Personal Information Born: 12 March 1947, Hämeenlinna, Finland Marital Status: Married, three children University Degrees PhD, Statistics, University of Tampere, 1979 Dissertation: On reduced risk estimation in linear models  (122 pp.) PhLic, Statistics, University of Tampere, 1973. Thesis: On the concepts of statistical evidence and their applications in statistical inference (in Finnish, 169 pp.) MSc., Statistics, University of Tampere, 1971. Thesis ( major, 1970): Matrix calculus as a technique of population analysis (in Finnish, 74 pp.) Thesis (MSc., Philosophy, secondary, 1970): Provable and true formulas in the predicate calculus. (in Finnish, 51 p.) Thesis (M.Sc., Mathematics, secondary, 1974): On the relationship between the best linear unbiased estimator and the ordinary least squares estimator in the linear model. (in Finnish, 35 p.)   Last Updated 07.04.1999