Under a collaboration between the ASAM Group and the Plastic Surgery Departments of Swiss University Hospitals, the ASAM group designed and implemented a databank intended to collect data related to bariatric surgery of a patient, as the pre and the post bariatric statuses, the prescribed treatments, the complications and others.
The ASAM Group has recently launched its Jupyter hub. The project intends to give students a set of interactive courses, as an introduction to the statistical software R. Thank Jupyter, one has the possibility to learn and test in a “live” environment line codes from different languages, as R, Python, Julia, etc. In the next years, the applied statistics master courses given by the ASAM Group will be each completed by Jupyter notebooks.
Absolute and relative change might be insufficient to meaningfully compare and interpret the sales volume of different sales channels. The goal of this project was to single out a meaningful indicator which is determined by some economically natural axioms and which allows to compare sales channels of different scales. The indicator proves to be interesting in its own right since it uncovers a relationship between marginal functions and economic elasticity and might be interpreted as a special kind of Cobb-Douglas-Function.
In order to study the air quality in houses, a large collection of data was carried out in new or renovated energy-efficient houses from Western Switzerland. The statistics consisted of analyzing questionnaires completed by the inhabitants as well as the measures of radon, volatile organic compounds and occurrence of molds. We had also to find which parameters (structure of the house, type of ventilation, maintenance,…) have an influence on a high level of radon, of volatile organic compound and mold.
Shape optimisation of a supersonic aircraft using free-form deformation…
La course Gordon Bennett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_Cup_(ballooning)) est la plus ancienne et la plus connue des compétitions de ballons à gaz.
Nous avons développé un modèle décrivant la trajectoire du ballon. En installant quelques capteurs dans la nacelle du ballon, il est possible d’anticiper des situations atmosphériques potentiellement instables et de prédire le délestage nécessaire pour corriger la trajectoire.
Our aim is to study and monitor the indoor air quality with up-to-date data management and specific statistical analysis methods. It is important to notice that we could develop a measurement prototype owing to the possible synergies between miscellaneous R&D institutes.
Using a large German data set containing linked employer-employee information over time, we apply flexible statistical evaluation methods to investigate the effectiveness of company-provided health promotion measures and part time work schemes for elderly employees. This is a joint project with Prof. M. Lechner (University of St. Gallen) and Prof. C. Wunsch (University of Basel).
Gambling machines in public places must involve skill and cannot be based on pure luck. The Federal Gaming Board issues mandates to study the level of skill required in a newly developed gambling machine, using real world tests as well as simulations. These studies serve as a basis to determine whether the machine can be operated in public places.