Pedro Alberto Morettin

**Pedro Alberto Morettin** (born 29 June 1942) is a Brazilian statistician. He is a professor at the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo and holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is recognized for his works in time series and wavelets analysis.

## Education

Morettin studied at the Instituto de Educação de Catanduva, where he had a math teacher who inspired him to persuade this career. Morettin joined the University of São Paulo's mathematics program.In1963, received both bachelor and licentiate's degree. After briefly working as a teacher, Morettin lived at the United States and began to expand his statistics' knowledge.

He received a master's degree in statistics in 1971 and his PhD in 1972, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

### At the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo (IME-USP)

Although his initial degree was in pure mathematics, Morettin expanded his knowledge in statistics and began to teach in this area at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics.

Morettin became the institute's dean in 1990. He modernized the Department of Statistics, introducing research lines in time series and wavelets and consolidate international partnerships. His warrant lasted until 1994, when Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira assumed.

Until 2012, he was Full Professor at the IME-USP. Later, in 2023, he received the Emeritus title, which is granted to retired teachers who standed out by his reasearch and teaching activities and by his contribuitions towards the university.

Currently, Morettin is IME-USP's Senior Professor and a associated editor of the _Journal of Forecasting_ and _São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences._

### Scientific associations

Morettin was president of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística between 1994 and 1996.

He is a Emeritus researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and was an associated professor at the Centro de Estudos Quantitativos em Economia e Finanças.

## Legacy

Morettin worked with time series, wavelets and statistics applications, with enphasis in its applications in finances, health and physics.

For his contribuitions in his area, Pedro Alberto Morettin is the first brazilian to received the Mahalobis Award, by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The award is conceived since 2003 to a statistic originated in a developing country who promoted a research area.

In addition, Morettin advised 46 students in master and PhD's degree and published books that are used since basic courses to advanced ones.

## Awards and recognition

- 2006: ABE Awards, from the Associação Brasileira de Estatística.
- 2009: Mahalanobis International Award, from the India Government.
- 2012: honored with a Workshop at Campinas.
- 2021: Conselho Federal de Estatística's Emeritus Statistic, from the Conselho Regional de Estatística 3ª Região (CONRE-3).
- 2023: Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo's Emeritus Professor, from IME-USP.
- 2024: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico's Emeritus researcher, from the CNPq.
- 2024: the book _Time Series and Wavelet Analysis: Festschrift in Honor of Pedro A. Morettin,_ that honors him, was published.

### Livros

- 1997: _Ondaletas e seus usos na Estatística_.
- 2014: _Ondas e Ondaletas: da análise de Fourier à análise de ondaletas de séries temporais_.
- 2017: _Econometria financeira_.
- 2017: _Estatística Básica_.
- 2018: _Análise de Series Temporais, Volume 1: Modelos Lineares Univariados_.
- 2020: _Análise de séries temporais, vol. 2: Modelos multivariados e não lineares_.
- 2022: _Estatística e ciência de dados_.

### Artigos

- 1974:  _Walsh-function analysis of a certain class of time series._
- 1984: _The Levinson Algorithm and Its Applications in Time Series Analysis._
- 1991: _Walsh-Fourier Analysis and Its Statistical Applications: Comment._
- 1998: _A wavelet analysis for time series._
- 2003: _Wavelets in state space models._
- 2007: _Wavelet based time-varying vector autoregressive modelling._
- 2010: _Time-varying autoregressive conditional duration model._
- 2012: _Comparing non-stationary and irregularly spaced time series._

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Pedro Alberto Morettin
- **image**: Pedro Morettin - Cerimônia de emérito.png
- **caption**: Morettin in 2023
- **birth place**: Catanduva, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil
- **nationality**: Brazilian
- **occupation**: Researcher, university professor
- **imagesize**: 200px