Sara Taskinen

Associate professor

Unit

Faculty of Mathematics and Science

Department / Division

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Room number

MaD 328

sara.l.taskinen@jyu.fi

Mobile

+358408053466

Postal address

Ahlmaninkatu 2

Fields of science

112 Statistics and probability

Research interests

I develop new, efficient statistical methods which can be used when analysing very high-dimensional and complex multivariate data. The developed methods can be applied e.g. in ecology and signal processing.

Publications

Publication

2026

A critical comparison of handling zeros in high-dimensional compositional count data

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems.

Tang, Wenqi

Fačevicová, Kamila

Nordhausen, Klaus

Taskinen, Sara

Publication

2026

Brown Trout Abundance in Boreal Streams With Large Wood

Ecology of Freshwater Fish.

Koski, Alisa

Taskinen, Sara

Väätäinen, Reetta

Syrjänen, Jukka Tapani

Publication

2026

Discussion to the paper “Independent component analysis by robust distance correlation”

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification.

Nordhausen, Klaus

Radojičić, Una

Saarela, Perttu

Taskinen, Sara

Publication

2026

Effect of smoking and smoking cessation intervention on postoperative complications of orthopedic and hand surgery: A single-center interventional study

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation.

Kyrö, Antti

Kainiemi, Kalle

Malmivaara, Antti

Taskinen, Sara

Laatikainen, Tiina

Publication

2026

Independent vector analysis : an introduction for statisticians

Statistics Surveys.

Arvila, Miro

Nordhausen, Klaus

Sipilä, Mika

Taskinen, Sara

Publication

2025

Comparing model-based unconstrained ordination methods in the analysis of high-dimensional compositional count data

Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation.

Tang, W.

Korhonen, P.

Niku, J.

Nordhausen, K.

Taskinen, S.

Publication

2025

Exploring Students' Misinterpretations of Linear Regression Models

FMSERA Journal.

Kauppinen, Heli

Taskinen, Sara

Hähkiöniemi, Markus

Publication

2025

Formation of legitimacy in sport in local decision-making : explaining local politicians’ and administrators’ perceived justification of sport in Finnish municipalities

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.

Lee, Anna

Sara, Taskinen

Hanna, Vehmas

Kimmo, Suomi

Publication

2025

gllvm 2.0 : Fast Fitting of Advanced Ordination Methods and Joint Species Distribution Models

PeerJ.

Korhonen, Pekka

Hui, Francis K.C.

Niku, Jenni

Taskinen, Sara

van der Veen, Bert

Publication

2025

Identifiable Autoregressive Variational Autoencoders for Nonlinear and Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal Blind Source Separation

Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Nature Switzerland.

Sipilä, Mika

Nordhausen, Klaus

Taskinen, Sara

Sara Taskinen

Research interests

Publications

A critical comparison of handling zeros in high-dimensional compositional count data

Brown Trout Abundance in Boreal Streams With Large Wood

Discussion to the paper “Independent component analysis by robust distance correlation”

Effect of smoking and smoking cessation intervention on postoperative complications of orthopedic and hand surgery: A single-center interventional study

Independent vector analysis : an introduction for statisticians

Comparing model-based unconstrained ordination methods in the analysis of high-dimensional compositional count data

Exploring Students' Misinterpretations of Linear Regression Models

Formation of legitimacy in sport in local decision-making : explaining local politicians’ and administrators’ perceived justification of sport in Finnish municipalities

gllvm 2.0 : Fast Fitting of Advanced Ordination Methods and Joint Species Distribution Models

Identifiable Autoregressive Variational Autoencoders for Nonlinear and Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal Blind Source Separation

Multivariate statistics

Statistics in ecology: Latent variable models for complex data structures