Scholar
Lucas Kook
Google Scholar ID: mkbueQkAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Citations & Impact
Citations
587
H-index
12
i10-index
13
Publications
20
Co-authors
11
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: 'Instrumental Variable Estimation of Distributional Causal Effects' (Electronic Journal of Statistics); 'Model-based causal feature selection for general response types' (Journal of the American Statistical Association); 'Algorithm-agnostic significance testing in supervised learning with multimodal data' (Briefings in Bioinformatics); 'Estimating Conditional Distributions with Neural Networks using R package deeptrafo' (Journal of Statistical Software). Serves as Associate Editor and Replication Editor for the Journal of Statistical Software and Associate Editor for Advances in Statistical Analysis. Received the Early-Career Presentation Award (Runner-up) at the International Workshop on Statistical Modelling.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business; Postdoctoral Researcher in statistics and causal inference at the Copenhagen Causality Lab, collaborating with Niklas Pfister and Jonas Peters.
Education
- PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Zurich, supervised by Beate Sick and Torsten Hothorn. PhD research focused on developing methods for distributional regression using deep learning and causal inference to improve treatment decisions for acute ischemic stroke patients.
Background
- Research Interests: Intersection of distributional regression and causal inference, with a focus on biomedical applications. Professional Field: Statistics.
Miscellany
- Personal interests not mentioned
