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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.