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  • When the Department was founded, the teaching staff consisted only of a professor and an assistant. 
  • At present there are 9 teaching positions: two professors, three lecturers, senior assistant, assistant and two full-time teachers. There are also a number of research staff on fixed-term contracts.
  • Also a large number of Statistics part-time teachers have worked in the Department. These include Tomi Seppälä, Anna-Maija Koivisto,Ismo Lapinleimu, Henri Toukomaa, Merja Jauhiainen, Markopekka Niinimäki, Joni Lehtinen, Matti Ylén, Jari Parviainen, Pirjo Palmroos, Inka Martti, Lasse Koskinen, Hannu Oja, Jani-Pekka Virtanen, Minna Åhman and Erkki Mäkelä.
  • Tapio Nummi

    Ph.D., Senior Assistant, Acting Professor

    E-mail: tan@uta.fi

    Tapio Nummi obtained his M.Sc.(1986), Lic.Phil. (1990) and Ph.D. (1995) at the University of Tampere. He has been an acting assistant (1985–1986) and a teacher (1987). In 1988 he was an acting research assistant at the Academy of Finland. During 1989 and 1990 he was a researcher at the University of Tampere. He was a researcher at the Academy of Finland during the years 1991–1993. In 1993 he was nominated as a senior assistant for the next five year period. In 1997–1998 he was a researcher at the Academy of Finland. During the academic year 1998–1999 he is an acting Professor of Statistics.

    Research interests:

    • repeated measurement models
    • growth curves
    • mixed models
    • computational statistics
    • APL
    • prediction applications of statistics in forestry.

    Main publications

    • Nummi, Tapio (1989), APL as a Tool for Computations in Growth Studies, Adamm Kertesz - Lynne C. Shaw (Eds.), Conference Proceedings APL89 - APL as a Tool of Thought, August 7 –10, 1989, New York City, APL QuoteQuad, Volume 19, Number 4, pp. 293-298, August 1989.
    • Liski, Erkki P. and Nummi, Tapio (1990), Prediction in Growth Curve Models Using the EM Algorithm, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Vol 10, No. 2, pp. 99-108
    • Liski, Erkki P. and Nummi, Tapio (1991), Missing Data under the GMANOVA Model. The Frontiers of Statistical Scientific Theory & Industrial Applications (Volume II of the Proceedings of ICOSCO - I, The First International Conference on Statistical Computing, ed. Özturk and van der Meulen), American Sciences Press, Inc, Columbus, Ohio.
    • Nummi, Tapio (1992), On model selection under the GMANOVA model, Statistical Modelling (P.G.M van der Heijden, W. Jansen, B. Francis and G.U.H. Seeber, eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, pp. 283-292.
    • Liski, Erkki P. and Nummi, Tapio (1995), Prediction and Inverse Estimation in Repeated-Measures Models, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 47, pp. 141-151.
    • Liski, Erkki P. and Nummi, Tapio (1995), Prediction of Tree Stems to Improve Efficiency in Automatized Harvesting of Forests, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 255-269.
    • Liski, Erkki P. and Nummi, Tapio (1996), Prediction in Repeated-Measures Models with Engineering Applications, Technometrics, VOL. 38, NO. 1, pp. 25-36.
    • Liski, Erkki P. and Nummi, Tapio (1996), The Marking for Bucking under Uncertainty in Automatic Harvesting of Forest, International Journal of Production Economy, 46-47, pp. 373-385.
    • Nummi, Tapio (1997), Estimation in Random Effects Growth Curve Model, Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 157-168.
    • Nummi, Tapio (1997), A Multivariate Growth Model with an Application to Paper Testing, Proceedings of Tartu Conference on Computational Statistics & Statistical Education, E.M. Tiit, Editor, University of Tartu, Estonia, pp. 112-123.
    • Wang, S.G., Liski E.P. and Nummi Tapio (1998), Two-way selection of covariables in multivariate growth curve models (accepted for publication in Linear Algebra and its Applications).

    Recent publications

    • Nummi, Tapio (1998), On Prediction of Stem Characteristics for Pine Trees, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tampere, Report A 313.
    • Nummi, Tapio (1998), Estimation and Prediction for Stem Data under Measurement Errors, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tampere, Report A 316.
    • Nummi, Tapio (1998), On the Analysis of Growth Curves under Measurement Errors, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tampere.

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