<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">AINDA UM POUCO SOBRE FRANCISCO
ARANDA-ORDAZ</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Quando me formei em Matemática na
Universidade Católica de PE (1973) e Engenharia na UFPE (turma de 1974), </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">total  </span><span style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:13.5pt">de 211 colegas, fiz 211 amigos.
Amizades que persistem até hoje. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Durante meu mestrado na COPPE, em
1975, minha turma de PO tinha 14 pessoas, e fiquei amigo de todos eles. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Um dos
meus colegas, que trabalhava na extinta Embratel, foi o meu primeiro
orientando. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Na Inglaterra, as coisas ocorreram às
avessas. Eu tinha 21 colegas de doutorado no Imperial College mas consegui fazer </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">apenas três amigos: Francisco Aranda-Ordaz (falecido), Luiz Perichhi e Anthony Davison
(atual Editor da Biometrika). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Os três citados acima vieram ao Brasil pela 1ª
vez por meu intermédio. Aranda-Ordaz é bastante conhecido </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">pela transformação
para dados binários que leva seu nome, que foi a parte principal do seu paper
de 1981 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">na Biometrika. Ele era casado com uma brasileira. Fui umas seis vezes
aos "pubs" londrinos </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">com ele jogar conversa fora. Ele morava no
Lillian Pension Hall e esteve uma única vez na </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">minha casa para jantar. Era uma
pessoa reservada, mas que gostava de tomar cerveja </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">e de saber do que acontecia
do Brasil.</span></p>

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A última vez que ele esteve no Brasil foi na EMR, em 1991, evento que organizei
na UFRJ. Saímos juntos </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">com vários </span><span style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:13.5pt">brasileiros e estrangeiros na Banda de
Ipanema, e ele estava maravilhado com a alegria dos cariocas. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Uma semana
depois, quando retornou ao México, ele foi assassinado, por conta de um erro
estúpido. </span></p>

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Ele tinha comprado uma casa que havia sido assaltada e o proprietário conseguiu
identificar os ladrões. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Eles foram presos e depois de alguns meses, quando
foram soltos, voltaram à casa para se vingar do proprietário. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Estava escuro e
Francisco quando chegou na sua casa para abrir o portão, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">os ladrões atiraram
nele pensando que era o antigo dono. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Dessa forma cruel, morreu um dos mais
importantes estatísticos mexicanos! O Prêmio Aranda-Ordaz </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">é concedido a cada
três anos a melhor tese de doutorado da América Latina durante o CLAPEM. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,62,77)">Alguns
brasileiros já receberam.</span></p>

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