Newsletter - Fakultät Statistik
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Newsletter - Fakultät Statistik
Director: Prof. Dr. Ursula Gather Newsletter No. 1 December 2008 The SFB 475 mourns the loss of Ingo Wegener * 04.12.1950 † 26.11.2008. Professor Wegener was widely recognised as a researcher of the utmost international reputation. His kind and unassuming personality will be missed by both, colleagues and students. News Ursula Gather (A1, C4, T1), was voted rector of TU Dortmund University and took up her work on September 1, 2008. She will remain director of SFB 475 until July 2009. Forthcoming events Workshops 8th Workshop on Quality Improvement Methods, Universitätskolleg Bommerholz, WittenBommerholz, Germany, May 22-23, 2009. Organisation: Joachim Kunert (A2, C6, T2), Claus Weihs (A4, C5). IBS Summerschool "Planung und Auswertung klinischer Dosis-FindungsStudien", Universitätskolleg Bommerholz, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, June 8-9, 2009. Organisation: Björn Bornkamp (TU Dortmund), Frank Bretz (Novartis), Katja Ickstadt (C7), Beat Neuenschwander (Novartis). Managing Editor: Dr. Anne Krampe Technische Universität Dortmund SFB 475 y D-44221 Dortmund http://www.sfb475.uni-dortmund.de Phone: +49-231-755-3129 Fax: +49-231-755-5417 E-Mail: [email protected] Talks, seminars, posters Katja Ickstadt (C7), "Logic Regression for Classification and Variable Selection in Genetic Association Studies", invited talk, IFCS International Federation of Classification Societies 2009 Conference, Dresden, Germany, March 1318, 2009. Jochen Kluve (B8), "Active Labor Market Programs in Europe", invited talk, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, December 17, 2008. Katharina Morik (A4), "Handling Texts – A Challenge for Data Mining", invited talk at the EGC 2009, Strasbourg, France, January 28-30, 2009. Katharina Morik (A4), "Data Mining for Social Networks", lecture in the lecture series, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, March 23, 2009. Julia Schiffner, Gero Szepannek (both A4), Uwe Ligges, "Local classification analysis in R", tutorial, International Federation of Classification Societies 2009 Conference with GfKl Annual Conference (ifcs@gfkl 2009), Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, March 13-18, 2009. Sylvia Siebig, Silvia Kuhls (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Thomas Bein, Thomas Müller, Benedikt Trabold, Sylvia Bele, Christian Wrede, „Lärm auf der Intensivstation – Gibt es Unterschiede in der Alarmierung auf verschiedenen Intensivstationen?“ poster, 9. Kongress der Deutschen interdisziplinären Vereinigung für Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin (DIVI 2008), Hamburg, Germany, December 3-6, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), P. Tschiersch, C. Lawrenz, "Testing Time-Homogeneity of Rating Transitions after Origination of Debt", 11th Symposium on Finance, Banking, and Insurance, Karlsruhe, Germany, December 17-19, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Statistische Analyse von Ratingmigrationen", Seminar, Universität Hamburg, Germany, December 19, 2008. Guests David Banks, Duke University, North Carolina, USA, March 24, 2009. Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Brunel University West London, London, UK, February 03, 2009 Bernd Rosenow, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany, January 20, 2009. Ingo Ruczinski, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, May 2009. Research interests: logic regression, genome wide association studies, candidate gene studies, preprocessing and feature selection. Publications in print Ronald Bachmann (B8), Michael C. Burda, "Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labour Market Dynamics in Germany", to appear in „German Economic Review“. Thomas K. Bauer, Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt (B8), "Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung. Eine Einführung.", Springer. 2 Claudia Becker and Ursula Gather (A1), "A Note on the Choice of the Number of Slices in Sliced Inverse Regression", submitted, 2008. C. Binner, M.J. Barysch, Silvia Selinski (C7), C. Pölcher, W. Schormann, M. Hermes, M. Brulport, A. Bauer, C. Rudolph, E. Bedawy, M. Schug, Klaus Golka (C7), D. Hasenclever, H. Trauer, R. Lessig, Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Katja Ickstadt (C7), Jan G. Hengstler (C7), "Munich Oktoberfest experience: impact of sex and age in ethanol intoxication", to appear in "Archives of Toxicology". Melanie Birke (B1), Kay Pilz, "Nonparametric option pricing with no-arbitrage constraints", to appear in "Journal of Financial Econometrics". Nicolai Bissantz (B1), Hajo Holzmann, "Statistical Inference for Inverse Problems“, to appear in "Inverse Problems", 24, 2008. Nicolai Bissantz (B1), Gerda Claeskens, Hajo Holzmann, Axel Munk, "Testing for lack of fit in inverse regression - with applications to biophotonic imaging", to appear in "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B". Nicolai Bissantz (B1), Hajo Holzmann, Miroslaw Pawlak, "Testing for image symmetries - with application to confocal microscopy", to appear in "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory". Nicolai Bissantz (B1), Lutz Dümbgen, Axel Munk, Bernd Stratmann, "Convergence analysis of generalized iteratively reweighted least squares algorithms", to appear in "SIAM journal on optimization". Björn Bornkamp, Katja Ickstadt (C7), "Bayesian nonparametric estimation of continuous monotone functions with applications to dose-response analysis", to appear in "Biometrics". Matthias Borowski (C4), Karen Schettlinger (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Multivariate real time signal extraction by a robust adaptive regression filter", to appear in "Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation". Matthias Borowski (C4), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Multivariate signal filtering from intensive care online-monitoring time series", to appear in "Proceedings of the Workshop Biosignalverarbeitung 2008, Potsdam, Germany, July 16-18, 2008". Matthias Borowski (C4), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Robust and adaptive filtering of multivariate online-monitoring time series", to appear in "Proceedings of the 4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, Antwerp, Belgium, November 23-28, 2008". Alexandra Borza, Sabine Plöttner, Alexander Wolf, Claudia Behm, Silvia Selinski (C7), Jan G. Hengstler (C7), Peter H. Roos, Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Jürgen Kuhlmann, Wolfram Föllmann, "Synergism of aromatic amines and benzo[a]pyrene in induction of Ah receptor-dependent genes", to appear in "Archives of Toxicology". J.G. Chen, G.F. Lin, Y.G. Chen, C.G. Jia, Y.S. Zhou, H. Meng, W.C. Guo, Klaus Golka (C7), K.J. Liu, J.H. Shen, "Arseniasis prevalence and mortality in a multiethnic, endemic township in Guizhou, China", to appear in "International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health". Laurie Davies (A1, B1), Arne Kovac, Monika Meise (A1), "Nonparametric Regression, Confidence Regions and Regularization", to appear in "Annals of Statistics". 3 Laurie Davies (A1), Ursula Gather (A1), Dan Nordman, Henrike Weinert (A1), "Constructing a regular histogram – a comparison of methods", to appear in "ESAIM: Probability and Statistics". Holger Dette (A2, B1), Stefanie Biedermann, Wei Zhu, "Geometric construction of optimal designs for dose-response models with two parameters", to appear in "Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference". Holger Dette (A2, B1), Benjamin Hetzler (B1), „A simple test for the parametric form of the variance function in nonparametric regression“, to appear in "Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics". Holger Dette, (A2, B1), Matthias Trampisch, Ludwig A. Hothorn, "Robust designs in non-inferiority three arm clinical trials with presence of heteroscedasticity", to appear in "Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research". Holger Dette (A2, B1), C. Kiss (A2), "Optimal experimental designs for inverse quadratic regression models", to appear in "Statistica Sinica". Holger Dette (A2, B1), Viatcheslav B. Melas, Petr Shpilev, "Optimal designs for estimating pairs of coefficients in Fourier regression models", to appear in "Statistica Sinica". Holger Dette (A2, B1), Andrey Pepelyshev, Weng Kee Wong, "Optimal designs for dose finding experiments in toxicity studies", to appear in "Bernoulli". Holger Dette (A2, B1), Stefanie Titoff (A2), "Optimal discrimination designs", to appear in "Annals of Statistics". Holger Dette (A2, B1), Rafael Weißbach (B1), "A bootstrap test for the comparison of nonlinear time series – with application to interest rate modelling", submitted for publication ("Computational Statistics & Data Analysis"). Holger Dette (A2, B1), Bettina Reuther (B1), "Random block matrices and matrix orthogonal polynomials", to appear in "Journal of Theoretical Probability". Paul Frijters, Harry Greenwell, John P. Haisken-DeNew (B9), Michael A. Shields, "How well do Individuals predict their Future Life Satisfaction? Evidence from Panel Data Following a Nationwide National Shock?", "Canadian Journal of Economics". Sarah Gelper, Karen Schettlinger (C4), Christophe Croux, Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Robust online scale estimation in time series: a model-free approach", to appear in "Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference", 139, 335 – 349, 2009. Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Silvia Kuhls (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Roland Fried (T1), "Smart alarms from medical devices in the OR and ICU", to appear in "Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology". Falko Jüßen (B6), "A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany", accepted for publication in "Empirical Economics". Sonja C. Kassenboehmer (B9), John P. Haisken-DeNew (B9), "You're Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction", "Economic Journal". L. A. Kiemeney, S. Thorlacius, P. Sulem, F. Geller, K.K. Aben, S.N. Stacey, J. Gudmundsson, M. Jakobsdottir, J.T. Bergthorsson, A. Sigurdsson, T. Blondal, J.A. Witjes, S.H. Vermeulen, C.A. Hulsbergen-van de Kaa, D.W. Swinkels, M. Ploeg, E.B. Cornel, H. Vergunst, T.E. Thorgeirsson, 4 D. Gudbjartsson, S.A. Gudjonsson, G. Thorleifsson, K.T. Kristinsson, M. Mouy, S. Snorradottir, D. Placidi, M. Campagna, C. Arici, K. Koppova, E. Gurzau, P. Rudnai, E. Kellen, S. Polidoro, S. Guarrera, C. Sacerdote, M. Sanchez, B. Saez, G. Valdivia, C. Ryk, P. de Verdier, A. Lindblom, Klaus Golka (C7), D.T. Bishop, M.A. Knowles, S. Nikulasson, V. Petursdottir, E. Jonsson, G. Geirsson, B. Kristjansson, J.I. Mayordomo, G. Steineck, S. Porru, F. Buntinx, M.P. Zeegers, T. Fletcher, R. Kumar, G. Matullo, P. Vineis, A.E. Kiltie, J.R. Gulcher, U. Thorsteinsdottir, A. Kong, T. Rafnar, K. Stefansson, "Sequence variant on 8q24 confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer", to appear in "Nature Genetics". Jochen Kluve (B8), Hartmut Lehmann, Christoph M. Schmidt (B8), "Disentangling Treatment Effects of Active Labor Market Policies: The Role of Labor Force Status Sequences", to appear in "Labour Economics". Jochen Kluve (B8), "Active Labor Market Policy in Europe: An Overview", to appear in M. Cantalupi and M. Demurtas (eds.), "Activation Policy and PES Performance – Italian and European experiences, POLEIS". Jochen Kluve (B8), Hartmut Lehmann, "Assessing Active Labour Market Policies in Transition Economies", to appear in "Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Italian Economic Association". Anne Krampe (A1) and Sonja Kuhnt, "Model Selection for Contingency Tables with Algebraic Statistics", invited article, to appear in Gibilisco, P., Riccomagno, E., Rogatin, M.-P., und Wynn, H.P. (Hrsg.) "Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Statistics", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008. Joachim Kunert (A2, C6, T2), John Stufken, "Optimal crossover designs for two treatments in the presence of mixed and self carryover effects", to appear in "JASA". Robert Kwiecien and Ursula Gather (both A1), "Jensen's Inequality for the Multivariate Tukey Median", submitted, 2008. Ingo Mierswa, Katharina Morik (A4), "About the non-convex optimization problem induced by non-positive semidefinite kernel learning", to appear in: "Advances in Data Analysis and Classification". Robin Nunkesser (A5), Roland Fried (A5, T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Online analysis of time series by the Qn estimator", to appear in "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis". Sabine Plöttner, Silvia Selinski (C7), Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Gisela H. Degen, Jan G. Hengstler (C7), Peter H. Roos, Wolfram Föllmann, "Distinct subtypes of urinary bladder epithelial cells with inducible and non-inducible cytochrome P450 1A1", to appear in "Archives of Toxicology". Karen Schettlinger (C4), Roland Fried (A5, T1), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Real time signal processing by adaptive repeated median filters", invited article submitted to: "International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Special Issue on 'Signal Processing and Diagnosis: Biomedical Applications'". Holger Schwender, Katja Ickstadt (both C7), Jörg Rahnenführer, "Classification with High-Dimensional Genetic Data: Assigning Patients and Genetic Features to Known Classes", invited paper, to appear in "Biometrical Journal". 5 Sylvia Siebig, Silvia Kuhls (C4), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Julia Langgartner, Michael Reng, Jürgen Schölmerich, Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Christian Wrede, "The collection of annotated data in a clinical validation study for alarm algorithms in intensive care – a methodologic framework", to appear in "Journal of Critical Care". Sylvia Siebig, Wiebke Sieben (T1), Felix Kollmann, Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Tanja Brünnler, Felix Rockmann, Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Christian Wrede, "User’s opinions on ICU alarms - results from a survey on German ICU’s", to appear in "Anaesthesia and Intensive Care". Gero Szepannek, Bernd Bischl (both A4), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "On the combination of locally optimal pairwise classifiers", to appear in "Journal of Engineering Applications in Artificial Intelligence". Mathias Vetter (B1), Jean Jacod, Yingying Li, Per Mykland, Mark Podolskij, "Microstructure noise in the continuous case: the pre-averaging approach", to appear in "Stochastic Processes and Their Applications". Mathias Vetter (B1), Kim Christensen, Mark Podolskij, "Bias-correcting the realised range-based variance in the presence of market microstructure noise", to appear in "Finance and Stochastics". Mathias Vetter (B1), Mark Podolskij, "Estimation of volatility functionals in the simultaneous presence of microstructure noise and jumps", to appear in "Bernoulli". Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Testing numerical methods solving the linear least squares problem", to appear in: "Statistical Inference, Econometric Analysis and Matrix Algebra. Festschrift in Honour of Götz Trenkler", Schipp, B., Krämer, W. (eds.), Springer. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Modelling Markovian Migration", to appear in "Proceedings of the workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering, 2008". Rafael Weißbach (B1), F. Kramer, C. Lawrenz, "Aggregating and Combining Ratings, The Value at Risk (VaR) ", to appear in "Financial Risk an Asset Management, Measurement, and Modeling", Handbook, Gregoriou, G.N. (Ed.), New York, McGraw-Hill, 2009. Rafael Weißbach (B1), Patrick Tschiersch, Claudia Lawrenz, "Testing TimeHomogeneity of Rating Transitions After Origination of Debt", to appear in "Empirical Economics", 2008, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-008-0212-3. Rafael Weißbach (B1), Michael Herzog, "Schätzung des Kariesbefalls 3-5 jähriger Kinder aus einstufigen Clusterstichproben", to appear in "Das Gesundheitswesen", 2008, DOI:10.1055/s-0028-1086008. ... what else? Ursula Gather (A1, C4, T1) is chair of the program committee of the Bernoulli section at the 57th session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Durban, South Africa, August 16-22, 2009. Falko Jüßen (B6) is co-editor of "Potential Growth and Potentials for Growth in Europe: Innovation, Productivity, and Monetary Integration", with Christoph Meister, Michael H. Stierle, and Jan Van Hove (Eds.), LIT Verlag, 2008 Claus Weihs (A4, C5) is SPC chair of International Federation of Classification Societies 2009 Conference with GfKl Annual Conference (ifcs@gfkl 2009), Dresden, Germany, March 13-18, 2009. 6 Past events and activities Workshops 16th EUROTOX Training and Discussion Session, Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie (IfADo) at the University of Dortmund, Germany, January 31, 2008. Organisation: SFB 475 (C7), IfADo, EUROTOX. Katharina Morik (A4) was organiser of the "2nd European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing" (together with Joao Gama), Porto, Portugal, March 2-9, 2008 Katharina Morik (A4) was Best Paper Award Chair and member of the program committee of the "IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2008", Pisa, Italy. Katharina Morik (A4) was member of the program committee of the "SDM 2008", Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 7th Workshop on Quality Improvement Methods, Universitätskolleg Bommerholz, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, May 23-24, 2008. Organisation: Joachim Kunert (A2, C6, T2), Claus Weihs (A4, C5). Workshop on Aims and Perspectives of Toxicological and Epidemiological Research, Universitätskolleg Bommerholz, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, June 26, 2008. Organisation: Hermann M. Bolt, Katja Ickstadt , Silvia Selinski (all C7). useR! The R User Conference 2008, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany, August 12-14, 2008. Organisation: Uwe Ligges (conference), Achim Zeileis (program), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Gerd Kopp (C5) (local organisation), Friedrich Leisch, Thorsten Hothorn. Felix Jungermann (A4) was program chair of the Workshop on High-level Information Extraction at the ECML/PKDD 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, September 19, 2008, together with Sebastian Blohm, Ulf Brefeld and Roman Yangarber. Katharina Morik (A4) was program chair of the "European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles of Knowledge Discovery in Data 2008" together with Bart Goethals and Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium, September, 2008 YES II: High dimensional statistics, Netherlands, October 6-8, 2008. Organisation: Laurie Davies (A1, B1). EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Locally adaptive filters in signal and image processing, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 24-26, 2008. Organisation: Laurie Davies (A1, B1). Workshop on Music Signal Analysis, Universitätskolleg Bommerholz, WittenBommerholz, Germany, November 3-4, 2008. Organisation: Claus Weihs (A4, C5). 7 Guests Stefanie Biedermann, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, UK, March 30–April 4, 2008, December 12–19, 2008. Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Department of Statistics Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Munich, Germany, "Multiple comparisons and Bias in High Dimensional Data Analysis", June 24, 2008. Frank Bretz, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, "Dose Finding: A Challenge for Statistics ", January 15, 2008. Research interests: multiple comparison procedures, dose response experiments and adaptive designs. Phillipe Castagliola, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France, "Monitoring variability with EWMA", May 24, 2008. Research interests: Statistical quality control. Peter Diggle, Department of Medicine, Lancaster University, UK, "Joint modelling of repeated measurements and time-to-event outcomes", June 03, 2008. Jan Engel, Centre for Quantitative Methods CQM BV Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, "Statistics development: Statistical methods meeting the user’s needs", May 23, 2008. Frank Geller, Reykjavik, Island, "Genomweite Assoziationsstudien", May 13, 2008. David Ginsbourger, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France, "Discrete mixtures of kernels for kriging-based optimization", May 23, 2008. Research interests: Analysis of computer experiments, kriging. Friedrich Götze, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, "Asymptotische Statistik und Geometrie in Zahlen", April 29, 2008. Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, "Dynamic Semiparametric Factor Models in Finance, Medicine and Engergy demand", January 22, 2008. Stefan Hoderlein, Economics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, September 17, 2008. Ingrid van Keilegom, Institut de statistique, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, March 30 – April 4, 2008. Yongdai Kim, Department of Mathematics, National University of Seoul, Correa, July - August 2008. Research interests: Counting processes, Bayes Statistics. Dennis K.J. Lin, Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, "BIG Statistics", June 10, 2008. Rainer Martin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, "Signal quality in hearing aids - A statistical approach", May 24, 2008. Research interests: Multi-modal human-machine interfaces, analysis and synthesis of auditory scenes, auditory acoustics. Jörn Mehnen, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, "Robust multiobjective optimisation of weld beads for additive manufacturing", May 24, 2008. Research interests: Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, machining technology, process and design optimisation, statistics and process analysis, data mining. 8 Viatcheslav B. Melas, Department of Statistical Modelling, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, August 4-31, 2008 Amor Messaoud, Tunisia, "Prediction of spiralling in a drilling process", May 24, 2008. Research interests: Process control. Ivan Mizera, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada, "Quantile tomography: using quantiles with multivariate data", May 20, 2008. Tormod Naes, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, "A case study: Process improvement using mixture-process variable designs and robust optimization techniques", May 23, 2008. Research interests: Method development and applications in spectroscopy, process optimisation, product development, and sensory science. Natalie Neumeyer, Department of Mathematics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, September 15-19, 2008. Efstathios Paparoditis, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, November 12-15, 2008. Andrey Pepelyshev, Department of Statistical Modelling, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, September 5 – October 31, 2008. Mike Preuss, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany, "Experimental analysis of metaheuristics", May 24, 2008. Research interests: Single- and multi-criteria optimization via evolutionary algorithms, experimental analysis of evolutionary algorithms, computational intelligence in games, real-world applications of evolutionary algorithms. Yves Rozenholc, UFR de Mathématiques et d’Informatique, Université Paris Descartes, France, November 01-03, 2008. Petr Schpilev, Department of Statistical Modelling, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, November 1-30, 2008. David Steinberg, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, "Sequential design of experiments for binary responses", May 23, 2008. Research interests: Experimental design, robust design, biostatistics, industrial statistics, applications in seismology, smoothing methods. Tuomas Virtanen, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, "Machine learning methods for audio signal analysis and sound source separation", May 24, 2008. Research interests: Computational analysis of audio signals, sound source separation, structured audio coding, automatic transcription of music, noise-robust automatic speech-recognition. Weng Kee Wong, UCLA School of Public Health, California, USA, August 14 15, 2008. Dave Woods, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, UK, March 27 – April 4, 2008, December 12 - 19, 2008. Talks, seminars, posters José A.G. Agúndez, Klaus Golka (C7), Carmen Martínez, Silvia Selinski (C7), Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Elena García-Martín, "Unraveling ambiguous NAT2 genotyping data", poster, XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Espanola de Farmacología Clínica, Barcelona, Spain, October 22-25, 2008. 9 Matthias Arnold (B8), "GMM estimation of the autoregressive parameter in a spatial autoregressive error model using regression residuals", talk, Statistical Week 2008, Cologne, Germany, September 15-18, 2008. Corinna Auer (C6), "Double Generalized Linear Model Estimates in the Case of Unreplicated Designs with Dispersion Effects", poster, ENBIS8, Athens, Greece, September 21–25, 2008. Ronald Bachmann (B8), Sandra Schaffner (B8), "Biases in the Measurement of Labour Market Dynamics", (a) poster, 8th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 09-11, 2008, (b) talk, 19th annual meeting of the European Association of Labour Economists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-20, 2008. Ronald Bachmann (B8), Peggy David, "The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics", (a) talk, annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Graz, Austria, September 23-26, (b) talk, 19th annual meeting of the European Association of Labour Economists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-20, 2008, (c) talk, Staff Seminar, Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany, September 2, 2008, (d) talk, Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) 2008 Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 22-24, 2008, (e) talk, IZA Research Seminar, Bonn, Germany, April 8, 2008, (f) poster, annual meeting of the Society of Labor Economists, New York, USA, May 9-10, 2008, (g) talk, annual meeting of the Scottish Economic Society, Perth, Australia, April 21-23, 2008, (h) talk, XIII. Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Lille, France, April 17-19, 2008. Christian Bayer, Falko Jüßen (B6), "Life-Cycle Earnings and Productivity Risk: A Cross-Country Compariso", talk, Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society 2008 (LAMES), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2023, 2008. Christian Bayer, Falko Jüßen (B6), "On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection", talk, Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society 2008 (LAMES), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2023, 2008. Christian Bayer, Falko Jüßen (B6), "On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection", poster, Annual Meeting Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) 2008, New Orleans, USA, January 4-6, 2008. Christian Bayer, Falko Jüßen (B6), "Life-Cycle Earnings and Productivity Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison", talk, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society 2008 (NASM), Pittsburgh, USA, June 19-22, 2008. Melanie Birke (B1), "Testing for symmetry in bivariate regression", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008. Melanie Birke (B1), "Shape restricted estimation for convolution type inverse regression", invited talk, Workshop Nonsmooth Inference, Analysis and Dependence, Göteborg, Sweden, June 9-13, 2008. Melanie Birke (B1), "Qualitative Schätzer im nichtparametrischen Regressionsmodell mit Anwendung auf Optionspreis-Schätzung", invited talk, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 1, 2008. Melanie Birke (B1), "Nichtparametrische monotone Schätzer in der inversen Regression", invited talk, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, July 18, 2008. Melanie Birke (B1), "Bootstrap confidence intervals and bands for inverse regression estimates", talk, Workshop: Mathematical Statistics and Applications, Fréjus, France, September 1-5, 2008. 10 Bernd Bischl (A4), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "A comparison of two methods for F0 estimation", poster, Workshop on Music Signal Analysis, Witten Bommerholz, Germany, November 3-4, 2008. Nicolai Bissantz (B1), "Statistical Inference for inverse problems", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4, 2008. Nicolai Bissantz (B1), "Statistical Inference for inverse problems", talk, GAMM 2008, Bremen, Germany, April 3, 2008. Nicolai Bissantz (B1), "Statistical Inference for inverse problems", invited talk, Departement Mathematik, Bern, Switzerland, August 27, 2008. Björn Bornkamp, Katja Ickstadt (C7), "Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of Monotone Functions", poster, MCMSki: Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Theory and Practice, Bormio, Italy, January 9-11, 2008. Matthias Borowski (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), "Real time signal extraction from physiological time series by a multivariate, robust, and adaptive regression filter", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008. Matthias Borowski (C4), "Robust and adaptive signal extraction from multivariate online-monitoring time series", talk, Joint Symposium of the Research Training Group "Statistical Modelling" and the Tampere Graduate School in Information Science and Engineering, Dortmund, Germany, May 13-14, 2008. Matthias Borowski (C4), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Multivariate signal filtering from intensive care online-monitoring time series", talk, Workshop Biosignalverarbeitung 2008, Potsdam, Germany, July 16-18, 2008. Matthias Borowski (C4), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Robust and adaptive filtering of multivariate online-monitoring time series", talk, 4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (MBEC), Antwerp, Belgium, November 23-27, 2008. Christian Bredemeier (B6), "Different Economic Perception – How can they Persist?", talk, Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier 2008, Montpellier, France, August 28, 2008. Christian Bredemeier (B6), "Different Economic Perception – How can they Persist?", talk, Economic Research Seminar Aachen 2007, Aachen, Germany, October 24, 2007. Christian Bredemeier (B6), "Inattentive Voters and Welfare-State Persistence", talk, 2nd RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics 2008, Essen, Germany, September 19, 2008. Christian Bredemeier (B6), "Inattentive Voters and Welfare-State Persistence", talk, 2nd Ebim Workshop 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, December 13, 2007. Christian Bredemeier (B6), Falko Jüßen (B6), "Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents", talk, Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 20-23, 2008. Christian Bredemeier (B6), Falko Jüßen (B6), "Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents", talk, DIW Macroeconometric Workshop 2008, Berlin, Germany, November 29, 2008. Laurie Davies (A1, B1), "Model Choice and Data Approximation", invited talk, 7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Singapore, Juli 14-17, 2008. 