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Bo Henry Lindqvist

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Bo Henry Lindqvist

Professor emeritus
Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Bo Henry Lindqvist is professor emeritus in statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

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Research Interests

  • Theoretical statistics
  • Applied probability
  • Reliability and survival analysis

Academic degrees            

  • Cand.real 1975 (University of Oslo)
  • Dr.Philos. 1982 (University of Oslo)

Work experience

  • Professor emeritus in statistics, Dep of Math. Sci., NTNU   2022 –
  • Professor in statistics, Dep of Math. Sci., NTNU                   1988 – 2021
  • Associate professor, Dep of Math. Statist., NTH                   1979 – 88
  • Research fellow, Dep. of Math., Univ. of Oslo                       1978 – 79
  • Assistant professor, Dep. of Math.,Univ. of Oslo                  1976 – 78
  • Research assistant, Dep. of Math., Univ. of Oslo                  1974 – 75

Professional societies

  • The American Statistical Association (fellow)
  • The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (elected)
  • International Statistical Institute (elected)
  • Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
  • The International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics
  • European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics
  • The Norwegian Statistical Society

 

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2025

  • Bertinelli Salucci, Clara; Bakdi, Azzeddine; Glad, Ingrid Kristine; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Vanem, Erik; De Bin, Riccardo. (2025) Lifetime analysis with monotonic degradation: a boosted first hitting time model based on a homogeneous gamma process. Lifetime Data Analysis
    Academic article

2024

  • Aune, Dagfinn; Vardaxis, Ioannis; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Strand, Linn B; Horn, Jens Wilhelm; Bakken, Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Mukamal, Kenneth J.; Ljung, Rickard. (2024) Dispensed prescription medications and short-term risk of pulmonary embolism in Norway and Sweden. Scientific Reports
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Kvaløy, Jan Terje. (2024) New tests for trend in time censored recurrent event data. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Taraldsen, Gunnar. (2024) Simulated Exact Confidence Intervals: With Applications to Censored Exponential Reliability Data. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article

2023

  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2023) Phase-type models involving restarting and instantaneous transitions, with applications to degradation and maintenance. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article

2022

  • Erlemann, Rasmus; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2022) Conditional Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Discrete Distributions. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2022) Phase-type models for competing risks, with emphasis on identifiability issues. Lifetime Data Analysis
    Academic article

2021

  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Erlemann, Rasmus; Taraldsen, Gunnar. (2021) Conditional Monte Carlo revisited. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
    Academic article

2020

  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2020) Discussion of "Virtual age, is it real?". Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article

2019

  • Wang, Yi-Fu; Tseng, Sheng-Tsaing; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Tsui, Kwok-Leung. (2019) End of performance prediction of lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Quality Technology
    Academic article
  • Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2019) A Class of Tests for Trend in Time Censored Recurrent Event Data. Technometrics
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Samaniego, Francisco J.; Wang, Nana. (2019) Preservation of the mean residual life order for coherent and mixed systems. Journal of Applied Probability
    Academic article

2018

  • Taraldsen, Gunnar; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2018) Conditional fiducial models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
    Academic article

2017

  • Sildnes, Beate; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2017) Modeling of semi-competing risks by means of first passage times of a stochastic process. Lifetime Data Analysis
    Academic article

2016

  • Slimácek, Václav; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) Reliability of wind turbines modeled by a Poisson process with covariates, unobserved heterogeneity and seasonality. Wind Energy
    Academic article

2015

  • Asfaw, Zeytu Gashaw; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2015) Extending minimal repair models for repairable systems: A comparison of dynamic and heterogeneous extensions of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. Reliability Engineering & System Safety
    Academic article

2013

  • Taraldsen, Gunnar; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2013) Fiducial theory and optimal inference. Annals of Statistics
    Academic article

