Defended Ph.Ds

From SFI

New: PhD theses and trial lectures now available for some of the defended PhDs (click on titles for links).

• Morten Wang Fagerland
  

Title: Performance of significance tests, with emphasis on three statistical problems in medical research
Supervisor: Leiv Sandvik
Committee:
- Professor Michael J Campbell, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, England
- Ass. Prof. Geir Egil Eide, Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Professor Dag Steinar Thelle, Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
Trial lecture (24.11.09): Why do we need goodness of fit tests and non-parametric tests in medical research?
Oslo, 25.11.2009

• Nina Gunnes
  

Title: Adjusting for incomplete data using dynamic approaches
Supervisors: Odd Aalen and Ørnulf Borgan
Committee:
- Dr. Linda Sharples (Insitute of Public Health, Cambridge University, UK)
- Ass. Prof. Jan Terje Kvaløy (Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Stavanger, Norway)
- Dr. Hein Stigum (Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, Section for Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Oslo, Norway)
Trial lecture (24.11.09): A review of published methods for dealing with missing measurements in longitudinal models
Oslo, 25.11.2009

• Nils Fridthjov Haavardsson
  

Title: Hydrocarbon product optimization in multi-reservoir fields - tools for enhanced value chain analysis
Supervisor: Arne Bang Huseby
Committee:
- Professor Bo Bergman, Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola
- Professor Terje Aven, Institutt for industriell økonomi, risikostyring og planlegging, Universitetet i Stavanger
- Professor Erik Bølviken, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
Trial lecture: Numerisk optimering som verktøy for statistisk metode
Oslo, 5.3.2009

• Ståle Nygård
  

Title: Statistical modeling of complex time-dependent data in genomics and ecology
Supervisors: Ørnulf Borgan, Arnoldo Frigessi and Magne Aldrin
Committee:
- Professor Yudi Pawitan, Department og Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
- Associate Professor Trygve Almøy, Department of Chemistry, Biothechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Professor Inge Helland, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
Trial lecture: False discovery rate and related concepts in multiple comparisons problems, with applications to microarray data
Oslo, 19.12.2008

• Trond Reitan
  

Title: Classical and Bayesian nonlinear regression applied to hydraulic rating curve inference (presentation: powerpoint format, pdf format).
Supervisors: Bent Natvig, Nils Lid Hjort, Inge Helland
Committee:
- Professor Robin Thomas Clarke, Instituto de Pesquisas Hidráulicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Professor Håkon Tjelmeland, Institutt for matematiske fag, NTNU
- Professor Anders Rygh Swensen, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
Trial lecture: Statistical and practical challenges in estimating flow in rivers (presentation: powerpoint format, pdf format).
Oslo, 14.11.2008

• Gunnhildur Høgnadottir Steinbakk
  

Title: Conceptual and computational issues for Bayesian model criticism.
Supervisors: Geir Olve Storvik and Nils Lid Hjort
Committee:
- Professor Susie Bayarri, Departament d' Estadística i Investigació Operativa, University of Valencia, Spain
- Førsteamanuensis Håkon Tjelmeland, Institutt for matematiske fag, NTNU, Trondheim
- Førsteamanuensis Arne Bang Huseby, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
Trial lecture: Bayesian model selection and model averaging.
Oslo, 16.5.2008

• Joseph Sexton
  

Title: Algorithmic modeling, with emphasis on measurement error and incomplete data.
Supervisor: Professor Petter Laake, Institutt for medisinske basalfag, Universitetet i Oslo.
Committee:
- Professor Leonard A. Stefanski, North Carolina State University
- Professor Geir O. Storvik, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
- Førsteamanuensis Ole Christian Lingjærde, Dept of Informatics, University of Oslo
Trial Lecture: A survey of frequentist and Bayesian approaches to covariate measurement error in regression.
Oslo, 15.5.2008

• Ida Scheel
  

Title: Influence of incomplete knowledge in inference: cases in the life sciences.
Supervisors: Arnoldo Frigessi, Ingrid K. Glad and Nils Lid Hjort
Committee:
- Professor Sylvia Richardson, Centre for Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- Professor Ottar Nordal Bjørnstad, Departments of Entomology and Biology, Penn State University, USA
- Professor Ørnulf Borgan, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
Trial Lecture: Computations and applications of Bayesian networks in the life sciences.
Oslo, 2.4.2008

• Daniel Berg
  

Title: Statistical analysis of credit risk - topics in default and dependence modeling.
Committee:
- Professor Christian Genest, Departement de mathematiques et de statistique, Université Laval, Canada
- Professor Mark Salmon, Warwick Finance Research School, University of Warwick, England
- Professor Nils Lid Hjort, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
Trial lecture: Using and selecting among copulae: frequentist and Bayesian perspectives.
Oslo, 14.3.2008

• Egil Ferkingstad
  

Title: Statistical methods for biological discovery: causal structures and multiple decisions.
Supervisors: Arnoldo Frigessi, Odd Aalen and Stig Omholt
Committee:
- Professor Hans C. van Houwelingen, Dept. of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
- Professor Peter Müller, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
- Professor Knut Liestøl, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
Trial lecture: A critical review of competing risk models.
Oslo, 13.2.2008

• Kjersti Aas
  

Title: Statistical Modelling of Financial Risk.
Committee:
- Professor Alexandra Dias, University of Warwick (UK)
- Professor Jostein Lillestøl, Norges Handelshøyskole
- Professor Arvid Næss, NTNU
Trial lecture on prescribed topic: The role of extreme value theory in modelling financial risk.
Trial lecture on chosen topic: Financial risk management: Why it is important and why statistics is needed.
Trondheim, 23.1.2008

• Sara Martino
  

Title: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models.
Supervisors: Håvard Rue and Håkon Tjelmeland
Committee:
- Professor Sylvia Richardson, Imperial College, London
- Professor Arnoldo Frigessi, University of Oslo
- Professor Mette Langaas, NTNU
Trial lecture: Recent methods for Bayesian model comparison.
Trondheim, 30.11.2007