Hannu Frans Vilhelm Oja (born December 17, 1950, in Jämsä) is a Finnish mathematical statistician and biostatistician known for his contribution to nonparametric inference, robust statistics, and multivariate statistical methods.
[3][4][5] Oja was born in Jämsä and studied in high school in Tampere (Tampereen klassillinen lyseo).
[6][7] Oja stayed on at the University of Oulu as a lecturer after his PhD.
[1] Oja has done research especially in the field of nonparametric statistical methods.
He has also conducted applied statistical research in the fields of biometrics, signal processing, machine learning, and nutrition and health sciences.