Statistical Days 2025

Information about the conference

Statistical Days 2025 will be held on 9-10 June 2025 in Tampere.  The keynote speaker will be Professor Jörn-Steffen Pischke  (London School of Economics, UK).

NOTE! The program is still preliminary. The schedule is subject to change without prior notice.

Time and place

Time : 9.6.-10.6.2025.

Place : Tampere University city centre campus (Virta), Åkerlundinkatu 5, 33100 Tampere, Finland
 

Registration and participation fee

Early registration (27.2.-30.4.2025):

  • Members of the Society (dinner included): 80 €
  • Non-members (dinner included): 130 €
  • Speakers of the Statistical Days (dinner included): 25 €
  • Students without dinner: 10 €
  • Student members of the Society with dinner: 80 €
  • Students without a student membership of the Society with dinner: 90 €

 

Normal registration (1.5.-25.5.2025):

  • Members of the Society (dinner included): 100 €
  • Non-members (dinner included): 150 €
  • Speakers of the Statistical Days (dinner included): 25 €
  • Students without dinner: 10 €
  • Student members of the Society with dinner: 90 €
  • Students without a student membership of the Society with dinner: 100 €

 

Registration cancellation:

  • If you cancel your registration by May 25, 2025, the registration fee will be refunded in full.
  • The registration fee will not be refunded if the cancellation is made after May 25, 2025!I

 

Note! Registration is only valid after payment of the participation fee. The participation fee is paid upon registration. 

Link to the registration form. 

 

Research showcase

The Statistical Days will host the event "Research showcase" for the second time. It consists of  presentations (20 min. + discussion 10 min.). The presentations should cover high-quality Finnish research that has been recently published or accepted for publication in a way that is understandable to statisticians other than those specialized in the field.

 

Preliminary program

 MONDAY 9.6.2025
11.00‑12.00Registering for Statistical Days
  
Session 1 
12.00‑12.15Pekka Pere: Opening of Statistical Days
12.15‑13.15Steve Pischke: The merits of pre-testing in difference-in-differences models
13.15‑13.45Juha Karvanen: Clustered variables in causal inference: Building on potential outcomes and graphical models
  
13.45‑15.30Lunch and poster exhibition
  
Session 2 Research showcase
15.30‑16.00Aapeli Nevala: Bayesian hidden Markov model for natural history of colorectal cancer: Handling misclassified observations, varying observation schemes and unobserved data
16.00-16.30Leena Kalliovirta: Modelling microclimate temperature buffering capacity using mixture models
  
16.30‑17.15Coffee and poster exhibition
  
Session 3 
17.15‑17.45Jaakko Pere: On the impact of approximation errors on extreme quantile estimation with applications to functional data analysis
17.45‑18.15Tapio Nummi: On the improved estimation of the normal mixture components for longitudinal data
  
20.00‑23.00 Dinner
 TUESDAY 10.6.2025
Session 4 
9.00‑9.30Jaakko Peltonen: Fair Neighbor Embedding: How to reduce dimensionality of data while treating its protected groups fairly?
9.30‑10.00Juho Kanniainen: The rise of AI foundation models: Do we still need econometric methods in financial time-series forecasting?
10.00‑10.30Lauri Viitasaari: On data–driven forecasting of financial time series
  
10.30‑11.15Coffee and poster exhibition
 
  
Session 5 
11.15‑11.45Gerardo Iniguez Gonzalez: Universal patterns in egocentric communication networks
11.45‑12.15Frank Emmert-Streib: Estimating digital twins with physics-informed neural networks
  
12.15‑14.00Lunch and poster exhibition (voting ends)
  
Session 6 
14.00‑14.30Arto Luoma: Effects of Speeding and Alcohol Usage on Fatal Crashes: Estimating Relative Risk Curves from Partial Data
14.30‑15.00Jyrki Möttönen: Announcing the winners of the poster competition, Leo Törnqvist Prize and the dissertation prize and Pekka Pere: Closing the Statistical Days