General information

Examination dates Prof. Redenbach:

July 31st, 2024

August 22nd 2024

September 2nd, 2024

September 11th, 2024

September 23rd, 2024

September 30th, 2024

Oktober 10th, 2024

 

Examination dates Dr. Stockis:

Juli 31st, 2024

August 28th, 2024

Oktober 2nd, 2024

 

Please register yourself in person at the Dean's Office with Heike Sternike (Building 48, 511). Please bring your student ID with you.

 

 

Below are the lectures offered by our group in the winter semester.

If you would like to write a Bachelor's or Master's thesis in Statistics, please contact Prof. Redenbach.

Important links

  • KIS: dates of the courses
  • URM: registration
  • OpenOLAT: course materials and further information (access code will be given in the first lecture)

Lectures in the winter term 2024/25

Contents:

  • Asymptotic analysis of M-estimators, especially of Maximum-Likelihood-estimators
  • Bayes and Minimax-estimators
  • Likelihood-ratio-tests: asymptotic analysis and examples (t-test, chi²-goodness-of-fit-test)
  • Glivenko-Cantelli-theorem, Kolmogorov-Smirnov-test
  • Differentiable statistic functionals and examples of applications (derivation of asymptotic results, robustness)
  • Resampling methods on the basis of Bootstrap.

 

Contact time:

4 SWS / 60 h Lecture
2 SWS / 30 h Tutorials

 

Prerequisites (Contents):

The lecture "Stochastic Methods" from the Bachelor degree program in mathematics.

 

Frequency of occurence:

The lecture is given once per year, in the winter term.

KIS

OLAT

Contents:

  • Basic theory of spatial point processes (marked point processes, intensity measure,...)
  • Poisson process, Poisson cluster processes
  • Basic theory of random closed sets
  • Germ-grain models, in particular Boolean models
  • Random tessellations

 

Contact time:

2 SWS / 30 h Lecture

1 SWS / 15 h Tutorials

 

Prerequisites (Contents):

Modul „Probability Theory“.

 

Frequnecy of occurence:

The lecture is irregularly given.

KIS

OLAT

Seminars in the winter term 2024/25

Appointments upon prior arrangement. If you are interested in participating the seminar, please directly contact Prof. Dr. Claudia Redenbach via Email (claudia.redenbach@rptu.de). The kick-off meeting will take place in the first week of lectures.

 

KIS

OLAT

Practical trainings

Subjects for practical trainings are presented at the Fachpraktikumsbörse at the end of each semester.

Reading Course

The Reading Course serves as preparation for the Master's thesis. The assignment of topics takes place individually. Please contact Prof. Redenbach if you would like to take a Reading Course in Statistics.


Lectures in the summer term 2024

Contents:

  • Linear regression models
  • Parametric curve fitting
  • Likelihood ratio tests
  • Data adaptive model selection
  • Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
  • Experimental design
  • Stationary stochastic processes
  • Autoregressive and ARMA-processes
  • Parameter estimation and model selection for time series
  • Trend and seasonality
  • Forecasting by exponential smoothing and the Box-Jenkins method
  • Linear filters

 

Contact time:

4 SWS / 60 h Lecture
2 SWS / 30 h Tutorials

 

Prerequisites (Contents):

Elementary probability theory and statistics (e.g. Praktische Mathematik: Stochastik)

 

Frequency of occurence:

The lecture is given once per year, in the summer term.

KIS

OLAT

Contents:

  • Spatial point processes (in R² and R³)
  • Point process models (Poisson process, hard-core and cluster processes, Gibbs processes) and their simulation
  • Statistical methods for point processes
  • Marked point processes and particle processes

 

Contact time:

2 SWS / 30 h Lecture

 

Prerequisites (Contents):

The lecture "Stochastic Methods" from the Bachelor degree program in mathematics.

 

Frequnecy of occurence:

The lecture is irregularly given.

KIS

OLAT

Inhalte:

Statistics of Financial Markets:

  • Models and estimation procedures for financial time series (ARCH, GARCH and generalisations), Value-at-Risk
  • Copulas and its applications for risk managementbased on multivariate data

Extreme Value Theory:

  • Statistical methods to estimate the probability of extreme events or extreme quantiles

 

Contact time:

2 SWS / 30 h Lecture

 

Prerequisites (Contents):

The lecture "Regression and Time Series Analysis".

 

Frequency of occurence:

The lecture is irregularly given.

KIS

OLAT

Seminars in the summer term 2024