Reasearch Interests

• Survival Analysis
• Flexible hazard rate models
• Exposure-lag-response associations
• Nonparametric regression and penalized splines
• Random Forests
• Applications in medicine and biology

Publications

• Ruëff, F., B. Vos, J. Oude Elberink, A. Bender, R. Chatelain, S. Dugas-Breit, H.-P. Horny, et al. 2014. “Predictors of Clinical Effectiveness of Hymenoptera Venom Immunotherapy.” Clinical & Experimental Allergy 44 (5): 736–46. doi:10.1111/cea.12275.
• Bergmann, S., N. Ziegler, T. Bartels, J. Hübel, C. Schumacher, E. Rauch, S. Brandl, A. Bender et al. 2013. “Prevalence and Severity of Foot Pad Alterations in German Turkey Poults during the Early Rearing Phase.” Poultry Science 92 (5): 1171–76. doi:10.3382/ps.2012-02851 .
• Kuppinger, David, Wolfgang H. Hartl, Martin Bertok, Jessica M. Hoffmann, Jona Cederbaum, Andreas Bender, Helmut Küchenhoff, and Peter Rittler. 2013. “Nutritional Screening for Risk Prediction in Patients Scheduled for Extra-Abdominal Surgery.” Nutrition 29 (2): 399–404. doi:10.1016/j.nut.2012.06.013 .
• Guillemot, Vincent, Andreas Bender, and Anne-Laure Boulesteix. 2013. “Iterative Reconstruction of High-Dimensional Gaussian Graphical Models Based on a New Method to Estimate Partial Correlations under Constraints.” PLoS ONE 8 (4): e60536. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060536 .
• Boulesteix, A.-L, A. Bender, J. Lorenzo Bermejo, and C. Strobl. 2012. “Random Forest Gini Importance Favours SNPs with Large Minor Allele Frequency: Impact, Sources and Recommendations.” Briefings in Bioinformatics 13 (3): 292–304. doi:10.1093/bib/bbr053 .