Dr. Marcel Dettling

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer & Senior Scientist for Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning

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

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

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

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Dettling, M. and Liberatore, F. (2026) 'Work schedule preferences and shift schedules of per‐diem nurses : a descriptive cross‐sectional study of online labour platform data - empirical research quantitative', Nursing Open, 13(2), p. e70456. doi: 10.1002/nop2.70456.
• Monstein, R., Capone, P. and Dettling, M. (2019) 'Determination of model structure from flight test with generalized additive models', Journal of Aircraft. doi: 10.2514/1.C035171.
• Goren Huber, L., Kunz, S. and Dettling, M. (2018) 'Condition-based maintenance decision making : a practical approach for marine vessels', International Journal of COMADEM, 21(3), pp. 15–20.
• Simoes-Wüst, P., Rist, L. and Dettling, M. (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. doi: 10.1089/acm.2012.0762.
• Simões-Wüst, A. P., Rist, L. and Dettling, M. (2012) 'Medication use by CAM users and non-users : a Swiss cross-sectional survey', European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 4, pp. 172–173. doi: 10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.879.
• Heitz, C., Dettling, M. and Ruckstuhl, A. (2011) 'Modelling customer lifetime value in contractual settings', International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 16(2), pp. 172–190. doi: 10.1504/IJSTM.2011.042595.
• Dettling, M., Gabrielson, E. and Parmigiani, G. (2005) 'Searching for differentially expressed gene combinations', Genome Biology, 6(R88). doi: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-10-r88.
• Teuffel, O. et al. (2004) 'Gene expression profiles and risk stratification in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia', Haematologica, 89(7), pp. 801–808. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1908.
• Teuffel, O. et al. (2004) 'Prenatal origin of separate evolution of leukemia in identical twins', Leukemia, 18, pp. 1624–1629. doi: 10.1038/sj.leu.2403462.
• Dettling, M. and Bühlmann, P. (2004) 'Finding predictive gene groups from microarray data', Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 90(1), pp. 106–131. doi: 10.1016/j.jmva.2004.02.012.
• Wachtel, M. et al. (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. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-0844.
• Dettling, M. and Bühlmann, P. (2004) 'Volatility and risk estimation with linear and nonlinear methods based on high frequency data', Applied Financial Economics, 14(10), pp. 717–729. doi: 10.1080/0960310042000243556.
• Gentleman, R. C. et al. (2004) 'Bioconductor : open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics', Genome Biology, 5(R80). doi: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.
• Dettling, M. (2004) 'BagBoosting for tumor classification with gene expression data', Bioinformatics, 20(18), pp. 3583–3593. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth447.
• Dettling, M. and Bühlmann, P. (2003) 'Boosting for tumor classification with gene expression data', Bioinformatics, 19(9), pp. 1061–1069. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btf867.
• Dettling, M. and Bühlmann, P. (2002) 'Supervised clustering of genes', Genome Biology, 3(12). doi: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-research0069.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Dettling, M. and Ruckstuhl, A. (2019) 'Statistical modelling', in Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T., and Stockinger, K. (eds) Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business. Cham: Springer, pp. 181–203. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_11.
• Dettling, M. (2005) 'Classification with gene expression data', in Bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and bioconductor. New York: Springer, pp. 421–430. doi: 10.1007/0-387-29362-0_24.
• Hothorn, T., Dettling, M. and Bühlmann, P. (2005) 'Ensemble methods of computational inference', in Bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and bioconductor. New York: Springer, pp. 293–311. doi: 10.1007/0-387-29362-0_17.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Bürgin, R. et al. (2024) 'Improving risk adjustment in Switzerland with pharmaceutical cost groups', in 6th Swiss Health Economic Workshop, Lucerne, Switzerland, 7 June 2024.
• Monstein, R. et al. (2022) 'Large landing trajectory dataset for go-around analysis', in Engineering Proceedings. MDPI, p. 2. doi: 10.3390/engproc2022028002.
• Dettling, M. et al. (2021) 'Impact of mislabelling on deep learning methods and strategies for improvement', in Conference Proceedings of the 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress.
• Barth, L. et al. (2021) 'Development of a smart connected product-service-system (PSS) for the waste management ecosystem', in Mugellini, E. and Carpanzano, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd FTAL Conference 2021 Sustainable Smart Cities and Regions. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-25014.
• Frey, M. et al. (2019) 'Machine learning for position detection in football', in 2019 6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS). IEEE, pp. 111–112. doi: 10.1109/SDS.2019.00009.
• Goren Huber, L., Kunz, S. and Dettling, M. (2017) 'Condition-based maintenance decision making : a practical approach for marine vessels', in 30th Conference for Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, Lancashire, United Kingdom, July 2017. Lancashire: Jost Institute for Tribotechnology, pp. 357–365.
• Heitz, C., Ruckstuhl, A. and Dettling, M. (2010) 'Customer lifetime value under complex contract structures', in Morin, J.-H., Ralyté, J., and Snene, M. (eds) Exploring services science : first international conference, IESS 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, february 17-19, 2010 - revised papers. Berlin: Springer, pp. 276–281. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14319-9_24.

