Raquel Menezes
Main Interest Areas
- Spatial Statistics, Geostatistics
- Spatial Epidemiology
- Environmental Applications
- Non-Parametric Estimation
Work Institution
Member of the Mathematical Research Centre CMAT.
Assistant Professor at the
Department of Mathematics and Applications of Minho University.
- Lectures / Classes
Ano Lectivo 2009-2010
Modelos de Séries Temporais
Métodos
Estatísticos A
Anos Lectivos Anteriores
Complementos
de Análise de Matemática C
Análise de Matemática I
Estatística Ambiental
Estatística Temporal e Espacial
Processos Estocásticos
Planeamento de Experiências
- Contact
Tel.: +351 253510430/400
Fax: +351 253510401
Email: rmenezes (at) mct.uminho.pt
Snail: Dep Matemática e Aplicações,
Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058
Guimarães, Portugal
Academic Degrees
Publications, Communications and assorted Readings
Publications
- R.Menezes, P.Garcia-Soidán and C.Ferreira (2010). Nonparametric spatial prediction
under stochastic sampling design. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics
(accepted).
- P.Diggle, R.Menezes and Ting-Li Su (2010). Geostatistical
Inference under
Preferential Sampling (with discussion). Journal of
Royal Statistics Society, series C, vol 59, part 2, 191-232 (RSS
read paper).
- R.Menezes and J.Tawn (2009). Assessing the effect of biased and
clustered sampling on variogram estimation. Environmetrics, vol 20, issue 4,
445-459.
- P.Almeida,
C.Baquero and R.Menezes (2009). Extrema
Propagation: Fast Distributed Estimation of Sums and Network Sizes. Proceedings of IEEE de ICAS 2009.
- R.Menezes,
P.Garcia-Soidán and M.Febrero-Bande (2008). A kernel variogram estimator for
clustered data.
Scandinavian
Journal of
Statistics, vol 35, issue 1, 18-37.
- R.Menezes,
P.Garcia-Soidán and M.Febrero-Bande (2005). A comparison of approaches for
valid variogram achievement.
Computational
Statistics, 20 (4), 623-642.
Communications/Publications in Conferences
or Workshops
- P.Garcia-Soidán and R.Menezes (2009). An application of
the orthonormal series covariance to the coal-ash data. Proceedings of
the "IX Congreso
Galego de Estatística e Investigación de
Operacións", Ourense, Spain, November 2009, pages 235-238.
- R.Menezes (2009). Clustering and preferential sampling, two
distinct issues in Geostatistics. XVII Annual Congress of the
Portuguese Society of Statistics, Sesimbra, Portugal, October 2009.
- R.Rocha, M.J.Bento, R.Menezes, L.Meira-Machado (2009). Cancro do
estômago na Região Norte, uma análise de
Sobrevivência Relativa. XVII Annual Congress of the
Portuguese Society of Statistics, Sesimbra, Portugal, October 2009.
- J.F. Ferreira da Silva, A.
Silva Lima,
R. Menezes e
J. Garcez Moreira (2009). Análise,
modelação e previsão de sucessões
cronológicas de cloreto e de condutividade eléctrica de
águas subterrâneas da
margem do rio Lima. 9.º SILUSBA - Simpósio de
Hidráulica e Recursos
Hídricos dos Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa,
Benguela, Angola, 28-30
Outubro 2009 (14 páginas).
- T.L.Su, P.Diggle and R.Menezes (2009). Monitoring environmental
risk under preferential sampling. 30thAnnual Conference of the
International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Prague, Czech
Republic, August 2009.
- P.Garcia-Soidán and R.Menezes (2009). Kernel spatial
prediction under random design. EMS 2009, 27th European Meeting of
Statisticians, Toulouse, France, July 2009.
- R.Menezes and A.Fernandes (2009). Data analysis on environmental
monitoring networks. TIES 2009, 20th Annual Conference of The
International Environmetrics Society, Bologna, Italy, July 2009.
- J.F. Ferreira da Silva, S.
Bragança Salgado e R.
Menezes (2009). Modelação e previsão de sucessões
cronológicas de
parâmetros de qualidade de águas superficiais. 1.º Seminário sobre
Gestão de
Bacias Hidrográficas – As bacias hidrográficas do Norte e
as perspectivas
futuras de gestão. FEUP, Porto, 6-7 Maio 2009 (9 páginas).
