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Holger Rootzén

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Holger Rootzén
Born (1945-03-25) 25 March 1945 (age 79)
NationalitySwedish
Alma materLund University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical Statistics
InstitutionsChalmers University of Technology
ThesisOn sequences of random variables which are mixing in the sense of Renyi (1974)

Holger Rootzén (born 25 March 1945) is a Swedish mathematical statistician. He is Professor in Mathematical Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology since 1993.

Rootzén obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 with the thesis On sequences of random variables which are mixing in the sense of Renyi.[1] He has earlier been professor at Lund University and lecturer at University of Copenhagen. Rootzén is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[2] He also serves as adjunct member on the Price Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He has been editor-in-chief for the scientific journals Extremes, Bernoulli, and Scandinavian Journal of statistics and has received many grants, including a 2013 grant of 50 million SEK from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation.

Rootzén's research areas include probabilistic limit theory, statistics of extremes, and use of mathematics and statistics in medicine, engineering, and risk assessment in economics and environmental science.

References

  1. ^ Rootzén, Holger (1974). On sequences of random variables which are mixing in the sense of Renyi (Thesis). Lund.
  2. ^ "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences". www.chalmers.se. Retrieved 2018-10-29. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)