Jaakko Reinikainen

Official title: Senior Researcher
Tel.: +358 29 524 7420
E-mail: [email protected]

Expertise

  • Regression models, Models for survival and longitudinal data
  • Survey non-participation and handling of missing data
  • Health foresight analyses

Primary duties

  • Statistical analyses in population surveys
  • Foresight and scenario analyses of diseases, their risk factors and the use of health services
  • Development of statistical methods

Education

  • 2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Statistics, University of Jyväskylä
  • 2012, Master of Science, Statistics, University of Jyväskylä

Current projects

Publications and research

Selected scientific research articles

  • Reinikainen, J., Kuulasmaa, K., Oskarsson, V., …& Niiranen, T. (2023) Regional and temporal differences in the associations between cardiovascular disease and its classic risk factors: An analysis of 49 cohorts from 11 European countries. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 
  • Reinikainen, J., Härkänen, T. & Tolonen, H. (2023) Projections for obesity, smoking and hypertension based on multiple imputation. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 51(6), 829–834.
  • Tamminen, N., Reinikainen, J., Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, K., Borodulin, K., Mäki-Opas, T. & Solin, P. (2020) Associations of physical activity with positive mental health: a population-based study. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 18, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2020.100319.
  • Reinikainen, J., Tolonen, H., Borodulin, K., Härkänen, T., Jousilahti, P., Karvanen, J., Koskinen, S., Kuulasmaa, K., Männistö, S., Rissanen, H. & Vartiainen, E. (2018). Participation rates by educational levels have diverged during 25 years in Finnish health examination surveys. European Journal of Public Health. 28(2), 237–243.

Dissertation

Reinikainen, J. (2015). Efficient design and modeling strategies for follow-up studies with time-varying covariates. Doctoral dissertation in statistics, University of Jyväskylä.
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