Dr. Agostino Nobile is a Statistics Lecturer at the University of York in the United Kingdom. He served as a NISS Postdoc from 1994 to 1996, where he focused on Bayesian analyses of multinomial probit models.
Prior to working with NISS, Dr. Nobile earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994, with a dissertation on “Bayesian analysis of finite mixture distributions”. After leaving NISS, Dr. Nobile has held positions at the University of Bristol and the University of Glasgow. He has published in Biometrika, Statistics and Computing, Journal of Econometrics and The Annals of Statistics. His latest paper, “A Composite Bayesian Hierarchical Model of Compositional Data with Zeros”, has appeared in the February 2015 issue of the Journal of Chemometrics.