We are happy to welcome you to the 11th Tartu Conference on Multivariate Statistics, to be held from 25 to 28 June 2024, Tartu, Estonia. The conference is dedicated to the memory of C.R. Rao (1920-2023).

The 11th Tartu Conference on Multivariate Statistics aims to bring together statisticians working on various classical or modern fields of multivariate statistics in the broad sense.

Early bird registration deadline extended to 15 May 2024.

Keynote speakers:

•  Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada), Order statistics, multi-state systems, signatures and application
•  Christian Genest and Johanna G. Nešlehová (McGill University, Canada), Advances and challenges in hierarchical copula modeling for large dimensional data.
•  Simo Puntanen (University of Tampere, Finland) Professor C.R. Rao’s Century—seen from Tampere’s perspective

Invited speakers:

•  Adelchi Azzalini (University of Padova, Italy), On the use of ordered factors as explanatory variables
•  Katarzyna Filipiak (Poznań University of Technology, Poland), Estimation under inequality constraints in univariate and multivariate linear models
•  Solomon W. Harrar (University of Kentucky, USA), Overcoming Biomarker Bias with Finite Mixtures for Multivariate Outcomes
•  Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Extreme value theory for multivariate heavy-tailed time series
•  Hannu Oja (University of Turku, Finland), Notions of dispersion, kurtosis and information: From principal components to independent components

In addition, invited sessions on:

New Analytics for Complex Correlated Data (Organizer: Peter Song, University of Michigan, USA )

Predictive Density Estimation (Organizer: Éric Marchand, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

Statistical Modeling and Inference on Complex Network Data (Organizer: Wen Zhou, Colorado State University, USA)

The conference will take place in the Delta Centre of the University of Tartu. This is the newest building of the University of Tartu, with modern facilities and beautiful views over the river Emajõgi and Tartu old town. In addition – Tartu is the European Capital of Culture in 2024, with a lot going on in the city and elsewhere in Southern Estonia and June is the most beautiful time to visit Estonia.