Dag Tjøstheim (born 19 September 1945) is a

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statistician. He took the

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degree at the

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in 1970, and the PhD degree at

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. He then worked at

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. He was appointed

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at the

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in 1977, and in 1980 he became professor in statistics at the University of Bergen. He has edited the journal ''Scandinavian Journal of Statistics''. He is a member of the

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. In 2009, Tjøstheim was the first ever recipient of the

Sverdrup Prize The Sverdrup Prize (''Sverdrupprisen'') is a Norwegian honorary award concerning the fields of theoretical and applied statistics. History It was established in the memory of Erling Sverdrup (1917–1994) who was professor of mathematical statist ...

. Among his collaborators was the late

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, winner of the

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in 2003. Tjøstheim is married, and has three sons.

References

1945 births Living people Norwegian statisticians University of Bergen alumni Princeton University alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian School of Economics Academic staff of the University of Bergen Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Norwegian expatriates in the United States {{norway-scientist-stub