Dr.
Kaspar
Rufibach
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Tel.:
044 634 46 43
kaspar.rufibach
CV
Statistical publications
Statistical preprints
Statistical software
Biomedical publications on pubmed
Teaching
Collaborators (last 24 months)
Short CV
I joined the University of Zurich on November 1, 2007. During 1997-2001 I studied mathematical statistics and actuarial science at the University of Bern, with several short stop-overs at UBS. From 2002-2006 I then worked on my PhD under the supervision of Prof. L. Dümbgen, entitled "Log-concave density estimation and bump hunting for i.i.d. observations". Besides that I held a 40% position as a biostatistician at the Swiss Institute for Applied Cancer Research SAKK in Bern. A SNF grant for prospective researchers then offered me the opportunity to work one year as a postdoctoral scholar in the statistics department at Stanford University.
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Statistical Publications
[9] Rufibach, K., Walther, G. (2009).
The block criterion for multiscale inference about a density, with applications to other multiscale problems.
J. Comput. Graph. Statist., to appear. download
[8] Rufibach, K. (2009).
reporttools: R Functions to Generate LaTeX Tables of Descriptive Statistics.
Journal of Statistical Software, Code Snippets, 31(1), 1--7. JSS download
[7] Müller, S., Rufibach, K. (2009).
Smooth tail index estimation.
J. Stat. Comput. Simul. 79(9), 1155--1167. arxiv
[6] Balabdaoui, F., Rufibach, K., Wellner, J.A. (2009).
Limit distribution theory for maximum likelihood estimation of a log-concave density.
Ann. Statist., 37(3), 1299--1331. arxiv
[5] Dümbgen, L., Rufibach, K. (2009).
Maximum likelihood estimation of a log-concave density and its distribution function: basic properties and uniform consistency.
Bernoulli, 15(1), 40--68. arxiv
[4] Müller, S., Rufibach, K. (2008).
On the max-domain of attraction of distributions with log-concave densities.
Statist. Probab. Lett., 78(12), 1440--1444. doi
[3] Balabdaoui, F., Rufibach, K. (2008).
A second Marshall inequality in convex estimation.
Statist. Probab. Lett., 78(2), 118--126. doi
[2] Rufibach, K. (2007).
Computing Maximum Likelihood Estimators of a log-concave Density Function.
J. Stat. Comput. Simul., 77(7), 561--574. doi
[1] Rufibach, K., Bertschy, M., Schüttel, M., Vock, M., Wasserfallen, T. (2001).
Eintrittsraten und Austrittswahrscheinlichkeiten EVK 2000.
Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Aktuarvereinigung, 2001/1, 49--70.
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publications on MathSciNet (restricted access)
publications on arXiv
Statistical preprints
- Balabdaoui, F. & Rufibach, K. & Santambrogio, F. Least Squares estimation of two ordered monotone regression curves (2009).download
- Rufibach, K. An Active Set Algorithm to Estimate Parameters in Generalized Linear Models with Ordered Predictors (2009).download
- Held, L. & Rufibach, K. & Balabdaoui, F. A score regression approach to assess calibration of probabilistic predictions (2009).download
- Dümbgen, L. & Rufibach, K. & Hüsler, A. Active Set and EM Algorithms for Log-Concave Densities Based on Complete and Censored Data (2007).arxiv
Statistical software
The following R-packages resulted from my research:
Teaching
Full lectures
FS09: Likelihood Inference (jointly with Leo Held, graduate level)
WS06: Introduction to Statistics (undergraduate level)
Tutorials
Tutorials for the following lectures: introduction to statistics, statistics for medical doctors (5x), bayesian statistics, likelihood inference (2x), optimization, statistical learning, linear regression
Collaborators (statistical research only)
Fadoua Balabdaoui (Paris)
Lutz Dümbgen (Bern)
Leonhard Held (Zürich)
Samuel Müller (Sydney)
Filippo Santambrogio (Paris)
Günther Walther (Stanford)
Jon A. Wellner (Seattle)