The ''Scandinavian Journal of Statistics'' is a quarterly

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. It was established in 1974 by four

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n statistical

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. It is published by

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and the

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are Sangita Kulathinal (

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), Jaakko Peltonen (

University of Tampere The University of Tampere (UTA) (, ) was a public university in Tampere, Finland that was merged with Tampere University of Technology to create the new Tampere University on 1 January 2019. The university offered undergraduate, postgraduate an ...

) and Mikko J. Sillanpää (

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). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 1.040, ranking it 97th out of 125 journals in the category "Statistics & Probability".

Editors

A historical list of editors since the inception of the journal. * 1974–1985 Bengt Rosén (Sweden) * 1986–1990

Søren Johansen Søren Johansen (born 6 November 1939) is a Danish statistician and econometrician who is known for his contributions to the theory of cointegration. He is currently a professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and in the ...

(Denmark) * 1991–1994

Elja Arjas Elja Arjas (born February 9, 1943, in Tampere) is a Finnish mathematician and statistician. He is professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki. Education and career Arjas studied mathematics at the University of Helsinki and graduated with a ...

(Finland) * 1995–1997

Dag Tjøstheim Dag Tjøstheim (born 19 September 1945) is a Norwegian people, Norwegian statistician. He took the cand.real. degree at the University of Bergen in 1970, and the PhD degree at Princeton University. He then worked at NORSAR. He was appointed doc ...

(Norway) * 1998–2000 Steffen L. Lauritzen (Denmark) * 2001–2003 Lennart Bondesson (Sweden) * 2004–2005 Thomas Scheike (Denmark) * 2006–2009 Ørnulf Borgan, Bo Lindqvist (Norway) * 2010–2012 Juha Alho, Paavo Salminen (Finland) * 2013–2015

Holger Rootzén 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. Education and career Rootzén ob ...

, Mats Rudemo (Sweden) * 2016–2018 Peter Dalgaard, Niels Richard Hansen (Denmark) * 2019–2021 Håkon K. Gjessing, Hans J. Skaug (Norway) * 2022–2025 Sangita Kulathinal, Jaakko Peltonen, Mikko J. Sillanpää (Finland)

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