2010

  • Taraldsen, Gunnar; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2010) Improper Priors Are Not Improper. American Statistician
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Aune, Dagfinn; Vardaxis, Ioannis; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Strand, Linn B; Horn, Jens Wilhelm; Bakken, Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Mukamal, Kenneth J.; Ljung, Rickard. (2024) Dispensed prescription medications and short-term risk of pulmonary embolism in Norway and Sweden. Scientific Reports
    Academic article
  • Wang, Yi-Fu; Tseng, Sheng-Tsaing; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Tsui, Kwok-Leung. (2019) End of performance prediction of lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Quality Technology
    Academic article
  • Asfaw, Zeytu Gashaw; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2015) Extending minimal repair models for repairable systems: A comparison of dynamic and heterogeneous extensions of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. Reliability Engineering & System Safety
    Academic article
  • Bertinelli Salucci, Clara; Bakdi, Azzeddine; Glad, Ingrid Kristine; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Vanem, Erik; De Bin, Riccardo. (2025) Lifetime analysis with monotonic degradation: a boosted first hitting time model based on a homogeneous gamma process. Lifetime Data Analysis
    Academic article
  • Sildnes, Beate; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2017) Modeling of semi-competing risks by means of first passage times of a stochastic process. Lifetime Data Analysis
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2023) Phase-type models involving restarting and instantaneous transitions, with applications to degradation and maintenance. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Erlemann, Rasmus; Taraldsen, Gunnar. (2021) Conditional Monte Carlo revisited. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Kvaløy, Jan Terje. (2024) New tests for trend in time censored recurrent event data. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article
  • Taraldsen, Gunnar; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2013) Fiducial theory and optimal inference. Annals of Statistics
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2020) Discussion of "Virtual age, is it real?". Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Taraldsen, Gunnar. (2024) Simulated Exact Confidence Intervals: With Applications to Censored Exponential Reliability Data. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    Academic article
  • Taraldsen, Gunnar; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2010) Improper Priors Are Not Improper. American Statistician
    Academic article
  • Slimácek, Václav; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) Reliability of wind turbines modeled by a Poisson process with covariates, unobserved heterogeneity and seasonality. Wind Energy
    Academic article
  • Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2019) A Class of Tests for Trend in Time Censored Recurrent Event Data. Technometrics
    Academic article
  • Taraldsen, Gunnar; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2018) Conditional fiducial models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
    Academic article
  • Erlemann, Rasmus; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2022) Conditional Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Discrete Distributions. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Samaniego, Francisco J.; Wang, Nana. (2019) Preservation of the mean residual life order for coherent and mixed systems. Journal of Applied Probability
    Academic article
  • Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2022) Phase-type models for competing risks, with emphasis on identifiability issues. Lifetime Data Analysis
    Academic article

Outreach

2023

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2023) Phase-type models involving instantaneous transitions, with applications to maintenance. Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR 2023)

2022

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Slimáček, Václav. (2022) Modeling of repairable systems using Poisson processes and their extensions. Application to reliability analysis of wind turbine data. ENBIS-22 Trondheim Conference
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2022) Phase-type models for competing risks. ENBIS Spring Meeting 2022

2019

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Samaniego, Francisco J.; Wang, Nana. (2019) Is the Mean Residual Life Order Preserved from Signatures to System Lifetimes?. 11th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Wang, Yi-Fu; Tseng, Sheng-Tsaing; Tsui, Kwok-Leung. (2019) End of performance prediction of lithium-ion batteries. ENBIS 2019

2017

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2017) Statistical models for reliability and survival data based on hitting times of stochastic processes. FocuStat Research Kitchen
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Sildnes, Beate. (2017) Modeling of semi-competing risks by first passage models. 61st World Statistics Congress (ISI 2017)
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Farestveit, Odd Eirik. (2017) Degradation and maintenance modeling using the inverse Gaussian process. Mathematical Methods in Reliability

