Hannu Oja

Oja was born in Jämsä and studied in high school in Tampere (Tampereen klassillinen lyseo). He received his MSc in statistics at the University of Tampere in 1973 and his doctorate in 1981 at the University of Oulu under the supervision of Elja Arjas.{{Citation |last=Arjas |first=Elja |title=When We Were Very Young: Some Recollections from Hannu Oja's First Years of Academic Life |date=2015 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-22404-6_1 |work=Modern Nonparametric, Robust and Multivariate Methods |pages=3–6 |editor-last=Nordhausen |editor-first=Klaus |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-22404-6_1 |isbn=978-3-319-22403-9 |access-date=2022-12-18 |editor2-last=Taskinen |editor2-first=Sara}}{{Cite journal |last=Oja |first=Hannu |date=1981 |title=On Location, Scale, Skewness and Kurtosis of Univariate Distributions |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4615828 |journal=Scandinavian Journal of Statistics |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=154–168 |jstor=4615828 |issn=0303-6898}} Oja stayed on at the University of Oulu as a lecturer after his PhD. He later moved to Jyväskylä University. He was professor of biometrics at University of Tampere's Department of Health Sciences and an academy professor at the university from 2008 to 2012. He's current a professor in mathematics at University of Turku.{{Cite web |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37443142100 |access-date=2022-12-18 |title=Hannu Oja}}

Oja has done research especially in the field of nonparametric statistical methods. He has also conducted applied statistical research in the fields of biometrics, signal processing, machine learning, and nutrition and health sciences. Oja became a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2009.

• {{Cite book |last=Oja |first=Hannu |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4419-0468-3 |title=Multivariate Nonparametric Methods with R |date=2010 |publisher=Springer New York |isbn=978-1-4419-0467-6 |series=Lecture Notes in Statistics |volume=199 |location=New York, NY |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-0468-3}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Shevlyakov |first1=Georgy L. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/948670989 |title=Robust correlation : theory and applications |date=2016 |first2=Hannu |last2=Oja |isbn=978-1-119-26450-7 |location=Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom |oclc=948670989}}

• {{Cite journal |last=Oja |first=Hannu |date=1999 |title=Affine Invariant Multivariate Sign and Rank Tests and Corresponding Estimates: a Review |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9469.00152 |journal=Scandinavian Journal of Statistics |language=en |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=319–343 |doi=10.1111/1467-9469.00152 |s2cid=120291806 |issn=0303-6898}}
• {{Citation |last1=Möttönen |first1=Jyrki |title=Asymptotic theory of the spatial median |date=2010 |url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.imsc/1291044754 |work=Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections |pages=182–193 |place=Beachwood, Ohio, USA |publisher=Institute of Mathematical Statistics |language=en |doi=10.1214/10-imscoll718 |isbn=978-0-940600-80-5 |access-date=2022-12-18 |last2=Nordhausen |first2=Klaus |last3=Oja |first3=Hannu|doi-access=free }}
• {{Citation |last=Oja |first=Hannu |title=Descriptive statistics for nonparametric models. The impact of some Erich Lehmann's papers |date=2012 |work=Selected Works of E. L. Lehmann |pages=451–457 |editor-last=Rojo |editor-first=Javier |place=Boston, MA |publisher=Springer US |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-1412-4_40 |isbn=978-1-4614-1411-7 |doi-access=free }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Ilmonen |first1=Pauliina |last2=Oja |first2=Hannu |last3=Serfling |first3=Robert |date=2012 |title=On Invariant Coordinate System (ICS) Functionals: On Invariant Coordinate System (ICS) Functionals |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-5823.2011.00163.x |journal=International Statistical Review |language=en |volume=80 |issue=1 |pages=93–110 |doi=10.1111/j.1751-5823.2011.00163.x|s2cid=18767091 |hdl=10.1111/j.1751-5823.2011.00163.x |hdl-access=free }}
• {{Citation |last=Oja |first=Hannu |title=Multivariate Median |date=2013 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-35494-6_1 |work=Robustness and Complex Data Structures |pages=3–15 |editor-last=Becker |editor-first=Claudia |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-35494-6_1 |isbn=978-3-642-35493-9 |access-date=2022-12-18 |editor2-last=Fried |editor2-first=Roland |editor3-last=Kuhnt |editor3-first=Sonja}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Nordhausen |first1=Klaus |last2=Oja |first2=Hannu |date=2018-03-07 |title=Robust Nonparametric Inference |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031017-100247 |journal=Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=473–500 |doi=10.1146/annurev-statistics-031017-100247 |bibcode=2018AnRSA...5..473N |issn=2326-8298}}

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