Juha Karvanen
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Work experience | Publications
| Teaching | Work as reviewer
- Email: firstname.lastname@iki.fi
- Old email addresses that are not in use anymore:
- firstname.lastname@uta.fi
- firstname.lastname@hut.fi
- firstname.lastname@ktl.fi
- firstname.lastname@thl.fi
- D.Sc. (Tech.) (Statistical signal processing), Helsinki University of Technology 2002.
- M.Sc. (Statistics), University of Tampere 1998.
- Nokia Corporation, senior analyst, 2009–
- National Institute for Health and Welfare (earlier National Public Health Institute), statistician, 2004–2009.
- University of Regensburg (Germany), visiting researcher, 2004.
- RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Japan), researcher, 2003–2004.
- Helsinki University of Technology, researcher, 1999–2003.
- University of Pennsylvania (USA), visiting scholar, 2001.
- Orion Pharma, biostatistician, 1998–1999.
- Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus), trainee, 1997.
- Tampere University of Technology, research assistant, 1997.
- Adjunct professor (dosentti) in statistics, University of Tampere, January 2008–
- Adjunct professor (dosentti) in statistics, University of Helsinki, June 2008–
Journal Papers
- J. Karvanen, O. Saarela, K. Kuulasmaa, Nonparametric multiple imputation of left censored event times in analysis of follow-up data.
Journal of Data Science Volume 8, pages 151–172, 2010.
- O. Saarela, S. Kulathinal, J. Karvanen, Joint analysis of
prevalence and incidence data using conditional likelihood. Biostatistics,
Volume 10, pages 575–587, 2009.
- K. Asplund, J. Karvanen, S. Giampaoli, P. Jousilahti, M. Niemelä,
G. Broda, G. Cesana, J. Dallongeville, P. Ducimetriere, A. Evans, J. Ferrières,
B. Haas, T. Jorgensen, A. Tamosiunas, D. Vanuzzo, P.-G. Wiklund, J. Yarnell,
K. Kuulasmaa, S. Kulathinal, for the MORGAM Project, Relative risks for
stroke by age, sex and population based on follow-up of 18 European
populations in the MORGAM Project. Stroke,
10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.547869, 2009.
- J. Karvanen, F. E. Harrell Jr., Visualizing covariates in
proportional hazards model. Statistics in
Medicine, Volume 28, pages 1957–1966, 2009.
- J. Karvanen, S. Kulathinal, D. Gasbarra, Optimal designs to
select individuals for genotyping conditional on observed binary or survival
outcomes and non-genetic covariates. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Volume 53, pages 1782–1793,
2009. [The earlier title was
"D-optimal designs for collecting genetic information in follow-up studies".]
- Coronary Artery Disease Consortium, Large scale association
analysis of novel genetic loci for coronary artery disease. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis,
and Vascular Biology, Volume 29, pages 774–780, 2009.
- J. Karvanen, Approximate cost-efficient sequential designs for
binary response models with application to switching measurements. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis,
Volume 53, pages 1167–1176, 2009. [The earlier title was "Cost-efficient sequential designs for binary response models"].
- J.
Karvanen, K. Silander, F. Kee, L. Tiret, V. Salomaa, K. Kuulasmaa,
P.-G. Wiklund, J. Virtamo, O. Saarela, C. Perret, M. Perola, L.
Peltonen, F. Cambien, J. Erdmann, N. J. Samani, H. Schunkert, A. Evans,
for the MORGAM Project,
The impact of newly-identified loci on coronary heart disease, stroke and
total mortality in the MORGAM prospective cohorts. Genetic Epidemiology,
Volume 33, pages 237–246, 2009.
- K. Silander, M. Alanne, K. Kristiansson, O. Saarela, S. Ripatti, K.
Auro, J. Karvanen, S. Kulathinal, M. Niemelä, P. Ellonen, E.
Vartiainen, P. Jousilahti, J. Saarela, K. Kuulasmaa, A. Evans, M.