2016

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) On the proper treatment of improper distributions. Department seminar at University of Stavanger
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) Modellering av reparerbare systemer ved hjelp av Poisson-prosesser og deres utvidelser. En pålitelighetsanalyse av vindturbiner. Fremtidens metoder for risikostyring,
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) Conditional, posterior and fiducial sampling. NORDSTAT 2016
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) Some New and Old Results on System Signatures. An International Conference in Honour of N. Balakrishnan for his 60th Birthday
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Farestveit, Odd Eirik. (2016) Degradation and maintenance modeling using the inverse Gaussian process. Joint Statistical Meeting 2016
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Farestveit, Odd Eirik. (2016) Degradation and maintenance modeling using the inverse Gaussian process. CMStatistics 2016
  • Lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) On reliable and coherent systems - and a ditto professor. Bent Natvig: Reliable research through four decades
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2016) Phase-type models for competing risks. Second International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Science and Operations Management (SMRLO’16), , 15-18 February 2016

2015

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Taraldsen, Gunnar. (2015) On the proper treatment of improper distributions. International FocuStat Workshop "Inference With Confidence"
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2015) On the Equivalence and Stochastic Dominance of Systems of Different Sizes. 60th World Statistics Congress – ISI2015
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Asfaw, Zeytu Gashaw. (2015) Extending minimal repair models for repairable systems: A comparison of dynamic and heterogeneous extensions of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. MMR 2015 - The Ninth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability

2014

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2014) Statistical modeling and analysis of repairable systems: The Trend-Renewal Process. NCTS Industrial Statistics Research Group Seminar, NTHU, Taiwan
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2014) Competing Risks: Theory and Applications to Reliability. Statistical Seminar, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Presthus, Gunnhild H.. (2014) Failure prediction from condition monitoring of complex systems. Joint Statistical Meeting, Boston

2013

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Samaniego, Francisco J.. (2013) On the signature of a system under minimal repair. 8th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2013) Phase-Type Distributions for Competing Risks. 59th ISI World Statistics Congress
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Samaniego, Francisco J.. (2013) Some New Perspectives on the Signature of a Coherent System in Engineering Reliability. ISI Satellite Meeting on Statistics in Business, Industry and Risk Management

2012

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2012) On improper priors and conditional sampling. Colloquium in Statistics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2012) Statistical modeling and analysis of repairable systems - the trend-renewal process. Student lecture, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Granada, Spain
  • Conference poster
    Dikici, Engin; orderud, fredrik; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2012) Empirical Bayes Estimator for Endocardial Edge Detection in 3D+T Echocardiography. International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging - IEEE

2011

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2011) Competing risks in health surveys. ENAR 2011 Spring Meeting With IMS and Sections of ASA
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Aaserud, Stein; Kvaløy, Jan Terje. (2011) Residuals and Functional Form in Accelerated Life Regression Models. Conference on Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Predictions
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2011) On Exact Goodness-of-fit Testing for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes. Mathematical Methods in Reliability , MMR 2011

2010

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2010) Monte Carlo conditioning on a sufficient statistic. Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference, SMTDA 2010
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2010) Statistical modeling and analysis of repairable systems: The trend-renewal process. 9th German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2010) Nonparametric Estimation of Time Trend for Recurrent Events Data. Joint Statistical Meeting

2007

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2007) On the modeling and analysis of repaired and maintained systems. ESREL Safety and Reliability Conference 2007
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2007) Repairable systems with competing events. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS-2007
  • Conference lecture
    Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2007) Checking and fitting regression models for reliability data assisted by the covariate order method. ESREL Reliability and Safety Conference 2007
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2007) Competing risks in repairable systems. Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology and Practice

2005

  • Conference lecture
    Langaas, Mette; Ferkingstad, Egil; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2005) Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses with application to DNA microarray data. European Meeting of Statisticians
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Taraldsen, Gunnar. (2005) Monte Carlo conditioning on a sufficient statistic. European Meeting of Statisticians
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2005) Modeling and identifiability in dependent competing risk problems. A workshop on STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX EVENT HISTORY DATA