11 Laurie Davies (A1, B1), "A view from a limited perspective", talk, workshop, "Understanding the New Statistics: Expanding Core Statistical Theory", BIRS, Banff, Canada, September 14-19, 2008. Laurie Davies (A1, B1), "Sparsity,L1 and the Analysis of Variance", invited talk, YES II: High dimensional statistics, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 6-8, 2008. Roland Fried (A5, T1), "Online monitoring in intensive care", invited talk, MiniWorkshop on Time Series with Sudden Structural Changes, Mathematisches Forschungszentrum Oberwolfach, Germany, February 2529, 2008. Roland Fried (A5, T1), Jochen Einbeck, Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Robust filtering by weighted repeated medians", talk, Statistics and Life Sciences: Perspectives and Challenges (Lifestat 2008), München, Germany, March 10-13, 2008. Roland Fried (A5), "Robust modelling of dependent data", talk, Joint Symposium of the Research Training Group Statistical Modelling and the Tampere Graduate School in Information Science and Engineering (TISE), Dortmund, Germany, May 13-14, 2008. Roland Fried (A5), Kostantinos Fokianos, "Outlier Detection in Time Series of Counts", invited talk, Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics, Neuchatel, Switzerland, June 19-21, 2008. Roland Fried (A5, T1), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), "Adaptive and robust signal extraction", invited talk, 2008 International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP 2008), Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, July 7-10, 2008. Roland Fried (A5, T1), "Alarm algorithms", invited talk, 4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (MBEC 2008), Antwerp, Belgium, November 23-27, 2008. Arno Fritsch, Katja Ickstadt (C7), "An Improved Criterion for Clustering Based on the Posterior Similarity Matrix", poster, MCMSki: Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Theory and Practice, Bormio, Italy, January 9-11, 2008. Arno Fritsch, Katja Ickstadt (C7), "An improved criterion for clustering based on the posterior similarity matrix", talk, GfKl: 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society, Hamburg, Germany, July 16-18, 2008. Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Statistical methods for online monitoring in intensive care", invited talk, 5th International Cherry Bud Workshop on Discovery through Data Sciences, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, March 25-28, 2008. Ursula Gather (A1), "Bruchpunkt und Gruppen", invited talk, Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bayreuth, Germany, January 24-25, 2008. Ursula Gather and Charlotte Guddat (A1), "Dimension Reduction", talk, Workshop on Future Directions in High-Dimensional Data Analysis: New Methodologies, New Data Types and New Applications, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, June, 23-27, 2008. Charlotte Guddat (A1), "How Robust Are Earth and MARS?", talk, StochastikTage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008. Charlotte Guddat (A1), "Robust Variable Selection", talk, First Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics, Neuchatel, Switzerland, June, 19-21, 2008. John Haisken-DeNew (B9), "Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in German", talk, XXII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, London, UK, June 19-21, 2008. 12 John Haisken-DeNew (B9), Sonja Kassenböhmer (B9), "Heresy or Enlightenment? The Wellbeing Age U-Shape Effect is Really Flat!" (a) talk, 19th annual meeting of the European Association of Labour Economists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-20, 2008, (b) talk, European Economic Association (EEA), Milano, Italy, August 27-31, 2008, (c) poster, 8th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 09-11, 2008. John Haisken-DeNew (B9), Matthias Vorell (B9), "Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey", talk, Canadian Economic Association (CEA), Vancouver, Canada, June 6-8, 2008. Jasmin Hodzic, Silke Zey, Klaus Golka (C7), Silvia Selinski (C7), Habib Pourvali, Hans-Joerg Sommerfeld, "Acupuncture as an alternative to ivanalgesia in extracorporal shock wave lithotripsy in kidney stones", poster, Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 17-22, 2008. Katja Ickstadt (C7), "Developing Statistical Tools for Data Analysis in Molecular Epidemiology", invited talk, 16th EUROTOX Training and Discussion Session, Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie (IfADo) at the University of Dortmund, Germany, January 31, 2008. Katja Ickstadt (C7), "Logic Regression for Classification and Variable Selection in Genetic Association Studies", seminar talk, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, May 14, 2008. Katja Ickstadt (C7), "Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of Monotone Functions", invited talk, Biometrisches Kolloquium, Institut für Biostatistik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany, November 19, 2008. Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), "Biomedical technology & medical informatics – it takes two for a tango", keynote lecture, 53. GMDS-Jahrestagung, Stuttgart, Germany, September 15-18, 2008. Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), "Biosignal processing – why should clinicians bother", talk, 21st Annual Congress of The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM 2008), Lisboa, Portugal, September 21-24, 2008. Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Christian Wrede, "Current challenges of medical device alarms – clinical situation and issues", talk, 4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (MBEC 2008), Antwerp, Belgium, November 23-27, 2008. Felix Jungermann (A4), "Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining", talk, Fachgruppentreffen KDML 2008, Würzburg, Germany, October 06-08, 2008. Falko Jüßen (B6), "Risk Sharing and Commuting Among U.S. Federal States", talk, Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2008 (SMYE), Lille, France, April 17-19, 2008. Sonja C Kassenboehmer (B9), John P. Haisken-DeNew (B9), "Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany", invited talk, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, November 11, 2008. Sonja C Kassenboehmer (B9), John P. Haisken-DeNew (B9), "You're Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction", talk, (a) 19th annual meeting of the European Association of Labour Economists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-20, 2008, (b) annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Graz, Austria, September 23-26, (c) European Economic Association (EEA), Milano, Italy, August 27-31, 2008, (d) Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics ESPE, London, UK, June, 19-21, 2008, (e) Canadian Economic Association (CEA), Vancouver, Canada, June 6-8, 2008, (f) Royal 13 Economic Society Conference (RES), Warwick, UK, March 17-19, 2008, (g) 4th International Young Scholars Socio-Economic Panel Symposium SOEP, Delmenhorst, Germany, March 01-02, 2008. Jochen Kluve (B8), "Evaluating continuous training programs using the generalized propensity score", talk, BeNA – Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers, Berlin, Germany, June 25, 2008. Jochen Kluve (B8), "Successes and Failures of Labor Market Policy in Europe", invited talk, Employment and development Conference, Bogotá, Colombia. Silvia Kuhls (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Sylvia Siebig, Christian Wrede, "Clinical validation of new alarm algorithms in intensive care", talk, Statistics and Life Sciences: Perspectives and Challenges (Lifestat 2008), Munich, Germany, March 10-13, 2008. Silvia Kuhls (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Sylvia Siebig, Christian Wrede, "Evaluation of new alarms in intensive care online monitoring", talk, 29th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB 2008), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1721, 2008. Joachim Kunert (A2, C6, T2), "A-optimal block designs for the comparison of treatments with a control with autocorrelated errors", Invited talk, Design of Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications (DEMA 2008), Cambridge, UK, August 11 - 15, 2008. Monika Meise (A1), "Smoothing densities under shape constraints", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008. Olaf Mersmann, Heike Trautmann, Detlef Steuer, Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Uwe Ligges, "Desirability functions in multicriteria optimization – Observations made while implementing desiRe", talk, useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany, August 12-14, 2008. Ingo Mierswa (A4), "From Yale to RapidMiner: A Guide on How to Live on Free Data Mining Software", Industrial Track at the ECML/PKDD 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, September 17, 2008. Thoralf Mildenberger and Henrike Weinert (both A1), "The multiresolution criterion and nonparametric regression", talk, Workshop on current trends and challenges in model selection and related areas Vienna, Austria, July 24 – 26, 2008. Thoralf Mildenberger (A1), "A Geometric Interpretation of the Multiresolution Criterion in Nonparametric Regression", talk, Workshop on Nonparametric Inference, Coimbra, Portugal, June 26 – 28, 2008. Thoralf Mildenberger (A1), "The multiresolution criterion – a geometric interpretation", Poster, International Seminar on Nonparametric Inference, Vigo, Spain, November 05 – 07, 2008. Oliver Morell (A5), Thorsten Bernholt (A5), Roland Fried (A5), Joachim Kunert (A2), Robin Nunkesser (A5), "An evolutionary algorithm for LTS regression: a comparative study", talk, International Conference on Computational Statistics COMPSTAT 2008, Porto, Portugal, August 24-29, 2008. Katharina Morik (A4), "Benutzerzentrierte Strukturierung von Musiksammlungen in P2P-Netzwerken", talk at the Regional Academic Working Group Meeting, NOKIA Research Center, Bochum, Germany, January 25, 2008 Katharina Morik (A4), "The Challenge of Heterogeneity", invited talk at the IEEE Data Mining Forum 2008, Hongkong, China, May 28-29, 2008 Tina Müller (C7), "Finding SNP Interactions", talk, WCSB 2008, Leipzig, Germany, June 11-13, 2008. 