Miguel Ángel Gómez Villegas
Profesor Emérito (Emeritus Professor)
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
School of Mathematical Sciences
Complutense University of Madrid
Bio
I am Full Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Complutense University of Madrid. I received my Ph. D. degree in Mathematics from Complutense University of Madrid in 1976. I have been Head of Departement of "Estadística e I. O." of the Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, since May of 2010 until October of 2012. I am the President of the "Sociedad de Historia de la Estadística y la Probabilidad de España" (AHEPE) since August of 2009. I have published research papers in the following journals: Test; Comptes Rendus Academie Sciences Paris; Communication in Statistics & Theory and Methods; Statistics and Probability Letters; Journal of Multivariate Analysis; Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales; Estadística Española; Revista Matemática Complutense; Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation; Statistics; Expert Systems with Applications and Information Sciences.
Research interests
He is a specialist in Statistical Engineering, more specifically in Decision Theory, robustness and comparison between frecuentist and Bayesian methods.
Latest Publications
- M. A. Gómez-Villegas. El renacimiento de los métodos bayesianos: Jeffreys, De Finetti y Savage. In Historia de la probabilidad y de la estadística X. Editorial Thomson Reuters / Aranzadi. 2020, 95-101. ISBN: 9788413088075.
- M. A. Gómez-Villegas. ¿Por qué la Inferencia Estadística bayesiana revisitada?. Boletín de Estadística e Investigación Operativa. 2020, 36, 3, 1-7. https://eprints.ucm.es/11125/