SiDOR (Statistical Inference, Decision and Operations Research) group was created in 1998 by a group of young mathematicians of the University of Vigo, especialized in statistical models and methods and operations research. Presently, more than 30 people belong to SiDOR, including permanent researchers, posdocs, Ph.D. students, and technical staff. Sidor members participate as teachers in the Interuniversity Masters in Statistical Techniques and the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Statistics and Operations Research, where they have directed many doctoral theses.
The Sidor group has strong international collaborations with leading researchers in the area , which has often resulted in exchanges of research, co-authorship of scientific articles , and application of joint projects. In this sense, highlight the MEDIASRES networks (international doctorate in biostatistics) and Asymptotic Theory for Multidimensional Statistics (mathematical statistics) , respectively funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the EU and the Flanders Research Foundation, which the group participates.
Sidor is being honored as competitive group of reference by the Government of Galicia since 2008.
SiDOR group is part of the Agrofood Catalogue from January 2016, produced by Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) and Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN), with the aim of participating in the calls 2016-2017 of Social Challenge 2 (SC2) – Horizon 2020.