Master's Theses

David Kronthaler, in progress
Prediction intervals for meta-analysis of skewed data Supervisor: Leonhard Held
Pilar Pastor Martinez, in progress
Frequentists and Bayesian methods to incorporate recruitment rate stochasticity at the design stage of a clinical trial Supervisor: Malgorzata Roos
Andrea Barbara Irene Staub, in progress
Selecting data modalities for clinical prediction models using deep neural networks Supervisor: Beate Sick
Manuel Pfister, 2024
Inferential Seamless Designs for Treatment Selection during a Phase II/III Study in Oncology - PDF Supervisor: Malgorzata Roos
Gabriel Marie Falconer-Stout, 2024
Differentiating large mining projects in SSA to produce varying impacts on measured health outcomes - PDF Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer
Emanuel Mauch, 2024
Treatment and survival of older patients with metastatic breast cancer Supervisor: Leonhard Held
Lillemor Haibach, 2024
Diagnostics, Implications and Handling of Collinearity in Linear Models - PDF Supervisor: Malgorzata Roos
Carolyne Jie Huang, 2024
A simulation study to quantify successful translation of results from preclinical studies to human trials - PDF Supervisor: Leonhard Held
Rubens Mita, 2024
A Bayesian Perspective on Drug Approval Supervisor: Leonhard Held
Roman Stadler, 2024
Maximum Likelihood Inference for Unstructured Gaussian Copulas Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn
Zhixuan Li, 2024
Extending the eggCounts Package for Censored Data Analysis of Anthelmintic Resistance - PDF Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer
Maurice Henri Schneeberger, 2024
Integrating Explainability in Stroke Outcome Prediction: A Multi-Modal AI Approach Based On Deep Transformation Models Supervisor: Beate Sick
Georgy Astakhov, 2024
Sample size calculation: Implementation of different scenarios for the online tool SampleSizeR - PDF Supervisor: Reinhard Furrer
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