Hans Rudolf Künsch (born 17 October 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

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(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). As of 2007, Künsch is the Chair of ETH Zürich's Department of Mathematics. He was a co-editor of the leading journal

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during the 1998–2000 period and has served on the Council of the worldwide organisation Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 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 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. Professor Künsch's main research areas are

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and

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s (geostatistics, parameter estimation for Gibbs fields,

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, space-time models);

time series In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Exa ...

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.

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