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Dr. Steffen Betsch

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
    Institute of Stochastics
    Englerstr. 2
    D-76131 Karlsruhe
    Germany

Publications in refereed journals

  • S. Betsch (2023), "Structural properties of Gibbsian point processes in abstract spaces", Journal of Theoretical Probability. Open Access.
  • S. Betsch, G. Last (2023), "On the uniqueness of Gibbs distributions with a non-negative and subcritical pair potential", Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques, Volume 59, Issue 2, 706-725. Link.
  • S. Betsch, B. Ebner, F. Nestmann (2022), "Characterizations of non-normalized discrete probability distributions and their application in statistics", Electronic Journal of Statistics, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1303-1329, Open Access.
  • J.S. Allison, S. Betsch, B. Ebner, I.J.H. Visagie (2022), "On Testing the Adequacy of the Inverse Gaussian Distribution", Mathematics, Volume 10, Issue 3, 350, Open Access.
  • S. Betsch, B. Ebner, B. Klar (2021), "Minimum L^q-distance estimators for non-normalized parametric models", The Canadian Journal of Statistics, Volume 49, Issue 2, pages 514-548, Link.
  • S. Betsch, B. Ebner (2021), "Fixed point characterizations of continuous univariate probability distributions and their applications", Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Volume 73, Issue 1, pages 31-59, Link.
  • S. Betsch, B. Ebner (2020), "Testing normality via a distributional fixed point property in the Stein characterization", TEST, Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 105-138, Link.
  • S. Betsch, B. Ebner (2019), "A new characterization of the Gamma distribution and associated goodness-of-fit tests", Metrika, Volume 82, Issue 7, pages 779-806, Link.

Proceedings

  • S. Betsch (2019), "A new method for the estimation of distribution functions in parametric models", Proceedings of the 21st European Young Statisticians meeting, Link.

Conferences and workshops

  • 16th German Probability and Statistics Days (Mar. 2023) Essen; Talk: "On the uniqueness of Gibbs distributions with repulsive and subcritical pair potentials".
  • CMStatistics (Dec. 2022) London; Talk: "Stein characterizations of non-normalized discrete probability distributions and their applications in statistics".
  • StatCon Workshops (Aug. 2022) Skukuza Camp, South Africa; Talk: "An introduction to the theoretical basics of point forecast evaluation"
  • Presentation in the working group Mathematical Physics (Aug. 2022) Karlsruhe; Talk: "On the uniqueness of Gibbs distributions with a non-negative and subcritical pair potential"
  • Organizer of the Workshop New Trends in Point Process Theory (Feb. 2022) Karlsruhe; Talk: "On the uniqueness of Gibbs distributions with a non-negative and subcritical pair potential"
  • CMStatistics (Dec. 2021) London; Online-Talk: "Parameter estimators for non-normalized statistical models based on Stein characterizations".
  • HiBeKi Meeting (Oct. 2021) Bern; Talk: "On the uniqueness of Gibbs distributions with a non-negative and subcritical pair potential"
  • Conference on Convex, Integral and Stochastic Geometry (Sep. 2021) Bad Herrenalb.
  • 4th Workshop on goodness-of-fit, change-point and related problems (Sep. 2019) Trento; Poster presentation: "A new fixed point characterization of the Gamma distribution and associated goodness-of-fit tests".
  • 21st European Young Statisticians meeting (Jul. 2019) Belgrade; Talk: "Distributional characterizations for non-normalized density functions and their applications".

Software Packages

  • S. Betsch, L. Butsch, B. Ebner (2020) gofgamma: Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Gamma Distribution. R package version 1.0, Link.
Current List of Courses
Semester Titel Typ
Summer Semester 2023 Lecture
Seminar
Winter Semester 2022/23 Lecture
Summer Semester 2022 Lecture
Winter Semester 2021/22 Lecture
Summer Semester 2021 Lecture
Winter Semester 2020/21 Lecture
Summer Semester 2020 Lecture
Proseminar
Winter Semester 2019/20 Lecture
Seminar