Dr. Marcel Dettling

Work at ZHAW

Position

Group Lead in Data Analysis and Statistics

Focus

• Predictive Analytics: Regression, Classification, Time Series Analysis
• Applied Statistics: Data Analysis, Inference, Visualization
• Analysis of Complex Data: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
• Application Fields: Business and Customer Analytics, Official Statistics
• Application Fields: Transportation/Accident Data, Health Economics, Social Sciences, etc.

Teaching

Lecturer at ZHAW, External Lecturer at ETH Zurich

Professional development teaching

• MAS Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
• CAS Data Analysis
• CAS Advanced Statistical Data Analysis

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Postdoc / Applied Statistics
  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)
  09 / 2004 - 07 / 2006
• PhD / Mathematics
  Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zürich
  09 / 2000 - 06 / 2004
• MSc Mathematics ETH / Mathematics
  ETH Zurich
  09 / 1995 - 03 / 2000

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4340-6142

Projects

• Measuring Exposure to Bicycle Traffic / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Gender Pay Gap Analysis / Project leader / completed
• Crowdworking in Switzerland (CroWiS) - an interdisciplinary analysis taking the example of nurse crowd workers / Team member / completed
• Detailed meal forecast for the restaurant industry / Deputy project leader / completed
• Automatic Evaluation of Thermoanalytical Curves / Team member / completed
• Tools for statistical Analysis of Accident Occurrences / Deputy project leader / completed
• The burden of smoking in Switzerland: Estimate for 2015 and Prognosis up to 2050 / Team member / completed
• Development of Algorithms for the Analysis of Football Players and Game Situations based on Motion Data / Deputy project leader / completed
• Prediction of Turnover in Gastronomy / Team member / completed
• Development of a prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation in Switzerland / Team member / completed
• Statistical Analysis of Accident Occurrences / Deputy project leader / completed
• Energy Optimization for Vessel Operations / Project leader / completed
• Measures and potentials in the field of road users / Team member / completed
• TARPSY – Development of a prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric care / Team member / completed
• MobileMall / Team member / completed
• PPS Paraplegiology / Team member / completed
• Predicting customer behavior by combining freetext information with structured customer data / Team member / completed
• NetSense / Team member / completed
• Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Project leader / completed
• Planning and Optimization of marketing campaigns under dyanamical customer behavior / Team member / completed

Publications

• Monstein, Raphael; Capone, Pierluigi; Dettling, Marcel,

  2019.

  Determination of model structure from flight test with generalized additive models.

  Journal of Aircraft.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2514/1.C035171

• Goren Huber, Lilach; Kunz, Simon; Dettling, Marcel,

  2018.

  Condition-based maintenance decision making : a practical approach for marine vessels.

  International Journal of COMADEM.

  21(3), pp. 15-20.

  Available from: https://apscience.org/comadem/index.php/comadem/article/view/93

• Simoes-Wüst, Paula; Rist, Lukas; Dettling, Marcel,

  2014.

  Self-reported health characteristics and medication consumption by CAM-users and nonusers : a Swiss cross-sectional survey.

  Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine.

  20(1), pp. 1-8.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2012.0762

• Simões-Wüst, Ana Paula; Rist, Lukas; Dettling, Marcel,

  2012.

  Medication use by CAM users and non-users : a Swiss cross-sectional survey.

  European Journal of Integrative Medicine.

  4, pp. 172-173.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.879

• Heitz, Christoph; Dettling, Marcel; Ruckstuhl, Andreas,

  2011.

  Modelling customer lifetime value in contractual settings.

  International Journal of Services Technology and Management.

  16(2), pp. 172-190.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2011.042595

• Dettling, Marcel; Gabrielson, Edward; Parmigiani, Giovanni,

  2005.

  Searching for differentially expressed gene combinations.

  Genome Biology.

  6(R88).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2005-6-10-r88

• Dettling, Marcel,

  2004.

  BagBoosting for tumor classification with gene expression data.

  Bioinformatics.

  20(18), pp. 3583-3593.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bth447

• Gentleman, Robert C.; Carey, Vincent J.; Bates, Douglas M.; Bolstad, Ben; Dettling, Marcel; Dudoit, Sandrine; Ellis, Byron; Gautier, Laurent; Ge, Yongchao; Gentry, Jeff; Hornik, Kurt; Hothorn, Torsten; Huber, Wolfgang; Iacus, Stefano; Irizarry, Rafael; Leisch, Friedrich; Li, Cheng; Maechler, Martin; Rossini, Anthony J.; Sawitzki, Gunther; Smith, Colin; Smyth, Gordon; Tierney, Luke; Yang, Jean YH.; Zhang, Jianhua,

  2004.

