Néstor Arcia Montes de Oca

PhD Student

nestor.arcia-montes-de-oca@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Room G.45

CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL

 

 

 

 

Phd Project:

An Assessment of Small Area Estimators in the Cuban Context

 

Biographical Information:

I joined CCSR in September 2006 as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr.Ludi Simpson and Dr. Jianxin Pan.

I am on secondment from the Centre of Population and Development Studies part of National Statistics Office in Cuba. Since 1996, I have been involved in several research projects, including :

• Development of sampling and methodology designs of population surveys
• Design, organization, monitoring and conduct of population surveys
• Development of application of multivariate analysis (data analysis) and graphic methods in the analysis of data collected in population surveys using different statistical software (STATA, MLwiN, SPSS, PC-CARP, Statistica, etc).

 

Education:

• BSc of Science Degree in Mathematics. University of Havana, 1990/96.
• MSc in Probability and Statistics. University of Havana, 2002/2005

 

Research Interests:

• Bayesian inference methods
• Imputation
• Non-response
• Randomized response

Publications:

• Elderly Labor Force Participation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rev. "Carta Económica Regional". No 89. 2004. (Spanish)
• Elderly chronic diseases and disability in Latin American and the Caribbean. Rev Pan American Journal of Public Health. ISSN: 1020-4989. (Spanish)
• Small area estimation applied to a Cuban health survey of the year 2000. ISBN: 959-7164-67-1. Pág. 168-173. 2005.
• Neyman mixed allocation and the classic composite estimator combined to improve both small and large area estimates. (Forthcoming)