Elja Arjas (born February 9, 1943, in Tampere) is a Finnish mathematician and statistician.
[1] Arjas studied mathematics at the University of Helsinki and graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1964.
[2] Arjas was a professor of applied mathematics and statistics at the University of Oulu between 1975 and 1997.
Arjas was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia between 1978 and 1979, a visiting professor at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from 1984 to 1985.
[2] Arjas was elected a fellow of the International Statistical Institute in 1977, a fellow of the a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1982, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences in 2001.