Hans Rudolf Künsch (born October 17, 1951) is a

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and

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based in

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, where he has been a professor with the Seminar für Statistik since 1983 at the ETH Zurich.

Education and career

Künsch studied mathematics at ETH Zürich Künsch worked as a research student at the University of Tokyo with a scholarship grant from the Japanese government. After completing his PhD at ETH Zürich, with a dissertation project under Hans Föllmer and Frank Hampel on ''Reellwertige Zufallsfelder auf einem Gitter: Interpolationsprobleme, Variationsprinzip und statistische Analyse'', he returned to research work in Japan, at the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. Since 1983 he has held various academic positions with his alma mater ETH Zürich. From 2007 to 2009, Künsch was the Chair of ETH Zürich's Department of Mathematics. He was a co-editor of the leading journal Annals of Statistics during the 1998–2000 period and has served on the Council of the worldwide organisation Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Künsch retired in 2014.

Research

Künsch's main research areas are spatial statistics and random fields (geostatistics, parameter estimation for Gibbs fields, image analysis, space-time models);

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analysis ( long range dependence, bootstrap methods for dependent data, general state-space models); and

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and statistical model selection. Among his most frequently cited contributions is the Annals of Statistics 1989 article on bootstrapping and jackknifing in stationary time series.

References

External links

Künsch's home page

Seminar für Statistik with the ETH

Department of Mathematics at the ETH
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kunsch, Hans Rudolf 1951 births Living people Swiss statisticians 20th-century Swiss mathematicians 21st-century Swiss mathematicians Academic staff of ETH Zurich Annals of Statistics editors Spatial statisticians Mathematical statisticians ETH Zurich alumni University of Tokyo alumni People from Bern