  Bioconductor : open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics.

  Genome Biology.

  5(R80).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80

• Dettling, Marcel; Bühlmann, Peter,

  2004.

  Finding predictive gene groups from microarray data.

  Journal of Multivariate Analysis.

  90(1), pp. 106-131.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2004.02.012

• Teuffel, Oliver; Dettling, Marcel; Cario, Gunnar; Stranulla, Martin; Schrappe, Martin; Bühlmann, Peter; Niggli, Felix K.; Schäfer, Beat W.,

  2004.

  Gene expression profiles and risk stratification in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

  Haematologica.

  89(7), pp. 801-808.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1908

• Wachtel, Marco; Dettling, Marcel; Koscielniak, Eva; Stegmaier, Sabine; Treuner, Jörn; Simon-Klingenstein, Katja; Bühlmann, Peter; Niggli, Felix K.; Schäfer, Beat W.,

  2004.

  Gene expression signatures identify rhabdomyosarcoma subtypes and detect a novel t(2;2)(q35;p23) translocation fusing PAX3 to NCOA1.

  Cancer Research.

  64(16), pp. 5539-5545.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-0844

• Teuffel, O.; Betts, D. R.; Dettling, Marcel; Schaub, R.; Schäfer, B. W.; Niggli, F. K.,

  2004.

  Prenatal origin of separate evolution of leukemia in identical twins.

  Leukemia.

  18, pp. 1624-1629.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2403462

• Dettling, Marcel; Bühlmann, Peter,

  2004.

  Volatility and risk estimation with linear and nonlinear methods based on high frequency data.

  Applied Financial Economics.

  14(10), pp. 717-729.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0960310042000243556

• Dettling, Marcel; Bühlmann, Peter,

  2003.

  Boosting for tumor classification with gene expression data.

  Bioinformatics.

  19(9), pp. 1061-1069.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btf867

• Dettling, Marcel; Bühlmann, Peter,

  2002.

  Supervised clustering of genes.

  Genome Biology.

  3(12).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-research0069

• Dettling, Marcel; Ruckstuhl, Andreas,

  2019.

  Statistical modelling.

  In:

  Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 181-203.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_11

• Dettling, Marcel,

  2005.

  Classification with gene expression data.

  In:

  Bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and bioconductor.

  New York:

  Springer.

  pp. 421-430.

  Statistics for Biology and Health.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29362-0_24

• Hothorn, Torsten; Dettling, Marcel; Bühlmann, Peter,

  2005.

  Ensemble methods of computational inference.

  In:

  Bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and bioconductor.

  New York:

  Springer.

  pp. 293-311.

  Statistics for Biology and Health.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29362-0_17

• Bürgin, Reto; Vetsch-Tzogiou, Christina; Stucki, Michael; Kauer, Lukas; Pirktl, Lennart; van Kleef, Richard C.; Kohler, Andreas; Drewek, Anna; Thommen, Christoph; Dettling, Marcel; Wieser, Simon,

  2024.

  Improving risk adjustment in Switzerland with pharmaceutical cost groups[paper].

  In:

  6th Swiss Health Economic Workshop, Lucerne, Switzerland, 7 June 2024.

• Monstein, Raphael; Figuet, Benoit; Krauth, Timothé; Waltert, Manuel; Dettling, Marcel,

  2022.

  Large landing trajectory dataset for go-around analysis[paper].

  In:

  10th OpenSky Symposium, Delft, The Netherlands, 10-11 November 2022.

  MDPI.

  pp. 2.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2022028002

• Barth, Linard; Sarperi, Luciano; Dettling, Marcel; Meierhofer, Jürg; Bulatovic, Andjela; Schweiger, Lukas,

  2021.

  Development of a smart connected product-service-system (PSS) for the waste management ecosystem[paper].

  In:

  Mugellini, Elena; Carpanzano, Emanuele, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 2nd FTAL Conference 2021 Sustainable Smart Cities and Regions.

  FTAL Conference 2021 – Sustainable smart cities and regions, Lugano, Switzerland, 28-29 October 2021.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25014

• Dettling, Marcel; Frey, Martin; Walser, Manuel; Haas, Patrick,

  2021.

  Impact of mislabelling on deep learning methods and strategies for improvement[paper].

  In:

  Conference Proceedings of the 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress.

  63rd ISI World Statistics Congress, virtual, 11-16 July 2021.

