List of Master's Theses
- Georgy Astakhov, in progress
Sample size calculation: Implementation of different scenarios for the online tool SampleSizeR, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Gabriel Marie Falconer-Stout, in progress
Differentiating large mining projects in SSA to produce varying impacts on measured health outcomes, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Lillemor Haibach, in progress
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A simulation study to quantify successful translation of results from preclinical studies to human trials , Supervisor: Ulrike Held - Zhixuan Li, in progress
Extending the eggCounts Package for Censored Data Analysis of Anthelmintic Resistance , Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Emanuel Mauch, in progress
Treatment and survival of older patients with metastatic breast cancer, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Rubens Mita, in progress
A Bayesian perspective on drug approval, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Maurice Henri Schneeberger, in progress
Deep Learning-Based Transformation Models for Medical Imaging Analysis: Benchmarking Voxel-Based and Image-Based Approaches and their Integration for Improved Performance, Supervisor: Beate Sick - Roman Stadler, in progress
Maximum likelihood inference for unstructured Gaussian couples, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Jonas Raphael Füglistaler, 2023
Estimating the non-reporting rate of animals used in preclinical research using meta-analytical approaches - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Tudor-Andrei Jumuga, 2023
Clinical prediction models for rehospitalization using traditional statistics and machine learning, Supervisor: Ulrike Held - Pavel Sirotkin, 2023
Causal effect of initial opioid dose concentration on clinical outcomes using target trial emulation, Supervisor: Ulrike Held - Lea Rahel Bührer, 2023
Forecast of nursing cases in the canton of Thurgau until 2040 based on demographic change, nursing level and health characteristics of senior citizens, Supervisor: Ulrike Held - Frederik Philipona, 2023
Simulation of Spatial Transcriptomic Data, Supervisor: Mark D. Robinson - Lukas Nägeli, 2023
Differential growth analysis of agricultural Aureobasidium pullulas isolates - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Anouk Petitpierre, 2023
Fusion of heterogeneous data sources in preclinical research – evaluation of ordinary and weighted least squares regression and a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach in R and STAN, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Joël Meili, 2023
Differential gene regulation, Supervisor: Mark D. Robinson - Victoria Katharina Brügger, 2023
Between- and Within-Person Assessment of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Postprandial Glucose Levels , Supervisor: Sabine Rohrmann - Johannes Josi, 2023
Quantifying the uncertainty in the evolution of dolutegravir resistance in the MARISA-DTG model, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Tiziana Errera, 2023
International Comparison of Treatment and Survival of Elderly Patients with GIST - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Jerome Sepin, 2023
Assessment of the detrimental effects of collinearity in classical and transformation models - PDF, Supervisor: Malgorzata Roos - Vithersan Somasundaram, 2023
From a "Spiel Popeye und miss deine Greifkraft" activity to Swiss norms for handgrip strength - PDF, Supervisor: Malgorzata Roos - Stefania Iaquinto, 2022
Evidence Synthesis Methods in Observational Studies, Supervisor: Ulrike Held - Cornelia Franziska Richter, 2022
Is vagotomy associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric disorders? Analysis of a nationwide retrospective cohort., Supervisor: Sabine Rohrmann - Felix Hofmann, 2022
Covid-19 in Germany: A multivariate analysis of disease spread across time, space and age groups - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Andrea Götschi, 2022
Selected Properties of Random Recursive Trees and their Destruction, Supervisor: Beate Sick - Georgios Kazantzidis, 2022
Impacts of collinearity on Classical and Bayesian model choice criteria - PDF, Supervisor: Malgorzata Roos - Thomas Fischer, 2022
Direct Misspecification Using a Fully Parametrized Generalized Wendland Covariance Function, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Flurina Suter, 2022
Alcohol Consumption context and association with mortality in Switzerland, Supervisor: Sabine Rohrmann - Klaus Steigmiller, 2022
Shift-scaleTransformationModels, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Mei Yee Ng, 2022
A predicitve model to determine future lymphocyte counts and development of lymphopenia in Multiple Sclerosis patients on Dimethyl fumarate, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Peiying Cai, 2022
Identification of Spatially Variable Genes: An Approach Based on edgeR and Statial Clusters - PDF, Supervisor: Mark D. Robinson - Lisa Hofer, 2022
Interval Score for Comparison of Confidence Intervals - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Daniel Leibovitz, 2022
Mixtures of Partially Linear Models with Monotone Shape Constraints - PDF, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Rasha Aktaa, 2021
Rater training and agreement of ratings in the BIQME study on quality of reporting in biomedical research, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Katrin Petermann, 2021
Prediction of Functional Outcome After Ischemic Stroke Using Deep and Interpretable Regression Models. - PDF, Supervisor: Beate Sick - Zhiwei Dou, 2021
