Forschungsinteressen

Statistische Inferenz für komplexe Daten und Inferenz in nicht-Standard Situationen, einschließlich

• funktionale Datenanalyse
• nichtparametrische Regression und penalisierte Splines
• Inferenz in gemischten Modellen
• räumlich-zeitliche Statistik
• longitudinale Datenanalyse
• Anwendungen aus Medizin und Epidemiologie.

Veröffentlichungen

Artikel in Zeitschriften

• Baumert J, Karakas M, Greven S, Rückerl R, Peters A, Koenig W (2012): Variability of fibrinogen measurements in post-myocardial infarction patients: Results from the AIRGENE study center Augsburg. Thrombosis and Haemostasis, to appear.
• Wiencierz A, Greven S and Küchenhoff H (2011): Restricted Likelihood Ratio Testing in Linear Mixed Models with General Error Covariance Structure. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 5: 1718-1734.
• Greven S, Dominici F und Zeger S (2011): An Approach to the Estimation of Chronic Air Pollution Effects Using Spatio-Temporal Information. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(494): 396–406.
• Wilbert-Lampen U, Nickel T, Scheipl F, Greven S, Küchenhoff H, Kääb S and Steinbeck G (2011): Mortality due to myocardial infarction in the Bavarian population during World Cup Soccer 2006. Clinical Research in Cardiology, 100(9): 731-736.
• Brüske I, Hampel R, Baumgärtner Z, Rückerl R, Greven S, Koenig W, Peters A and Schneider A (2011): Ambient Air Pollution and Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 in Survivors of Myocardial Infarction. Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(7): 921-926.
• Greven S und Kneib T (2010): On the Behaviour of Marginal and Conditional AIC in Linear Mixed Models. Biometrika, 97(4): 773-789. R-Paket cAIC
       Gewinner des David P. Byar Young Investigator Award, American Statistical Association
       Gewinner des Gustav-Adolf-Lienert-Preises der Deutschen Region der Internationalen Biometrischen Gesellschaft
• Greven S, Crainiceanu C, Caffo B and Reich D (2010): Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 4: 1022-1054. R function LFPCA
• Karakas M, Baumert J, Greven S, Rückerl R, Peters A, Koenig W (2010): Reproducibility in Serial C-Reactive Protein and Interleukin-6 Measurements in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients: Results from the AIRGENE Study. Clinical Chemistry, 56 (5): 861-864.
• Peters A, Greven S, Heid I, Baldari F, Breitner S, Bellander T, Chrysohoou C, Illig T, Jacquemin B, Koenig W, Lanki T, Nyberg F, Pekkanen J, Pistelli R, Rückerl R, Stefanadis C, Schneider A, Sunyer J, Wichmann HE (2009): Fibrinogen Genes Modify the Fibrinogen Response to Ambient Particulate Matter. American Journal of Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine, 179 (6): 484-491.
• Greven S, Crainiceanu C, Küchenhoff H, Peters A (2008): Restricted Likelihood Ratio Testing for Zero Variance Components in Linear Mixed Models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 17 (4): 870-891. Supplementary Material (zip-file, 542 Kb). R-Paket RLRsim.
       Gewinner des Best IWSM Student Paper Award, 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling
• Scheipl F, Greven S, Küchenhoff H (2008): Size and Power of Tests for a Zero Random Effect Variance or Polynomial Regression in Additive and Linear Mixed Models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52 (7): 3283-3299. R-Paket RLRsim.
• Wilbert-Lampen U*, Leistner D*, Greven S, Pohl T, Sper S, Völker C, Güthlin D, Plasse A, Knez A, Küchenhoff H, Steinbeck G (2008): Cardiovascular Events during World Cup Soccer. New England Journal of Medicine, 358 (5): 475-483.
• Khuseyinova N*, Greven S*, Rückerl R, Peters A, Loewel H, und Koenig W (2008): Variability of Serial Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 Measurements in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients: Results From the AIRGENE-Study Center Augsburg. Clinical Chemistry, 54 (1): 124-130.
• Kolz M, Koenig W, Müller M, Andreani M, Greven S, Illig T, Khuseyinova N, Panagiotakos D, Pershagen G, Salomaa V, Sunyer V, Peters A (2008): DNA variants, plasma levels and variability of C-reactive protein in myocardial infarction survivors: Results from the AIRGENE study. European Heart Journal, 29 (10): 1250-1258.
• Jacquemin B, Antoniades C, Nyberg F, Plana E, Müller M, Greven S, Salomaa V, Sunyer V, Bellander T, Chalamandaris A-G, Pistelli R, Koenig W, Peters A (2008): Common Genetic Polymorphisms And Haplotypes Of Fibrinogen Alpha, Beta And Gamma Chains Affect Fibrinogen Levels And The Response To Proinflammatory Stimulation In Myocardial Infarction Survivors: The AIRGENE Study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 52 (11): 941-952.
• Rückerl R*, Greven S*, Ljungman P, Aalto P, Antoniades C, Bellander T, Berglind N, Chrysohoou C, Forastiere F, Jacquemin B, von Klot S, Koenig W, Küchenhoff H, Lanki T, Pekkanen J, Perucci CA, Schneider A, Sunyer J, Peters A (2007): Air Pollution and Inflammation (IL6, CRP, Fibrinogen) in Myocardial Infarction Survivors. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115 (7): 1072-1080.
• Peters A, Schneider A, Greven S, Bellander T, Forastiere F, Ibald-Mulli A, Illig T, Jacquemin B, Katsouyanni K, Koenig W, Lanki T, Pekkanen J, Pershagen G, Piccioto S, Rückerl R, Schaffrath Rosario A, Stefanadis C, Sunyer J (2007): Air Pollution and Inflammatory Response in Myocardial Infarction Survivors: Gene-Environment-Interactions in a High-Risk Group. Inhalation Toxicology, 19 (1): 161-175.
• Greven S, Bailer AJ, Kupper LL, Muller KE und Craft JL (2004): A parametric model for studying organism fitness using step-stress experiments. Biometrics, 60 (3): 793-799.
       Gewinner des Best Master’s Paper Award, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