• Frey, Martin; Murina, Elvis; Rohrbach, Janick; Walser, Manuel; Haas, Patrick; Dettling, Marcel,

  2019.

  Machine learning for position detection in football[paper].

  In:

  2019 6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS).

  6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), Bern, 14. Juni 2019.

  IEEE.

  pp. 111-112.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS.2019.00009

• Goren Huber, Lilach; Kunz, Simon; Dettling, Marcel,

  2017.

  Condition-based maintenance decision making : a practical approach for marine vessels[paper].

  In:

  30th Conference for Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, Lancashire, United Kingdom, July 2017.

  Lancashire:

  Jost Institute for Tribotechnology.

  pp. 357-365.

• Heitz, Christoph; Ruckstuhl, Andreas; Dettling, Marcel,

  2010.

  Customer lifetime value under complex contract structures[paper].

  In:

  Morin, Jean-Henry; Ralyté, Jolita; Snene, Mehdi, eds.,

  Exploring services science : first international conference, IESS 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, february 17-19, 2010 - revised papers.

  First International Conference (IESS 2010) Geneva, Switzerland, 17-19 February 2010.

  Berlin:

  Springer.

  pp. 276-281.

  Lecture notes in business information processing ; 53.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14319-9_24

• Liberatore, Florian; Klumb, Petra; Simon, Michael; Zwettler, Clara; Gahrmann, Caroline; Shad, Maryam Ahmadi; Schmelzer, Sarah; Demir, Eylem; Dettling, Marcel,

  2025.

  Temporärarbeit in der Pflege in der Schweiz : Status Quo, Herausforderungen und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Praxis.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5550

• Bürgin, Reto; Stucki, Michael; Vetsch-Tzogiou, Christina; Kauer, Lukas; Kohler, Andreas; Drewek, Anna; Thommen, Christoph; Dettling, Marcel; Wieser, Simon,

  2024.

  Wirkungsanalyse zum Risikoausgleich mit pharmazeutischen Kostengruppen (PCG) : Schlussbericht.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30489

• Deublein, Markus; Hafsteinsson, Helgi; Frey, Martin; Dettling, Marcel; Meier, Lukas; Kalisch, Markus,

  2018.

  Statistische Analyse von Unfallzahlen.

  Bern:

  Bundesamt für Strassen.

  Available from: https://www.astra.admin.ch/dam/astra/de/bilder/Abteilung_Strassenverkehr_allgemein/2018-07-31_VSS1634_Schlussbericht_Statistische_Analyse_von_Unfallzahlen.pdf

• Goren Huber, Lilach; Dettling, Marcel; Kunz, Simon; Gsponer, Daniel,

  2017.

  Predictive Maintenance zum effizienten Betrieb von Hochsee-Schiffen.

  fmpro service.

  pp. 9-11.

• Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK; Bundesamt für Strassen, eds.,

  2016.

  Massnahmen und Potenziale im Bereich Verkehrsteilnehmende : Forschungspaket VeSPA Teilprojekt 1-M.

  Zürich:

  Schweizerischer Verband der Strassen- und Verkehrsfachleute (VSS).

• Hochschule Luzern - Wirtschaft; Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI), eds.,

  2016.

  Forschungspaket VeSPA Teilprojekt 1-M, Massnahmen und Potenziale im Bereich Verkehrsteilnehmende.

  Forschungsberichte SVI

  ; 1591.

  Bern:

  Bundesamt für Strassen.

• Heitz, Christoph; Bütikofer, Stephan; Dettling, Marcel,

  2014.

  Customers as investment objects : a new perspective on marketing[paper].

  In:

  Conference proceedings of the 13th international science-to-business marketing conference on cross organizational value creation.

  13th International Science-to-Business Marketing Conference: «Cross Organizational Value Creation», Winterthur, 2-4 June 2014.

  Münster:

  Fachhochschule Münster.

  pp. 257-271.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1888

• Ohnmacht, Timo; Lutzenberger, Martin; Schad, Helmut; Frey, Martin; Ruckstuhl, Andreas; Dettling, Marcel; Rößger, Lars; Schade, Jens,

  2014.

  Einflüsse von Mensch und Gesellschaft auf das Strassenunfallgeschehen : Phase 1.

  St.Gallen:

  Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI).

• Kool, Jan; Dettling, Marcel; Wieser, Simon; Brügger, Urs,

  2013.

  Development of a patient classification system for inpatient rehabilitation in Switzerland[poster].

  In:

  Swiss Health Economics Workshop, Luzern, 13. September 2013.

