Statistics and Data Analysis Group

Sina Mews (M.Sc.)

Research associate (PhD student)

Room: V9-128
Phone: +49 521 106-4885
E-mail: sina.mews@uni-bielefeld.de

CV

• Since 06/2018: PhD student in the Statistics and Data Analysis Group
• 10/2015-06/2018: M.Sc. in Statistical Science, Bielefeld University
• 10/2011-09/2015: B.A. in Applied Literary and Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund
• 09/2013-12/2013: Erasmus semester at University of Angers, France

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• van Beest, F., Mews, S., Elkenkamp, S., Schuhmann, P., Tsolak, D., Wobbe, T., Bartolino, V., Bastardie, F., Dietz, R., von Dorrien, C., ..., Langrock, R. (2019)
  "Classifying grey seal behavior in relation to environmental variability and commercial fishing activity – a multivariate hidden Markov model"
  Scientific Reports, 9, 5642
• Mews, S., Pöge, A. (2019)
  "Das Zusammenspiel von Selbstbildern, motivationalen und emotionalen Orientierungen sowie deren Einfluss auf die Mathematikleistung in der PISA-Studie 2012"
  Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 22(4), 899-924
• Langrock, R., Adam, T., Leos-Barajas, V., Mews, S., Miller, D.L., Papastamatiou, Y.P. (2018)
  "Spline-based nonparametric inference in general state-switching models"
  Statistica Neerlandica, 72(3), 179-200

Current preprints

• Mews, S., Langrock, R., Ötting, M., Yaqine, H., Reinecke, J. (2020)
  "Maximum approximate likelihood estimation of general continuous-time state-space models"
  arXiv:2010.14883
• Mews, S., Ötting, M. (2020)
  "Continuous-time state-space modelling of the hot hand in basketball"
  arXiv:2011.04384

• Mews, S., Langrock, R., King, R., Quick, N. (2020)
  "Continuous-time multi-state capture-recapture models"
  arXiv:2002.10997

Other publications

• Mews, S., Ötting, M., Yaqine, H., Langrock, R. (2020)
  "Continuous-time modelling of the hot hand effect in basketball free throws"
  Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Volume I, 165-168
• Mews, S., Langrock, R., King, R., Schemm, J., Janzen, I., Quick, N. (2019)
  "A continuous-time capture-recapture model for annual movements of bottlenose dolphins"
  Proceedings of the 34th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Volume I, 169-174
• Gerick, J., Vennemann, M., Eickelmann, B., Bos, W., Mews, S. (2018)
  ICILS 2013 - Dokumentation der Erhebungsinstrumente der International Computer and Information Literacy Study
  Münster: Waxmann
• Mews, S. (2014)
  "Rezension des Buches von M.T. Tatto et al. (Hrsg.). (2012). Policy, practice, and readiness to teach primary and secondary mathematics in 17 countries: Findings from the IEA Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M). Amsterdam: IEA."
  Journal for Educational Research Online, 6(2), 135-140

Talks & posters

• "Multi-state capture-recapture in continuous time", 7th International Statistical Ecology Conference (held online), June 2020
• "Investigating the hot hand effect in continuous time", 8th Young Researchers Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, November 2019
• "A continuous-time Arnason-Schwarz model for the annual movement of bottlenose dolphins", Royal Statistical Society International Conference, Belfast, UK, September 2019
• "A continuous-time capture-recapture model for annual movements of bottlenose dolphins", 34th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Guimarães, Portugal, July 2019
• "A continuous-time capture-recapture model for the annual movement of bottlenose dolphins", Statistical Computing, Günzburg, July 2019
• "A multi-state capture-recapture model in continuous time for the annual movement of bottlenose dolphins", 7th Young Researchers Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, May 2019
• "A continuous-time multi-state capture-recapture model for the annual movement of bottlenose dolphins on the east coast of Scotland", 5th DAGStat, Munich, March 2019
• "Nonparametric estimation in hidden Markov models using the EM algorithm", 11th CMStatistics, Pisa, Italy, December 2018
• "Nonparametric estimation in hidden Markov models using the EM algorithm", 6th Young Researchers Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, December 2018
• "Grey seal behaviour in relation to environmental variability and commercial fishing activity – an analysis using multivariate hidden Markov models", 6th International Statistical Ecology Conference, St Andrews, UK, July 2018
• "Grey seal behaviour in relation to environmental variability and commercial fishing activity – an analysis using multivariate hidden Markov models", 5th Young Researchers Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, June 2018
• "Statistical Literacy von Schülerinnen und Schülern in Deutschland – Empirische Analysen auf der Grundlage von PISA 2012", Herbsttagung der Kommission Bildungsplanung, Bildungsorganisation und Bildungsrecht (KBBB) in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE), Paderborn, September 2016

Awards

• "Best student presentation award", 34th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Guimarães, Portugal, July 2019
• "1. Posterpreis", Herbsttagung der Kommission Bildungsplanung, Bildungsorganisation und Bildungsrecht (KBBB) in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE), Paderborn, September 2016

Teaching

• "Statistical Consulting", winter terms 2018/19 & 2019/20
• Practicals for the lecture ''Multivariate Methods'', winter term 2019/20
• Practicals for the lecture ''Hidden Markov Models'', summer term 2019
• Reading Course on "Flexible Regression and Smoothing. Using GAMLSS in R" (Stasinopoulos et al., 2017), winter term 2018/19