     *gleichwertiger Beitrag

Bücher und Buchkapitel

• Greven S, Crainiceanu C, Caffo B and Reich D (2011): Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis. In: Recent Advances in Functional Data Analysis and Related Topics, 149-154. Ed.: Ferraty F. Physica-Verlag.
• Greven S (2008): Non-Standard Problems in Inference for Additive and Linear Mixed Models (Dissertation). Cuvillier Verlag.

Eingereichte Arbeiten

• Zipunnikov V, Greven S, Caffo B, Reich D. and Crainiceanu C: Longitudinal High-Dimensional Data Analysis Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers, Working Paper 234.
• Ivanescu AE, Staicu A-M, Greven S, Scheipl F and Crainiceanu CM: Penalized function-on-function regression
• Goldsmith J, Greven S and Crainiceanu C: Corrected Confidence Bands for Functional Data Using Principal Components. Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers, Working Paper 233.
       Winner of an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award 2012
       Winner of an ASA Biometric Section Travel Award 2012
• Greven S and Crainiceanu C: On Likelihood Ratio Testing for Penalized Splines.
• Gertheiss J, Goldsmith J, Crainiceanu C and Greven S: Longitudinal Scalar-on-Functions Regression with Application to Tractography Data. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Department of Statistics: Technical Reports, No.118

Paper in Konferenzbänden

• Greven S und Kneib T (2009): On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models. Challenges in Statistical Theory: Complex Data Structures and Algorithmic Optimization. Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Report No. 39/2009, 17-18. Eds.: Beran RJ, Klüppelberg C und Polonik W.
• Greven S und Kneib T (2009): Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models. Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 142-149. Ed.: Booth JG.
• Greven S, Crainiceanu C, Peters A und Küchenhoff H (2007): Likelihood ratio testing for zero variance components in linear mixed models. Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 300-305. Eds.: del Castillo J, Espinal A und Puig P.
• Greven S, Küchenhoff H und Peters A (2006): Additive mixed models with P-Splines. Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 201-207. Eds.: Hinde J, Einbeck J und Newell J.

Abschlussarbeiten

• Dissertation (2007): Non-Standard Problems in Inference for Additive and Linear Mixed Models
• Diplom Thesis (2004): Multiplikative Markovketten mit Resetereignissen
• Master's Paper (2002): A parametric model for studying organism fitness using step-stress experiments

Software

• Contributor zum R-Paket refund: Regression with Functional Data
• Koautorin des R-Pakets cAIC: Corrected Conditional AIC for Generalised Additive Mixed Models

