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	        <strong> ignacio alvarez </strong>  <br/>
		Department of Statistics <br/>
		Iowa State University <br/>
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		<a href="mailto:ialvarezk@iastate.edu">ialvarezk@iastate.edu</a><br/>
	        <a href="https://twitter.com/nachalca">twitter: @nachalca</a><br/>
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		<p>I am currently a PhD student in statistics at <a href="http://www.stat.iastate.edu/">ISU</a></b>, I am working under <a href="http://www.jarad.me/">Jarad Niemi</a> supervision. I obtained my master degree on spring 2014, for the final project I studied the impact on posterior inference of some commonly used prior distribution for a covariance matrix, an arXived version can be found <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4050">here</a>.

I was born in <a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/montevideouy/pool/page2">Montevideo</a>, (Uruguay). Now, I am living at Ames since 2011 but I can’t get used to the <a href="https://github.com/nachalca/nachalca.github.io/tree/master/images/snowtulip.jpg">snow on my garden</a>. 
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