• Widmer, Paul; Buhl, Thomas; Ruckstuhl, Andreas; Dettling, Marcel; Rüeger, Sina,

  2011.

  Neue Erkenntnisse zum Mobilitätsverhalten dank Data Mining.

  Forschungsberichte SVI

  ; 1365.

  Ittigen:

  Bundesamt für Strassen.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4215

• Kool, Jan; Wieser, Simon; Dettling, Marcel; Brügger, Urs,

  2009.

  Entwicklung eines Patientenklassifikationssystems (PCS) für die Rehabilitation in der Schweiz.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

• Ho, Yen-Yi; Cope, Leslie; Dettling, Marcel; Parmigiani, Giovanni,

  2007.

  Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed gene combinations.

  In:

  Methods in molecular biology.

  New York:

  Humana Press.

  pp. 171-191.

  Methods in Molecular Biology ; 408.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-547-3_10

• Dettling, Marcel,

  2005.

  Finding predictive gene groups from microarray data and combining them with clinical predictor variables[paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute.

  55th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Sydney, Australia, 6-12 April 2005.

• Dettling, Marcel,

  2003.

  Revealing predictive gene clusters with supervised algorithms[paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Conference in Distributed Statistical Computing.

  Third International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003), Vienna, Austria, 20-22 March 2003.

  Available from: https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/Dettling.pdf

• Dettling, Marcel,

  2002.

  Supervised clustering of genes[paper].

  In:

  Compstat : Proceedings in Computational Statistics.

  15th Conference in Computational Statistics, Berlin, 24-28 August 2002.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

• Dettling, Marcel; Walser, Manuel; Frey, Martin,

  2021.

  Impact of mislabelling on deep learning.

  In:

  63rd ISI World Statistics Congress, virtual, 11-16 July 2021.

• Mattli, Renato; Farcher, Renato; Dettling, Marcel; Syleouni, Maria-Eleni; Wieser, Simon,

  2020.

  The burden of smoking in Switzerland : estimation for 2015 and prognosis until 2050.

  In:

  5th International Conference of the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention, Online Edition, 12-14 October 2020.

  European Publishing.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/128412

• Mattli, Renato; Schmidt, Marion; Wirz, Markus; Dettling, Marcel,

  2017.

  Design of a prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation in Switzerland.

  In:

  2017 International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Biennial World Congress, Boston, USA, 8-11 July 2017.

  Boston University.

• Keller, Patrick; Riguzzi, Marco; Dettling, Marcel; Wieser, Simon,

  2017.

  Prospective payment for inpatient psychiatric care : a system to be developed for Switzerland.

  In:

  Thirteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, Venice, Italy, 24-26 March 2017.

  International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics.

• Riguzzi, Marco; Keller, Patrick; Dettling, Marcel; Wieser, Simon,

  2016.

  Prospective payment for inpatient psychiatric care : a system to be developed for Switzerland.

  In:

  EuHEA Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 13-16 July 2016.

• Riguzzi, Marco; Wieser, Simon; Dettling, Marcel; Pletscher, Mark,

  2015.

  Design of a prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric care in Switzerland.

  In:

  12. Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, Venice, 27-29 March 2015.

• Riguzzi, Marco; Wieser, Simon; Dettling, Marcel; Pletscher, Mark,

  2015.

  Introducing cost groups and prospective payment to Swiss inpatient psychiatry.

  In:

  iHEA 11th World Congress in Health Economics, Milano, Italy, 12-15 July 2015.

• Riguzzi, Marco; Wieser, Simon; Dettling, Marcel; Pletscher, Mark,

  2015.

  Prospective payment in Swiss inpatient psychiatry (implementing the Health Insurance Act of 1994).

  In:

  Second Health Economics Workshop, Lucerne, 11 September 2015.

• Wieser, Simon; Dettling, Marcel; Riguzzi, Marco; Pletscher, Mark,

  2014.

  Design of a prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric care in Switzerland.

  In:

  International Health Economics Association Congress 2014, Dublin, Ireland, July 2014.

• Heitz, Christoph; Hary, Ingo; Dettling, Marcel; Ruckstuhl, Andreas,

  2008.

  Direct marketing of service contracts under autonomous customer dynamics.

  In:

  INFORMS Annual Meeting 2008, Washington, USA, 11-14 October 2008.

Research data

Monstein, Raphael; Figuet, Benoit; Krauth, Timothé; Waltert, Manuel; Dettling, Marcel, 2022. Large landing trajectory data set for go-around analysis. Zenodo. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7148117

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