Brief CV for Tore Schweder, 2012

Name:Tore Schweder

Sex:Male

Born:16 January 1943, Oslo

Nationality:Norwegian

Civil status:Married, four children born 1970, 1973, 1979, 1981.

Home address:Rødbråtbakken 1, 0874 Oslo, Norway

Home telephone:+47-22180242, +47-95142380

Position:Professor, University of Oslo

University address:Department of Economics, Box 1095 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway

University telephone: +47-22855144

University telefax:+47-22855035

E-mail:

Positions: Schweder isprofessor of statistics, University of Oslo (Economics department.) since 1984. From 1975 to 1984 he was associate professor and then professor of statistics at University of Tromsø. From 1969 to 1975 he was assistant professor at University of Oslo, in Economics- and Mathematics department, but on leave during his PhD studies at Berkely (1972 – 1974). He was senior scientist (20%) at Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, from 1984 until 2009 and since 2003 senior scientist (part time) at CEES, Centre of excellence for ecology and evolutionary synthesis, University of Oslo.

Education: Shweder is cand. real. 1968 (Mathematics department, University of Oslo), and Ph.D. 1974 (Statistics department, UC Berkeley) in statistics. Thesis title: Transformation of Point Processes - Applications to Animal Sighting and Catch Processes, with special Emphasis on Whales. Supervisor: David Brillinger.

Memberships:Schweder is elected member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a member of its board in 2002-2008. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) since 1989.He is also elected member of International Statistical Institute. From 2011 he is a foreign member of NCSE, National Centre for Statistical Ecology (UK).

Awards: Schweder received then Evelyn Fix medal as best PhD student in statistics at Berkeley in 1974. In 2011 he was awarded the Sverdrup Prize from the Norwegian Statistical Society, .

Applied statistics: Schweder has worked with scientists in a number of fields (medicine, demography, sociology, archaeology, economics, ecology, genetics, paleontology and fisheries). During the last 20 years, most of his applied work has been concerned with estimating marine resources (fish and whales), and with the problem of uncertainty in fisheries management. He has developed further methods for line transect sampling, and he has participated in several surveys at sea. He has also contributed to capture-recapture methodology. In recent years the use of stochastic differential equations in the study of phenotypic evolution in marine algae over millions of years has captured his interest.

Theoretical statistics: Mainly inspired by applications in marine biology, Schweder has pursued studies of statistical methodology. In recent years he has been mostly concerned with simulation based statistical inference, and with developing a frequentist alternative to Bayesian analysis, or a synthesis of the two approaches. This latter line of research is inspired by R.A. Fisher and B. Efron, and provides concepts and methods for prior information, posterior distributions, optimal inference and rational learning. Integrative statistical analysis of diverse data through a global model is another interest inspired by fisheries science. Together with Nils Lid Hjort he is currently writing a book Confidence Likelihood and Probabilityfor Cambridge University Press, presenting and developing theory and practice of confidence distributions in statistical inference.

Teaching:Schweder has taught statistics to students of economics, biology and mathematics at all levels. He has supervised 6 PhDs in statistics.

Additional professional work: Schweder has been serving on doctoral committees at five universities, and for professor appointments at 11 Universities. He has also served at review committees for The American Research Council, The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, and the IWC. He has refereed papers for 26 different international journals. He has been a co- editor for Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, and he has been head of the board for the journal. He has further together with others organized 9 international meetings and workshops.

Sabatical and meetings: He has had sabbaticals in Bath, Cambridge, Stanford and Hobart. He has given invited lectures at 26 universities and research institutes, and at some 20 international meetings.

Selected publications:

Schweder, T. 1970.Composable Markov Processes. Journal of Applied Probability, 7: 400-10.

Schweder, T. and Spjøtvoll, E. 1982. P-value plots to evaluate many tests simultaneously. Biometrika, 69: 493-502.

Schweder, T., Skaug, H.J., Langaas, M. and Dimakos. X.K. 1999. Simulated likelihood methods for complex double platform line transect surveys. Biometrics. 55: 678-687.

Schweder, T. and Hjort, N.L. 2002. Confidence and likelihood. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 29: 309-332.

Schweder, T. 2003. Abundance estimation from photo-identification data: confidence distributions and reduced likelihood for bowhead whales off Alaska. Biometrics. 59: 976-985.

Skaug, H.J., Øien, N., Schweder, T. and Bøthun, G. 2004. Abundance of minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostata) in the Northeast Atlantic: variability in time and space. Can.J.Fish.Aquat.Sci. 61: 870-886

Waagepetersen, R. and Schweder, T. 2006. Likelihood-basedinferenceforclusteredlinetransectdata.Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics.11:264-279

Jorde, P.E., Schweder, T., Bickham, J.W., Givens, G.H., Suydam, R. Hunter, D. and Stenseth, N.C.2007.Detecting genetic structure in migrating bowhead whales off the coast of Barrow, Alaska. Molecular Ecology ; 16:1993-2004

Schweder, T. 2007. Confidence nets for curves. In: Advances in statistical modeling and inference. Essays in honor of Kjell A. Doksum. World Scientific ISBN 10-981-270-369-1. pp. 593-609.

Aldrin, M., Bang-Huseby, R. and Schweder, T. 2008. A note on tuning the Catch Limit Algorithm for commercial baleen whaling. J. Cetacean Res. Manage.10(3):191-194.

Sadykova, D. And Schweder, T. 2010. Migration ranks for bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) at Barrow in spring. J. Cetacean Res. Manage.11(1):17:21

Schweder, T., Sadykova, D., Rugh, D., Koski, W. 2010.Population estimates from aerial photographic surveys of naturally and variably marked bowhead whales. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics.15: 1-19

Liow, L.H., Skaug, H.J., Ergon, T., Schweder, T. 2010. Global occurrence trajectories of microfossils: environmental volatility and the rise and fall of individual species. Paleobiology, 36: 224–252

Sadykova, D.; Skurdal, J.; Hessen, D.O.; Schweder, T. 2011. Saving the largest makes a difference: exploring effects of harvest regulations by model simulations for noble crayfish, Astacus astacus. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 18: 307-313

Schweder, T.; Sadykova, D. 2012. Information dynamics and optimal sampling in capture-recapture. Biometrika. In press.

Papers in review:

Reitan, T., Schweder, T.; Hendriks, J. Phenotypic evolution studied by layered Stochastic differential equations. Annals of Applied Statistics

Koyano, H.; Serbezov, D.; Kishino, H.; Schweder, T. Scale-free reproductive network and

a condition under which sexual selectiondrives evolution. Science

Blasi, P.; Schweder, T. Tail symmetry of confidence curves based on the log-likelihood ratio. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Schweder, T. Causal sufficiency and Markov completeness. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics