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 | |
Grün | Computational Statistics, Cluster Analysis, Mixture Distributions |
Experimental Design, Econometrics, Spatial Statistics | |
Survey Statistics and related topics | |
Risk Management, Experimental Design, Pension Systems | |
Time-Series Analysis, Analysis of Longitudinal Data, Survival Analysis, Bayes-Statistics, Medical Statistics | |
(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 | |
Grün | • Classification and clustering of river sections based on intensity metrics from water level measurements in Austria |
| Hainy: | • Simulation Study for the Estimation of Conditional Expectations of Parameters in Nonlinear Mixed Models using Regression Methods |
• The Variance of the Sample Median • Machine Learning using OfficeCalc • Counterexamples to the Lindeberg-Lévy theorem | |
• Randomized Response Techniques for Quatitative Variables • The Item Count Technique for Sensitive Variables • Statistical Significance Testing: History, logic of action, and problems • Corona statistics - statistical methods in the corona pandemic | |
• Modelling and prediction of the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 • Financial risk management and pension systems • Intelligent neural networks • Time series modelling by neural networks • Statistical modelling of ecological problems • Statistics in medicine | |
| Wagner: | • analysis of income of mothers after maternity leave • Statistical analysis of FMRI data |
• 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).