New Frontiers in Statistics and Data Science

Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the School of Science and Technology, University of Évora (Portugal), and a researcher at the Center of Mathematics and Applications, Institute for Research and Advanced Training at the same institution. Lígia is currently an elected member of the board of directors of the Portuguese Statistical Society (2024-2026). She has collaborated as a referee for several international peer-reviewed journals. Her main research interests are statistics of extremes, nonparametric statistics, and computational statistical methods, with applications in life sciences, environment, risk, insurance, and finance.

Raquel Menezes is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Mathematics, University of Minho, Portugal and a member of its Centre of Mathematics. She is an invited researcher at the Centre of Statistics and its Applications (CEAUL), Lisbon University. Her main research interests are spatial and temporal statistics, non-parametric estimation, species distribution modelling and their applications. She has acted as principal investigator of projects funded by the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology. Since 2019, she has collaborated with the Department of the Sea and Marine Resources of IPMA. In the last 12 years, she has supervised 6 PhD students and published about 34 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

Luís Meira Machado is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Minho, Portugal, and a researcher at its Centre of Mathematics. His research interests encompass various aspects of survival analysis, with a particular focus on multi-state models, nonparametric estimation, ROC curves, generalized additive models, and computational statistics. More recently, he has extended his focus to the application of these methodologies within the domain of machine learning. With over 53 journal articles and book chapters, he has made significant contributions, including advancements in multi-state models and computational statistics, showcased by the creation of 12 packages in the CRAN R repository. Luís is the current President of the Portuguese Statistical Society.

Miguel de Carvalho is the Chair of Statistical Data Science at the University of Edinburgh and the Co-Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations. His eclectic research interests include applied statistics, biostatistics, econometrics, risk analysis, and statistics of extremes. Miguel has served as an Associate Editor for top-tier journals such as The American Statistician, The Annals of Applied Statistics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He is an Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute and holds an honorary appointment as Invited Full Professor at Universidade de Aveiro.

Susana Faria is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Minho, Portugal and a researcher at its Centre of Mathematics. Her main scientific areas of interest include regression models, mixture models, and mathematical modeling. She has collaborated as a referee for several international peer-reviewed journals. Her publications are in statistics and its applications, with an emphasis on life and health sciences, engineering, and social sciences.

- A note on a Parzen-Rosenblatt type density estimator for circular data.- Population Growth and Geometrically Thinned Extreme Value Theory.- An additive shared frailty model for recurrent gap time data in the presence of zero-recurrence subjects.- Clustering and Risk Analysis for evaluating the water quality of a hydrological basin.- Green Exchange-Traded Fund Performance Evaluation Using the EU-EV Risk Model.- Risk Assessment of Vulnerabilities Exploitation.- Bayesian modelling of time series of counts with missing data.- Sexual Classification Based on Orthopantomographs.- Survapp: a Shiny Application for Survival Data Analysis.- An Application of Multivariate Random Fields and Systems of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations to Wind Velocity Data.- A direct approach in extremal index estimation.- When PACE-Gate Meets Sample Size Calculations.- An Approach for Predicting Spatially Indexed Carcass Persistence Probability to Estimate Bird Mortality at Power Lines.- Extremal Behavior of Some Bivariate Integer Models.- Solar Radiation Forecasting: A Study Case in the Colombian Caribbean Region.- Sources of bias when assessing seasonal influenza vaccine performance: a narrative review.- Peaks Over Random Thresholds (PORT) Estimation of the Weibull Tail Coefficient.- Exploring the Mutual Information Rate Decomposition in Situations of Pathological Stress.- A Simulation Comparison of Spatial Models for Preferential Sampling.- A Partially Reduced Bias Hill Estimator of the Extreme Value Index.- The importance of experimental design principles in agricultural field trials: a note for grapevine field trials.- A new class of conditional tail expectation estimators.- Tail (In)dependence: a Comparative Analysis of Estimation Methods.- Robust Estimation for the Random Effects Panel Data Models.- Air Quality Data Analysis with Symbolic Principal Components.- Geostatistical Models for Identifying Juvenile Fish Hotspots in Marine Conservation.- Count Models and Randomness Patterns.- Neurological Disease Classification based on Gait Analysis through Transformation-Based Multiple Linear Regression Normalization.- Model and Threshold Selection in the Peaks-Over-Threshold (POT) Methodology: Application to Extreme Precipitation Values in Madeira and Porto Santo Islands.- Revisiting Estimation Methods for Some Parameters of Rare Events.- Clustering and Classification of Compositional Data Using Distributions Defined on the Hypersphere.- Joint Models of Longitudinal Binary Responses: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach.