Bachelor's Thesis are written in the course Seminar aus Statistik.
- The formal supervision is held by the lectorer of the seminar.
- The content-related supervisian can be performed by any member of IFAS with a doctoral degree.
Members of the IFAS with Phd. supervise Bachelor and Master theses in Statistics , preferably in the following areas and serve as examiners for the Master’s examination:
Nonparametric Statistics | |
Modelling of High-Dimensional Data, Approximative Inference, Biostatistics and Modelling of Genomic Data | |
Computational Statistics, Cluster Analysis, Mixture Distributions | |
Experimental Design, Econometrics, Spatial Statistics | |
Survey Statistics | |
Risk Management, Experimental Design, Pension Systems | |
Time-Series Analysis, Analysis of Longitudinal Data, Survival Analysis, Bayes-Statistics, Generalized Linear Models | |
(Generalized) Linear Models, Factor Analysis |
Currently the following topics for Bachelor theses are offered for supervision:
• Nonparametric Permutation Tests | |
| • Effects of Violation of Model Assumptions on Statistical Methods • Theory of Probability in Pictures: Visualisation of Important Results of Probability Theory | |
• Classification and clustering of river sections based on intensity metrics from water level measurements in Austria | |
• The Variance of the Sample Median | |
| • The Sampling Design of the Austrian PISA-Survey • Sensitive Questions in Surveys • Random and Non-Random Sampling | |
• Simulation Study for the Estimation of Conditional Expectations of Parameters in Nonlinear Mixed Models using Regression Methods | |
| Wagner: | • analysis of maternity leave duration • analysis of income of mothers after maternity leave |
• Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling |
The collection of completed Bachelor's thesis can be found here:
Information regarding the Bachelor's Thesis can be found here. The template for the layout of the Bachelor's Thesis will be provided in the Seminar aus Statistik (via KUSSS).