14 Tina Müller, Katja Ickstadt (C7), "Frequent itemsets and association rules as supportive analysis tools in genetic association studies", poster, Lifestat 2008, Munich, Germany, March 10-13, 2008. Robin Nunkesser (A5), "RFreak – An R package for evolutionary computation", talk, Statistical Computing 2008, Günzburg, Germany, June 01-04, 2008. Robin Nunkesser (A5), "Evolutionary algorithms for robust methods", invited talk, Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics, Neuchatel, Switzerland, June 19-21, 2008. Robin Nunkesser (A5), "Analysis of a genetic programming algorithm for association studies", talk, GECCO 2008, Atlanta, USA, July 12-16, 2008. Robin Nunkesser (A5), "A genetic programming algorithm for association studies", talk, International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2008), Porto, Portugal, August 24-29, 2008. Robin Nunkesser (A5), Silke Straatmann (C6), Simone Wenzel, "rPorta - An R package for analyzing polytopes and polyhedra", talk, UseR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany, August 12-14, 2008. Beate Pesch (C7), C. Sturtz, G. Feil, "GUroScreen – Statistical approaches to analyse UroVysion data", talk, BGFA Symposium "Chromosomal Instability and Bladder Cancer", Bochum, Germany, October 22, 2008. Beate Pesch (C7), M. Raulf-Heimsoth, B. Kendzia, Anne Spickenheuer (C7), Thomas Bruening (C7), "Modelling bitumen effects on interleukin-8 concentrations in induced sputum and nasal lavage from German asphalt workers", talk, 20th International Conference on Epidemiology in Occupational Health, EPICOH, June 9-11, 2008. Nils Raabe, Dirk Enk (both C5), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Dirk Biermann (C5), "Dynamic disturbances in BTA deephole drilling – Identification of spiralling as a regenerative effect", talk, Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2008), Hamburg, Germany, July 16-18, 2008. Sylvia Rabstein (C7), Thomas Brüning (C7), V. Harth, T. Weiss, C.B. Pierl, T. Illig, C. Justenhoven, C. Vollmert, Y.-D. Ko, U. Hamann, H. Brauch, Beate Pesch (C7), "Die Rolle des NAT2 Acetyliererstatus bei Exposition gegenüber Aminen: Ergebnisse der Brustkrebsstudie GENICA", poster, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie DGEPI, Bielefeld, Germany, September 24-27, 2008. Bernd Rosenow, Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Modelling Correlations in Portfolio Credit Risk", Pfingsttagung der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, May 4-6, 2008. Bernd Rosenow, Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Modelling Correlations in Portfolio Credit Risk", International Conference of Price, Liquidity, and Credit Risks, Konstanz, Germany, October 18-20, 2008. Sandra Schaffner (B8), Lena Jacobi, "Does Marginal Employment Substitute Regular Employment? A Heterogeneous Dynamic Labour Demand Approach", talk, (a) Ph.D. workshop Perspectives on (Un-) Employment, Nuremberg, Germany, July, 2008 (b) 19th annual meeting of the European Association of Labour Economists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-20, 2008 (c) 34. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Jena, Germany, October 06-10, 2008. Sandra Schaffner (B8), Jochen Kluve (B8), "The Value of Life in Europe – A Meta Analysis", International workshop on meta-analysis in economics and Business, Nancy, France, October 17-18, 2008. 15 Karen Schettlinger (C4), Matthias Borowski (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Online time series analysis by robust regression filters", invited talk, 1st Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics (ERCIM'08), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 19-21, 2008. Karen Schettlinger (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Sarah Gelper, Christophe Croux, "Robust online variability extraction from physiological time series", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008. Karen Schettlinger (C4), Roland Fried (A5, T1), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "robfilter: an R package for robust time series filters", talk, UseR! The R User Conference 2008, Dortmund, Germany, August 12-14, 2008. Karen Schettlinger (C4), "Robust online scale estimation from time series", talk, International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2008), Porto, Portugal, August 24-29, 2008. Julia Schiffner (A4), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Localized classification using mixture models", talk, Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2008), Hamburg, Germany, July 16-18, 2008. Julia Schiffner (A4), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Local classification methods for heterogeneous classes", talk, useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany, August 1214, 2008. Julia Schiffner (A4), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Using local methods for register classification by timbre", poster, Workshop on Music Signal Analysis, Witten Bommerholz, Germany, November 3-4, 2008. Christoph M. Schmidt (B8, B9), Michael Fertig, Mathias Sinning, "Human Capital Accumulation: Family Background, Cohort Effects and Unemployment", talk, (a) 19th annual meeting of the European Association of Labour Economists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-20, 2008, (b) Annual Congress of Verein für Socialpolitik, Graz, Austria, September 23-26, 2008. Christoph M. Schmidt (B8, B9), "Mindestlöhne, Mittelstand und Arbeitsmarkt", talk, ZDH-Forum Sozialpolitik, Berlin, Germany, September 10, 2008. Christoph M. Schmidt (B8, B9), "Deutsche Wirtschaft in der Krise?", talk, Mitgliederversammlung der IHK-Vereinigung, October 20, 2008. Christoph M. Schmidt (B8, B9), Thomas K. Bauer, Jochen Kluve(B8), Sandra Schaffner(B8), "Mindestlöhne und Beschäftigung in Deutschland: Was sagt die Empirie?", talk, wirtschaftspolitisches Symposium der Herbert Giersch Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, July 08, 2008 (b) Forschungskolloquium des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaften, November 18, 2008. Christoph M. Schmidt (B8, B9), "Die Erschöpfung der Rohstoffe: Fakt oder Fiktion?", talk, Metall-Gipfel 2008, October 28, 2008. Christoph M. Schmidt (B8, B9), "Deutsche Wirtschaft am Rande der Rezession – Wo steht NRW?", talk, Nordrhein-Westfälischer Handwerkstag, November 05, 2008. Christoph Schürmann (A1), "Analysis of time series of count data from infectious diseases", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008 Holger Schwender (C7), "Detecting interesting SNP interactions with logicFS", invited talk, Lifestat 2008, Munich, Germany, March 10-13, 2008. Silvia Selinski (C7), Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Klaus Golka (C7), "N-Acetyltransferase 2 haplotype reconstruction using PHASE", poster, EUROTOX, Rhodes, Greece, October 5-10, 2008. Silvia Selinski (C7), Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Mirabutaleb Samimi, Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Klaus Golka (C7), "Reconstruction of N-acetyltransferase 2 16 haplotypes using PHASE", poster, 49. Frühjahrstagung, DGPT, Mainz, Germany, March 11-13, 2008. Silvia Selinski, Katja Ickstadt (both C7), "Flexible Matching Coefficients for Clustering Genetic Data", talk, Lifestat 2008, Munich, Germany, March 1013, 2008. Wiebke Sieben (T1), Karen Schettlinger (C4), Silvia Kuhls (C4), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), "Machine learning techniques in intensive care monitoring", talk, 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008), Helsinki, Finland, July 5-9, 2008. Wiebke Sieben (T1), "Time related features for alarm classification in intensive care", talk, 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2008), Hamburg, Germany July 16-18, 2008. Sylvia Siebig, Silvia Kuhls (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Julia Langgartner, Christian Wrede, "ICU alarms – how many do we need?", poster, The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 37th Critical Care Congress, Honolulu, USA, February 2-6, 2008. Sylvia Siebig, Silvia Kuhls (C4), Ursula Gather (C4, T1), Michael Imhoff (C4, T1), Julia Langgartner, Christian Wrede, "ICU-Alarms – how many do we need?", poster, 21st Annual Congress of The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM 2008), Lisboa, Portugal, September 21-24, 2008. Katrin Sommer, Uwe Ligges, Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Analysis of polyphonic music time series", poster, Workshop on Music Signal Analysis, Witten Bommerholz, Germany, November 3-4, 2008. Anne Spickenheuer (C7), B. Kendzia, M. Raulf-Heimsoth, Katja Ickstadt (C7), Thomas Bruening (C7), Beate Pesch (C7), "Comparing of different regression models regarding the inflammatory marker interleukin 8 in bitumen-exposed workers", poster, Lifestat 2008, Munich, Germany, March 10-13, 2008. Anne Spickenheuer (C7), B. Kendzia, M. Raulf-Heimsoth, Thomas Brüning (C7), Beate Pesch (C7), "Einsatz unterschiedlicher Modelle zur Abschätzung der Effekte einer Bitumenexposition auf die menschlichen Atemwege am Beispiel des Entzündungsmarkers Interleukin 8", talk, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie DGEPI, Bielefeld, Germany, September 24-27, September, 2008. Anne Spickenheuer (C7), M. Raulf-Heimsoth, B. Kendzia, Beate Pesch (C7), "Anwendung von Klassifikationsverfahren in einer arbeitsmedizinischen Studie zu Gussasphaltarbeitern", talk. 30. Herbsttagung, AG-DANK: The working group for Data Analysis and Numerical Classification in the German Classification Society, WIAS Berlin, Germany, November 14-15, 2008. Gero Szepannek (A4), "Variable selection for more than two classes if the data are sparse", talk, Joint Symposium of the Research Training Group "Statistical Modelling" and the Tampere Graduate School in Information Science and Engineering (TISE) 2008, Dortmund, Germany, May 13-14, 2008. Gero Szepannek, Julia Schiffner (both A4), Julie Wilson, Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Local modelling in classification", talk, 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2008, Leipzig, Germany, July 16-18, 2008. Gero Szepannek (A4), Uwe Ligges, Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Some aspects on classification, variable selection and categorical clustering", talk, useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany, August 12-14, 2008. Gero Szepannek, Bernd Bischl (both A4), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Towards lyrics extraction from popular music", talk, Workshop on Music Signal Analysis, Witten Bommerholz, Germany, November 3-4, 2008. 