Analysis of Multiple Replication Studies, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Deborah Chiavi, 2021
Estimating Covid 19 under-reporting in Switzerland, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Tran Xuan Thanh Elsener, 2021
Hyperparameter tuning in linear anchor regression - PDF, Supervisor: Beate Sick - Priska Heinz, 2021
Evidence from Observational Studies: What is the Role of he Matching Algorithm? - PDF, Supervisor: Ulrike Held - Oliver John, 2021
Identification of Potential Risk Factors for Back Pain in Horses: An Analysis Using Additive Bayesian Networks - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Christoph Blapp, 2021
Shift-scale Transformation models, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Manja Elisabeth Deforth, 2020
Statistical Aspects of Adaptive Pathways in Drug Regulation, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Seraphina Kissling, 2020
Partially Linear Transformation Models, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Audrey Yeo, 2020
Clustering analysis of longitudinal data set, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Xijin Chen, 2020
Sceptical Confidence Interval for Evidential Assessment of Replication Studies, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Samriddhi Buxy, 2020
Mixed Model for Wound Healing Rates» , Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Natalia Popova, 2020
Error rates of adaptive power priors - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Samriddhi Buxy, 2020
Mixed Model for Wound Healing Rates, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Maria-Eleni Syleouni, 2020
Use of Historical Data as a Prognostic Score in the Randomized Controlled Trial Design, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Uriah Daugaard, 2020
Analysis of Behaviors Affecting Predation Success in a Ciliate Predator-Prey System, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Chiara Vanetta, 2020
The Survivor Average Causal Effect for Outcomes Truncated by Death in RCTs - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Lucas Heinrich Kook, 2020
Regularized Transformation Models, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Eleftheria Michalopoulou, 2019
Modeling Competing Risks in Childhood Leukaemia: an Overview and application including a time-dependent exposure, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Sandar Felicity Lim, 2019
Dynamic network analysis on social behavior of wild house mice - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Senait Tekle, 2019
Frailty models for right and interval censored disease-free survival in the German CAO / ARO / AIO-04 study: A comparison of R, Stata and SAS implementations , Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Michael Hediger, 2019
Urn Models: Towards Applications in Biology - PDF, Supervisor: Jean Bertoin - Giuachin Kreiliger, 2019
Statistical Assessment of Publication Bias in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Sandra Siegfried, 2019
Count Transformation Models, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Natacha Bodenhausen, 2019
Predicting fungal community composition based on soil properties - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Sascha Stutz, 2019
Exact Non-Parametric Confidence Intervals for Log-Odd Ratios Consistent with the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Samuel Pawel, 2019
Predictive Evaluation of Replication Studies - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Bálint Tamási, 2019
Transformation models for correlated observations using "Template Model Builder" - PDF, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Peter Meili, 2019
Random Forests for Estimation of Heterogenous Treatment Effects from Observational Data: An Empirical Comparison of Generalized Random Forests and Transformation Forests - PDF, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Charlotte Micheloud, 2019
Sample Size Calculation for Replication Studies - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Sonja Hartnack, 2019
Confidence, prediction and tolerance intervals in classical and Bayesian settings - PDF, Supervisor: Malgorzata Roos - Silvano Sele, 2018
The variable importance metric LMG applied to Bayesian linear regression models - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Eleftherios Papagiannoulis, 2018
Validation of discrete time-to-event models, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Tasnim Hamza, 2018
Analysis of Credibility for Non-Significant Effects - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Silvia Panunzi, 2018
Modeling the association between eGFR and survival in kidney research - PDF, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Angelo Duò, 2018
Comparison of clustering methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data - PDF, Supervisor: Mark D. Robinson - Laura Barras, 2018
Infectious Disease Forecasting: Using Ensemble Models to Improve Predictions - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Tea Isler, 2018
Small sample considerations for anthelmintic resistance tests - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Ke Li, 2018
Optimism-corrected Treatment Effect Estimates in Subgroups Displayed in Forest Plots for Time-to-event Outcomes - PDF, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Amr Abduo Elsayed Elriedy, 2017
A comparison between isoforms clustering methods for PacBio sequencing data and the development of a unique clustering pipeline, Supervisor: Mark D. Robinson - Christos Polysopoulos, 2017
Cardiac Surgery and Blood Transfusion Products. What Does Really Matter? - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Roman Flury, 2017
Multiresolution Decomposition of Incomplete Random Signals - A Statistical Application of Sparse Matrix Calculus - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Lisa Herzog, 2017
Image based classification using Convolutional Neural Networks for stroke detection, Supervisor: Beate Sick - Marco Reto Schleiniger, 2017
Stan implementation of a parametric bootstrapping procedure for additive Bayesian network analysis, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Megan April Payne, 2017
Likelihood-based Booting in Transformation Models, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Kelly Reeve, 2017
Spatio-temporal forecasting for infectious disease count data - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Servan Grüninger, 2017
Does the Blue Bird Get the Flu? - Using Twitter for Flu Surveillance - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Verena Steffen, 2017
Transformation Forests for Right-Censored Data, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Andrea Meier, 2017
Risk factor study of pododermatitis in rabbits using additive Bayesian networks - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Thimo Schuster, 2017
mrbsizerR - Scale space multiresolution analysis in R - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Marco Kaufmann, 2017
Mediation analysis of the effect of occupational UGDF exposure on mortality mediated through the lung, Supervisor: Milo Puhan - Christian Thomas Benedikt Müller, 2017
The Linear Transformation Model under Test, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Zhongxing Zhang, 2016
Residual Analysis for Longitudinal Data, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Yuchen Ling, 2016
Meta-Analytic-Predictive Priors Using Historical Control Information with the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Muriel Lynnea Buri, 2016
Parametric Bootstrap Inference for Transformation Models - PDF, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Burak Kürsad Günhan, 2016
Network meta-analysis with integrated nested Laplace approximations - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Gilles Kratzer, 2015
Simulation based inference in epidemic models - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Carlos Ochoa Pereira, 2015
Novel semiparametric estimation method for the analysis of zero-inflated data: an application to the young forest records of the Swiss NFI 3, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Gabrielle Elaine Moser, 2014
Spatial Aspects of Forest Monitoring Data and Surface Estimation: An Analysis of the Swiss NFI, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Monika Hebeisen, 2014
Estimation from Interval-censored Time-to-event Data: Method Comparison by Simulation based on Gallium Study for Follicular Lymphoma - PDF, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Sabine Güsewell, 2014
Phenological responses to changing temperatures: representativeness and precision of results from the Swiss Phenological Network, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Jipcy Carolina Amador Sulbaran, 2014
Disease Progression and Survival in ALS Patients, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Sarah Thommen, 2014
Statistical monitoring of condemnation rates from Swiss slaughterhouses - PDF, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Katarina Matthes, 2014
A comparison of count-based and assembly-based methods for differential splice detection, Supervisor: Mark D. Robinson - Bledar Baholli, 2014
Reproduzierbarkeit von Überlebenszeitanalysen mittels rekursivem Partitionieren, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Lukas Bütikofer, 2014
Influence of ungulate browsing on tree regeneration, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn - Ruizhu Huang, 2014
Evaluation of CD4 and CD8 as progression markers for untreated and treated HIV-I infection, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Isaac Gravestock, 2014
Bayesian Tree Models, Priors and Posterior Approximations, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Maria Sereina Graber, 2013
Phylogenetic comparative methods for discrete responses in evolutionary biology - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Sih-Jing Liao, 2013
Fractional polynomials with test-based Bayes factors, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Florian Gerber, 2013
MSc thesis (Biostatistics, University of Zurich, 2013): Disease mapping with the Besag-York-Mollié model applied to a cancer and a worm infections dataset, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer - Andrea Malaguerra, 2013
Bayesian variable selection based on test statistics, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Almut Scherer, 2012
Treatment Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor-a Inhibiting Substances in Axial Spondyloarthritis Patients: Adjustment for Baseline Differences in the Analysis of Longitudinal Observational Data, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Parvinder Rajesh Singh, 2012
A comparison of bayesian and frequentist inference for cox regression models with random effects, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Rafael Sauter, 2011
Markov Models for Multi-State Smoking Cessation Data, Supervisor: Leonhard Held - Rebekka Schibli, 2011
Spatio-temporal homogeneity of a satellite-derived global radiation climatology - PDF, Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer