods, goodness-of-fit testing and health related quality of life methods. He was Associate Editor for Applied Statistics (2004-2007), for Statistical Modelling (2005-2017) and has been Associate Editor for METHODOLOGY: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences since 2004. He has also been Editor of Statistical Modelling (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/smj) since 2017. He was member of the International Programme (IPC) for the International Biometric Conferences in Montreal, Canada (IBC2006), Dublin, Ireland (IBC2008), and the Chair of the International Programme Committee (IPC) for the International Biometric Conference in Florianopolis, Brazil (IBC2010). He was a member of the International Programme (IPC) for the International Biometric Conference in Kobe, Japan (IBC2012) and of the IBS Council representing the Spanish Region. He was a member of the organizing and scientific committees for the V Meeting of the International Biometric Society Network for Central America, The Caribbean, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela (Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 1997), and and Chair of the Scientific Committee for the 15th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (Bilbao, Spain, 2000), and organized, with Goeran Kauermann, the workshop Survival of the Fittest. Time to Event Analysis in Biostatistics, Economics and Related Fields (Bielefeld, Germany, 2004). He is one of the founders and one of the main researchers of the BIOSTATNET Network in Biostatistics. Jointly with Dale Zimmerman, Philippe Vieu and Frederic Ferraty, he authored books on longitudinal data and nonparametric regression methods. He was one of the founders of the Statistical Modelling Society, member of its Board of Trustees (1999-2002), member of its Executive Committee (2002-2006) and its Secretary (2002-2006). He was also Chair of the Subcommittee of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Nominations for International Representative to the American Statistical Association (ASA) Board of Directors. He has served as member and Chair of the Conference Advisory Committee, and as elected member of the Executive Board for the International Biometric Society. He has recently been elected Secretary and Treasurer of the International Biometric Society. He has given invited talks at different Universities in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, The Netherlands, and in Spain, as well at a different meetings in the area of Statistics.