Welcome

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Leo Bastos

I am an applied Bayesian statistician working in the Scientific Computing Program (PROCC) at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and I am also a (former) Taekwondo student from Soares team dojan.

Education

  • PhD in Statistics at the University of Sheffield, UK, 2010.
  • MSc in Statistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003
  • BSc in Statistics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2002

Research

I am an applied Bayesian statistician. My main interests are on developing and applying (Bayesian) statistical models on infectious diseases problems. On the applied problems, I am particularly interested in problems where the usual statistical model assumptions (e.g. independence, normality) are not valid, this may explain the big variability among areas of application in my CV, varying from micro (analysis of mosquito data) to macro (National level spatiotemporal disease dynamics).

Random stuff

  • My academic genealogy tree (Link)
  • My Erdös number: 4 (Bastos > O’Hagan > Leonard > Taylor > Erdös)
  • My Cox number: 3 (Bastos > O’Hagan > Leonard > Cox)