Perola, V. Salomaa, L. Peltonen, Gender Differences in Genetic Risk Profiles
for Cardiovascular Disease, PLoS ONE 3(10): e3615, 2008.
- J. Karvanen, Efficient initial designs for binary response data.
Statistical Methodology,
Volume 5, pages 462–473, 2008.
- J. Karvanen, A. Nuutinen, Characterizing the generalized lambda
distribution by L-moments. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Volume 52, pages 1971–1983, 2008.
- S. Kulathinal, J. Karvanen, O. Saarela, K. Kuulasmaa, for the MORGAM Project, Case-cohort design
in practice — experiences from The MORGAM Project.
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 4:15, 2007.
- J. Karvanen, G. Veronesi, K. Kuulasmaa, Defining thirds of schooling
years in population studies. European Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 22,
Number 8, pages 487–492, 2007
- J. Karvanen, J. J. Vartiainen, A. Timofeev, J. Pekola, Experimental designs for binary
data in switching measurements on superconducting Josephson
junctions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 56
(2), 167–181, 2007.
- J. Karvanen, Estimation of quantile mixtures via L-moments and
trimmed
L-moments, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Volume 51, Issue
2, pages 947–959, 2006.
[Quantile mixtures are applied to
modeling of stock index returns]
- J. Karvanen, A resampling test for the total independence of
stationary time series: application to the performance evaluation of ICA
algorithms, Neural Processing Letters, Volume 22, Number 3, pages 311–324, 2005.
- Z. Leonowicz, J. Karvanen, S. L. Shiskin Trimmed estimators for robust
averaging of event-related potentials, Journal of Neuroscience Methods,
Volume 142, Issue 1, pages 17–26, 2005.
- J. Karvanen, V. Koivunen Independent component analysis via optimum combining of kurtosis and skewness-based criteria,
Journal of the Franklin Institute,
Volume 341, Issue 5, pages 401–418, 2004.
- J. Karvanen, The statistical basis of laboratory data
normalization,
Drug Information Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, pages
101–107, 2003.
- J. Karvanen, V. Koivunen,
Blind separation methods based on Pearson system and its extensions,
Signal Processing, Volume 82, Issue 4, pages 663–673, 2002.
- J. Karvanen, J. Eriksson, V. Koivunen,
Adaptive score functions for maximum likelihood ICA,
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, Volume 32, pages 83–92, 2002.
Refereed Conference Publications
- J. Karvanen, T. Tanaka, Temporal decorrelation as
preprocessing for linear and post-nonlinear ICA, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Volume 3195, pages 774–781, 2004. (ICA2004, Granada, Spain,
September 2004).
- Z. Leonowicz, J. Karvanen, T. Tanaka, J. Rezmer, Model order
selection criteria: comparative study and applications, Proceedings of the
VIth International Workshop ``Computational Problems of Electrical Engineering''
(CPEE 2004), pages 193–196, Zakopane, Poland, September 2004.
- J. Karvanen, F. Theis, Spatial ICA of fMRI data in time windows,
AIP Conference Proceedings,
Volume 735(1) pages 312–319, 2004. (24th International Workshop on
Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and
Engineering, Garching, Germany, July 2004)
- J. Karvanen, A. Cichocki,
Measuring sparseness of noisy signals, Proceedings of Fourth
International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind
Signal Separation, ICA2003, pages 125–130, Nara, Japan, April 2003.
- J. Karvanen,
Generation of correlated non-Gaussian random variables from independent
components, Proceedings of Fourth
International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind
Signal Separation, ICA2003, pages 769–774, Nara, Japan, April
2003.
- J. Karvanen, V. Koivunen,
Blind separation using absolute moments based adaptive estimating
function,
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Independent Component
Analysis and Signal Separation, ICA2001, pp. 218–223, San Diego,
USA, December 2001.
- J. Karvanen, V. Koivunen,
Blind separation of communication signals using Pearson system based
method,
Proceedings of The Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference on Information Sciences
and Systems, Volume II, pp. 764–767, Baltimore, USA, March 2001.
