Theses
This page lists the current and finished theses at the Chair of Business and Social Statistics.
The facilities of TU Dortmund University are located on two campuses, the larger North Campus and the smaller South Campus. In addition, some university facilities are located in the adjacent Dortmund Technology Park as well as in the city center and the wider urban area.
Part of:
Department of Statistics
| Paul Herrmann | Foundations of Conformal Prediction and Extensions to Non-Exchangable Data | Master |
| Jan Plotzki | Lexicon-based text clustering using document embeddings | Bachelor |
| Sahel Keyvan | Unsupervised text style transfer for politcal and news documents | Master |
| Yat Chun Fung | Multimodal Time-LLM: Integrating visual and temporal data for time series forecasting using large language models | Master |
| Vipul Chauhan | Comparative analysis of products perception using unsupervised machine learning and LLMs | Master |
| Nishat Tasnim Ahmed Meem | Parameter optimization for RollingLDA | Master |
| Kjell Noack | Können Zeitungsartikel in ökonometrischen Vorhersagen helfen? Eine VAR-basierte Prognose wirtschaftlicher Kennzahlen mithilfe der IPI- und UPI-Indizes | Bachelor |
| Alexey Omelchenko | Selective Confidence Intervals for Hybrid Tree-Based Regression Model [together with PD Dr. Moritz Berger, ZI Mannheim] | Master | 2026 |
| Carsten Stahl | Randomization-based inference for stationary random fields: testing equality of spectral densities and testing for isotropy | Master | 2026 |
| Hien Nguyen | Structural analysis of the bivariate mixed-VAR(1) process | Master | 2026 |
| Edwin Barthel | Subgraph Counts for Networks with Node Features | Master | 2025 |
| Christian Wurtz | Structural Analysis in Matrix-Autoregressive Models | Master | 2025 |
| Las Grönberg | Stock recommendation using graph neural networks and economy news data | Master | 2025 |
| Lennard Heinrigs | Comparing Claim Reserve Estimation Methods in lnsurance - A Simulation Study [together with Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly] | Master | 2025 |
| Darwin Ngoune | Nichtparametrische Schätzung von Kovarianzmatrizen aus räumlichen Daten | Master | 2025 |
| Michael Schweitzer | On Robustifications of Portmanteau [together with Prof. Dr. Roland Fried] | Master | 2025 |
| Lukas Dienst | Short-term electricity price forecasting of continuous intraday trading using distributional neural networks | Master | 2025 |
| Larissa Sander | Prüfung und Anwendung des Small-Area-Verfahrens zur Bestimmung von regionalisierten Armutsmaßen in der amtlichen Statistik am Beispiel NRWs. (Supervision at TU Dortmund University: Josef Schäfer, Supervision at IT.NRW: Dr. Johannes Rohde) | Master | 2024 |
| Rohan Kumar Nayak | Exploration of unsupervised language-style transfer (ULST) methods | Master | 2024 |
| Darya Lukashina | Modellierung der Zielgruppe und Beliebtheit in Deutschland veröffentlichter Manga — Vergleich von Modellen auch mithilfe von Textdatenanalyse | Bachelor | 2024 |
| Mariia Hrechyn | Data preparation & training of LLMs in e-commerce settings | Master | 2024 |
| Niklas Herzog | Die Zukunft des Sportjournalismus: Einsatz von Sprachmodellen zur Erstellung von Spielberichten | Master | 2024 |
| Veronika Tsishetska | ChatGPT as a negotiator: Analyzing its adherence to principles of proportionality and equality | Master | 2024 |
| Muhammad Mahir Hasan Chowdhury | Attaching PET (-like) models to RELATIO to find causal relationships between narratives | Master | 2024 |
| Miguel Tedjouka Kankeu | Joint autoregressive modeling of real-valued and integer-valued time series data | Master | 2024 |
| Marlies Hafer | Weighted bootstrap consistency for matching estimators: detecting misspecification of the bias-correction | Master | 2024 |
| Aymane Hachcham | Diachronic Sense Modelling with Hierarchical Word Embeddings | Master | 2024 |
| Imene Kolli | Semantic shift modelling using graph neural networks | Master | 2024 |
| Lars Wilmes | Graphon Estimation | Master | 2023 |
| Jorge Alejandro Colin Paez | Comparing VAR-Based Forecasting Approaches in the Presence of Exogenous Shocks | Bachelor | 2023 |
| Christopher Gerlach | Lasso and Fusion Penalization for periodic SVARs | Master | 2023 |
| Priyanka Madiraju | Comparison of Diachronic Embeddings with Pre-trained Model Embeddings for Historical Texts | Master | 2023 |
| Jannik Bloß | Comparison of Active Learning techniques for the benefit of data set generation in the field of text mining | Bachelor | 2023 |
