Vorträge / Talks

to come

Monotonicity-Constrained Regression: An Application to Species Distribution Models
Biometrische Kolloquium 2012, Berlin, 15.03.2012

Boosting in Structured Additive Models (pdf)
Disputation, Institut für Statistik, LMU München, 05.12.2011
gamboostLSS: boosting generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (Abstract, Slides)
(joint work with Andreas Mayr, Nora Fenske, Thomas Kneib and Matthias Schmid)
useR! 2011, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 16.08.2011 - 18.08.11
Tutorial: Boosting with the mboost package
(together with A. Mayr, M. Schmid (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and N. Robinzonov (LMU München))
Statistical Computing 2011, Schloss Reisensburg (Günzburg), 22.05. - 25.05.2011
- All slides available at the homepage of the tutorial.
Tutorial: Lineares Modell, ANOVA, und Verallgemeinerungen des linearen Modells
BioStats 2011 Workshop, DSMZ (Braunschweig), 22.03. - 24.03.2011

Poster: Biased Model Selection: Possible Solutions for Boosting (pdf)
(joint work with Torsten Hothorn, Thomas Kneib and Matthias Schmid, presented by Matthias Schmid)
2009 Conference of the Working Group "Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics", München, 17.09. - 18.09.2009
Biased Model Selection: Possible Solutions for Boosting (pdf)
(joint work with Torsten Hothorn, Thomas Kneib and Matthias Schmid)
Statistical Computing 2009, Schloss Reisensburg (Günzburg), 28.06.-01.07.2009
CoxFlexBoost: Fitting Structured Survival Models (pdf)
(joint work with Torsten Hothorn and Thomas Kneib)
useR! 2009, Rennes, France, 08.07.09 - 10.07.09
Biased Model Selection: Possible Solutions for Boosting (pdf)
(joint work with Torsten Hothorn, Thomas Kneib and Matthias Schmid)
Institutskolloquium, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 17.06.2009
Model-Based Boosting: Unbiased Variable Selection and Model Choice (pdf)
(Abstract available on the Kolloquium-Site)
(joint work with Torsten Hothorn, Thomas Kneib and Matthias Schmid)
Institutskolloquium, LMU München, 10.06.2009
Bernd-Streitberg-Preis 2009:
Variable Selection and Model Choice in Survival Models with Time-Varying Effects (pdf)
(joint work with Torsten Hothorn und Thomas Kneib)
Biometrisches Kolloquium 2009, Hannover, 17.03.09 - 19.03.09
Variable Selection and Model Choice in Structured Survival Models (pdf)
(joint work with Torsten Hothorn und Thomas Kneib)
Biometrisches Kolloquium 2009, Hannover, 17.03.09 - 19.03.09

Variable Selection and Model Choice in Survival Models with Time-Varying Effects - Boosting Survival Models (pdf)
(also available on the conference site: Abstract, Slides).
(joint work with Thomas Kneib and Torsten Hothorn)
UseR! 2008, Dortmund, 12.08.2008 - 14.08.2008
Variable Selection and Model Choice in Survival Models with Time-Varying Effects (pdf)
(joint work with Thomas Kneib and Torsten Hothorn)
Nachwuchsworkshop 2008 der DStatG, Berlin, 14.05.2008 - 15.05.2008
Model Choice in Cox-Type Additive Hazard Regression Models with Time-Varying Effects (pdf)
(joint work with Wolfgang Hartl, Helmut Küchenhoff and Thomas Kneib)
Lifestat 2008 Munich, 10.03.2008 - 13.03.2008

Benjamin Hofner