Asst. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dennis Dobler (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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Department of Mathematics, NU-9A-47 (NU building)
Faculty of Science
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1111
1081 HV Amsterdam
tel.: (+31) 20 59 83717
e-mail: d [dot] dobler [at] vu [dot] nl

dr. Dennis Dobler

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Brief CV

I am currently an assistant professor in Mathematical Statistics at the Department of Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Parental leave (& holidays) from mid-March 2021 until mid-September 2021. From mid-September on, I am working three days per week.

From September and October 2020, respectively, I am an associate editor of Advances in Statistical Analysis and Journal of Applied Statistics.

In 2020, I was awarded the second Gustav-Adolf-Lienert Prize (International Biometrical Society, German Region) for my article Dobler, Pauly, Scheike (2019). Confidence Bands for Multiplicative Hazards Models: Flexible Resampling Approaches, Biometrics, 75(3): 906-916.

In 2019, I obtained the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ).

In 2016, I taught a 2-days-course on Survival and Multistate Models at the Warsaw Actuarial Summer School in Poland.

In 2016, I obtained my Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Mathematics in the field of Statistics at Ulm University, Germany. The main subject of the thesis was resampling-based inference procedures for transition probability functions in survival analysis while assuming the Markov property for incompletely observable multi-state processes. I obtained the UUG award for this doctorate (links: UUG award, personal award text).

Until 2013, I studied Mathematics (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) and Computer Science (B.Sc.) at the Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany.

Research

My main current and future research topics include non- and semiparametric inference in survival analysis, resampling techniques (bootstrap, random permutation, randomization methods), empirical processes, and multivariate analysis.

An overview of my scientific articles can be found here.
Here is a link to my VU research portal website.

Here are my most recent publications:

Dobler, D. (2022+). Randomized Empirical Processes by Algebraic Groups, and Tests for Weak Null Hypotheses; accepted for publication in Bernoulli Journal.

Ditzhaus, M., Dobler, D., and Pauly, M. (2021). Inferring median survival differences in general factorial designs via permutation tests, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 30(3): 875-891.

Feifel, J. and Dobler, D. (2021). Dynamic inference in general nested case-control designs, Biometrics, 77(1): 175-185.

Haller, B., Mansmann, U., Dobler, D., Ulm, K., and Hapfelmeier, A. (2020). Confidence interval estimation for the changepoint of treatment stratification in the presence of a qualitative covariate-treatment interaction. Statistics in Medicine, 39(1): 70-96.

Dobler, D. and Titman, A. C. (2020). Dynamic inference for non-Markov transition probabilities under random right-censoring. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 47(2): 572-586.

Dobler, D., Pauly, M., and Scheike, T.H. (2019). Confidence Bands for Multiplicative Hazards Models: Flexible Resampling Approaches, Biometrics, 75(3): 906-916.

Dobler, D., Friedrich, S., and Pauly, M. (2020). Nonparametric MANOVA in meaningful effects, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 72(4): 997-1022. .

Dobler, D. and Pauly, M. (2020). Factorial analyses of treatment effects under independent right-censoring, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 29(2): 325-343.