17th Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics

June 8-12, 1998

Elsinore, Denmark

Special Invited Lectures

Søren Asmussen, Dept. Math. Stat., Lund Univ.: Matrix-analytic models and their analysis
Ib Skovgaard, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen: Likelihood asymptotics

A draft version of Ib Skovgaards manuscript is available from ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/Staff/Ib.Skovgaard/likeasym.ps or via his homepage http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~ib

Invited Lectures

Elja Arjas, Section of Biometry, Univ. of Helsinki: Trees, Teeth, and Genes: Three Mouthfuls of Bayesian Biostatistics
Knut Conradsen, Inst. f. Math. Modeling, Techn. Univ., Copenhagen: Image analysis
Ulla Holst, Dept. Math. Stat., Lund Univ: Analysis of environmental data
Per Mykland, Dept. Stat, Univ. of Chicago: Likelihood and martingales
Antti Penttinen, Dept. Stat., Univ. of Jyväskylä: Spatial statistics in biology

Contributed sessions and their organizers

Nine special-topic sessions will be organized.

Contributed papers should be submitted directly to the organizers of the sessions. There is no special form for submission of papers. It is directly recommended that persons who wish to present a paper contact the session organizer first.
Deadline for submissions is May 1st.

Statistical Methods for Diffusion Processes: Bo Martin Bibby, bibby@dina.kvl.dk.
Biopharmaceutical Statistics: Eva Seim, es@nycomed.com.
Incomplete Observations: Tobias Ryden, tobias@maths.lth.se.
Statistics in Genetics: Søren Andersen, SA@ds-data.dk.
Computational Statistics: Eva B. Vedel Jensen, eva@mi.aau.dk.
Inverse Problems: Jens Ledet Jensen, jlj@mi.aau.dk.
Industrial Statistics: Jacques de Maré, demare@math.chalmers.se.
Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis: Martin Bøgsted Hansen, mbh@math.auc.dk.
Longitudinal Data: Jari Haukka, Jari.Haukka@ktl.fi.

Scientific Programme

The scientific programme is now available.

Venue

The ``LO-school'', Elsinore. This school/conference centre is an independent institution with a strong connection to the Danish trade union movement. It is situated in the North-Western part of Elsinore in an old park with a view to Øresund. Distance of about 3 km from Kronborg Castle and the old part of Elsinore.

Accommodation

Primarily at the school itself, and at the neighbouring ``Højstrupgård''. There are also camping facilities and a youth hostel nearby.

Social events

Wednesday afternoon there will be arranged a tour to Roskilde, including a visit to the viking ship museum.

Organizer

Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics

Organizing Committee

Programme Committee

Peter Dalgaard (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)
Dorte Kronborg (chair) (kronborg@cbs.dk)
Steffen Lauritzen (steffen@math.auc.dk) (representing Scand.J.Stat.)
Mats Rudemo (rudemo@math.chalmers.se)
Michael Sørensen (michael@math.ku.dk)

The registration form in PostScript format.

Last updated January 27th, Claus Ekstrøm <C.Ekstroem@biostat.ku.dk>