| Daniel Schürmann | An analysis of municipal vehicle data using classification methods and kernel density estimation [together with Diana Andrä, City of Dortmund, Dortmunder Statistik] | Master | 2023 |
| Fabian Blunck | Prediction Intervals for Generalized Random Forests [together with Prof. Dr. Christoph Hanck, UDE, Award for outstanding thesis (Master Degree), Alumni-Verein Dortmunder Statistikerinnen und Statistiker] | Master | 2022 |
| Cabrel Teguenme | AR-Sieve Bootstrap for the Random Forest and a simulation-based comparison with rangerts time series prediction [together with Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly] | Master | 2022 |
| Aylin Girona | Bootstrapping für Propensity Score Matching | Bachelor | 2022 |
| Yulia Shrub | Test data-based nowcasting of German GDP growth using newspaper data | Master | 2022 |
| Dmitri Artjuch | Prediction in Modern Distribution Grids with Renewable Energy | Master | 2022 |
| Kai-Robin Lange | Resampling strategies for unsupervised sentiment analysis using lexicon-based text embedding methods | Master | 2021 |
| Daniel Dzikowski | Periodic structural VAR analysis | Master | 2021 |
| Sven Ziegler | Prediction intervals for time series – a comparison of model-based and statistical learning techniques [together with Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly] | Master | 2021 |
| Erik Weber | Parametrisierung einer Versicherungssparte für ein internes Risikomodell am Beispiel der kraftfahrt-Haftpflicht-Sparte des Continentale-Versicherungverbunds | Bachelor | 2021 |
| Taha Abdolkarimi | Vorhersage von Aktienmärkten - ein Vergleich von Zeitreihen- und KünstlicheIntelligenz (KI)-Methoden [together with Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly] | Master | 2021 |
| Axel Preis | Untersuchung von Bootstrap-Verfahren für Quantilsautoregressionen | Master | 2020 |
| Maxime Faymonville | Bootstrap-based prediction for INAR processes | Master | 2020 |
| Carolin Wäscher | Untersuchung schwacher Instrumente bei linearer Regression mit Instrumentalvariablen | Bachelor | 2020 |
| Marlies Hafer | Vergleich von Bias-korrigierten Matching-Schätzern für den Average Treatment Effect | Bachelor | 2020 |
| Raphael Meixner | Comparing penalisation approaches for high-dimensional ARCH processes | Master | 2020 |
| Philipp Stockhaus | Vergleich der Zuverlässigkeit von Verfahren zur künstlichen Kontrollgruppenbildung mittels Krankenkassendaten | Master | 2020 |
| Guy Merlin Tchamegni | Budget Stress Test, credit Risk Roll Rate Modelling and Projection | Master | 2019 |
| Barbara Brune | On Subgraph Counts and Goodness-Of-Fit Testing for Stochastic Network Models [Preis für herausragende Abschlussarbeit (Abschlussart Master), Alumni-Verein Dortmunder Statistikerinnen und Statistiker] | Master | 2019 |
| An Viet Nguyen | Modellierung und Prognose der Bundestagswahlen mit Hilfe von VAR-Modellen kompositioneller Daten | Bachelor | 2019 |
| Fabian Erdmann | Mixed-Frequency Analyse makroökonomischer Daten mittels MIDAS | Bachelor | 2019 |
| Daniel Dzikowski | Volatilitätsanalyse von Log-Renditen mittels multivariater GARCH | Bachelor | 2019 |
| Johannes-Markus Yar | Bewertung von Modellrisiken durch Challengermodelle und –analysen - Conditional Inference Tree und Random Forest als Alternative zum klassischen Ratingverfahren | Master | 2018 |
| Philipp Hallmeier | Spektraldichteschätzung mittels bootstrapbasiertem Thresholding der Fourierkoeffizienten | Master | 2018 |
| Tobias Krabel | Residual Value Forecasting Using Tree-based Ensemble Methods: an Application to the Automobile Industry | Master | 2018 |
| Shaikh Tanvir Hossain | Lasso & Vector Autoregressive Models - with Applications to Dynamic Stochastic Networks | Master | 2017 |
| Marius Barckmann | On Germany's Intraday Power Market: Forecasting and Price Path Simulation | Master | 2017 |
| Felix Prenzel | A comparison of different asymmetric GARCH models for financial data | Bachelor | 2017 |
| Richard Grandpierre | Interest Revenue Forecasts for German Banks. A Dynamic Regression Tree Approach | Master | 2016 |
| Julia Steinmetz | On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms | Bachelor | 2016 |
| Lukas Müller | Backtesting and Risk Measures | Bachelor | 2016 |
| Florian Böser | Discrete Time Series Models and their Applications to Networks | Master | 2015 |
| Florian Böser | Asymptotics of empirical autocovariances and autocorrelations in weakly linear models | Bachelor | 2013 |