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Department of Statistics
Chair

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rahnenführer

Contact

TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity
Department of Sta­tis­tics
Statistical Methods in Genetics and Chemometrics
Mathematics Building, Room 720
44221 Dortmund
Germany

E-Mail: rahnenfuehrerstatistik.tu-dortmundde
Phone: +49 231 755 3121

Portrait photo of Jörg Rahnenführer © Felix Schmale​/​TU Dortmund
  • Habilitation (Bioinformatics), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 2006
    Thesis: Statistical methods for the biological interpretation of genome-wide measurements
  • Dr.rer.nat. (Mathematics), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 1999
    Thesis: Tests auf Unabhängigkeit in bivariaten Hazardmodellen mit zensierten Daten
  • Diploma (Mathematics), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 1995
    Thesis: Über die Gütefunktion des Kolmogoroff-Smirnov-Tests beim Signalerkennungsproblem

Scientific work

Third-party funded projects

Main areas of re­search

  • Statistical methods in toxicology
  • Statistical methods in bioinformatics
  • Statistical analysis of gene expression data
  • Statistical analysis of clinical data
  • Survival analysis (analysis of event times)

Specific current re­search topics

  • Statistical analysis of genomic data from toxicology
  • Modeling of dose-response relationships
  • Statistical analysis of genomic data for cancer diagnosis and therapy
  • Methods for biological interpretation of gene expression data
  • Statistical analysis of data from proteomics
  • Analysis of methods for variable selection
  • Analysis of large text collections using topic modeling