Präsentationen

• Longitudinal High-Dimensional Data Analysis. Statistische Woche 2011. Leipzig, 19-23 September 2011.
• On the Behaviour of Marginal and Conditional AIC in Linear Mixed Models (Preisvortrag). 2nd Conference of the Central European Network: Bridging Biostatistical Theory and Application. Zurich, 12-16 September 2011.
• Principal Component-Based Functional Linear Mixed Models. Technische Universität München. Munich, 27 July 2011.
• Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis. International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics 2011. Santander, 16.-18. Juni 2011.
• Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis. (Poster) Statistical Methods for Very Large Datasets Conference 2011. Baltimore, 1.-3. Juni 2011.
• Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis. ENAR 2011 Spring Meeting. Miami, 20.-23. März 2011.
• On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional AIC in Linear Mixed Models 3rd International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics. London, 11. Dezember 2010.
• On the Behaviour of Marginal and Conditional AIC in Linear Mixed Models. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Lausanne, 29. Oktober 2010.
• Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis. Statistische Woche 2010. Nürnberg, 14.-17. September 2010.
• Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis with Application to DTI Tractography Data. 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings. Vancouver, 31. Juli-5. August 2010.
• Longitudinal Functional Principal Component Analysis. 2nd Joint Statistical Meeting DAGStat. Dortmund, 23.-26. März 2010.
• On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models. Oberwolfach Workshop Challenges in Statistical Theory: Complex Data Structures and Algorithmic Optimization. Oberwolfach, 23.-29. August 2009.
• On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models. 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings. Washington, DC, 1.-6. August 2009.
• On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models. IMS New Researchers Conference. Baltimore, 28.-31. Juli 2009.
• Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models. 24th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Ithaca, 20.-24. Juli 2009.
• A Spatio-Temporal Approach for Estimating the Health Effects of Air Pollution. University of Göttingen. Göttingen, 20. Mai 2009.
• Über das Testen auf polynomiale Regression unter Verwendung penalisierter Splines im linearen gemischten Modell. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, 8. Mai 2009.
• Spatial Modeling of Air Pollution and Mortality Trends in the United States. ENAR 2009 Spring Meeting. San Antonio, 15.-18. März 2009.
• Testprobleme in linearen und additiven gemischten Modellen. University of Göttingen. Göttingen, 5. März 2009.
• Inferenz in Linearen Gemischten Modellen - Nicht-Standard-Probleme, einige Lösungen und Anwendungen. Ulm University. Ulm, 7. Januar 2009.
• Inference in Linear Mixed Models - Some Challenges, Solutions and Applications Durham University. Durham, 22. Dezember 2008.
• Testing for polynomial versus nonparametric regression using mixed model penalized splines. (Poster) ISNI2008 International Seminar on Nonparametric Inference. Vigo, 5.-7. November 2008.
• Inference on random effect variances with application to the assessment of nonlinearity. 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings. Denver, 3.-7. August 2008.
• On inference for random effects variances and mixed model penalized splines Cornell University. Ithaca, 2. April 2008.
• Restricted Likelihood Ratio Testing for Zero Variance Components in Linear Mixed Models. ENAR 2008 Spring Meeting. Arlington, 16.-19. März 2008.
• Inference in Additive and Linear Mixed Models. LifeStat 2008 - Statistics and Life Sciences: Perspectives and Challenges. Munich, 10.-13. März 2008.
• Inference for Random Effects Variances with Application to the Assessment of Nonlinearity in Air Pollution Dose-Response Functions. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, 27. Februar 2008.
• Non-Standard Problems in Inference for Additive and Linear Mixed Models. Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Munich, 20. Dezember 2007.
• Testing for Variance Components in Linear Mixed Models and Assessing the Shape of Air Pollution Dose-Response Functions. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, 16. Juli 2007.
• Likelihood ratio testing for zero variance components in linear mixed models. 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Barcelona, 2.-6. Juli 2007.
• Testing for Variance Components in Linear Mixed Models and Assessing the Shape of Dose-Response Functions. The University of Reading. Reading, 23. Mai 2007.
• Testing for Zero Variance Components in Linear Mixed Models. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Lausanne, 27. April 2007.
• Likelihood ratio tests in linear mixed models with more than one variance component. Statistics under one Umbrella - First joint Statistical Meeting Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik. Bielefeld, 27.-30. März 2007.
• Semiparametric Regression and Dose-Response-Functions for the Airgene Study. Kolloqium Statistische Methoden in der empirischen Forschung. Berlin, 13. Februar 2007.
• The Airgene study - Methods and Analyses. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, 9. November 2006.
• Additive mixed models with P-Splines. 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Galway, 3.-7. Juli 2006.
• Statistical Aspects in Additive Mixed Models for the AIRGENE Study. (Poster) International Workshop on Model Choice and Validation. Munich, 6.-8. Oktober 2005.
• Statistical Aspects in Additive Mixed Models for the AIRGENE Study. (Poster) 25th European Meeting of Statisticians. Oslo, 24.-28. Juli 2005.

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