Applied Statistics

Current/past Master's Theses

  • Gabriel Marie Falconer-Stout
    Differentiating large mining projects in SSA to produce varying impacts on measured health outcomes
    in progress, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Zhixuan Li
    Extending the eggCounts Package for Censored Data Analysis of Anthelmintic Resistance
    in progress, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Delia Luana Schüpbach
    Analysis of spatio-temporal fly distribution patterns and influential factors
    2024, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Georgy Astakhov
    Sample size calculation: Implementation of different scenarios for the online tool SampleSizeR
    2024, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Jonas Raphael Füglistaler
    Estimating the non-reporting rate of animals used in preclinical research using meta-analytical approaches
    2023, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Isidro Gonzalez
    Scale space multiresolution decomposition: an implementation for raster data with the Google Earth engine
    2023, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Lukas Nägeli
    Differential growth analysis of agricultural Aureobasidium pullulas isolates
    2023, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Anouk Petitpierre
    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
    2023, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Céline Fabienne Hofmann
    An EM Algorithm approach to GLM modeling with varying dispersion under censoring and truncation with an application in insurance claims
    2023, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Chiara Aruanno
    Analysis of estimation and optimization approaches for Spatial Processes
    2022, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Ruben Scherrer
    Algorithms for the Simulation of Isotropic Gaussian Random Fields on the Sphere
    2022, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Annina Cincera
    The Consequences of Misspecification in Exponential Random Graph Models
    2022, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Thomas Fischer
    Direct Misspecification Using a Fully Parametrized Generalized Wendland Covariance Function
    2022, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Tengyingzi Ma
    Visual Streak Localization in Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Minipics
    2022, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Nicolas Huber
    Avoiding overfitting in additive Bayesian networks
    2021, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Stefan Willi
    Extensions of Backfitting to Mixed and Spatial Models
    2021, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Oliver John
    Identification of Potential Risk Factors for Back Pain in Horses: An Analysis Using Additive Bayesian Networks
    2021, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • David Markwalder
    A comparison of information theoretic feature selection- and extraction methods
    2020, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Audrey Yeo
    Clustering analysis of longitudinal data set
    2020, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Uriah Daugaard
    Analysis of Behaviors Affecting Predation Success in a Ciliate Predator-Prey System
    2020, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Sandar Felicity Lim
    Dynamic network analysis on social behavior of wild house mice
    2019, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Josef Stocker
    Estimation of Gaussian Random Fields Using Generalized Wendland Functions
    2019, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Natacha Bodenhausen
    Predicting fungal community composition based on soil properties
    2019, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Jonas Fürstenberger
    Models for Short-Term Forecast of River Flooding
    2019, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Tea Isler
    Small sample considerations for anthelmintic resistance tests
    2018, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Cynthia Dukic
    An R Package Comparative Analysis Between bnlearn and abn
    2018, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Christos Polysopoulos
    Cardiac Surgery and Blood Transfusion Products. What Does Really Matter?
    2017, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Pierre Häberli
    Statistical Data Analysis and Forecasting of a Multinational Company's Production
    2017, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Roman Flury
    Multiresolution Decomposition of Incomplete Random Signals - A Statistical Application of Sparse Matrix Calculus
    2017, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Marco Reto Schleiniger
    Stan implementation of a parametric bootstrapping procedure for additive Bayesian network analysis
    2017, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Anja Fallegger
    Extension of the zero-inflated hierarchical models in the eggCounts package
    2017, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Servan Grüninger
    Does the Blue Bird Get the Flu? - Using Twitter for Flu Surveillance
    2017, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Samuel Noll
    Two- and three-class ROC analysis. A comparison of statistical tests.
    2017, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Ursina Brunnhofer
    Identification of key data in stationary hospital bed-utilisation and application of queueing theory on optimal bed-occupancy
    2017, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Andrea Meier
    Risk factor study of pododermatitis in rabbits using additive Bayesian networks
    2017, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Thimo Schuster
    mrbsizerR - Scale space multiresolution analysis in R
    2017, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Fabienne Schürch
    Spatial Interpolation for Huge Datasets: Concepts, Implementations and Illustrations
    2016, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Fabian Frei
    Estimation by Transformation
    2016, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Carina Schneider
    A spate of statistical tests to climate data validation
    2016, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Carlos Ochoa Pereira
    Novel semiparametric estimation method for the analysis of zero-inflated data: an application to the young forest records of the Swiss NFI 3
    2015, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Linna Du
    Vulnerability Analysis of European Windstorms
    2015, Master's thesis in Mathematics  PDF
  • Markus Hirschbühl
    Problem Analysis - MMANOVA Framework and Unbalanced Designs
    2015, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Kaspar Mösinger
    An R implementation for huge spatiotemporal covariance matrices
    2015, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Gabrielle Elaine Moser
    Spatial Aspects of Forest Monitoring Data and Surface Estimation: An Analysis of the Swiss NFI
    2014, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Sabine Güsewell
    Phenological responses to changing temperatures: representativeness and precision of results from the Swiss Phenological Network
    2014, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Maria Sereina Graber
    Phylogenetic comparative methods for discrete responses in evolutionary biology
    2013, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF
  • Florian Gerber
    MSc thesis (Biostatistics, University of Zurich, 2013): Disease mapping with the Besag-York-Mollié model applied to a cancer and a worm infections dataset
    2013, Master's thesis in Biostatistics 
  • Stefan Purtschert
    Construction of bathymetric charts using spatial statistics
    2012, Master's thesis in Mathematics 
  • Rebekka Schibli
    Spatio-temporal homogeneity of a satellite-derived global radiation climatology
    2011, Master's thesis in Biostatistics  PDF