Other publications

• Liesen, C., Dettling, M. and Lanfranchi, A. (2025) Evaluation der Kostenentwicklung Sonderpädagogik im Kanton Tessin : externe Analyse im Auftrag der Sektion für Sonderpädagogik. Zürich: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-35220.
• Liberatore, F. et al. (2025) Temporärarbeit in der Pflege in der Schweiz : Status Quo, Herausforderungen und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Praxis. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-5550.
• Bürgin, R. et al. (2024) Wirkungsanalyse zum Risikoausgleich mit pharmazeutischen Kostengruppen (PCG) : Schlussbericht. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30489.
• Deublein, M. et al. (2018) Statistische Analyse von Unfallzahlen. Bern: Bundesamt für Strassen. Available at: https://www.astra.admin.ch/dam/astra/de/bilder/Abteilung_Strassenverkehr_allgemein/2018-07-31_VSS1634_Schlussbericht_Statistische_Analyse_von_Unfallzahlen.pdf.
• Goren Huber, L. et al. (2017) 'Predictive Maintenance zum effizienten Betrieb von Hochsee-Schiffen', fmpro service, pp. 9–11.
• Ohnmacht, T. et al. (2016) Forschungspaket VeSPA Teilprojekt 1-M, Massnahmen und Potenziale im Bereich Verkehrsteilnehmende. Edited by Hochschule Luzern - Wirtschaft and Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI). Bern: Bundesamt für Strassen.
• Ohnmacht, T. et al. (2016) Massnahmen und Potenziale im Bereich Verkehrsteilnehmende : Forschungspaket VeSPA Teilprojekt 1-M. Edited by V. E. u. K. U. Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt and Bundesamt für Strassen. Zürich: Schweizerischer Verband der Strassen- und Verkehrsfachleute.
• Ohnmacht, T. et al. (2014) Einflüsse von Mensch und Gesellschaft auf das Strassenunfallgeschehen : Phase 1. St.Gallen: Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI).
• Heitz, C., Bütikofer, S. and Dettling, M. (2014) 'Customers as investment objects : a new perspective on marketing', in Conference proceedings of the 13th international science-to-business marketing conference on cross organizational value creation. Münster: Fachhochschule Münster, pp. 257–271. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1888.
• Kool, J. et al. (2013) 'Development of a patient classification system for inpatient rehabilitation in Switzerland', in Swiss Health Economics Workshop, Luzern, 13. September 2013.
• Widmer, P. et al. (2011) Neue Erkenntnisse zum Mobilitätsverhalten dank Data Mining. Ittigen: Bundesamt für Strassen. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4215.
• Kool, J. et al. (2009) Entwicklung eines Patientenklassifikationssystems (PCS) für die Rehabilitation in der Schweiz. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
• Ho, Y.-Y. et al. (2007) 'Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed gene combinations', in Methods in molecular biology. New York: Humana, pp. 171–191. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-547-3_10.
• Dettling, M. (2005) 'Finding predictive gene groups from microarray data and combining them with clinical predictor variables', in Proceedings of the 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute.
• Dettling, M. (2003) 'Revealing predictive gene clusters with supervised algorithms', in Proceedings of the Conference in Distributed Statistical Computing. Available at: https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/Dettling.pdf.
• Dettling, M. (2002) 'Supervised clustering of genes', in Compstat : Proceedings in Computational Statistics. Heidelberg: Springer.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Dettling, M., Walser, M. and Frey, M. (2021) 'Impact of mislabelling on deep learning', in 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress, virtual, 11-16 July 2021.
• Mattli, R. et al. (2020) 'The burden of smoking in Switzerland : estimation for 2015 and prognosis until 2050', in Tobacco Prevention & Cessation. European Publishing. doi: 10.18332/tpc/128412.
• Keller, P. et al. (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.
• Mattli, R. et al. (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.
• Riguzzi, M. et al. (2016) 'Prospective payment for inpatient psychiatric care : a system to be developed for Switzerland', in EuHEA Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 13-16 July 2016.
• Riguzzi, M. et al. (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, M. et al. (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, M. et al. (2015) 'Prospective payment in Swiss inpatient psychiatry (implementing the Health Insurance Act of 1994)', in Second Health Economics Workshop, Lucerne, 11 September 2015.
• Wieser, S. et al. (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, C. et al. (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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