Here are some old news feeds that we have used before moving fully to twitter. We now inform via @ReinhardFurrer, @HugDorothea, @GillesKratzer, @fluryro and @JakobDambon.
We have a new group member: Dorothea Hug Peter will start her Postdoc position on May 1, 2018. Welcome!
Thanks to all participants and helpers.
We have a new group member: Roman Flury will start his PhD on February 1, 2018. Welcome!
C. Wang et al Generalized Spatial Fusion Model Framework for Joint Analysis of Point and Areal Data for the SNC group (2017) Spatial Statistics, accepted and in press
A. Alegria Jimenez et al Asymmetric Matrix-Valued Covariances for Multivariate Random Fields on Spheres Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, accepted and in pressWe have a new group member: Jakob Dambon will start his PhD in November 2017. Welcome!
We have a new group member: Welcome Samuel Noll!
International multi-team effort lead to a relevant manuscript: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05013. Code repository follows soon.
We have a new group member: Leila Schuh will start as a PhD on October 1, 2017. Welcome!
Thanks to all the visitors vistiting our booth and everyone at the booth working hard this weekend. UZH News report and a suboptimal image of our booth.
There is a new position at the post-doctoral or higher level available. Please see www.jobs.ch
The packages 'spam 2.1' and 'spam64 2.1' have been released on CRAN
The package 'spam64' exploits the enhancements of 'dotCall64's R Foreign Function Interface and allows now a true 64bit implementation of 'spam'.4th Epi-Biostat potluck-BBQ on Friday June 2, 2017
A bunch of proud recipients:
(image taken from Mike S. Schäfer's tweet.
Article just published: M. Pittavino, A. Dreyfus, C. Heuer, J. Benschop, P.
Wilson, J. Collins-Emerson,
P.R. Torgerson, R. Furrer:
Comparison between Generalized Linear Modelling and Additive Bayesian Network; Identification of Factors associated with the Incidence of Antibodies against Leptospira interrogans sv Pomona in Meat Workers in New Zealand in Acta Tropica
Mattia Molinaro has left our group. A great big "thanks" and our best wishes for the future!
On April 6, 2017 there will be a Minisymposium with several talks related to Biostatistics projects of the Applied Statistics group.
All are warmly welcome to attend the Minisymposium. For more information please see here.Thanks to all participants and helpers. Let's continue to spread the word about our great programs.
We have a record high number of 11 Master students in our group, working on exciting and stimulating projects.
To all interested in a MSc Thesis in our group: contact us early.We have a new group member: Zofia Baranczuk will start as a Postdoc on March 1, 2017. Welcome!
There are two new articles in press:
Craig Wang, Paul R. Torgerson, Johan Höglund, Reinhard Furrer: Zero-inflated hierarchical models for faecal egg counts to assess anthelmintic efficacy Florian Gerber, Kaspar Mösinger, Reinhard Furrer: Extending R Packages to Support 64-bit Compiled Code: An Illustration with spam64 and GIMMS NDVI_{3g} DataLive experiment in our lecture
about random walks in STA111 Stochastic
Modeling
- for a real look
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Biostatistics Master program on Facebook
The package "dotCall64" enhances the R Foreign Function Interface by supporting long vectors. This is another first step towards true 64bit implementations of "spam".
The group provides valuable and widely used R packages, as illustrated by the following figure
We have a new group member: Gilles Kratzer will start as a PhD on September 1, 2016. Welcome!
We have a new group member: Craig Wang will start as a PhD on July 1, 2016. Welcome!
Emilio Porcu while lecturing the special tops class STA651 Spatial Statistics
3rd Epi-Biostat potluck-BBQ on Friday, May 27th 2016 - more photos
Article just published: Reinhard Furrer, François Bachoc and Juan Du
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
We have a new group member: Gian Marco Palamara started as a Post-Doc on May 1, 2016. Welcome!
Have look at the science-blog about p-values by Servan Grueninger in response to ASA's statement on p-values
We are proud and happy! Today, Marta successfully gave her PhD defence! Congratulations!
Just published:
Bachoc, F. and Furrer, R. On the smallest eigenvalues of covariance matrices of multivariate spatial processes STAT, 5(1), 102 - 107(2016)David Masson has left our group in January 2016. A great big "thanks" and our best wishes for the future!
Congratulations on your new job at CelsiusPro!!!!!Marta Pittavino has left our group in December 2015. She now works for the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Nutrition and Metabolism Section in Lyon. A great big "thanks" and all the best for her future.
International Agency for Research and Cancer, World Health OrganisationWithin the World Statistics Day celebration
Thanks to all that contributed...
spam 1.2-1 has been released. We are working hard on the implementation of many new and crazy ideas! Stay tuned.
