Statistical Days 2007
The annual conference of Finnish statisticians, Statistical Days, took place at the University of Tampere 10.–11.5.2007 in Paavo Koli lecture hall, Pinni A building, first floor, Kanslerinrinne 1 (location of the university, map of the campus area).
The main topic of Statistical Days 2007 was multivariate methods. Conference was organized by the Finnish Statistical Society and the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy at the University of Tampere. Statistical Days 2007 was sponsored by SAS Institute Inc.
Contributed papers and posters
In this session you can give a 15-minute talk or, alternatively, present a poster describing your research. The abstracts of the following papers were submitted by the deadline:
- Anne Puustelli (University of Tampere), Lasse Koskinen (Insurance Supervisory Authority of Finland), Arto Luoma (University of Tampere): "Bayesian modelling of financial guarantee insurance".
- Leena Kalliovirta (University of Helsinki): "Quantile residuals for multivariate models".
- Simo Ali-Löytty (Tampere University of Technology): "A modified Kalman filter for hybrid positioning".
- Niklas Ahlgren, Jan Antell (Swedish School of Economics): "Cobreaking of stock prices. An example of the use of canonical correlations in finance".
Program
Thursday, May 10, 2007
| 10.00–12.00 | Registration in the entrance hall of Pinni A building and lunch at Juvenes University Restaurant (main building, 2nd floor) |
| 12.00–12.15 | Opening of Statistical Days. The President of the Finnish Statistical Society, Professor Lauri Tarkkonen |
| 12.15–13.45 | Professor Robert J. Serfling, University of Texas at Dallas: "Survey on some nonparametric and robust multivariate methods". Chair: Erkki Liski |
| 14.00–14.40 | Professor Hannu Oja, University of Tampere: "Multivariate data analysis based on two location vectors and two scatter matrices". Chair: Simo Puntanen |
| 14.40–15.10 | Coffee |
| 15.10–15.50 | Professor Lauri Tarkkonen, University of Helsinki: "40 years of multivariate analysis". Chair: Simo Puntanen |
| 16.00–16.40 | Research Director Lasse Koskinen, Insurance Supervisory Authority of Finland: "On the statistical aspects of insurance company's risk management". Chair: Juha Karvanen |
| 16.45–17.35 | Törnqvist-award |
| 17.35– | StatNet meeting |
| 18.30–22.00 | Conference dinner at Juvenes University Restaurant |
Friday, May 11, 2007
| 08.30–09.50 | Contributed papers (see above). Chair: Jarkko Isotalo |
| 09.50–10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.00–10.40 | Professor Tõnu Kollo, University of Tartu, Estonia: "Skewed multivariate distributions". Chair: Tapio Nummi |
| 10.50–11.30 | Professor Robert J. Serfling, University of Texas at Dallas: "Survey on some nonparametric and robust multivariate methods". Chair: Hannu Oja |
| 11.30–12.30 | Lunch at Juvenes University Restaurant |
| 12.30–13.10 | Professor Robert J. Serfling, University of Texas at Dallas: "Survey on some nonparametric and robust multivariate methods". Chair: Hannu Oja |
| 13.10–13.30 | Coffee |
| 13.30–14.10 | Professor (emeritus) Seppo Mustonen, University of Helsinki: "On Survo cross sum puzzles". Chair: Lauri Tarkkonen |
| 14.10–14.50 | Dr. Arto Inkala: "Sudokus – creating, solving and rating". Chair: Lauri Tarkkonen |
| 14.50–15.20 | Professor Pentti Manninen, University of Tampere: "Creating and updating PowerPoint presentation by Visual Basic". Chair: Erkki Liski |
Abstracts
The abstracts of the Statistical Days 2007 can be downloaded here as individual files. The printed collection of abstracts was included in conference folder.