- P.Garcia-Soidán and R.Menezes (2008). Nonparametric tools
for dependence assessment and prediction in the spatial setting. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Nonparametric
Inference - ISNI2008, pages
104-106, Nov 2008, Vigo, Spain.
- R.Menezes (2008). Clustering and preferential sampling, two
distinct issues in Geostatistics. Proceedings
of the International Workshop
on
Spatio-Temporal Modelling - METMA4, pages
309-314, Sep 2008,
Alghero, Italy.
- P.Garcia-Soidán and R.Menezes (2008). Valid nonparametric
estimation of the covariance function with applications. COMPSTAT 2008, Porto, Portugal,
August 2008. (abstract)
- R.Menezes, C.Baquero and P.Almeida (2008). Maximum
Likelihood Estimation in Distributed Aggregation and Network Size
Calculation. COMPSTAT 2008,
Porto, Portugal, August 2008. (abstract)
- R.Menezes, C.Ferreira and P.Garcia-Soidán (2008). Spatial
prediction via the kernel method with cross-validation approaches for
bandwidth selection. Workshop on
Nonparametric Inference, Coimbra, Portugal, June 2008.
- Before 2008
Thesis and other Technical Reports
- Assessing Spatial
Dependency under Non-Standard Sampling, (PhD thesis,
with ISBN 84-9750-595-6, 2005)
- Proceedings of I Congress of Statistics and Operational Research of
Galicia and North of Portugal, 2005. Editors: F.A.C.C.Fontes,
B.Sousa,
S.Faria e R.Menezes. ISBN 972-99841-0-7.
- Analysis
of Existing Variogram Estimators (report describing the research
work developed during the Postgraduate studies in 'Statistics', Sep
2002).
- An
Application of Formal Specification Methods for some Geometric Classes
(Internal Publication, Mathematics Department, Aveiro University, March
2000).
- Replicação
e Congruência em Sistemas de Ficheiros Distribuídos
(in
Portuguese, MSc thesis, 1996).
Submitted or under preparation Papers
- P.Garcia-Soidán and
R.Menezes (2009). Valid
covariance estimation via the orthornormal series. Under
Submission.
Invited Talks and Presentations
- Talk about "Geostatistical Inference Under Preferential Sampling,
a Non-Technical Presentation", Pre-Ordinary meeting of the Royal
Statistical Society, London, UK, Sep 2009.
- Talk about "Geostatistics and Preferential Sampling: two examples
of environmental data", at Department of Mathematics of IST, Technical
University of Lisbon, March 2007 and at Department of Mathematics of
Aveiro
University, June 2007.
- Seminar about "Assessing spatial dependency under non-standard
sampling" organized by the Portuguese Society of Statistics, at
Sciences Faculty-DEIO of Lisbon University, Dec 2006.
- Talk about "Non-standard sampling in
Geostatistics: the example of Rongelap island data", at Officina
Mathematica Research Center of
Minho University, Oct 2006.
- Forum about "Assessing spatial dependency under preferential
sampling", at Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Lancaster
University, UK, Dec 2004.
- Forum about "Assessing the effect of biased and clustered
sampling on variogram estimation", at Department of Mathematics and
Statistics of Lancaster University, UK, May 2003.
- Talk about "The Importance of the Variogram within the Spatial
Statistics", at Department of Mathematics for Science and Technology of
Minho University, Oct 2002.
Current and Past Professional Links
- Mathematics and Statistics Department in Lancaster
University, where I have partially developed the research work for my
Doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Prof.Peter Diggle and
Prof.Jonathan Tawn. My first visit
to this Department occurred in 2003, under an EU Marie Curie
fellowship.
- Statistics and Operational Research
Department in Santiago de Compostela University, where I have been
registered as a PhD student and where my official supervisor
Prof.Manuel
Febrero-Bande is a lecturer. My other official PhD supervisor was
Prof.Pilar Garcia-Soidán from Vigo University.
- Mathematics Department in
Aveiro University
- Where I have lectured Introdução à
Estatística, Cálculo II and Introdução
à Análise Numérica.
- With whom I have colaborated through Geometrix project.
- TISEP - Texas Instruments e
Samsung Electronica
Portugal,
where I have worked for almost 10 years.
- Mathematics Department in Lusíada
University.
- ISTEC - Instituto Superior
de Tecnologias Avançadas do Porto.
Other Links
- International Association for Statistical Computing, IASC-ISI
- International Federation of Classification Societies, IFCS
- Associação Portuguesa de
Classificação e Análise de Dados, CLAD
- Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística, SPE
- CBM
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