Advanced Statistical Methods in Process Monitoring, Finance, and Environmental Science

Sven Knoth has been a Professor of Computational Statistics at the Helmut Schmidt University, the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany since 2009. He obtained his PhD at the TU Chemnitz in 1995 and after serving as a postdoc at the Department of Biostatistics, Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, he switched to the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), where he completed his postdoctoral studies, and worked as Senior Process Engineer and SPC Coordinator at the Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC) in Dresden. His main research areas are statistical process control, implementing statistical algorithms in software, and applying statistics in the engineering world. He is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Computational Statistics.

Yarema Okhrin is Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Augsburg, Germany. He teaches financial econometrics, data science, machine learning, and multivariate data analysis. His research focuses on multivariate statistics and econometrics, and machine learning with applications to finance, statistical surveillance and computational statistics. He previously worked as Assistant Professor of Econometrics at the University of Bern and at the European University Viadrina. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis.

Philipp Otto is a Professor of Statistics and Data Analytics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK. Previously, he was an Associate Professor (Reader) at the same university, as well as an Assistant Professor of Big Geospatial Data at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics at Leibniz University Hannover and the interim Professor of Spatial Data Analysis and Statistical Learning at the University of Göttingen. Before that, he led the junior research group Detection and Surveillance of Spatial and Spatiotemporal Clusters at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION at the European University in Frankfurt (Oder), where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2016. His research focuses on statistical data science and statistical methodology for data in multidimensional spaces, including geo-referenced data, spatiotemporal statistics, statistical learning, environmetrics, statistical process control and network modelling. He is actively involved in the scientific community as an Associate Editor of three journals.

- Part I Statistical Process Monitoring.- More On the Quasi-Stationary Distribution of the Shiryaev-Roberts Diffusion.- CUSUM schemes for stationary and nonstationary Gaussian processes.- Distribution-Free Multivariate Phase I Shewhart Control Charts: Analysis, Comparisons and Recommendations.- Quick Detection Updating Variable Life-Adjusted Display.- Monitoring complex segmented streams of data using bootstrap control charts.- Some Stylized Facts of the Conditional Expected Delay (CED).- Stochastic Ordering in the Performance Analysis of Control Charts for Binomial AR(1) Processes.- An Integrated Approach for Designing a Phase I C-Control Chart Based on the Phase II Performance of Poisson Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart.- Control Charts for Poisson Counts based on the Stein-Chen Identity.- Misguided Statistical Process Monitoring Approaches.- Part II Statistics in Finance.- The Empirical Similarity Approach for Combining Predictions of Portfolio Weights.- Linear Shrinkage-Based Hypothesis Test for Large Dimensional Covariance Matrix.- Estimation of Optimal Portfolio Compositions for Small Sample and Singular Covariance Matrix.- Shrinkage Estimation of the Intercept Parameter in Linear Regression.- Intergenerational social mobility in the United States: a multivariate analysis using distributional regression.- Can we give the Maximum Sharpe Ratio Portfolio a Chance?.- On Extreme Value Asymptotics of Projected Sample Covariances in High Dimensions with Applications in Finance and Convolutional Networks.- Part  III Environmetrics and Spatial Statistics.- A Bivariate Spatiotemporal Analysis of Breast Cancer and Lung Cancer Mortality and Incidence in the United States.- To what extent airborne particulate matters are influenced by ammonia and nitrogen oxides?.- A deep-learning approach for reducing the probability of false alarms in smartphone-based earthquake early warning systems.- When things get extreme: Records and crashes.- Spatial autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average model.- A path in regression Random Forest looking for spatial dependence: a taxonomy and a systematic review.- On the estimation of smooth maps from regional aggregates via measurement error models: A review.