- J. Karvanen, J. Eriksson, V. Koivunen,
Maximum likelihood estimation of ICA-model for
wide class of source distributions,
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for
Signal Processing X, Sydney, Australia, December 2000, pp. 445–454.
- J. Karvanen, J. Eriksson, V. Koivunen,
Pearson system based method for blind separation,
Proceedings of Second International Workshop on
Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2000),
Helsinki, Finland, June 2000, pp. 585–590
- J. Eriksson, J. Karvanen, V. Koivunen,
Source distribution adaptive maximum likelihood estimation of ICA model,
Proceedings of Second International Workshop on
Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2000),
Helsinki, Finland, June 2000, pp. 227–232
- J. Karvanen, P. Kuosmanen, J. Astola,
On output
distributions of rational filters in the case of uniform noise,
Proceedings of Second International Workshop on
Proceedings
of NORSIG'98, IEEE Nordic Signal Processing Symposium,
1998, pp. 145–147
Other publications
- J. Karvanen, K. Silander, F. Kee, L. Tiret, V. Salomaa, K. Kuulasmaa,
P.-G. Wiklund, J. Virtamo, O. Saarela, C. Perret, M. Perola, L. Peltonen, F.
Cambien, J. Erdmann, N. J. Samani, H. Schunkert, A. Evans, for the MORGAM
Project.
The impact of newly-identified loci on coronary heart disease, stroke and total mortality in the MORGAM prospective cohorts:
supplement to the paper published in Genetic Epidemiology. Available from URL:http://www.ktl.fi/publications/morgam/cardiogenics/index.html, URN:NBN:fi-fe200811052059.
2008.
Theses
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J. Karvanen,
Adaptive Methods for Score Function Modeling
in Blind Source Separation, D. Sc. (Tech.) Thesis, Helsinki University of
Technology, August 2002.
- J. Karvanen, Stokastiset pisteprosessit ja niiden soveltaminen
talouselämässä (in Finnish), Master thesis, University of Tampere, November 1998.
Abstracts, posters and presentations
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J. Karvanen,
Design and analysis of follow-up studies with genetic component, useR! 2008, Dortmund, August 2008
- S. Kulathinal, J. Karvanen, O. Saarela, K. Kuulasmaa MORGAM Case-Cohort
Study: Subcohort Selection Procedure and Approaches to Statistical Analysis,
GenomEUtwin Scientific Meeting. Rome, 14–15 December, 2006.
- J. Karvanen, Visualizing covariates in proportional hazards model using
R, useR! 2006, Vienna, June 2006
- J. Karvanen, S. Kulathinal, K. Kuulasmaa, Nonparametric multiple
imputation of event times for subjects with CHD at baseline in MORGAM genetic
study, Twin Research, Volume 7, Number 6, December 2004, pp. 680–689(10), GenomEUtwin Scientific Meeting. Rome, 13–14 December, 2004
Software
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PearsonICA R package (from CRAN), 2006
- Experimental design for switching measurements,
Matlab code,
2005
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Lmoments R package (from CRAN), 2005
- Generation of correlated non-Gaussian random variables from independent
components, Matlab code version 1.1,
2002-2007 (with contributions by Milton Woods)
- Pearson-ICA version 1.2,
Matlab code, 2000
(with Jan Eriksson and Visa Koivunen)
- EGLD-ICA, Matlab code, 2000
(with Jan Eriksson and Visa Koivunen)
Courses
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Tilastotieteen jatkokurssi (Second course in statistics), Department of
Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, autumn 1999.
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Generalized linear models, University of Helsinki, spring 2009.
Thesis supervised
Statistics
- Communications in statistics - Theory and methods
- Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
- Journal of Applied Statistics
- Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
- Statistical Methodology
- Test
Signal processing and neural networks
- Digital Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEICE Transactions
- International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
- International Journal of Neural Systems
- Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
- Signal Processing
- Neurocomputing
Epidemiology and genetics
- European Journal of Human Genetics
- Human Genetics
Finance
- Journal of Empirical Finance
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