17 Mathias Vetter (B1), "Bipower-type estimation in a noisy diffusion setting", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008. Mathias Vetter (B1), "Bipower-type estimation in a noisy diffusion setting", invited talk, CREATES, Aarhus, Denmark, April 29, 2008. Mathias Vetter (B1), "Estimation methods in noisy diffusion settings", invited talk, IAS Workshop Risk Modelling and High Frequency Data, Munich, Germany, June 12-13, 2008. Mathias Vetter (B1), "Testing the parametric form of volatility in diffusion models corrupted by noise", invited talk, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 4, 2008. Daniel Vogel (A5), Claudia Köllmann, Roland Fried (A5), "Partial correlation estimates based on signs", invited talk, WITMSE, Tampere, Finnland, August 16-18, 2008. Daniel Vogel (A5), Roland Fried (A5), "Estimating partial correlations using the Oja sign covariance matrix", talk, International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2008), Porto, Portugal, August 2429, 2008. Stanislav Volgushev (B1), "Monotonic rearrangements and an application to conditional quantile estimation", talk, Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Gemany, March 4-7 2008. Stanislav Volgushev (B1), "Monotonic rearrangements and their applications to conditional quantile estimation", talk, Nonsmooth inference, Analysis and Dependence 2008, Göteborg, Sweden, June 9-13, 2008. Stanislav Volgushev (B1), "Some models for doubly censored data", talk, Mathematical Statistics and Applications 2008, Fréjus, France, September 1-5, 2008. Matthias Vorell (B9), "External Effects of Education: Wage Spillovers in Firms", 19th annual meeting of the European Association of Labour Economists, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-20, 2008. Ronja Walter (B6), "The optimal combination of internal and external ratings", Operations Research 2008 (OR2008), Augsburg, Germany, September 35, 2008. Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Quality assurance for statistical consulting", talk, 7th Workshop on Quality Improvement, Witten Bommerholz, Germany, May 23-24, 2008. Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Julia Schiffner, Gero Szepannek (both A4), Thierry Monthé, "Localized logistic regression for discrete influential factors", talk, Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2008), Hamburg, Germany, July 16-18, 2008. Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Katrin Sommer, "Analysis of polyphonic musical time series", talk, Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2008), Hamburg, Germany, July 16-18, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Do ratings follow homogeneous markov processes?", Seminar, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, January 11, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Modelling Markovian Migration", Seminar, Vrije Universiteit, Brüssel, Belgium, April 29, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Folgen Ratings homogenen Markoff-Prozessen?", Seminar, Private Hanseuniversität Rostock, Rostock, Germany, July 4, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Modelling Markovian Migration", Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science an Engineering 2008, Tampere, Finland, August 18-20, 2008. 18 Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Modellierung Markoff'scher Migrationen mit Anwendungen in Wirtschaft und Medizin", Seminar, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, August 26, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Risiko und Abhängigkeit", Seminar, Helmut-Schmidt Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, Germany, September 23, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), Carsten von Lieres und Wilkau, "Economic Capital for Nonperforming Loans", Jahrestagung 2008 des Vereins für Socialpolitik (VSP), Graz, Austria, September 23-28, 2008. Rafael Weißbach (B1), "Discussion on C. Bluhm: Credit Risk Modeling ‘Put to Test’", International Conference on Price, Liquidity, and Credit Risks, Konstanz, Germany, October 3-4, 2008. Simone Wenzel (T2), "Multivariate Expected Improvement Using Two-Sided Desirabilities", talk, ENBIS8, Athens, Greece, September 21–25, 2008. Christian Wrede, Roland Fried (T1), "Alarme – Problem und Techniken", APS & MEK 2008 Dachkongress Patientensicherheit und Medizintechnik, Münster, Germany, March 6-7, 2008. Anna Zimmermann, Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Gerhard Roth, Thilo Seidel, Holger Dietrich, Silvia Selinski (C7), Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Klaus Golka (C7), "UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 2B7 C802T (His268Tyr) polymorphism in Caucasian bladder cancer cases and controls", poster, EUROTOX, Rhodes, Greece, October 5-10, 2008. ...what else? Walter Daelemans, Bart Goethals, Katharina Morik (A4), Guest Editors: Special Issue of Selected Papers from ECML PKDD 2008, in Machine Learning Journal, Vol. 72, Springer. Walter Daelemans, Bart Goethals, Katharina Morik (A4), Guest Editors: Special Issue of Selected Papers from ECML PKDD 2008, in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer. Roland Fried (A5, T1) was a member of the scientific committee and chaired a session on "Robust Statistics" at the Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics (ERCIM'08), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 19-21, 2008. Roland Fried (A5, T1) was chairing the invited session on "Robust Statistics" at the International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2008), Porto, Portugal, August 24-29, 2008. Ursula Gather (A1, C4, T1) was chairing the session on "Multivariate Statistics and Data Analysis" at the Stochastik-Tage 2008, Aachen, Germany, March 4-7, 2008. Ursula Gather (A1) visited Yves Rozenholc, UFR de Mathématiques et d’Informatique, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, March 10-13, 2008. Michael Imhoff (C4, T1) was organizing the session "Biosignal processing in intensive care" at the 21st Annual Congress of The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM 2008), Lisboa, Portugal, September 2124, 2008. Michael Imhoff (C4, T1) was organizing and chairing the session "Current challenges of medical device alarms" at the 4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (MBEC 2008), Antwerp, Belgium, November 23-27, 2008. 19 Jochen Kluve (B8) was visiting the University of California, Berkeley, to work with David Card and Andrea Weber, August 20 – September 1, 2008. Joachim Kunert (A2, C6, T2) was Visiting Fellow at the Newton Institute in Cambrige, UK, July 26 - August 15, 2008. The company Rapid-I, founded by Ingo Mierswa (A4) and Ralf Klinkenberg, which was developed out of work and research for the A4 project, achieved the highly endowed European Open Source Business Award 2008. Katharina Morik (A4) was member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer Verlag and Informatik Spektrum, Springer Verlag. Holger Schwender (C7) was awarded with the dissertation award 2007 of the TU Dortmund, the Gustav-Adolf-Lienert-Award (Highest Award) 2008 of the German Section of the International Biometrical Society, and the RudolfChaudoire-Award 2008. Holger Schwender (C7) was a visiting fellow at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, June 29 – July 26, 2008. Claus Weihs (A4, C5) was member of the scientific program committee of Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2008). Claus Weihs (A4, C5) was editor of the special issue "statistical consulting" of "AStA – Advances in Statistical Analysis". Publications and Technical Reports: Books and book contributions Walter Daelemans, Bart Goethals, Katharina Morik (A4) (eds) (2008), "Proceedings of ECML/PKDD", Springer Klaus Golka (C7), Katja Ickstadt (C7), Michael Wilhelm (eds.) (2008), Special Issue of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A on the Workshop "Interdisciplinary activities in environmental toxicology in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(11-12),699. Isa Jahnke, Maria Tzankow, Abraham van Veen, Claus Weihs (A4, C5) (2008), "Informationsaustausch und Wissensmanagement in OnlineCommunities – Neue Kommunikationsräume an der Universität", in: Scholkmann, A., Roters, B., Ricken, J., Höcker, M. (eds.), Hochschulforschung und Hochschulmanagement im Dialog – Zur Praxisrelevanz empirischer Forschung über die Hochschule, Waxmann. Joachim Kunert (A2, C6, T2) (2008) "Randomization in Experimental Designs", in: Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Ruggieri, F., Kenett, R. and Faltin, F.W. (eds.) John Wiley and Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 1559 1563. Ingo Mierswa, Katharina Morik, Michael Wurst (A4) (2008), "Collaborative Use of Features in a Distributed System for the Organization of Music Collections", in: Intelligent Music Information Systems: Tools and Methodologies, Shen, Shephard, Cui, Liu (eds), Igi Global Publishing, 147 – 176. Oliver Morell (A5), Roland Fried (A5) (2008), "On nonparametric tests for trend detection in seasonal time series", in: Statistical Inference, Econometric Analysis and Matrix Algebra. Festschrift in Honor of Götz Trenkler, Schipp, B., Krämer, W. (Hrsg.), 19 – 40. 20 Refereed Articles José A.G. Agúndez, Klaus Golka (C7), Carmen Martínez, Silvia Selinski (C7), Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Elena García-Martín (2008), "Unraveling ambiguous NAT2 genotyping data", Clinical Chemistry 54(8), 1390 – 1394. Christian Bayer, Falko Jüßen (B6) (2007), "Convergence in West German Regional Unemployment Rates", German Economic Review, 8 (4), 510 – 535. Melanie Birke (B1), Holger Dette (B1, A2) (2008), "A note on estimating a monotone regression function by combining kernel and density estimates", Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. 