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Patriota, AG Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Rank USP.

Personal data Birthplace: Curitiba - PR, Brazil. Birthday: 05/10/1979

Education Major in Statistics, (Magna cum Laude) Federal University of Ceará - January 2001 - December 2004, duration: 48 months. M.Sc in Statistics Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo - February 2005 - August 2006, duration: 18 months. Ph.D in Statistics Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo - September 2006 - June 2010, duration 42 months. Post-doc in Statistics Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo -- Grant from Fapesp - July 2010 - January 2012. Post-doc in Statistics Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa -- Grants from Fapesp and CNPq - September 2015 - January 2017.

Scholarships   Undergraduate research - (2002 - 2003) - CNPq - Advisor: Professor Manoel Bezerra Campêlo Neto. Undergraduate research - (2003 - 2004) - CNPq - Advisor: Professor Sílvia Maria de Freitas. Undergraduate research - (2004 - 2004) - UFC - Advisor: Professor Sílvia Maria de Freitas. Master - (2005 - 2006) - CNPq - Advisor: Professor Heleno Bolfarine. Ph.D - (2006 - 2006) - Capes - Advisor: Professor Heleno Bolfarine. Ph.D - (2006 - 2007) - Cnpq - Advisor: Professor Heleno Bolfarine. Ph.D - (2007 - 2010) - Fapesp - Advisor: Professor Heleno Bolfarine. Post-Doc - (2010 - 2011) - Fapesp - Supervisor: Professor Heleno Bolfarine. Post-Doc - (2015 - 2017) - Fapesp - CNPq - Supervisor: Professor David Bickel.

Undergraduate research (in Portuguese)

• Programação Matemática em Dois Níveis: Teoria e Aplicações, (2002 - 2003) - CNPq.

• Modelos Lineares Mistos (Métodos de estimação), (2003 - 2004) - CNPq.

• Modelos para dados de contagens com superdispersão. (2004 - 2004) - UFC.

Master (in Portuguese)

• Patriota, AG (2006). Modelo funcional heterocedástico com erro nas variáveis - Uma abordagem para medidas repetidas, (2005 - 2006) - CNPq

Ph.D (in Portuguese)

• Patriota, AG (2010). Modelo heterocedástico com erros nas variáveis, (2006 - 2010) - Fapesp.

Post-doc (in Portuguese)

• Patriota, AG (2011). Modelo com erros nas variáveis: estimação, diagnóstico e extensões (2010 - 2011) - Fapesp.

Some presentations

• Patriota, AG (2021). Palestra para `CONTRIBUCIONES DE HELENO', COMCA - CONGRESO DE MATEMÁTICA CAPRICORNIO Universidade de Atacama) .

• Patriota, AG (2021). Palestra para o SEST XIV - UFC) .

• Patriota, AG (2020). Palestra para o IVEPESP (Estatística na Ciência) . IME-USP. Evolução dos óbitos por Covid .

• Patriota, AG (2020). Palestra sobre Estatística na Pandemia . IME-USP.

• Patriota, AG (2020). Seminário para alunos da disciplina de perspectivas . IME-USP.

• Patriota, AG (2018). On some assumptions of the Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing . IME-USP (presented in ``RBRAS'').

• Patriota, AG (2017). Measurement error model with a general class of error distribution for the surrogate variable . IME-USP (presented in ``Skew workshop'').

• Patriota, AG (2017). Multivariate Regression Models With General Parametrization . IME-USP (presented in ``Regression Models and Applications'' research group).

• Patriota, AG (2014). S-value e P-value Simpósio Nacional de Probabilidade e Estatística.

• Patriota, AG (2011). Modelos com Erros nas variáveis . Escola de Modelos de regressão.

• Patriota, AG (2008). Modelos polinomiais com Erros nas variáveis: modelando a emissão de raios-X contra a massa de buracos negros . Simpósio Nacional de Probabilidade e estatística.

Published Papers

Attention: I invite any comments, reviews, critiques, or even objections to any one of my articles. They should be sent to the author by e-mail (patriota at ime.usp.br). Once read, the author will try to offer a reply or/and an explanation, if possible.

1. Patriota, AG. A measure of evidence based on the likelihood-ratio statistics Statistical Papers, 63, 1931-1951, (2022).
   


2. Al-Sharadqah, AA, Patriota, AG. On estimating the boundaries of a uniform distribution under additive measurement errors, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 92, 2112-2140, (2022).


3. Patriota, AG, Alves, JO. A monotone frequentist measure of evidence for testing variance components in linear mixed models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 219, 43-62, (2022).
   (My contribution: I helped to derive and formalize the results, conduct the simulation studies, write and revised the text)


4. Patriota, AG. On the mean value theorem for estimating functions. The American Statistician, 73, 408-410, (2019).


5. Bickel, DR, Patriota, AG. Self-consistent confidence sets and tests of composite hypotheses applicable to restricted parameters. Bernoulli, 25, 47-74, (2019). (citations)
   (My contribution: I helped to formalize some properties, provided some examples and revised the text)


6. Patriota, AG. Is NHST logically flawed? Commentary on: 'NHST is still logically flawed'. Scientometrics,116, 2189-2191 (2018). (citations)


7. Melo, TFN, Ferrari, SLP, Patriota, AG. Improved estimation in a general multivariate elliptical model . Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 32, p. 44-68, (2018). (citations)
   (My contribution: I had the main idea and computed the main quantities, helped to write and revise the text)


8. Melo, TFN, Ferrari, SLP, Patriota, AG. Improved hypothesis testing in a general multivariate elliptical model . Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 87, 1416-1428, (2017). (citations)
   (My contribution: I had the main idea and helped to write and revise the text)


9. Patriota, AG. On some assumptions of the null hypothesis statistical testing. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 77, 507-528, (2017). (citations)


10. Gonzalez, AJ, Castro, M, Lachos, VH, Patriota, AG. A Confidence Set Analysis for Observed Samples: A Fuzzy Set Approach. Entropy , 18, 211. (2016). (citations)
    (My contribution: I had the main idea and revised the text)


11. Fujita, A, Takahashi, DY, Patriota, AG, Sato, JR. A non-parametric statistical test to compare clusters with applications in functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Statistics in Medicine , 33 (28), 4949-4962, (2014). (citations)
    (My contribution: I helped to formalize the statistical tests and revised the text)


12. Patriota, AG. Uma medida de evidência alternativa para testar hipóteses gerais (divulgação), Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM , 36, 14-22, (2014). (citations) (Correction of a typo: $\mathcal{F}$ with $\mathcal{P}$ found by Guilherme Viana)


13. Fujita, A, Patriota, AG, Takahashi, D. A non-parametric method to estimate the number of clusters, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , 73, 27-39, (2014). (citations)
    (My contribution: I helped to formalize the statistical tests and revised the text)


14. Melo, TFN, Ferrari, SLP, Patriota, AG. Modified likelihood ratio tests in heteroskedastic multivariate regression models with measurement error . Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation , 84, 2233-2247, (2014). (citations)
    (My contribution: I helped to formalize the computations and revised the text)


15. Patriota, AG. A classical measure of evidence for general null hypotheses . Fuzzy sets and Systems, 233, 74-88, (2013). (citations)


16. Patriota, AG. A q-Exponential regression model. Sankhyã - series B, v. 74, 149-170, 2012. (citations)


17. Fujita, A, et al Functional clustering of time series gene expression data by Granger causality. BMC Systems Biology, 6:137, 2012. (citations)
    (My contribution: I helped to formalize the statistical tests and revised the text)


18. Patriota, AG. On scale-mixture Birnbaum-Saunders distributions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, v. 142, 2221-2226, 2012. (citations)


19. Lemonte, AJ, Patriota, AG. Influence diagnostics in Birnbaum-Saunders nonlinear regression models. Journal of Applied Statistics, v. 38, p. 871-884, 2011. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed some quantities and helped to revise the text)


20. Patriota, AG. A note on influence diagnostics in nonlinear mixed-effects elliptical models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Print), v. 55, p. 218-225, 2011. (citations)


