Dr. Christoph Hofer

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior lecturer in statistical data analysis and R&D project manager

Professional development teaching

• CAS Advanced Statistical Data Analysis
• WBK R Boot Camp
• CAS Data Analysis

Network

Membership of networks

• Author and maintainer of the R package constrainedKriging(GNU open source project)
• Maintainer of R packages IDPmisc and SwissAir (GNU open source project)

Projects

• Efficiency analysis of multiple sclerosis therapies / Deputy project leader / abgeschlossen
• Statistical consulting for regional trend analyses in the soil monitoring program of the Canton of Zurich / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Therapy comparison for multiple sclerosis / Deputy project leader / abgeschlossen
• COVID-AIR: Influence of the COVID-19-lockdown on Swiss air quality / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• Prediction of Turnover in Gastronomy / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Flight Network Simulation at Swiss International Air Lines / Team member / abgeschlossen
• cleverpendeln / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Development of a consistent approach for stock planning and allocation of Unit Load Devices (ULD) in international air transportation. / Deputy project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Hofer, Christoph; Borer, Franz; Bono, Roland; Kayser, Achim; Papritz, Andreas,

  2013.

  Predicting topsoil heavy metal content of parcels of land : an empirical validation of customary and constrained lognormal block kriging and conditional simulations.

  Geoderma.

  193-194, pp. 200-212.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.08.034

• Hofer, Christoph; Papritz, Andreas,

  2011.

  constrainedKriging : an R-package for customary, constrained and covariance-matching constrained point or block kriging.

  Computers & Geosciences.

  37(10), pp. 1562-1569.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2011.02.009

• Hofer, Christoph; Papritz, Andreas,

  2010.

  Predicting threshold exceedance by local block means in soil pollution surveys.

  Mathematical Geosciences.

  42(6), pp. 631-656.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-010-9287-4

• Binder, Claudia R.; Hofer, Christoph; Wiek, Arnim; Scholz, Roland W.,

  2004.

  Transition towards improved regional wood flows by integrating material flux analysis and agent analysis : the case of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.

  Ecological Economics.

  49(1), pp. 1-17.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2003.10.021

• Thalmann, Basilius; Hofer, Christoph; Wächter, Daniel; Kulli, Beatrice,

  2022.

  Per- und polyfluorierte Alkylsubstanzen (PFAS) in Schweizer Böden.

  altlasten spektrum.

  31(6), pp. 176-179.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1864-8371.2022.06.05

• Bütikofer, Stephan; Hofer, Christoph,

  2018.

  Development of a consistent approach for inventory control of Unit Load Devices (ULD) in international air transportation.

  In:

  OR2018, Operations Research Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 12-14 September 2018.

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