Thesis work in statistics supervised by Mette Langaas

Former master students

(IndMat): MTFYMA (Master of Technology, Physics and Mathematics) with Industrical Mathematics from year 3.
(LUR): MLREAL
(MathS): MSMNFMA (International Master in Mathematical Sciences) with focus on Statistics.

  1. July 2024: Helena Koch Haugane (Indmat): Enhancing Car Insurance Sales Predictions: A Comparative Study of Categorical Boosting and Logistic Regression with Insights from Explainable AI. Co-supervised by Anne-Randi Syversveen, If.
  2. June 2024: Gorm Finne Engelsen (Indmat): Interpretable and Intelligble Statistical Models Applied to Data from Suicide Prevition Research. Co-supervised by Linde Melby.
  3. June 2024: Vilde Marie Skårdal Jensen (Indmat): Associations between Physical Acitivity Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk. A Prospective Cohort Study on the HUNT Population Using the Multiple Imputation by Chained Equation Method. Active supervisors were: Julia B. Debik and Guro F. Giskeødegård, while I was the formal supervisor.
  4. February 2024: Emma Botten (Indmat): Identifying Risk Factors for Cardivascular Disease in Women Using Penalized Regression. Co-supervised by Anja Bye, MH, NTNU.
  5. Juni 2023: Marthe Bøe Ludvigsen (Indmat): Suicide Crisis Syndrome in a Norwegian Acute Psychiatric Unit: Exploring Risk Factors using Statistical Learning and Inference. Co-supervised by Linde Melby and Terje Torgersen.
  6. June 2022: Sebastian Øiungen Ankill (Indmat): Statistical method for analysis of gene expression count data applied to a Crohn´s disease dataset. Co-supervised by Atle van Beelen Granlund, MH, NTNU.
  7. June 2022: Lene Tillerli Omdal (IndMat): Statistical Analysis of the Association between MicroRNAs in Breast Milk, Perinatal Probiotic Supplement and the Development of Atopic Dermatitis. Main supervisor Turid Follestad, Co-supervisor: Melanie Rae Simpson and Mette Langaas.
  8. June 2021: Atle Wiig-Fisketjøn (IndMat), Risk Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease with Statistical Learning Methods. Co-supervised by Anja Bye, MH, NTNU.
  9. June 2021: Lisa Erfjord (IndMat), Statistical Analysis of Interaction Effects Between Environmental and Genetic Factors, Can physical activity reduce the effects of genetic predispositions to cardiovascular disease? Data set from the HUNT Study. Co-supervised by Anja Bye, MH, NTNU.
  10. June 2019: Kristine Lund Mathisen (IndMat), Identifying Expression Quantitative Trait Loci in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Co-supervised by Atle van Beelen Granlund, MH, NTNU.
  11. June 2019: Amirhossein Kazami (IndMat), A Semi-Supervised Approach to the Application of Sensor-based Change-Point Detection for Failure Prediction in Industrial Instruments. Co-supervised by Martin Høy at DNV GL.
  12. June 2019: Elisabeth Hetlelid (IndMat), Modelling biomarker development during pregnancy for women with rheumatic diseases using linear mixed models and bootstrapping. Co-supervised by Mona Høysæter Fenstad, MH, NTNU.
  13. June 2019: Dag Johnsrud Kristiansen (IndMat), Detecting Neuronal Activity with Lasso Penalized Logistic Regression Co-supervised by Benjamin Dunn, IMF, NTNU.
  14. June 2018: Kristin B. Bakka (IndMat), Changepoint model selection in Gaussian data by maximization of approximate Bayes Factors with the Pruned Exact Linear Time algorithm.
  15. June 2018: Pål Vegard Johnsen (IndMat), Stochastic modelling and analysis of neural tumour evolution. Co-supervisor: Thea Bjørnland, IMF, NTNU.
  16. March 2018: Kristian Aga (IndMat), Modelling Neuronal Activity with Jittered Generalised Linear Models. Co-supervised by Benjamin Dunn, IMF, NTNU.
  17. June 2017: Haris Fawad (IndMat), Modelling Neuronal Activity using Lasso Regularized Logistic Regression. Co-supervised by Benjamin Dunn, IMF, NTNU.
  18. June 2017: Marie Klevjar (LUR), Statistical modelling and analysis of energy expenditure among severely overweight. Co-supervisor: Ingrid Løvold Mostad, MH, NTNU and St.Olavs Hospital
