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Job Position: The Institute for Mathematical Stochastics invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant and Lecturer to begin on October 1, 2013 . Applications should be send by June 1, 2013 (details).


Next talk in the Stochastics Colloquium:

05.06.2013, 11:15, Juan Juan Cai (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
"Estimation of the marginal expected shortfall: the mean when a related variable is extreme" (Abstract)


Next talk in the Colloquium "Stochastics in Practice":

31.05.2013, 14:15, Prof. Dr. Viktor Benes (Charles University, Prague)
"On dimension reduction of covariates in stochastic geometry models" (Abstract)


European Meeting of Statisticians: From 20 to 25 July 2013 there will be the 29th European Meeting of Statisticians in Budapest, Hungary (details).
Joint Statistical Meetings, Montréal: To celebrate the International Year of Statistics 2013 there are Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Montréal from 3 to 8 August (details).
Conference on Structural Inference in Statistics, Potsdam: From 17. to 19. September the conference on Structural Inference in Statistics will be in Potsdam, Germany (details).
Pressemitteilung - Neue Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe: (Details).

2013 International Year of Statistics: In recognition of the fundamental importance of the field of Statistics for society the year 2013 has been announced the International Year of Statistics. The Statistics year 2013 is an initiative of various international organizations, in particular of the International Statistical Institute.


publications

Research Group "Applied and Mathematical Statistics"
Publications: Dr. Thomas Hotz

  • Hotz,T., Schütte, O., Sieling, H., Polupanow, T., Diederichsen, U., Steinem, C., Munk, A. (2012).
    Idealizing ion channel recordings by jump segmentation and statistical multiresolution analysis Submitted (Preprint).
  • Geisler, C., Hotz, T., Schönle, A., Hell, S. W., Munk, A., Egner, A. (2012).
    Drift estimation for single marker switching based imaging schemes. Optics Express, 20 (7), 7274-7289.
  • Hotz, T., Telschow, F. J. E. (2012).
    Representation by Integrating Reproducing Kernels. arXiv.org, 1202.4443 [math.FA] [math.NA].
  • Hotz, T., Huckemann, S., Le, H., Marron, J. S., Mattingly, J. C., Miller, E., Nolen, J., Owen, M., Patrangenaru, V., Skwerer, S. (2012).
    Sticky central limit theorems on open books. Annals of Applied Probability, 1202.4267 [math.PR] [math.MG] [math.ST] Accepted.
  • Hotz, T., Marnitz, P., Stichtenoth, R., Davies, L., Kabluchko, Z., Munk, A. (2012).
    Locally adaptive image denoising by a statistical multiresolution criterion. Comp. Stat. Data Anal., 56(3), 543-558.
  • Hotz, T., Gottschlich, C., Lorenz, R., Bernhardt, S., Hantschel, M., Munk, A. (2011).
    Statistical Analyses of Fingerprint Growth. BIOSIG 2011 - Proceedings - International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, 08.-09. September 2011 in Darmstadt, Germany. Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-191, 11-20.
  • Hotz, T., Huckemann, S. (2011).
    Intrinsic Means on the Circle: Uniqueness, Locus and Asymptotics. arXiv.org, 1108.2141 [stat.ME] [math.PR].
  • Gottschlich, C., Hotz, T., Lorenz, R., Bernhardt, S., Hantschel, M., Munk, A. (2011).
    Modeling the growth of fingerprints improves matching for adolescents. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 6(3), 1165-1169.
  • Huckemann, S., Hotz, T. (2010).
    Geodesic and parallel models for leaf shape Proceedings of the 29th Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop 6th-8th July 2010, pdf.
  • Gottschlich, C., Hotz, T., Lorenz, R., Bernhardt, S., Hantschel, M., Munk, A. (2010).
    Modeling the growth of fingerprints improves matching for adolescents. arXiv.org, 1008.1150v1 [cs.CV] (Preprint).
  • Huckemann, S., Hotz, T., Munk, A. (2010).
    Intrinsic shape analysis: Geodesic principal component analysis for riemannian manifolds modulo Lie group actions. Discussion paper with rejoinder. Statistica Sinica, 20, 1-100 (Preprint).
  • Hotz, T., Huckemann, S., Gaffrey, D., Munk, A., Sloboda, B. (2010).
    Shape spaces for pre-alingend star-shaped objects in studying the growth of plants. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 59 (1), 127-143 (Preprint).
  • Huckemann, S., Hotz, T., Munk, A. (2010).
    Intrinsic MANOVA for Riemannian Manifolds with an Application to Kendalls Spaces of Planar Shapes. IEEE Trans. Patt. Anal. Mach. Intell., 32 (4), 593-603, "Spotlight Paper" for this issue with its "Special Section on Shape Analysis and its Applications in Image Understanding", freely available until 18 March 2010 (Preprint).
  • Huckemann, S., Hotz, T., Munk, A. (2010).
    Rejoinder on "Intrinsic shape analysis: Geodesic principal component analysis for Riemannian manifolds modulo Lie group actions." Statistica Sinica, 20, 1-100 (Preprint).
  • Huckemann, S., Hotz, T., Munk, A. (2009).
    Intrinsic two-way MANOVA for shape spaces. Proc. of the ISI2009, article.
  • Hotz, T. (2009).
    Intrinsic Coordinates for Fingerprints Based on their Longitudinal Axis. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 501-504, .
  • Huckemann, S., Hotz, T. (2009).
    Principal Components Geodesics for Planar Shape. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 100, 699-714 (Preprint).
  • Huckemann, S., Hotz, T., Munk, A. (2008).
    Global Models for the Orientation Field of Fingerprints: An Approach Based on Quadratic Differentials. IEEE Trans. Patt. Anal. Mach. Intell., 30(9), 1507-1519 (Preprint).
  • Hotz, T. (2007).
    Modelling and Analysing Orientation Fields of Fingerprints. http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl/?webdoc-1583, Ph.D. thesis, University of Göttingen (Preprint).
  • Taub, N.A., Morgan, Z., Brugha, T.S., Lambert, P., Bebbington, P.E., Jenkins, R., Kessler, R.C., Zaslavsky, A.M., Hotz, T. (2005).
    Recalibration methods to enhance information on prevalence rates from large mental health surveys. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 14(1), 3-13.
  • Hotz, T. (2002).
    On the Consistency of the Minimum Description Length Criterion. Diploma thesis, University of Heidelberg.

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