Javier Contreras-Reyes earned degrees in Mathematics and Statistics in 2006 and 2008, respectively, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC). He obtained his M.Sc degree in Statistics in 2009 at the PUC and his Ph.D degree in Statistics at the University of Valparaíso (UV, Chile) in 2017. From October 2011 to October 2018, he was Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (Valparaíso, Chile), and from August 2018 to January 2019 he was a professor at UV. Since March 2019, he has been an assistant professor at Bío-Bío University. Dr. Contreras-Reyes’ research interests include the study of statistical information theory, skew-elliptical distributions, time series, Bayesian and multivariate analysis, nonlinear regression, and computational statistics.
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Information Theory
Multivariate Analysis
Statistics
Time Series Analysis
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Bayesian Analysis
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Short Biography
Javier Contreras-Reyes earned degrees in Mathematics and Statistics in 2006 and 2008, respectively, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC). He obtained his M.Sc degree in Statistics in 2009 at the PUC and his Ph.D degree in Statistics at the University of Valparaíso (UV, Chile) in 2017. From October 2011 to October 2018, he was Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (Valparaíso, Chile), and from August 2018 to January 2019 he was a professor at UV. Since March 2019, he has been an assistant professor at Bío-Bío University. Dr. Contreras-Reyes’ research interests include the study of statistical information theory, skew-elliptical distributions, time series, Bayesian and multivariate analysis, nonlinear regression, and computational statistics.
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