Odd Aalen
Odd Aalen | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 6, 1947 Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Education | University of Oslo University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | Statistician, professor |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oslo |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucien Le Cam |
Odd Olai Aalen (born 6 May 1947, in Oslo)[1] is a Norwegian statistician in the Department of Biostatistics at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo,[2] where he is a professor emeritus.[3] He is the namesake of the Nelson–Aalen estimator and Aalen-Johansen estimator, used in used in survival analysis,[4] reliability engineering,[5] and life insurance[6] to estimate the cumulative number of expected events.
Life
[edit]Aalen completed his examen artium in 1966 at Oslo Cathedral School before studying first mathematics and physics and then statistics in which he graduated at the University of Oslo in 1972.[1] He completed a Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Statistical Inference for a Family of Counting Processes supervised by Lucien Le Cam.[7]
Honors and awards
[edit]Aalen is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[8] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Borgan, Ørnulf (13 February 2009). "Odd Aalen". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
- ^ "Odd Aalen Olai". Universitetet i Oslo. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ^ "People". Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
- ^ Hosmer, David W. Jr.; Lemeshow, Stanley; May, Susanne (2011). "2.5 Other functions of survival time and their estimators". Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time-to-Event Data. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118211588.
- ^ Jiang, Renyan (2015). Introduction to Quality and Reliability Engineering. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer. p. 75. ISBN 9783662472156.
- ^ Andersen, Per K.; Borgan, Ornulf; Gill, Richard D.; Keiding, Niels (2012). Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer. p. 311. ISBN 9781461243489.
- ^ Odd Aalen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "ASA Fellows". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- The BMMS Centre Archived 2017-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Aalen's home page