  19. June 2017: Martina Hall (IndMat), Statistical Methods for early Prediction of Cerebral Palsy based on Data from Computer-based Video Analysis. Joint supervision with Turid Follestad, co-supervisor: Lars Adde, MH, NTNU.
  20. June 2017: Julia B. Debik (IndMat), Using Ensemble Methods to Improve thePerformance of Prediction Statistical Analysis of a Myocardial Infarction Data Set from the HUNT Study. Co-supervisor: Anja Bye, MH, NTNU.
  21. June 2016: Fredrik Lohne Aanes (IndMat). Testing equality of the success probabilities in two independent binomial distributions. Co-supervisor: Øyvind Bakke, IMF, NTNU.
  22. June 2016: Lene Maria Sundbakk (IndMat), Statistical methods to detect genotype-phenotype association using genetic similarity matrices.
  23. June 2016: Marthe Larsen (IndMat), Statistical analysis of factors influencing early neurological deterioration after acute ischemic stroke using sparse logistic regression. Co-supervisor: Turid Follestad, MH, NTNU.
  24. June 2014: Thea Bjørnland (IndMat), Statistical Methods for Genetic Association Studies under the Extreme Phenotype Sampling Design.
  25. March 2014: Karen Sofie Sollie Holt (IndMat), Statistical Modelling and Inference for Long Gene Expression Time Series.
  26. June 2013: Marit Runde (IndMat), Statistical methods for detecting genotype-phenotype association in the presence of environmental covariates.
  27. July 2012: Christian Magnus Page (MathS), Estimating Time-Continuous Gene Expression Profiles Using the Linear Mixed Effects Framework. Co-supervisor Torunn Bruland, MH, NTNU.
  28. June 2012: Kari Krizak Halle (IndMat), Statistical Methods for Multiple Testing in Genome-Wide Association Studies.
  29. June 2011: Eirin Tangen Østgård (IndMat), Statistical analysis of biological data using linear mixed effects data.
  30. June 2011: Tonje Gulbrandsen Lien (IndMat), Statistical modelling of qPCR data.
  31. June 2010: Anita Sklander Fineid (IndMat), Genetic Association in Case-Control Studies: Methods for Calculating Statistical Significance. Main supervisor: Øyvind Bakke (IMF, NTNU).
  32. June 2010: Ida Henriette Caspersen (Bio), Leukocyte count and expression of diabetes markers in response to dietary carbohydrate restriction. Institute of Biology, NTNU. Main supervisor: Berit Johansen.
  33. July 2008: Torbjørn Lilleheier (IndMat), Analysis of common cause failures in complex safety instrumented systems. Joint supervisor: Marvin Raustand, NTNU.
  34. June 2008: Marita Risberg (IndMat), Combining the MAX test with methods for Family-wise error rate.
  35. June 2008: Erik Edsberg (IndMat), A statistical simulation-based framework for sample size considerations in case-control SNP association studies.
  36. June 2007: Solfrid Håbrekke (IndMat), Metodar og data til estimering av parametrar i risikomodellen for transport av farleg gods. Joint supervisor: Jørn Vatn, IVT, IPK, NTNU.
  37. June 2007: Ingvild Bore (IndMat), Statistisk analyse av celleprøver innen kreftdiagnose: Multinomisk logistisk regresjon - modelltilpasning og prediksjon. Joint supervisor: Stian Lydersen, MH, NTNU.
  38. June 2006: Øystein Widar Bråthen (IndMat), Multilevel Analysis Applied to Fetal Growth Data with Missing Values. Joint supervisor: Stian Lydersen, MH, NTNU.
  39. February 2005: Marit Sellie Eriksen (IndMat), Computing expression summary measures for Affymetrix microarray data.
  40. June 2003: Hilde-Gunn Bruu (IndMat), Statistical designs for cDNA microarray experiments. Joint supervisor: John Tyssedal, IMF, NTNU.
  41. June 2003: Egil Ferkingstad (IndMat), Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses, with application to DNA microarray data. Joint supervisor: Bo Lindqvist, IMF, NTNU.

Former bachelor students

  1. May 2021: Rasmus Hilmer Henninen (BMAT), Explainable Artificial Intelligence. Explaining predictions with partial dependence and accumulated local effects plots.
  2. May 2021: Haakon Muggerud (BMAT), Feed-forward neural networks and how to explain their predictions.
2025-01-14, Hallvard Norheim Bø