Prof. Dr. Andreas Mayr

Research Interests

• Methodological Research
  • Statistical boosting algorithms
  • GAMLSS (generalized additive models for location, scale and shape)
  • Quantile regression, prediction inference and prediction intervals
  • Polygenic risk scores
  • Variable selection for high-dimensional data
• Applications 
  • Clinical Trials Unit: KKS Marburg
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
  • Eating disorders
  • Schizophrenia and depression
  • Postoperative delirium
  • Mendelian randomization
• Projects
  • DFG Project Boosting polygenic risk scores via distributional regression to uncover potential gene-environment interactions
  • DFG Project Boosting copulas – multivariate distributional regression for digital medicine

Most Recent Publications

• Briseno Sanchez G, Klein N, Klinkhammer H and Mayr A (2025): Boosting Distributional Copula Regression for Bivariate Binary, Discrete and Mixed Responses. Statistical Methods for Medical Research. (accepted). 
• Klinkhammer H, Staerk C, Maj C, Krawitz P and Mayr A (2024). Genetic Prediction Modeling in Large Cohort Studies via Boosting Targeted Loss Functions. Statistics in Medicine. 43 (28), 5412-5430.
• Staerk C, Klinkhammer H, Wistuba T, Maj C and Mayr A (2024): Generalizability of polygenic prediction models: how is the R² defined on test data? BMC Medical Genomics. 17(1): 132.
• Stasinopoulos M, Kneib T, Klein N, Mayr A and Heller G Z (2024): Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape: A Distributional Regression Approach, with Applications. Cambridge University Print. 56.

Short CV

• 2024 – present: Professor for Medical Biometry and Biostatistics, Philipps-University Marburg, Head of Department for Medical Biometry and Statistics
• 2018-2024: Professor for Epidemiology at the University Bonn, Head of WG Statistial Methods in Epidemiology
• 2017-2018: Interim Professor for Applied Stochastics at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• 2013-2017: Post-doctoral Researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universtität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Head of WG Computational Biostatistical Modelling
• 2010-2013: Doctoral thesis at the Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universtität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2004-2010: Diploma in Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Editorial Activities

• Editor Statistical Modelling
• AE for International Journal of Biostatistics
• Member Editorial Board International Journal of Eating Disorders

University Commissions

• Ethics committee
• Habilitation committee

Profiles

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