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Zinoviy Landsman 

  Professor

Address:  Department of Statistics, University of Haifa
                 Haifa, Israel 31905
Tel:          972-4-8249003      Fax:        972-4-8253849
 E. mail:   landsman@stat.haifa.ac.il
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     Higher Education
  • Ph.D., Romanovsky Mathematical Institute, Tashkent, USSR, 1978.
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     Research interests
  • Statistical inference. Actuary and Finance: Risk measures, Optimal portfolio selection, Option pricing. Statistics on manifolds. Nonparametric statistics.  
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     Recent Publications (lp_internet.ps)
  1. Landsman, Z., Rom, M., "On distances and goodness-of-fit tests for detecting multimodal distributions". Metrika, 42 , 1995, pp. 421-439.
  2. Golenko-Ginzburg, D., Kesler, Landsman, Z., "Industrial job-shop scheduling with random operations and different priorities". International Journal of Production Economics, 40 , 1995, pp. 185-195.
  3. Hendriks, H., Landsman, Z., "Asymptotic tests for mean location on manifolds". Comptes Rendus De L'Academie Des Sciences , Ser. 1 , Mathematics, 1996, pp. 773-778.
  4. Hendriks, H., Landsman, Z., "Asymptotic behavior of sample mean location for manifolds". Statistics and Probability Letters, 26, 1996, pp. 169-178.
  5. Sample quantiles and additive statistics: information, sufficiency, estimation. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 52 , 1996, pp. 93-108.
  6. Hendriks, H., Landsman, Z., Ruymgaart, F., "Asymptotic behavior of sample mean location for spheres". Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 59, 2, 1996, pp. 141-152.
  7. Kagan, A. Landsman, Z., "Statistical meaning of Carlen's superadditivity of the Fisher information". Statistics and Probability Letters, 32 , 1997, pp. 175-179.
  8. Landsman, Z., Makov, U., "Exponential Dispersion Models and Credibility". Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 1998, 1, pp. 89-96.
  9. Hendriks, H., Landsman, Z., "Mean location and sample mean location on manifolds : asymptotics, tests, confidence regions". Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 1998, 67, pp. 227-243.
  10. Kagan, A., Landsman, Z., "Relation between the covariance and Fisher information matrices. Statistics & Probability Letters, 1999, 4 , 1, pp. 7-13.
  11. Landsman, Z., Makov, U., "Credibility evaluations for exponential dispersian families".  Insurance: Mathematics & Economics, 1999, 24, pp 33-39.
  12. Landsman, Z., Makov, U., " On Stochastic approximation and credibility". Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 1999, 1, 15-31.
  13. Landsman, Z., Makov, U., " Sequential credibility evaluation for symmetric location claim distributions". Insurance: Mathematics & Economics, 1999, 24, 291-300.
  14. Landsman, Z., "On the minimum of Fisher information about scale parameter and the singular Sturme-Liuville problem", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2000, 88, 29-35.
  15. Landsman, Z., Makov, U., "On Credibility evaluation and the tail area of the Exponential Dispersion Family", Insurance: Mathematics & Economics, 2000, 27, 277-283.
  16. Landsman, Z., "Second order minimax estimation of mean value for exponential dispersion models",  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2001, 98, 57-71.
  17. Landsman, Z., Sherris, M., "Risk measures and insurance premum principles", Insurance: Mathematics & Economics, 2001, 98, 57-71.
  18. Landsman, Z., Makov, U., "Sequential quasi credibility for scale dispersion models", To appear in: Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2002.
  19. Landsman Z. "Credibility theory: a new view from the theory of second order optimal statistics.", Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 30, 2002, 351-362. (pdf file)
  20. Landsman, Z., Valdez, A. E., "Tail Conditional Expectations for Elliptical Distributions", Technical Report N 02-04, 2002. (pdf file)
  21. Landsman, Z., Furman, E., "Risk Capital Decomposition for a Multivariate Gamma Portfolio".
    The research can be found at the University of Haifa Data Archive. (in press)
  22. Landsman, Z., Sherris, M., "Insurance and Asset Pricing in Incomplete Markets with Heavy Tailed Risks".
    The research can be found at the University of Haifa Data Archive.
  23. Landsman Z. " Second Order Bayes Prediction of Functionals of Exponential Dispersion Distributions and an Application to the  Prediction of the Tails.", Astin Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 2,2004, pp. 285-298.
    The abstract can be found at the University of Haifa Data Archive. (pdf file)
  24. Landsman, Z., "On the generalization of Esscher and variance premiums modified for the elliptical family of distributions.", Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 35, 2004, pp 563–579.
    The abstract can be found at the University of Haifa Data Archive. (pdf file)
  25. Landsman, Z., Valdez, E., "Tail conditional expectation for exponential dispersion models". ASTIN Bulletin, 35, 1, 2005, 189-209.
  26. Landsman, Z., Tsanakas, A., "Stochastic ordering of bivariate elliptical distributions", Statistics & Probability Letters, 76, 5, 2006, 488-495.
  27. Fielding, M., Klebaner, F., Landsman, Z., "Random volatility and option prices with the generalized Student-t distribution", Advances and Applications in Statistics, 6, 1, 2006, 111-120.
  28. Landsman, Z., "On the generalization of Stein's lemma for elliptical class of distributions", Statistics & Probability Letters, 76, 10, 2006, 1012-1016.
  29. Landsman, Z., Furman, E., "On Some Risk-Adjusted Tail Based Risk Measures", Journal of Actuarial Practice, 2006.
  30. E. Furman and Z. Landsman. "Tail Variance Premium with Applications for Elliptical Portfolio of Risks", ASTIN BULLETINE, 2006, 36 (2). p 433-462.
  31. H. Hendriks and Z. Landsman. "Asymptotic Data Analysis on Manifolds". Annals of Statistics, 2007, 35 (1), p. 109-131.
  32. Z. Landsman and M. Sherris. "An actuarial premium pricing model for non-Normal insurance and financial risks in incomplete markets". North American Actuarial Journal, 2007, 11 (1), p. 119-135.
  33. Z. Landsman "Minimization of the root of a quadratic functional under an affine equality constraint". Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2008, forthcoming.
  34. F. Klebaner and Z. Landsman "Option Pricing for Log-Symmetric Distributions of Returns". Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2008, forthcoming.
  35. Z. Landsman and J. Neslehova. "Stein's Lemma for elliptical random vectors". Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2008, forthcoming.
  36. Z. Landsman "Minimization of the root of a quadratic functional under a system of affine equality constraints with application to portfolio managements". Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2008, forthcoming.
  37. A. Chiragiev and Z. Landsman. "Multivariate Pareto Portfolios: TCE-based Capital Allocation and Divided Differencess". Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2007, 4, p. 261-280, forthcoming.

 

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     Courses taught this semester
      Previous years:
  • Robust Statistics- סטטיסטיקה חסונה תשס"ה, 2004/5
  • Statistical Methods in Actuary - שיטות סטטיסטיות בביטוח תשס"ה, 2004/5
  • Project MA - פרויקט מא תשס"ה, 2004/5
  • Statistical Methods in Actuary - (2003/4 - שיטות סטטיסטיות בביטוח)
  • Linear Models - 2004
  • Optimal Problems in Actuary and Statistics
  • Linear Models - 2003
  • Goodness-of-fit tests and metrics - מבחני טיב התאמה ומטריקות תשס"ב, 2001/2
  • Statistical Methods in Actuary - שיטות סטטיסטיות בביטוח תשס"ב, 2001/2
  • Robust Statistics

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