2003

  • Conference lecture
    Langseth, Helge; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2003) Competing risk combined with imperfect repair: Some of the dirty details. Workshop on Analysis of Competing Risks - Statistical and Probabilistic Approach.
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Kvaløy, Jan Terje. (2003) The covariate order method for nonparametric exponential regression and some applications in other lifetime models. Workshop on Semiparametric Models and Applications, in Honor of Professor Catherine Huber-Carol.
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2003) Heterogeneity Modelling for Recurrent Events. International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis (ICRSA 2003).
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2003) Modeling of Dependence Between Critical Failure and Preventive Maintenance: The Repair Alert Model. Workshop on Analysis of Competing Risks - Statistical and Probabilistic Approach.
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo; Kvaløy, Jan Terje. (2003) The covariate order method for nonparametric exponential regression and some applications in other lifetime models. Workshop on Semiparametric Models and Applications, in Honor of Professor Catherine Huber-Carol.
  • Conference poster
    Langaas, Mette; Ferkingstad, Egil; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2003) Estimation of the proportion of true null hypotheses, with application to DNA microarray data. Royal Statistical Society 2003 Conference on Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics

2002

  • Conference lecture
    Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2002) A class of tests for renewal process versus monotonic and nonmonotonic trend in repairable systems data. Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliabilitiy, MMR 2002.
  • Conference lecture
    Langseth, Helge; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2002) Modelling imperfect maintenance and repair of components under competing risk. Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability
  • Conference lecture
    Bunea, Cornel; Cooke, Roger M.; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2002) Competing risk perspective over reliability databases. Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability
  • Conference lecture
    Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo. (2002) A class of tests for renewal process versus monotonic and nonmonotonic trend in repairable systems data. Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliabilitiy, MMR 2002.

2001

  • Conference lecture
    Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo; Malmedal, Håkon; Zio, Enrico; ukjent-for-m000681, ukjent-for-m000681; ukjent-for-m000682, ukjent-for-m000682. (2001) A statistical test for monotonic and non-monotonic trend in repairable systems. European Conferenc on Safety and Reliability - ESREL 2001
  • Conference lecture
    Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Malmedal, Håkon. (2001) A statistical test for monotonic and non-monotonic trend in repairable systems. European Conferenc on Safety and Reliability - ESREL 2001
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2001) Modell for rekurrente hendelser som involverer fornyelse, tidstrend og heterogenitet. NOREVENT seminar
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2001) Modelling of maintenance in repairable systems. Seminar on Modelling of Preventive Maintenance in Repairable Systems, Universita "Politehnica" of Bucharest

2000

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Kvaløy, Jan Terje. (2000) The covariate order method for nonparametric censored exponential regression. Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR '2000
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (2000) Exact statistical inference for nonhomogeneous Poisson processes. Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR '2000

1999

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1999) Statistical Modeling an Analysis of Repairable Systems. XXXIe Journees de Statistique
  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1999) Repairable systems with general repair. Tenth European Conference on Safety and Reliability, ESREL '99
  • Conference lecture
    Kvaløy, jan Terje; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1999) Kovariatordningsmetoden for ikke-parametrisk hasardregresjon. Det 10. Norske Statistikermøte

1998

  • Conference lecture
    Skogvoll, Eirik; Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1998) Forekomst av hjertestans/HLR. Statistisk modellering med Poisson og eksponensialfordeling. Norsk Anestesiologisk Forening

1997

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1997) Statistical modeling and analysis of repairable systems. 1st International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliabi lity (1997-09-16/19)

1994

  • Conference lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1994) Bounds for first hitting time distributions for stochastically monotone Markov chains. 3rd World Congress of the Bernoulli Society
  • Lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1994) The trend-renewal process : a useful model for repairable systems. 15. Nordiska konferensen i matematisk statistik

1993

  • Lecture
    Lindqvist, Bo Henry. (1993) The trend-renewal process : a useful model for repairable systems. [Mangler data]

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