Research

I'm an associate professor in statistics and member of the Department of Data Analysis at the faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University. Although most of my research is methodological, I'm also interested in more applied work inspired by real-life problems.

Publications

Please click here for an overview of my publications.

Software

pim

An R package is developed to fit a probabilistic index model: pim. The package is available on CRAN and can be installed with the R install command:

install.packages("pim")

Information on usage can be obtained with help('pim') and vignette('pim').

unifiedWMWqPCR

An R Bioconductor package for analyzing RT-qPCR data with the unified Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test. It is available from Bioconductor 2.14 with the install command:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

biocLite("unifiedWMWqPCR")

Presentations

Seminars

  • Probabilistic index models. Department of Biostatistics - University of Copenhagen, Denmark. May 23, 2011.

  • A semiparametric framework for rank tests. Department of Biostatistics - University of Copenhagen, Denmark. September 30, 2013.

  • A semiparametric framework for rank tests. Department of Biostatistics - Aarhus University, Denmark. February 21, 2014.

  • Goodness-of-fit of probabilistic index models. Department of Biostatistics - University of Copenhagen, Denmark. March 24, 2014.

  • Regression models for indirectly measured outcomes. Institute of Psychology - RWTH Aachen University, Germany, May 9, 2017.

  • Regression models for indirectly observed outcomes. ECARES - ULB, Brussels, September 28, 2017.

  • Regression models for indirectly observed outcomes. Department of Mathematics, Section of Statistics, KU Leuven, October 26, 2017.

  • Regression models for indirectly observed outcomes. CENSTAT, Hasselt University, June 14, 2019.

  • The hazard ratio and the probabilistic index in Cox regression. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon (online) June 29, 2021.

Talks

  • Inserm Workshop 261, Bordeaux, France (online due to COVID-19), May 25-28, 2021.

  • ENAR Spring Meeting, Nashville, USA (online due to COVID-19), March 24-27, 2020.

  • ENAR Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, March 24-27, 2019.

  • 64. Biometrische Kolloquium, Frankfurt, Germany, March 26-28, 2018.

  • Small Sample Size Solutions, Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 6-7, 2018.

  • CMStatistics, London, UK, December 15-18, 2017.

  • The 25th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Leuven, Belgium. October 19-20, 2017.

  • M3, Storrs Connecticut, USA, May 22-25 2017.

  • IBS Sixth Channel Network, Hasselt, Belgium. April 24-26 2017

  • VII EAM, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 27-29 July 2016.

  • Third ISNPS, Avignon, France, 11-16 June 2016.

  • IBS Fifth Channel Network, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 20-22 April 2015.

  • IMS Annual meeting, Sydney, Australia. July 7-11, 2014.

  • Second ISNPS, Cádiz, Spain. June 12-16, 2014.

  • IBS fourth channel network, Saint–Andrews, UK. July 3–5 2013.

  • ENAR Spring Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA. March 10-13 2013.

  • The 20th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Luik, Belgium. October 25-26 2012.

  • The 17th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal. September 5-9 2011.

  • IBS Third Channel Network, Bordeaux, France. April 11-13 2011.

  • Joint Statistical Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. August 1-5 2010.

  • IAP workshop, Leuven, Belgium. November 19-20 2009.

  • The 17th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Lommel, Belgium. October 15-16 2009.

  • Joint Statistical Meeting, Washington DC, USA. August 1-6 2009.

Research Visits

  • September 30, 2013 - October 4, 2013 Department of Biostatistics - University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • January 6, 2014 - March 28, 2014 Department of Biostatistics - University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • May 16, 2016 - May 27, 2016 Department of Biostatistics - University of Copenhagen, Denmark.