21. Patriota, AG, Cordeiro, GM. A matrix formula for the skewness of maximum likelihood estimators. Statistics & Probability Letters, v. 81, p. 529-537, 2011. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed some quantities and helped to write and revise the text)


22. Patriota, AG, Bolfarine, H, Arellano-Valle, RB. A multivariate ultrastructural errors-in-variables model with equation error. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, v. 102, p. 386-392, 2011. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed all quantities and wrote a large part of the text)


23. Lemonte, AJ, Patriota, AG, Multivariate elliptical models with general parameterization. Statistical Methodology, v. 8, p. 389-400, 2011. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed some quantities and helped to revise the text)


24. Patriota, AG, Lemonte, AJ. Bolfarine, Heleno. Improved maximum likelihood estimators in a heteroskedastic errors-in-variables model. Statistical Papers, v. 52, p. 455-467, 2011. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed some quantities and helped to write and revise the text)


25. OLIVEIRA, NC ; Silvia, CMO ; Pereira, ACE ; Silvia, KG ; Lima, MM ; Miranda, RKM ; Patriota, AG ; Portes, LA . Nível de atividade física de mulheres residentes numa região de baixa condição socioeconômica do município de São Paulo-SP. Lifestyle Journal, v. 1, p. 24-32, 2011.
    (My contribution: I helped to formalize the statistical tests and revised the text)


26. Patriota, AG, Lemonte, AJ, de Castro, M. Influence diagnostics in a multivariate normal regression model with general parameterization. Statistical Methodology, v. 7, p. 644-654, 2010. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed some quantities and helped to revise the text)


27. Patriota, AG, Bolfarine, H. Measurement error models with a general class of error distribution. Statistics (Berlin), v. 44, p. 119-127, 2010. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed all quantities and wrote a large part of the text)


28. Patriota, AG, Sato, JR, Blas Achic, BG. Vector autoregressive models with measurement errors for testing Granger causality. Statistical Methodology, v. 7, p. 478-497, 2010. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed the main formulas and wrote part of the text)


29. Fujita et al. A fast and robust statistical test based on Likelihood ratio with Bartlett correction to identify Granger causality between gene sets. Bioinformatics (Oxford), v. 26, 2349-2351, 2010. (citations)
    (My contribution: I helped to formalize the statistical tests and revised the text)


30. Patriota, AG ; Bolfarine, H, de Castro, M. A heteroscedastic structural errors-in-variables model with equation error. Statistical Methodology, v. 6, p. 408-423, 2009. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed all quantities and wrote a large part of the text)


31. Farias, RBA, Arenas GM, Patriota, AG. Reducción de modelos en la presencia de parámetros de perturbación. Revista Colombiana de Estadística, v. 32, p. 99-121, 2009. (citations)
    (My contribution: I discussed some results and revised the text)


32. Patriota, AG, Lemonte, AJ. Bias correction in a multivariate normal regression model with general parameterization. Statistics & Probability Letters, v. 79, p. 1655-1662, 2009. (citations)
    (My contribution: I had the main idea, computed the core quantities, wrote the formulas and revised the text)


33. Fujita, A, Patriota, AG, Sato, JR, Miyano, S. The impact of measurement errors in the identification of regulatory networks. BMC Bioinformatics, v. 10, p. 412, 2009. (citations)
    (My contribution: I helped to formalize the statistical tests and revised the text)


34. Patriota, AG, Bolfarine, H. A heteroscedastic polynomial regression with measurement error in both axes. Sankhya. Series B, v. 70, p. 267-282, 2008. (citations)
    (My contribution: I computed all quantities and wrote a large part of the text)

Submitted papers

Patriota, A.G. (2015). The Likelihood-ratio measure. Submitted in 2015 (started writing in Fev/2014).

Unpublished papers

Patriota, A.G. (2011). An extended version of Caratheodory Extension Theorem. Arxiv. (citations)

Fields of interest

• Foundations of probability and statistics

• Belief measures, Abstract Belief Calculus

• Parametric inference

• Regression models

• High order asymptotics