George Fernandez

George Fernandez is a professor of applied statistical methods and serves as the director for the University of Nevada - Reno Center for Research Design and Analysis. His publication records include, applied statistics book, a CD-Rom, 60 journal papers, and more than 30 conference proceedings. Dr. Fernandez has more than 23 years of experience in teaching applied statistics courses and SAS programming.

He won several best paper and poster presentation awards at the regional and international conferences. He has presented several invited full-day workshops on "Applications of user-friendly statistical methods in Data mining:

American Statistical Association Joint meeting in Atlanta (2001), Western SAS users conference in Arizona (2000), in San Diego (2002), and San Jose (2005), 56th Deming's conference, Atlantic City (2003), Key-note Speaker and workshop presenter, 16th Conference on Applied Statistics, Kansas State University and full-day workshop presenter at the 57th session of International Statistical Institute conference at Durbin South Africa (2009). His recent discovery, ‘A new and simpler way to calculate body's Maximum Weight Limit-BMI made simple’ and his new books on “User-friendly childhood obesity screening tools” received worldwide recognition.