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Estimating basal properties of glaciers and ice streams from surface measurements
(2007)Mitteilungen / Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule ZürichDoctoral Thesis -
Transpiration as the Leak in the Carbon Factory: A Model of Self-Optimising Vegetation
(2007)Doctoral Thesis -
A symbolic approach to the state graph based analysis of high-level Markov reward models
(2007)Doctoral Thesis -
Monetary and fiscal policies in currency board systems and monetary unions
(2007)In my thesis, I analyze fiscal and monetary policies in currency board systems and monetary unions. Both systems have greatly gained in importance since the beginning of the 1990ies. Currency boards were successfully introduced to re-establish credibility during periods of hyperinflation or of economic transition. The importance of monetary unions is a consequence of the establishment of the Euro-currency area in 1999. In the first part ...Doctoral Thesis -
Nonparametric estimation for current status data with competing risks
(2007)We study current status data with competing risks. Such data arise naturally in cross-sectional survival studies with several failure causes. Moreover, generalizations of these data arise in HIV vaccine clinical trials. The general framework is as follows. We analyze a system that can fail from K competing risks, where K ∈ N is fixed. The random variables of interest are (X, Y), where X ∈ R+ = (0, ∞) is the failure time of the system, and ...Doctoral Thesis -