Working Group Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
Welcome to the website of the working group Statistical Methods in Epidemiology in the Department of Medical Biometrics, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE) at the University of Bonn.
New projects starting soon
- Boosting polygenic risk scores via distributional regression to uncover potential gene-environment interactions together with Dr. Carlo Maj, Philipps-Universität Marburg, funded by DFG
Most Recent Publications
- Staerk C, Byrd A and Mayr A (2023): Recent methodological trends in Epidemiology: No need for data-driven variable selection? American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(2): 370-376.
- Mohsen G, Strömer A, Mayr A, Kunsorg A, Stoppe C, Wittmann M and Velten M (2023): Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Postoperative Inflammatory Response: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 15(15): 3414.
- Speller J, Staerk C, Gude F and Mayr A (2023): Robust gradient boosting for generalized additive models for location, scale and shape. Advances in Data Analysis and Classifiaction. 1-20.
- Balestra C, Maj C, Müller E and Mayr A (2023): Redundancy-aware unsupervised ranking based on game theory: Ranking pathways in collections of gene sets. PloS one. 18(3): e0282699.
- Strömer A, Klein N, Staerk C, Klinkhammer H and Mayr A (2023): Boosting Multivariate Structured Additive Distributional Regression Models. Statistics in Medicine. 42(11): 1779-1801.
- Klinkhammer H, Staerk C, Maj C, Krawitz P M and Mayr A (2023): A statistical boosting framework for polygenic risk scores based on large-scale genotype data. Frontiers in Genetics. 13: 1076440.
We are interested in the development of new methodology in the field of computational statistics and in the applied analysis of biomedical and epidemiological data.
- Methodological research
- Statistical boosting
- GAMLSS (generalized additive models for location, scale and shape)
- Quantile regression
- Prediction inference and prediction intervals
- Variable selection for high-dimensional data
- Applications
- Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
- Eating disorders
- Schizophrenia and depression
- Medical Internet research
- Genomics
For statistical consulting and new projects, please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in a cooperation. We are always open to new areas of application.
We also offer various topics for Bachelor or Master theses with a focus on statistical methodology. Please get in touch with us if you are interested.