Odd Aalen
Odd Aalen | |
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| Born | May 6, 1947 Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Education | University of Oslo University of California, Berkeley |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oslo |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucien Le Cam |
Odd Olai Aalen (born 6 May 1947, in Oslo) is a Norwegian statistician in the Department of Biostatistics at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo, where he is a professor emeritus. He is the namesake of the Nelson–Aalen estimator and Aalen-Johansen estimator, used in survival analysis, reliability engineering, and life insurance to estimate the cumulative number of expected events.