At CBS, it is of course not theoretical results that carry weight in a research context, but rather the application of statistical models and methods in relation to other business economic disciplines.

Typical research results at the Center for Statistics thus consist of a co-worker or group of co-workers, either personally or indirectly via advising, having successfully applied a statistical model to solve a problem; the most successful cases being when the method, or one similar to it, has never before been applied to the problem.

Because reading about such scenarios in detail can easily be a bit tiresome, we will not attempt to present a list here. Thus, with regard to more major research results, we refer you to:

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With regard to the many minor research results, it can only be said that they generally occur unnoticed in connection with teaching or conversations with colleagues. A somewhat unusual statistical model perhaps has been introduced in connection with a course or while advising, and suddenly you discover that a student has applied precisely that model to something totally different at their place of work. 90% of the time you never even know that this has happened, and some would perhaps even claim that this does not belong under the term research. In regard to statistics, however, (as with other disciplines used as a tool) many important communication activities belong exclusively to neither teaching nor research, but somewhere in between. This, however, does not make them less useful.