20, 679 – 690. J.G. Chen, Y.G. Chen, Y.S. Zhou, G.F. Lin, X.J. Li, C.G. Jia, W.C. Guo, H. Du, H.C. Lu, X.J. Zhang, Klaus Golka (C7), J.H. Shen, (2008), "A follow-up study of mortality among the arseniasis patients exposed to indoor combustion of high arsenic coal in Southwest Guizhou Autonomous Prefecture, China", International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 81(1), 9 – 17. Christophe Croux, Sarah Gelper, Roland Fried (A5, T1) (2008), "Computational aspects of robust Holt-Winters smoothing based on Mestimation", Applications of Mathematics 53, 163 – 176. M. Daumer, U. Held, Katja Ickstadt (C7), M. Heinz, S. Schach, G. Ebers (2008), "Reducing the probability of false positive research findings by prepublication validation - experience with a large multiple sclerosis database", BMC Medical Research Methodology, 8 – 18. Laurie Davies (A1, B1) (2008), "Approximating data (with discussion)", Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 37, 191 – 240. Laurie Davies (A1, B1), Ursula Gather (A1, C4, T1), Henrike Weinert (A1) (2008), "Nonparametric regression as an example of model choice", Communications in Statistics: Simulations and Computations, 37(2), 274 – 289. Laurie Davies (A1, B1), Ursula Gather (A1, C4, T1), Monika Meise (A1), Dieter Mergel, Thoralf Mildenberger (A1) (2008), "Residual based localization and quantification of peaks in x-ray diffractograms", Annals of Applied Statistics, 2(3), 861 – 886. Laurie Davies (A1,B1), Monika Meise (A1) (2008), "Approximating Data with Weighted Smoothing Splines", Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 20, 207 – 228. Holger Dette, (A2, B1), Joachim Kunert (A2, C6, T2), Andrey Pepelysheff (2008), "Exact optimal designs for weighted least squares analysis with correlated errors", Statistica Sinica 18, 135 – 154. Holger Dette (A2,B1), Stanislav Volgushev, (B1) (2008), "Non-crossing nonparametric estimates of quantile curves", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 70(3), 609 – 627. Holger Dette (A2, B1), Mareen Marchlewski (B1) (2008), "A test for the parametric form of the variance function in a partial linear regression model", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 138, 3005 – 3021. Holger Dette (A2,B1), Daniel Ziggel (B1) (2008), "Discount curve estimation by monotonizing McCulloch splines", International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance 11(5), 529 – 544. 21 Holger Dette (A2,B1), Frank Bretz, José Pinheiro (2008), "Optimal designs for dose finding studies", Journal of the American Statistical Association 103(483), 1225 – 1237. Holger Dette (A2,B1), Douglas P. Wiens (2008), "Robust designs for series estimation", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 52(9), 4305 – 4324. Holger Dette (A2,B1), Andrey Pepelyshev, Anatoly Zhiglavsky (2008), "Improving updating rules in multiplicative algorithms for computing Doptimal designs", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 53(2), 312 – 320. Roland Fried (A5, T1), Jochen Einbeck, Ursula Gather (C4, T1) (2007), "Weighted repeated median smoothing and filtering", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102(480), 1300 – 1308. Roland Fried (A5, T1) (2008), "Robust shift detection in time-varying autoregressive processes", Austrian Journal of Statistics 37, 41 – 49. Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter and Christoph M. Schmidt (B8) (2008), "Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch viel Schatten", List-Forum 34 (1), 28 – 44. Ursula Gather and Charlotte Guddat (both A1) (2008), Comment on "Sure Independence Screening for Ultra-high Dimensional Feature Space" by J. Fan and J. Lv, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 70, 5, 893 – 895. Klaus Golka (C7), Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Mirabutaleb Samimi, Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Silvia Selinski (C7) (2008), "Reconstruction of Nacetyltransferase 2 haplotypes using PHASE", Archives of Toxicology 82(4), 265 – 270. Klaus Golka (C7), T. Schmidt, T. Seidel, H. Dietrich, H.C. Roemer, D. Lohlein, T. Reckwitz, J. Sökeland, W. Weistenhofer, M. Blaszkewicz, Silvia Selinski (C7) (2008), "The influence of polymorphisms of glutathione s-transferases M1 and M3 on the development of human urothelial cancer", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(13-14), 881 – 886. V. Harth, Martin Schäfer (C7), J. Abel, L. Maintz, T. Neuhaus, M. Besuden, R. Primke, A. Wilkesmann, R. Thier, H. Vetter, Y.-D. Ko, Thomas Brüning (C7), Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Katja Ickstadt (C7) (2008), "Head and neck squamous cell cancer and its association with polymorphic enzymes of xenobiotic metabolism and repair", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(13-14), 887 – 897. Katja Ickstadt (C7), Martin Schäfer (C7), Arno Fritsch, Holger Schwender (C7), J. Abel, Hermann M. Bolt (C7), Thomas Brüning (C7), Y.-D. Ko, H. Vetter, V. Harth (2008), "Statistical methods for detecting genetic interactions: A head and neck squamous cell cancer study", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(11-12), 803 – 815. C. Justenhoven, U. Hamann, F. Schubert, M. Zapatka, C. Pierl, Sylvia Rabstein (C7), Silvia Selinski (C7), Tina Müller (C7), Katja Ickstadt (C7), M. Gilbert, Y.-D. Ko, C. Baisch, Beate Pesch (C7), V. Harth, Hermann M. Bolt (C7), C. Vollmert, T. Illig, R. Eils, J. Dippon, H. Brauch (2008), "Breast Cancer: A candidate gene approach across the estrogen metabolic pathway", Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 108, 137 – 149. Göran Kauermann, Claus Weihs (A4, C5) (2007), "Statistical consulting", AStA - Advances in Statistical Analysis 91 (4), 343 – 347. Jochen Kluve (B8), Sandra Schaffner (B8) (2008), "The Value of Life in Europe – A Meta Analysis", Sozialer Fortschritt 10-11/ 2008, 279 – 287. 22 Jochen Kluve (B8) (2008), "The Capacity of Active Labour Market Policies to combat European Unemployment", in ISFOL Rome (eds.), New European Approaches to Long-Term Unemployment, Kluwer Law International, 27 – 36. Jochen Kluve (B8) (2008), "Fördern and Fordern: The principle of 'rights and duties' in German labour market policy", in L. Kay and O.M. Hartwich (eds.), When Hassle Means Help – The International Lessons of Conditional Welfare, Policy Exchange, London, 59 – 68. Sonja Kuhnt, Christoph Schürmann (A1), Martin Schütte, Edna Wenning, Barbara Griefahn, Matthias Vormann, Jürgen Hellbrück (2008), "Modelling annoyance from combined traffic noises - an experimental study", Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 94, 393 – 400. Walter Krämer (B1, B6, B8), C. Hanck (B6) (2008), "OLS-based estimation of the disturbance variance under spatial autocorrelation", Recent Advances in Linear Models and Related Areas 18, 357 – 366. Walter Krämer (B1, B6, B8) (2008), "Long memory with Markov-Switching GARCH", Economics Letters 99, 390 – 392. Walter Krämer (B1, B6, B8), S. Schich (2008), "Large-scale disasters and the insurance industry", Insurance and Risk Management Journal 76, 1 – 19. Walter Krämer (B1, B6, B8), A. Güttler (2008), "On comparing the accuracy of default predictions in the rating industry", Empirical Economics 34, 343 – 356. Amor Messaoud (C5), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Franz Hering (2008), "Detection of chatter vibration in a drilling process using multivariate control charts", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 52 (6), 3208 – 3219. Thoralf Mildenberger (A1) (2008), "A geometric interpretation of the multiresolution criterion in nonparametric regression", Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 20 (7), 599 – 609. Martin Pohl, Peter Englmaier, Nicolai Bissantz (B1) (2008), "3D Distribution of Molecular Gas in the Barred Milky Way", The Astrophysical Journal, 677, 283 – 291. Nils Raabe (C5), Claus Weihs (A4, C5) (2008), "Universitäten als Landschaften", Das Hochschulwesen 3, 80 – 84. Sylvia Rabstein (C7), K. Unfried, U. Ranft, T. Illig, C. Mambetova, M. Vlad, C. Roman, T. Weiss, D. Becker, Thomas Brüning (C7), Beate Pesch (C7) (2008), "Lack of association of delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase polymorphisms with blood lead levels and hemoglobin in Romanian women from a lead-contaminated region", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A.; 71: (11-12), 716 – 24 H.P. Rihs, G. Triebig, P. Werner, Sylvia Rabstein (C7), S. Heinze, Beate Pesch (C7), Thomas Bruening (C7) (2008), "Association between genetic polymorphisms in styrene-metabolizing enzymes and biomarkers in styrene-exposed workers", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(13-14), 866 – 873 Evgenia Saveleva, Silvia Selinski (C7) (2008), "Meta-analyses with binary outcomes: how many studies need to be omitted to detect a publication bias?", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(13-14), 845 – 850. Holger Schwender, Katja Ickstadt (both C7) (2008), "Empirical Bayes Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms", BMC Bioinformatics 9, 144. 23 Holger Schwender, Katja Ickstadt (both C7) (2008), "Identification of SNP Interactions Using Logic Regression", Biostatistics 9(1), 187 – 198. A. Seidel, Anne Spickenheuer (C7), K. Straif, H.P. Rihs, B. Marczynski, M. Scherenberg, G. Dettbarn, J. Angerer, M. Wilhelm, Thomas Brüning (C7), J. Jacob, Beate Pesch (C7) (2008), "New biomarkers of occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71, 734 – 745. Silvia Selinski, Katja Ickstadt (both C7) (2008), "Cluster analysis of genetic and epidemiological data in molecular epidemiology", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(11-12), 835 – 844. Karl F. Siburg, Pavel. A. Stoimenov (B1) (2008a), "Gluing Copulas", Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 19, 3124 – 3134. Karl F. Siburg, Pavel A. Stoimenov (B1) (2008b), "A Scalar product for Copulas", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 344, 429 – 439. D. Taeger, U. Krahn, T. Wiethege, Katja Ickstadt (C7), G. Johnen, A. Eisenmenger, H. Wesch, Beate Pesch (C7), Thomas Brüning (C7) (2008), "Proportional lung cancer mortality related to Radon, Quartz, and Arsenic exposures in German uranium miners", Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 71(13-14), 859 – 865. Claus Weihs (A4, C5) (2007), "Quality assurance for statistical consulting", AStA - Advances in Statistical Analysis 91 (4), 429 – 440. Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Uwe Ligges, Fabian Mörchen, Daniel Müllensiefen (2007), "Classification in music research", ADAC - Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 1 (3), 255 – 291. Rafael Weißbach (B1), A. Pfahlberg, O. Gefeller (2008), "Double-smoothing in kernel hazard rate estimation", Methods of Information in Medicine 47, 167 – 173. Publications in Conference Proceedings Dirk Biermann, Klaus Weinert (C5), Dirk Enk (C5); Mohab Hossam, Nils Raabe (C5), "Controlling Approach for the BTA Deep Hole Drilling Process to Avoid Spiralling", in: The 1st International Conference on Process Machine Interactions (PMI 2008), Hannover, Germany, September 3 - 4, 2008, Editor Berend Denkena, p. 53 - 60, ISBN 978-3-939026-95-2. Christian Bockermann, Ingo Mierswa, Katharina Morik (A4), "On the Automated Creation of Understandable Positive Security Models for Web Applications", 2nd International Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security 2008. Roland Fried (A5, T1), Ursula Gather, Karen Schettlinger (C4), "Adaptive and robust signal extraction", in: Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP 08), Compiègne, France, July 710, 2008. Martin Gebel, Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Calibrating margin-based classifier scores into polychotomous probabilities", in: Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications, Preisach, C., Burkhardt, H., Schmidt-Thieme, L., Decker, R. (eds.), Springer, 2008. 