Antonietta Mira is an Italian computational statistician whose research involves the application of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to Bayesian inference.
She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Institute of Computational Science at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, and professor of statistics in the University of Insubria in Italy.
[1] Her 1998 dissertation, Ordering, Slicing and Splitting Monte Carlo Markov Chains, was supervised by Luke Tierney.
[3] Mira is a co-author with Armando Massarenti [it] of the 2020 Italian-language book La pandemia dei dati.
[3][4] She is also interested in mathematical stage magic and co-authored a book in Italian on the magic tricks of Luca Pacioli, Mate-Magica, I giochi di prestigio di Luca Pacioli (with Vanni Bossi and Francesco Arlati, 2012).