Department of Natural Sciences

Assistant Professor Claus Thorn Ekstrøm Ph.D. student Bjarke Feenstra Associate Professor Torben Martinussen Ph.D. Student Christian Ritz Professor Mats Rudemo Professor Ib Skovgaard Associate professor Helle Sørensen

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Publications

Biometry and Statistics
The field covers statistical methods and their applications to other fields at KVL, in particular to biological investigations dealing with plants and animals as well as foods and human nutrition. Biological variation is usually substantial, therefore we often apply models with various random effects (the so-called mixed models) to take different sources of variation into account.

Among research topics taken up by the group, some recent ones are

• Sensometrics (analysis of data from sensory panels).
• Image analysis, in particular in relation to forestry.
• Semiparametric methods related to longitudinal data.
• Asymptotic methods, i.a. applied to mixed models.
• Diffusion models.

The group is responsible for teaching of statistics at KVL; the courses may be seen from the department home page. Advanced courses in statistics are targeted towards an operational learning of methods of relevance for biological applications, usually by use of the statistical programme package SAS.