João António Branco

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Current position:

• Associate Professor in Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico.

Academic degrees:

• Ph.D in Statistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1979 .
• MSc. in Applied Statistics, University of Oxford 1975.
• BSc. in Mathematical Sciences, University of Lisbon, 1966.

Most relevant publications:

• PIRES, A. M. and BRANCO, J. A. (2007). Introdução aos Métodos Estatísticos Robustos (Introduction to Robust Statistical Methods). Edições SPE, Lisboa. In Portuguese.
• J. A. BRANCO, C. CROUX, P. FILZMOSER and M. R. OLIVEIRA (2005). Robust canonical correlations: comparative study. Computational Statistics, 20, 203-229.
• BRANCO, J. A. (2004). Uma Introdução à Análise de Clusters (An Introduction to Cluster Analysis). Edições SPE, Lisboa. In Portuguese.
• PAULINO, C. D. and BRANCO, J. A. (2004). Exercícios de Probabilidade e Estatística. Escolar Editora, Lisboa, In Portuguese.
• PIRES, A. M. and BRANCO, J. A. (2002). Partial influence functions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 83, 2, 451-468.
• PIRES, A. M., BRANCO, J. A., PICADO, A. M. and MENDONÇA, E. (2002). Models for the estimation of a no effect concentration. Environmetrics, 13, 15-27.
• PIRES, A. M. e BRANCO, J. A. (1996). Comparison of Multinomial Classification Rules. Journal of Classification, 14, 137-145, 1997.
• BRANCO, J. A. e PIRES, A. M. (1994). Projection Pursuit: A General Strategy for the Analysis of Multivariate Observations (in portuguese). "Uma estratégia geral para análise de observações multivariadas". In Pestana, D. et al. (editors), A Estatística e o Futuro e o Futuro da Estatística, Col. Novas Tecnologias/Estatística, Edições Salamandra, Lisboa, 333-342.
• BRANCO, J. A., PIRES, A. M., PICADO, A. M. and MENDONÇA, E. (1994). A Statistical Evaluation of Toxicity tests of Waste Waters. Em Barnett, V. and Turkman, K. F. (editors), Statistics for the Environment 2: Water Related Issues, Wiley, 285-293.
• COX, T. F., COX, M. A. A. and BRANCO, J.A. (1990). Multidimensional Scaling for n-tuples. Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 44, 195-206, 1991.
• BRANCO, J. A. and PIRES, A. M. (1990). Robust Estimation of Principal Components. In COMPSTAT 90 Book of Short Communications, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 97-98.

Research:

Main interests:

• Multivariate Analysis
• Robust Statistics
• Structural and Functional Relationships
• Analysis of repeated measurement.
• Applications to social, medical and environment sciences

Teaching:

• Courses for Students of Applied Mathematics and Computations (LMAC):
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Computacional Statistics
• Courses for Engineering Students:
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Stochastic Models

• Last update: 02/07/08