Bo Henry Lindqvist

Contact information

E-mail address:

bo@math.ntnu.no

Phone:

+47-735-93532 (office)

+47-735-93520 (department)

+47-72 84 92 26 (private)

Fax:

+47-735-93524

Mailing address (for Norwegians):

Institutt for matematiske fag
NTNU-Gl?shaugen
7491 Trondheim

Mailing address (for others):

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
N-7491 Trondheim
NORWAY

Main research interests

• General statistical inference
• Stochastic modelling and Markov processes
• Reliability theory and survival analysis

Recent research publications

• The Identifiability Problem for Repairable Systems Subject to Competing Risks. Advances in Applied Probability 36, 774-790 (2004). (Co-author: Tim Bedford).
• Modelling of dependence between critical failure and preventive maintenance: The repair alert model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 136(5), 1701-1717 (2006). (Co-authors: Baard Stove and Helge Langseth.)
• Competing risks for repairable systems: A data study. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 136(5), 1687-1700 (2006). (Co-author: Helge Langseth.)
• Monte Carlo conditioning on a sufficient statistic. Biometrika 92, 451-464, 2005 (Co-author: Gunnar Taraldsen).
• Sufficiency and conditional Monte Carlo. Manuscript. (Co-author:Gunnar Taraldsen).
• Statistical modelling and inference for component failure times under preventive maintenance and independent censoring. In: Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliability. Proceedings of MMR 2004, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2005, pp 319-333. (Co-author: Helge Langseth.)
• Estimating the Proportion of True Null Hypotheses, with Application to DNA Microarray Data. Journal of Royal Statistical Society Ser. B 67, 555-572, 2005 (Co-authors: Mette Langaas and Egil Ferkingstad).
• Conditional Monte Carlo Based on Sufficient Statistics with Applications. In: Advances in statistical modeling and inference. Essays in Honor of Kjell A. Doksum. Editor: Vijay Nair. pp. 545-562. (Co-author: Gunnar Taraldsen).
• Failure modeling and maintenance optimization for a railway line. International Journal of Performability Engineering,, Vol. 1, No. 1, July 2005, 51-64. (Co-authors: Per Hokstad, Helge Langseth, J?rn Vatn).
• The Multiple Roots Simulation Algorithm, the Inverse Gaussian Distribution, and the Suffcient Conditional Monte Carlo Method. Preprint Statistics No. 4/2005 (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). (Co-author: Gunnar Taraldsen).
• A nonparametric monotone maximum likelihood estimator of time trend for repairable systems data. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 92 (2007) 575–584 Special issue on Stochastic Processes in Reliability. (Co-author: Knut Heggland).
• Estimating mean sojourn time and screening test sensitivity in breast cancer mammography screening; new results. Journal of Medical Screening, 2005, Vol 12, nr 4, 172-178. (Co-authors: Harald Weedon-Fekjaer (first author), Lars Vatten, Odd Aalen, Steinar Tretli).
• Modelling of Dependent Competing Risks by First Passage Times of Wiener Processes. To appear in IIE Transactions 2007. (Co-author: Guro Skogsrud).
• On the Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Repairable Systems. Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 532-551.
• Competing Risks. July 2006. Article to appear in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Wiley. Extended version.
• Maintenance of repairable systems. August 2006. First draft of invited chapter in Complex System Maintenance Handbook, edited by K.A.H. Kobbacy and D.N.P. Murthy (Springer).
• Bayes Theorem for Improper Priors. Preprint Statistics No. 4/2007 (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). (Co-author: Gunnar Taraldsen).

Joint Editor of Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (from 01.01.2007)

For instructions for authors and additional details, see journal homepage for Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.

Conferences

Co-chairman of

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN RELIABILITY
Trondheim, June 17-20, 2002.

Co-editor of conference volume

Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics - Vol. 7, World Scientific Publishing:
MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL METHODS IN RELIABILITY
Edited by Bo H Lindqvist (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) & Kjell A Doksum (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

List of classes

• TMA4315 Generalized Linear Models (fall 2006)
• TMA4255 Experimental design and applied statistical methods (spring 2007)
• Sabbatical leave: University of Oslo (fall 2007)

PhD students

Press here for a list of my former and present PhD students.

Master students

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Bo Lindqvist <bo@math.ntnu.no>

Last modified: Thu Sep 6 10:29:05 MEST 2007