Statistical Days 2026
About the conference
Statistical Days 2026 will be held on May 28-29, 2026 at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. The keynote speaker will be Professor Aldo Solari (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
The program for the Statistical Days is ready for the talks, but you can still register for the poster competition. Please let Pekka Pere (pekka.j.pere@aalto.fi) know if you would like to present a poster at the Statistical Days. The winner of the poster competition will be awarded a prize of €200!
The program is at the bottom of the page!
Time and place
Time: 28.5.-29.5.2026.
Place: Hanken School of Economics, Arkadiankatu 22, 00100 Helsinki.
Registration and participation fee
Early registration (13.2.-30.4.2026):
- Members of the Finnish Statistical Society (dinner included): €85
- Non-members (dinner included): €150
- Student members of the Statistical Society with dinner: €80
- Students without a student membership of the Statistical Society with dinner: €90
- Students without dinner: €10
- There is no participation fee for speakers at the Statistical Days, but registration is required! Speakers will receive a registration link once their presentation proposal has been accepted
Note! After you have filled in the registration form and pressed the "Submit" button, a window will appear that says "Your response has been recorded - Payment is required as the next step! Use the link below to continue:". Clicking on the link will take you to the payment website. Payment methods include most common credit cards and PayPal.
Early registration and payment of the participation fee: https://forms.gle/hU7sGPMzvLfJq6teA
Normal registration (1.5.-18.5.2026):
- Members of the Finnish Statistical Society (dinner included): €105
- Non-members (dinner included): €160
- Student members of the Finnish Statistical Society with dinner: €90
- Students without a Statistical Society student membership with dinner: €100
- Students without dinner: €10
- There is no participation fee for speakers at Statistical Days, but registration is required! Speakers will receive a registration link once their presentation proposal has been accepted
Registration cancellation:
- If the registration is canceled by May 18, 2026, the registration fee will be refunded in full.
- The registration fee will not be refunded if the cancellation is made after May 18, 2026!
Program:
| THURSDAY 28.5.2026 | |
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| 8:30-9:30 | Registering for Statistical Days |
| Session 1 | |
| 9:30-9:45 | Opening of Statistical Days: Ari Jaakola (Finnish Statistical Society) |
| 9:45-10:15 | Jukka Hoffrén (Statistics Finland): Luotettavat tilastot demokratian tukena |
| 10:15-10:45 | Oskari Nokso-Koivisto (Aalto University): Rekisterit tutkimuksen ja päätöksenteon pohjana |
| 10:45-11:15 | Riitta Piela (Statistics Finland): Tekoäly tilastotuotannossa – mahdollisuudet, rajat ja vastuu |
| 11.15‑11.45 | Mikko Rönkkö (University of Jyväskylä): TBA |
| 11:45-14:00 | Lunch and poster exhibition |
| Session 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Aldo Solari (Ca' Foscari University of Venice): Exploratory multiple testing |
| 15:00-15:30 | Jesse Hemerik (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Nonparametric false discovery proportion control |
| 15.30‑16:30 | Coffee and poster exhibition |
| Session 3 | Research showcase |
| 16:30-17:00 | Jukka Corander (University of Oslo, University of Helsinki and Wellcome Sanger Institute): The E. coli Game of Clones |
| 17:00-17:30 | Marcelo Hartmann (University of Helsinki): Riemannian Laplace Approximation with the Fisher Metric |
| 20.00‑23.00 | Dinner at the restaurant Svenska Klubben (for those who have paid and speakers). How to get from Hanken to Svenska Klubben. |
| FRIDAY 29.5.2026 | |
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| Session 4 | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Niklas Ahlgren (Hanken): A nearly linear asymmetric GARCH model (joint with Malte Jahn) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Alexander Back (Hanken): Testing GARCH models for omitted parametric time-variation in the unconditional variance (joint with Niklas Ahlgren and Timo Teräsvirta) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Tatiana Terenteva (Hanken): Weak and strong cross-sectional dependence of stock returns in factor models (joint with Niklas Ahlgren and Jan Antell) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Timo Teräsvirta (CoRE, Aarhus BSS and Aarhus University): Dynamic time-varying betas and climate and political risk factors for four largest Australian banks (joint with Annastiina Silvennoinen, and Glen Wade) |
| 11:00-13:00 | Lunch and poster exhibition |
| Session 5 | |
| 13:00-13:30 | Mikko Sillanpää (University of Oulu): Estimation of networks and graphical structures |
| 13:30-14:00 | Presentation by Leo Törnqvist Award winner |
| 14:00-14:30 | Coffee and poster exhibition (voting ends) |
| Istunto 6 | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Announcing the winner of the poster competition: Jyrki Möttönen (Finnish Statistical Society) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Closing speech for the Statistical Days: Pekka Pere (Finnish Statistical Society) |