24 Tamás Harczos, Stephan Werner, Gero Szepannek (A4), "Formant map counterpart in auditory processing based on cochlear pressure wave trajectories", in: Proceedings of IEEE Biomedical Systems and Circuits Conference (BioCAS), 2008. Felix Jungermann, Katharina Morik (A4), "Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining", NLDB 2008 Proceedings, 335-336. Amor Messaoud (C5), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "On the properties of the rank based multivariate exponentially weighted moving average control charts", in: Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications, Preisach, C., Burkhardt, H., Schmidt-Thieme, L., Decker, R. (eds.), Springer, 2008. Thoralf Mildenberger (A1), "The multiresolution criterion – a geometric interpretation", in: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Nonparametric Inference, ISNI 2008. Oliver Morell (A5), Thorsten Bernholt (A5), Roland Fried (A5), Joachim Kunert (A2), Robin Nunkesser (A5), "An evolutionary algorithm for LTSregression: a comparative study", in: Proceedings in Computational Statistics COMPSTAT 2008, Brito, M.P. (Hrsg.), 585-593. Tina Müller, Holger Schwender, Katja Ickstadt (all C7), "Finding SNP Interactions", in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology, WCSB, 2008. Robin Nunkesser (A5), "Analysis of a genetic programming algorithm for association studies", in: Proceedings of GECCO 2008, ACM, 1259-1266. Robin Nunkesser (A5), Karen Schettlinger, Roland Fried (A5, T1), "Applying the Qn estimator online", in: Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 277-284. Julia Schiffner (A4), Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Comparison of local classification methods", in: Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications, Preisach, C., Burkhardt, H., Schmidt-Thieme, L., Decker, R. (eds.), Springer, 2008. Katrin Sommer, Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "A comparative study on polyphonic musical times series using MCMC methods", in: Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications, Preisach, C., Burkhardt, H., Schmidt-Thieme, L., Decker, R. (eds.), Springer, 2008. Gero Szepannek, Julia Schiffner (both A4), Julie Wilson, Claus Weihs (A4, C5), "Local modelling in classification", in: Advances in Data Mining, LNAI 5077, Perner, P. (ed.), Springer, 2008. Daniel Vogel (A5), Roland Fried (A5), "Estimating partial correlations using the Oja sign covariance matrix", in: Proceedings in Computational Statistics COMPSTAT 2008, Brito, M.P. (Hrsg.), 721-729. Daniel Vogel (A5), Claudia Köllmann, Roland Fried (A5), "Partial correlation estimates based on signs", in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering, TICSP series # 43, Heikkonen, J. (Hrsg.). Claus Weihs (A4, C5), Heike Trautmann, "Parallel universes: Multi-criteria optimization and local patterns", in: Parallel Universes and Local Patterns, Berthold, M. R., Morik, K., Siebes, A. (eds.), http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1255/. 25 Ph. D. Degrees Matthias Arnold (B8), "Parameterschätzung in Regressionsmodellen mit räumlich korrelierten Störgrößen", Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund, Germany. Benjamin Hetzler (B1), "Tests auf parametrische Struktur der Varianzfunktion in der nichtparametrischen Regression", Department of Mathematics, RuhrUniversität Bochum. Christian Höhenrieder (B1), "Nichtparametrische Volatilitätsund Trendapproximation von Finanzdaten", Department of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Anne Krampe (A1), "Entwicklung statistischer Tests mit computergestützter Algebra", Department of Statistics,TU Dortmund, Germany. Silvia Kuhls (C4), "Planung, Durchführung und Analyse einer klinischen Studie zur Bewertung und zum Vergleich von Alarmsystemen in der Intensivmedizin", Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund, Germany. Bettina Reuther (B1), "Matrixwertige Maße und ihre Anwendungen in der Stochastik", Department of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Sandra Schaffner (B8), "Worker Heterogeneity on the Labor Market – Evidence for Germany", Economic Department, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Regine Scheder (B1), "Shape constraints in multivariate Department of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. regression", Christoph Schürmann (A1), "Nichtparametrische Modellierung von Zeitreihen mit Infektionshäufigkeiten", Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund, Germany. Rahel Stichtenoth (A1), "Signal and image denoising using inhomogeneous diffusion", Department of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Pavel Stoimenov (B1), "A Measure of Mutual Complete Dependence", Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund, Germany. Gero Szepannek (A4), "Post cochlea processing – Mustererkennung zur Informationsextraktion aus simulierten Aktionspotenzialen des Hörnervs", Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund, Germany. Mathias Vetter (B1), "Estimation methods in noisy diffusion models", Department of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Gabriele Wieczorek (B1), "Tests auf multiplikative Struktur in strikt stationären Prozessen", Department of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Michael Wurst (A4), "Distributed Collaborative Structuring – A Data Mining Approach to Information Management in Loosely-Coupled Domains", Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund. Evgeny Zoldin (B1), "Nonparametric modelling of interest rates", Department of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Diploma, Master, and Bachelor Theses Daniela Breiter (C7), "Vergleich verschiedener Algorithmen zur Erzeugung von Assoziationsregeln ". Michael Bücker (A4), "Lokale Diskrimination diskreter Daten". 26 Alice Czerniejewski (A4), "Analyse von Identifikation psychischer Krankheiten". Krankenversichertendaten zur Dominique Dany (B1), "Analyse der Einflusses von Kovariablen Veränderungen im Kreditrating“. Daniel Fischer (A5), "Oja’s Median: Theorie und Berechnung". auf Markus Hahn (B9), "Effects of Child Benefits on Child Poverty in Germany". Patrick Haverkate (B1), "S-BaR: Sensitivität von Bankratings (auf Bilanzkennziffern)". Katrin Knies (A5), "Untersuchung evolutionärer Algorithmen für minimale Spannbäume". Anne-Kathrin Köhne (C7), "Integrative Datenanalyse von Phosphorproteinen und RNA–Expressionsdaten beim Mammakarzinom". Ulrike Krahn (C7), "Identifikation von Clustern in Genexpressions-Zeitreihen zur Analyse der Zellentwicklung". Marco Landgraf (A1), "Auswirkungen statistische Verfahren". Hongxing Lin (B6), CreditRisk+". stochastischer "Abhängigkeitsmodellierung im Abhängigkeit auf Mischungsmodell Tobias Malbrecht (A4), "Aufbereitung des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels für die Datenanalyse". Maxim Martens (A4), "Adaptives Scheduling für verteiltes Data Mining". Thierry Monthé (A4), "Lokalisierte logistische Regression bei diskreten Variablen". Michael Nöthe (A4), "Erweiterung evolutionärer Merkmalskonstruktionen um Case Base Retrieval". Arsene Ntiwa (A5), "Outliers in GARCH Models". Katharina Proksch (B1), „L2-Tests in inversen Regressionsmodellen mit Faltungsoperatoren“. Anne Antonia Scheidler (A4), "Zeitreihenprognose mittels lokaler Modelle und ihrer Globalisierung". Christian Schikowsky (A4), "Verfahren zur Behandlung fehlender Werte". Gisela Volkers (A4), "Retentionszeit-Alignment von IMS-Messungen". Jens Wagener (B1), "Ein nichtparametrischer Test zum Vergleich von Quantilsregressionsfunktionen". Ronja Walter (B1), "Testen auf Stationarität im multiplikativen Intensitätsmodell“. Dominik Wied (B1), "Konsistenzbeweise für Kerndichteschätzung: Eine Methodenretrospektiv". Hua Zhong (B6), "Dimension Reduction when Estimating Generators". 27 Technical Reports 7/2007 8/2007 9/2007 10/2007 11/2007 12/2007 13/2007 14/2007 15/2007 16/2007 17/2007 18/2007 19/2007 20/2007 21/2007 22/2007 23/2007 24/2007 25/2007 26/2007 27/2007 28/2007 29/2007 30/2007 31/2007 32/2007 Roland Fried (A5, T2), Robust shift detection in time-varying autoregressive processes Holger Dette (A2, B1), Viatcheslav B. Melas, Petr Shpilev, Optimal designs for estimating pairs of coefficients in fourier regression models Holger Schwender, Katja Ickstadt (both C7), Imputing missing genotypes with weighted k nearest neighbors Felix Jungermann, Katharina Morik (both A4), Enhanced services for targeted information retrieval by event extraction and data mining Holger Dette (A2, B1), Regine Scheder (B1), A finite sample comparison of nonparametric estimates of the effective dose in quantal bioassay Holger Dette (A2, B1), Stefanie Titoff (A2), Optimal discrimination designs Holger Dette (A2, B1), Benjamin Hetzler (B1), A martingale-transform goodnessof-fit test for the form of the conditional variance Melanie Birke (B1), Shape constrained kernel density estimation Holger Dette (A2, B1), Andrey Pepelyshev, Weng Kee Wong, Optimal designs for dose finding experiments in toxicity studies Christian Bayer, Christoph Hanck (B6), Is double trouble? How to combine cointegration tests Christoph Hanck (B6), An intersection test for panel unit roots Robin Nunkesser (A5), RFreak-An R package for evolutionary computation Holger Dette (A2, B1), Bettina Reuther (B1), Some comments on quasi-birthand-death processes and matrix measures Walter Krämer (B1, B6), Christoph Hanck (B6), More on the F-test under nonspherical disturbances Rafael Weißbach (B1), Holger Dette (A2, B1), Bias in nearest-neighbor hazard estimation Melanie Birke, Nicolai Bissantz (both B1), Hajo Holzmann, Confidence bands for inverse regression models – with application to gel electrophoresis Nicolai Bissantz, Melanie Birke (both B1), Asymptotic normality and confidence intervals for inverse regression models with convolution-type operators Nicolai Bissantz (B1), Hajo Holzmann, Miroslaw Pawlak, Testing for image symmetries – with application to confocal microscopy Holger Dette (A2, B1), Viatcheslav B. Melas, A note on all-bias designs with applications in spline regression models Wladyslaw Poniatowski, Rafael Weißbach (B1), Strong consistency for delta sequence ratios Holger Dette (A2, B1), Viatcheslav B. 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