Dr. Benjamin Hofner

Statistical Assessor and Researcher
Section Biostatistics
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI)
Langen, Germany

Visting Lecturer
Institut für Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (IMBE)
Erlangen, Germany

News

• April 2016: Started working at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI)

R packages

• Major Update: papeR — A Toolbox for Writing Pretty Papers and Reports

  now available.

Just Accepted

• A. Mayr, B. Hofner, M. Schmid (2016): "Boosting the discriminatory power of sparse survival models via optimization of the concordance index and stability selection". BMC Bioinformatics. 17:288. DOI 10.1186/s12859-016-1149-8.
  (PDF)

• B. Hofner, M. Schmid, L. Edler (2016). "Reproducible research in statistics: A review and guidelines for the Biometrical Journal". Biometrical Journal. 58:416-427. DOI 10.1002/bimj.201500156.
  (Abstract, PDF)

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