Theses

  • Florence S. Bollin: A Monte Carlo Study of Organ Allocation to Optimize Transplantation Outcomes
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: Riccardo Gatto, Daniel Sánchez Taltavull)
  • Bohua Chen: Prediction of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: Comparison of Two Different Modeling Approaches
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: Michael Vock, Georgia Salanti, Konstantina Chalkou)
  • Adriana M. Clavio Daza: Categorical Sequence Analysis with Optimal Matching: An Application with Data from the 'Women 40+ Healthy Aging Study'
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Benedikt Fröhlicher: Circular Statistics and Related Markov Processes
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Athénaïs Gautier: Modelling and Predicting Distribution-Valued Fields with Applications to Inversion under Uncertainty
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • David E. Gilgen: Gradient Boosting for Maxima
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: Johanna Ziegel, Jonathan B.H. Koh)
  • Geeta Goyal: Neural Network Compression via Pruning based on Regularization
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Paolo Favaro)
  • Valerie Haftka: E-values for Comparing Probabilistic Predictions with the CRPS
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna Ziegel)
  • David Johner: Stable Exchangeable Sequences
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Ying Ying Lee: Option Pricing with Extreme Strikes
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Fabian Meyes: Determination of Gaussianity of Multivariate Distributions via Estimation of Differential Entropy
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Nikolina Milinčević: Regular Variation on Polish Spaces, Continuous Maps and Compound Maxima
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Bojan Basrak, Ilya Molchanov)
  • Géraldine Oppliger: A Comparison of Sequential Alternatives to the t-Test
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna Ziegel)
  • Cédric Travelletti: Efficient Gaussian process updating under linear operator data for uncertainty reduction on implicit sets in Bayesian inverse problems
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Oliver Warth: Schätzung von Mittelwert und Varianz mittels Kern-Einbettung
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Marco Zini: Stochastic Models of Liver Tissue Organization
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: Riccardo Gatto, Daniel Sánchez Taltavull)
  • Abderrahmane Elhasnaoui and Younes Mennouni: Accuracy of Moderate Traffic Approximation and Importance Sampling Simulation in Collective Risk Theory
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Luca Forgione: E-value for Linear Model Hypothesis Testing
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna Ziegel)
  • Alexander Henzi: Isotonic Distributional Regression
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna Ziegel)
  • Ariane Hanbi Li: A Multivariate Time Series Prediction using Statistical Models and Artificial Neural Networks: Forecasting Cross-Border Net Energy Transmission Capacities in Europe
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: Riccardo Gatto, Paolo Favaro, Shobhit Gupta)
  • Noemie Leimbach: Fast vs Exact Cross-Validation for Distance-Based Linear Models with Application to Mixed Data
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: David Ginsbourger and Fabian Guignard)
  • Sara Salvador: Bayesian Inference and Monte Carlo methods for Directional Data
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Philip A. Stange: Consistency of some Gaussian process based sequential experimental design strategies in the vector-valued case
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Alberto Terranova: Ranking Different Background Error Covariance Estimations In Paleoclimate Data Assimilation
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisors: David Ginsbourger and Cédric Travelletti)
  • Riccardo Turin: Distributional Approximations and Set-Valued Sublinear Expectations
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Nikita Z. van Gils: Central Limit Theorem for a Poisson Birth-Growth Model with Random Growth Speed of General Shape
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Anna P. Broccard: Gaussian Process Regression on Molecules: Some Performance Assessments and Comparisons
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Thomas Greber: Dynamic Measures of Risk based on the Insurer Surplus Process
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Qiyu Li: Set-valued Data: Regression, Design and Outliers
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Lukas A. Lüthi: Konfidenzbänder für isotone Quantilkurven mit Vorzeichentests
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Anja Mühlemann: The Role of Loss Functions in Regression Problems
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Atdhe Panxhaj: Thinning Operations for Modeling Count Time Series
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Federico Pianoforte: Poisson Convergence in Stochastic Geometry vie Generalized Size-Bias Coupling
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Matthias Schulte)
  • Belinda Trachsel: Comparison of Probabilistic Classifiers via Multiple-Fold Scoring with Application to Radio-Oncological Data
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern (Advisor: Michael Vock)
  • Sebastian Arnold: Isotonic distributional approximation.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Haoyang Chen: Directional distributions and simulations of von Mises–Fisher distribution.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Urime Destani: First order non-negative integer-valued autoregressive INAR(1) processes.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Katrin M. Gysel: P-values for classification via neural networks and kernel logistic regression.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Lisa Holer: On nonparametric multiplication-combination tests for imcomplete paired data..
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Michael Vock)
  • Alexandre Mösching: Distributional regression under shape and order constraints.
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Christof Strähl: Nonparametric estimation of densities and related features.
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Belinda Tramonti: Isotonic partial order models.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Lea Friedli: Area-covering postprocessing of ensemble precipitation forecasts using topographical and seasonal conditions.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Fabienne Roduner: Fatou's Lemma for Set-Valued Functions.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Matthias Schulte: Limit Theorems in Stochastic Geometry.
    Habilitation thesis, University of Bern
  • Nadine Seitlinger: Monte Carlo estimators to sensitivities of tail probabilities of random sums.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Jonas Theiler: New Operations with Convex Sets.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Patric Wyss: Statistical modelling and inference of visual atrophy ratings based on volumetric brain measures and its use for differential diagnosis of dementia.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: David Ginsbourger, Ahmed Abdulkadir)
  • Jin M. Zhang: Time series analysis and some extensions of the risk process.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Amanda Carrera Soto: Poisson-Binomial Distribution for Predicting the Number of Hail-Days within a Given Time Window.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Alexander Henzi: Isotonic Distributional Regression (IDR): A Powerful Nonparametric Calibration Technique.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Mirlind I. Mustafa: Honest Confidence Bounds for a Mean.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Boris Polanco Jácome: Monte Carlo Estimators of Value at Ruin and Tail Value at Ruin.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Peter Rudin: Spectral Simulation and Time Series Models for Modeling Ocean Waves.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Beatrice Balmer: Modellierung von Spitalkosten.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Tobias Fissler: On Higher Order Elicitability and Some Limit Theorems on the Poisson and Wiener Space.
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Fabrice Perler: Local Projection Pursuit.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Luana Pozzi: Three Ways to Assess the Agreement of Measurement Methods and Some Remarks on the Probability of Agreement Approach.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Michael Vock)
  • Florian Wespi: Geometric Properties of Random Convex Hulls.
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Angeliki Zarotiadou: Bootstrap Methods for Time Series.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Dario Azzimonti: Contributions to Bayesian Set Estimation Relying on Random Field Priors.
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: David Ginsbourger, Ilya Molchanov)
  • Lukas Bossart: Schätzung von wochentags-scharfen Quell-Ziel-Matrizen.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Livio Käslin)
  • Linda Inderbitzin: Time Series Analysis of Circular Data.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Petro Kolesnyk: Bi-Log-Concave Distribution and Regression Functions.
    Ph.D. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Robert Komara: Leave-one-out parameter estimation for distance-based kriging.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Anja Mühlemann: Sublinear Expectations for Random Vectors and Random Sets.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Bijan Nowzary: Intensity functions and probabilities of ruin of the periodic risk process.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Mohammad Reyhani: Padé Approximations for Ruin Probabilities.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Yulia Sagan: Thiele's Differential Equation and its Applications.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Daniel Neuenschwander)
  • Katalin Siegfried: Overview and variations on probabilistic line search.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: David Ginsbourger)
  • Flavia Wili: The Multivariate Chain-Ladder Method and its Implementation in R.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Markus Kälin, Riccardo Gatto)
  • Martin Bichsel: Robust estimation of the error distribution in multivariate regression.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Christoph P. Kopp: Strict Stability and Beyond: Large Deviations in Convex Cones, Time-Stable Processes.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Janine Kuratli: Investigating Isotropy of Particles Using Stereological Methods.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Lukas S. Martig: The Likelihood Moment Estimators for an ARMA Time Series with Regularly Varying Innovations.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Paul Ruppen: Messen von Fähigkeiten und Einstellungen mittels Item Response Theorie.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Mara Trübner: A Montée and Descente Operator on Spheres.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Augustine Saugy: Statistical Forecasting of Snow Avalanche Situations Using Field Measurements.
    M.Sc. thesis in Climate Sciences, University of Bern (Advisors: Robert Bolognesi, Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Ellen M. van der Lans: Modelling Pig Mortality: Syndromic Surveillance in Four Swiss Cantons by Applying a Poisson Point Process.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Flavie Vial)
  • Melih Cirit: Impact of Different Treatment Allocation Methods on Power and Sample Size in Clinical Trials.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Riccardo Gatto, S.-F. Hsu Schmitz)
  • Hannah L. Dorner: On the Spatiotemporal Dependence between Heavy Precipitation and Strong Winds in Switzerland.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Olivia Romppainen-Martius, Clément Chevalier)
  • Bernhard Freiermuth: Multiscale Testing and Regularization.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Nicolas Füeg: Zusammengesetzte Poissonprozesse, Risiko- und Speicherprozesse.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • David Ginsbourger: Gaussian random field models for function approximation under structural priors and adaptive design of experiments.
    Habilitation thesis, University of Bern
  • Aniña M. Pescatore: Childhood Wheezing - Clinical Presentation Throughout Childhood and Predicting Persistent Wheeze.
    Ph.D. thesis, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern (Advisors: Claudia Kühni, Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Till Sabel: Simultaneous Confidence Statements about the Diffusion Coefficient of an Itô-Process - with Application to Spot Volatility Estimation.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Göttingen and University of Bern (Advisors: Axel Munk, Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Christof Strähl: Notions of Cross-Calibration for Probabilistic Forecasts.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Marzio Vanina: Elicitability of Translation-Invariant Functionals.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Johanna F. Ziegel)
  • Florian Wespi: Convex Hulls of Stochastic Processes.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Niki R. Zumbrunnen: P-Values for Classification: Computational Aspects and Asymptotics.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern and University of Göttingen (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Axel Munk)
  • Patrick Bonadei: Multidimensionale Taut Strings.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Karin Bühler: Bayesian Models for Claims Reserving in Health Insurance.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Markus Kälin, Riccardo Gatto)
  • Clément Chevalier: Fast Uncertainty Reduction Strategies Relying on Gaussian Process Models.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisors: David Ginsbourger, Yann Richet)
  • Reinhard Hanselka Jr.: The Compound Poisson Surplus Process with Various Perturbations.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Nicolas Lenz: Additivity and Ortho-Additivity in Gaussian Random Fields.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisors: David Ginsbourger, Dominic Schuhmacher)
  • Dominic Schuhmacher: Distributional Approximation of Spatial Points and Point Processes.
    Habilitation thesis, University of Bern
  • Aik Hoe Seah: Statistical Inference for Continuous Glucose Monitoring Variability Estimates.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Shu-Fang Hsu Schmitz, Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Kaspar Stucki: Invariance Properties and Approximation Results for Point Processes.
    Ph.D. thesis, Universities of Bern and Göttingen (Advisors: Ilya Molchanov, Dominic Schuhmacher)
  • Jasmin Wandel: On Exceedances: Clusters of Extremes of Gaussian Processes and Index Estimation of Partly Interval-Censored GPD-Data.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Martin Bigler: The Conjugate Gradient Algorithm for Smooth Functions.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Pasquale Cirillo: Some Selected Papers on Urn Models.
    Habilitation thesis, University of Bern
  • Stefanie Hayoz: Nonparametric Location Estimators in the Randomized Complete Block Design.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Salome Lüdi: On Stream Ciphers and their Secrecy - An Analysis on Grain.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Daniel Neuenschwander)
  • Chantal Peeters: Sattelpunkt-Approximationen bei der Berechnung von Sensitivitäten von Zufallssummen und Vergleich mit Monte-Carlo-Approximationen.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Thomas Schmid: Simulative Bewertung von Optionen mit Methoden der Varianzreduktion.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Qiyu Li: Multidimensional Coherent Risk Measures.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • André Moser: Bivariate Relative Treatment Effects With Applications to Longitudinal Designs.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Kaspar Stucki: Gaussian Systems.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Yves Bartels: A Goodness-of-Fit Test for the Generalized von Mises Distribution of Order Two.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Gabriel P. Fischer: Linear Regression Problems in Case of Interval-Identified Data.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Livio Kaeslin: Approximationsfehler linearer und kubischer Splines.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Christoph P. Kopp: Strict Stability of Random Elements in Cones with Several Scaling Operations.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Heike Knötzsch: Newton- und Quasi-Newton-Verfahren für multivariate M-Schätzer.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Lukas Martig: Likelihood Moment Estimation als neue Schätzmethode für die Parameter der Generalized Pareto Verteilung.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Marius Moser: Asymptotik der impliziten Volatilität von Optionen mit grossen Strike-Preisen.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Isabel Reding Abril Gaona: Stochastische IBNR-Methoden mit Anwendungen in der Krankenversicherung.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics (Advisors: Riccardo Gatto, Markus Kälin)
  • Andreas Schläpfer: Stochastic Mortality Forecasting based on the Lee-Carter Model.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Daniel Neuenschwander)
  • A. Johannes Schmidt-Hieber: Nonparametric Methods in Spot Volatility Estimation.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Göttingen and University of Bern (Advisors: Axel Munk, Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Ben D. Spycher: Analysis of Phenotypic Variation in Childhood Wheezing Disorders.
    Ph.D. thesis, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern (Advisors: Claudia Kühni, Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Jimmy P. Brignoni: Modelling Transfer Processes.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Markus Wäfler)
  • Daniel Burren: Continuous State Branching Processes with Immigration and their Applications in Finance.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Pierre Patie)
  • Michael Hartmann: Generalized Integer Valued Autoregressive Time Series of Order p.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Dirk Klingbiel: Permutation Tests Applied to Multivariable Regression.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Michael Schmutz: Multivariate Symmetries of Financial Derivatives.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Sophia M. Schwindt: Vergleich nichtparametrischer Verfahren zur Analyse von longitudinalen Daten im faktoriellen Versuchsplan mit fehlenden Werten.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Yueming Zhang: Limit Theorems for Missing Values and Ruins.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Niki Zumbrunnen: P-Values for Weighted Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers.
    M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Benjamin Baumgartner: Bootstrap Test Procedures for Ruin Probabilities.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Jasmin Furrer: Pricing Derivative Securities with Uncertain Volatilities and Transaction Costs.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • André Hüsler: New Aspects of Statistical Modeling with Log-Concave Densities.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Alexander Kohler: Measuring Risk in the Context of Multivariate Losses
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Michael Mayer: Random Diameters and Other U-Max-Statistics.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Pierre Patie: Explicit Contributions to the Study of Self-Similar Markov Processes 
    Habilitation thesis, University of Bern
  • David Popp: Optionspreismodelle: Übersicht über die wichtigsten Konzepte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Leistungsfähigkeit und Praxisrelevanz.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Daniel Neuenschwander)
  • Rahel Studer: Extremwerttheorie für diskrete Zufallsvariablen.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Armin Thalmann: Beurteilung von Marktsituationen im Optionenhandel.
    M.Sc. thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Heinz Zimmermann (Basel), Riccardo Gatto)
  • Yvonne Büchi: Accurate Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for the Probability of Ruin in the Risk Process.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Marco Collenberg: Ruin Probabilities of Integrated Discretized Stationary Gaussian Processes with Long Range Dependence.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Eliane Gut: Lineare Nicht-Gauss'sche Zustandsraummodelle.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Thomas Friedli, Jürg Hüsler)
  • Samuel Gutmann: Quantum Computing and Quantum Information.
    Diploma thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisors: Daniel Neuenschwander, Riccardo Gatto)
  • Marius Lehmann: Applying the Generalized Linear Model to Medical Data.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • André Moser: Nichtparametrische Tests für die Auswertung bivariater longitudinaler Daten.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Michael Schmutz: Zonoid Options.
    Diploma thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Nikolay Tontchev: Optimisation of Functionals of Point sets and Point Processes.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Michael Vock: "One-Sided" Statistical Inference for a Multivariate Location Parameter.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Kathrin Weyermann: Ein Active-Set-Algorithmus zur Schätzung log-konkaver diskreter Verteilungen.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Anja Federer: Connectivity and Coverage Properties of Stochastic Geometry Models for Telecommunication Networks.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Stefanie Hayoz: Verhalten von nichtparametrischen Schätzern und Tests in longitudinalen Versuchen.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Michael Mosimann: Methods for Computing the Probability of Ruin for the Compound Poisson Process that is Perturbed by Diffusion.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Angelika Rohde: New Multiscale Approaches to Nonparametric Statistical Inference.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern and University of Heidelberg (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Rainer Dahlhaus)
  • Kaspar Rufibach: Log-Concave Density Estimation and Bump Hunting for i.i.d. Observations.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern and University of Göttingen (Advisors: Lutz Dümbgen, Axel Munk)
  • Irina Sikharulidze: Risk Measures and Random Sets.
    Diploma thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Ilya Molchanov)
  • Simon Wandel: Some General Theory for M-Functionals of Location and Scatter.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Thomas K. Friedli: Homogeneity Testing of Sunspot Numbers.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Tiziana Russo-Botrugno: Ridit-Effekte für geordnete kategorielle Daten.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Manuela Schaller: On Robust Tail Parameter Estimation.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Esther Sutter: Importance Measures for Reliability Systems which allow Repair.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Sibille Burkard: Die bivariate INAR(1) Zeitreihe.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Enkelejd Hashorva: Rare Events, Multivariate Dependence and Extremes, With Applications in Statistics and Insurance. 
    Habilitation thesis, University of Bern
  • Bernd-Wolfgang Igl: Multivariate Estimation and Calibration for Linear Models with Errors-in-Variables.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Mike Mitter: Nicht-Gauss'sche Zeitreihenmodelle.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Thomas Friedli, Jürg Hüsler)
  • Nadja Riedwyl: Das Agglomerieren von INAR(1) Zeitreihen.
    Diploma thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Niklaus Steiner: Exakte Initialisierung von linearen Gauss'schen Zustandsraummodellen in S-PLUS.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisors: Thomas Friedli, Jürg Hüsler)
  • Manuel Bertschy: Sattelpunkt-Approximationen zur Berechnung von Ruinwahrscheinlichkeiten.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • René Burkhard: Ausgleichung durch Splinefunktionen.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Daniel Neuenschwander)
  • Sandra Freitag: Nonparametric Inference for Interval-Censored Data.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Lübeck (Advisor: Lutz Dümbgen)
  • Michael Mayer: Tests for Models of Circular Data by Saddlepoint Approximations.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Riccardo Gatto)
  • Daniel Studer: Pyramidenschälungen von Zufallspunkten.
    Diploma thesis in Mathematics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Daniel Assoulin: Neue statistische Inferenzverfahren in der Formenanalyse.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Henri Carnal)
  • Marco Collenberg: Eine mehrdimensionale extremale Markov-Folge.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Samuel Müller: Endpoint, Tail Index and Support Estimation in Extreme Value Theory.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Christoph M. Schmid: Extreme Values of Gaussian Processes and A Heterogeneous Multi Agents Model.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Manuela A. Schüttel: Modellierung saisonaler Ozonzyklen mit linearen Gauss'schen Zustandsraummodellen.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Riccardo Gatto: Saddlepoint Approximations in Statistical Inference.
    Habilitation thesis, University of Bern
  • Remo V. Hügli: Contractive Projections on a JBW*-Triple and Its Predual.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisors: Gottfried Rüttimann, David Edwards, Henri Carnal)
  • Stefan Kunz: Java Applet zur Unterstützung des Statistikunterrichts mit Schwergewicht Stichprobenerhebung.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Hans Riedwyl)
  • Kaspar Rufibach: Phasenrekonstruktion bei Gleichverteilungen in Rd.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Henri Carnal)
  • Michael Vock: Ranked Set Sampling: Praktische Probleme und deren Erkennung.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Gabriela Waser: Statistische Modellierung der Volatilitätsoberfläche.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)
  • Mathias Ambühl: Statistische Inferenz in Lokationsmodellen basierend auf verallgemeinerten Walsh-Mitteln.
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Bern (Advisor: Hans Riedwyl)
  • Michael Mosimann: Die normale Approximation und ihre Grenzen im Problem der Phasenrekonstruktion.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Henri Carnal)
  • Jann Potterat: Der Median einer iterierten Stichprobe und seine Eigenschaften.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Hans Riedwyl)
  • Manuela Schaller: Extreme Schockmodelle.
    Diploma thesis in Statistics, University of Bern (Advisor: Jürg Hüsler)

Subsequently we list thesis awards received by students from our institute.

The C. Moser Award for outstanding Ph.D. or M.Sc. theses within our institute was established in 2002 on the occasion of the institute's 100th birthday in remembrance of its founder, Prof. Christian Moser.

Faculty Awards are awarded each year by the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Bern, for the best M.Sc. thesis and the best Ph.D. thesis in Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science.

  • Cédric Travelletti (2023): C.-Moser Award forr his Ph.D. thesis "Efficient Gaussian process updating under linear operator data for uncertainty reduction on implicit sets in Bayesian inverse problems;
  • Alexander Henzi (2023): Faculty Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Isotonic Distributional Regression"
  • Philipp A. Stange (2022): C.-Moser Award for his M.Sc. thesis "Consistency of some Gaussian Process Based Sequential Experimental Design Strategies in the Vector-Valued Case"
  • Sebastian Arnold (2021): C. Moser Award for his M.Sc. thesis "Isotonic Distributional Approximation"
  • Alexandre Mösching (2021): C. Moser Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Distributional Regression under Shape and Order Constraints"
  • Lea Friedli (2019): C. Moser Award for her M.Sc. thesis "Area-Covering Postprocessing of Ensemble Precipitation Forecasts using Topographical and Seasonal Conditions"
  • Nadine Seitlinger (2019): C. Moser Award for her M.Sc. thesis "Monte Carlo Estimators to Sensitivities of Tail Probabilities of Random Sums"
  • Alexander Henzi (2019): Faculty Award for his M.Sc. thesis "Isotonic Distributional Regression (IDR): A Powerful Nonparametric Calibration Technique"
  • Tobias Fissler (2017): Faculty Award for his Ph.D. thesis "On Higher Order Elicitability and Some Limit Theorems on the Poisson and Wiener Space"
  • Dario Azzimonti (2016): C. Moser Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Contributions to Bayesian Set Estimation Relying on Random Field Priors"
  • Christof Strähl (2014): C. Moser Award for his M.Sc. thesis "Notions of Cross-Calibration for Probabilistic Forecasts"
  • Clément Chevalier (2013): C. Moser Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Fast Uncertainty Reduction Strategies Relying on Gaussian Process Models"
  • Kaspar Stucki (2013): Faculty Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Invariance Properties and Approximation Results for Point Processes"
  • André Moser (2011): C. Moser Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Bivariate Relative Treatment Effects With Applications to Longitudinal Designs"
  • Michael Schmutz (2009): Faculty Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Multivariate Symmetries of Financial Derivatives"
  • Michael Mayer (2008): C. Moser Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Random Diameters and Other U-Max-Statistics"
  • Michael Vock (2007): A. Linder Award (International Biometric Society, ROeS) for his Ph.D. thesis "'One-Sided' Statistical Inference for a Multivariate Location Parameter"
  • Kaspar Rufibach (2006): C. Moser Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Log-Concave Density Estimation and Bump Hunting for i.i.d. Observations"
  • Angelika Rohde (2006): Faculty Award for her Ph.D. thesis "New Multiscale Approaches to Nonparametric Statistical Inference"
  • Niklaus Steiner (2004): C. Moser Award for his M.Sc. thesis "Exakte Initialisierung von linearen Gauss'schen Zustandsraummodellen in S-PLUS"
  • Daniel Assoulin (2002): C. Moser Award for his Ph.D. thesis "Neue statistische Inferenzverfahren in der Formenanalyse"