Prof. Dr. Andreas Mayr (Dipl.-Stat.)
Head of WG Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn
1. Floor / Room 628 (Building 11)
Office: Doreen Hachenberger
Tel: 0228-287-16940
orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-9732Most Recent Publications
- 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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282699.
- Strömer A, Klein N, Staerk C, Klinkhammer H and Mayr A (2023): Boosting multivariate structured additive distributional regression models. Statistics in Medicine. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08470.
- 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.
- Kirfel A, Jossen D, Menzenbach J, Mayr A and Wittmann M (2023): Occurrence of postoperative delirium and the use of different assessment tools. Geriatrics. 8(1): 11.
- Griesbach C, Mayr A and Bergherr E (2023): Variable selection and allocation in joint models via gradient boosting. Mathematics. 11(2): 411.
- Pollok J M, Tinguely P, Berenguer M, Niemann C U, Raptis D A, Spiro M, …, Mayr A, … (2023): Enhanced recovery for liver transplantation: recommendations from the 2022 international liver transplantation society consensus conference. Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 8(1): 81-94.
- Grabert J, Heister U, Mayr A, Kirfel A, Staerk C, Fleckenstein T and Velten M (2022): Prehospital misdiagnosis of acute cerebral disease for acute coronary syndrome: a retrospective study. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. 30(1): 1-7.
- Stumpfe F M, Schneider M O, Antoniadis S, Mayr A, Fleckenstein T, Staerk C, Kehl S, Hermanek P, Böhm J, Scharl A, Beckmann M W and Hein A (2022): Lack of evidence for effects of lockdowns on stillbirth rates during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Bavaria: analysis of the Bavarian perinatal survey from 2010 to 2020. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 1-6.
Research Interests
- Methodological Research
- Statistical boosting algorithms
- GAMLSS (generalized additive models for location, scale and shape)
- Quantile regression, prediction inference and prediction intervals
- Polygenic risk scores
- Applications
- Clinical Trials Unit: SZB
- Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
- Eating disorders
- Schizophrenia and depression
- Postoperative delirium
- Mendelian randomization
- Projects
- DFG Project (Boosting copulas – multivariate distributional regression for digital medicine)
- COST CA18138 Research Innovation and Sustainable Pan-European Network in Peripartum Depression Disorder
- AMBORA Trial: Pharmacological/Pharmaceutical care during treatment with new oral anticancer agents
- PROPDESC Study: Prediction of postoperative delirium by appropriate screening
Short CV
- 2018-pres. Professor for Epidemiology at the University Bonn, head of WG Statistial Methods in Epidemiology
- 2017-2018 Interim Professor for Applied Stochastics at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 2013-2017 Post-doctoral Researcher at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, head of WG Computational Biostatistical Modelling
- 2010-2013 Doctoral thesis at the Dept. of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universtität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2004-2010 Diploma in Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Editorial Activities
- Editor Statistical Modelling
- AE for International Journal of Biostatistics
- Member Editorial Board International Journal of Eating Disorders
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