Steve Geinitz - a former group member - comments on his studies here in Zurich link
"Asymptotic properties of multivariate tapering for estimation and prediction" is available on arXiv
Just published: Baggiolini et al (doi:10.1016/j.stem.2015.02.017)
...and as M. Bronner puts it: "Confetti Clarifies Controversy:
Neural Crest Stem Cells Are Multipotent" (doi:10.1016/j.stem.2015.02.016)
Thanks to all who participated and helped us to make it happen:
the student information event on January 26, 2015!
poster
Julia Braun will leave our group in the end of December 2014. A great big
"thanks" to her and all the best for her future.
Reinhard Furrer will give a talk this Friday on December 5, 2014 from 10:00 - 11:00 in Y11 F06
All are welcome!Prof. Dr. Fadoua Balabdaoui will give a talk this Wednesday November 12, 2014 from 14.00 - 15.00 in Y44 H05
All are welcome!During his visit Dr. François Bachoc (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna) will give a talk on November 6, 2014 at 10.00 in Y22 G74 - Dozentenfoyer.
All are welcome!We have a new group member: Clément Chevalier will start as a Post-Doc on October 1, 2014. Welcome!
Master thesis topic has been posted. For more details please see link
If interested, please contact reinhard.furrer@math.uzh.chReinhard Furrer officially welcomed on August 29 six delegates of the Statistics Bureau of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.
The visit was to inform the delegation about the (statistical) research in Climate science at the UZH (and Switzerland in general) as well as the statistical education and training at the UZH.Congratulations: Lukas Bütikofer and Isaac Gravestock received their diplomas on May 23, 2014!
We have a new group member: David Masson will start as a Post-Doc on May 1, 2014. Welcome!
Just appeared: Torgerson, Paul and Furrer (2014). Evaluating faecal egg count reduction using a specifically designed package "eggCounts" in R and a user friendly web interface.
Here is the linkScience Info Day 2014 for pupils, parents and teachers
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - from 13:00 until 18:45 Uhr Campus Irchel of the Universität Zürich Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zürich with biostatistics stand!!Informal 'Introduction to R' workshop 12. 2. 9-16 and 13. 2. 13-16 Some slots still available
if interested, please contact reinhard.furrer@math.uzh.chDr. Clément Chevalier Universität Bern, Inst. für math. Statistik und Versicherungslehre
Fast sequential evaluation strategies using Gaussian process models linkProf. Dr. Mikyoung Jun Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
Matérn-based nonstationary cross-covariance models for global processes Freitag, 6.12.2013 - 15:15-16:00 ETH Zürich Zentrum - HG G19.1 linkReinhard Furrer is talking at the "Lunchveranstaltungen" within the IT continuing education fall semester program which focus on the international year of statistics. The title of his talk is "Using 'R' to statistically solve an engineering problem".
linkThe MNF graduation ceremony will take place on Friday October 11, 2013 at 5 p.m. in lecture room 45 on the Irchel campus.
We are happy to congratulate Steven Richard Geinitz - PhD Daniel Kristopher Heersink - PhD Florian Gerber - MScCongratulations to Bettina Stäubli for a book
We welcome Marta Pittavino in our group. She started on August 1, 2013 and works as a PhD. Welcome!
Florian Gerber has sucessfully finished his Master theses and will start as of August 1, 2013 as a PhD in our work group. Welcome!
Julia Braun-Grübel startet her job as a Post-Doc on July 1, 2013. Welcome!
On May 31, 2013 Steven Geinitz will give his PhD talk Time: 16:00 - 17:00 Place: Y27H12 Title: Hierarchical Bayesian ANOVA for Multivariate and Spatial Data with Application to Climate Projection.
"A look at the world explains 90 percent of changes in vegetation" link
On March 26, 2013 Daniel Heersink will give his PhD defense talk Time: 16.00 - 17.00 Place: Y27H28 Title: Sequential Estimation and Analysis of Roller Measurement Values
Important functions from the R package eggCounts are now also accessible via a simple web interface: eggCounts.
Learn more and spread the word at www.statistics2013.org
Michaela Paul left our team. A big thanks to her and all the best for her future.
Mattia Molinaro joint our team as a new PhD student.
of Bledar Baholli (in _German_) 6. 12. 16:15 Y27H28
in spatial statistics.(position filled).
Stefan Purtschert gives his master thesis talk 20.09.12, 16:15 in Y27H28.
... in applied probability and statistics is found on the VVZ see here.
A new statistical journal has been launched! See Wiley's Stat page.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 16.15-17.45 - Y27H46 Dr. Thomas Gsponer, Universität Bern "A Bayesian view on causal inference"
Research Seminar in Applied StatisticsThe Master Program in the Biostatistics is featured in the online news of the University of Zurich: "Ohne uns wäre vieles für die Katz" ... more
Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications - 02.02.2011-05.02.2011