Thecollectedcontributionscontainedwithinthisbookhavebeenwrittenbyfriends andcolleaguestoacknowledgeLudwigFahrmeir swidespreadandimportantimpact onStatisticsasascience, whilecelebratinghis65thBirthday. Asayoungstudent, LudwigstartedhiscareerasaMathematician, buthequickly turnedintoarisingandshiningstarwithintheGermanandinternationalStatistics community. HesoonobtainedbothhisPhDandhisHabilitationattheTechnical UniversityofMunich. AfterashortperiodasavisitingprofessorattheUniversity ofDortmund, ...
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Thecollectedcontributionscontainedwithinthisbookhavebeenwrittenbyfriends andcolleaguestoacknowledgeLudwigFahrmeir swidespreadandimportantimpact onStatisticsasascience, whilecelebratinghis65thBirthday. Asayoungstudent, LudwigstartedhiscareerasaMathematician, buthequickly turnedintoarisingandshiningstarwithintheGermanandinternationalStatistics community. HesoonobtainedbothhisPhDandhisHabilitationattheTechnical UniversityofMunich. AfterashortperiodasavisitingprofessorattheUniversity ofDortmund, hereturnedtohishomelandBavariaandwasappointedFullProfessor ofStatisticsattheUniversityofRegensburg, attheageof32. Someyearslater, hemovedtothecapitalofBavariaandbecameProfessoratthe DepartmentofStatisticsattheUniversityofMunich. Hisappointmenthadsigni?cant impactontheDepartmentsince, soonafterhisarrival, Ludwigstartedaninitiative toestablishacollaborativeresearchcenteronthe StatisticalAnalysisofDiscrete Structures. Afterasuccessfulapplicationforinitialfunding, furtherfundingwas extendedseveraltimes, untiltheresearchcenterreachedthemaximumperiodfor fundingin2006. Duringthecompleteduration, Ludwigservedasaspeakerofthe researchcenterand tociteoneofthe?nalreferees manageditinaneasyand ef?cientwayandcontributedseveralimportantresults. Duringthelastfortyyears, Ludwig sworkhashadtremendousimpactontheS- tisticscommunity. Hewasamongthe?rstresearcherstorecognizetheimportance ofgeneralizedlinearmodelsandcontributedinaseriesofpaperstothetheoretical backgroundofthatmodelclass. Hisinterestinstatisticalmodellingledtothe- ganizationofaworkshopon StatisticalModellingandGeneralizedLinearModels (GLIM) inMunichin1992andculminatedinthehighlycitedmonographon M- tivariateStatisticalModellingBasedonGeneralizedLinearModels thatsawtwo printingsandremainstobeakeyreferenceonappliedstatisticalmodellingutilizing generalizedlinearmodels. Ludwigalsohadgreatin?uenceonthecreationofthe StatisticalModellingSociety, andiscurrentlyontheadvisoryboardofthecor- spondingjournalon StatisticalModelling. Boththesocietyandjournalemerged outoftheearlyGLIMworkshopsandproceedings. v vi Foreword Ofcourse, Ludwig sworkisde?nitelynotrestrictedtogeneralizedlinearmodels but onthecontrary spansawiderangeofmodernStatistics. Heco-authoredor co-editedseveralmonographs, e. g. onMultivariateStatistics, StochasticProcesses, MeasurementofCreditRisks, aswellaspopulartextbooksonRegressionandan IntroductiontoStatistics. Hisrecentresearchcontributionsaremostlyconcentrated insemiparametricregressionandspatialstatisticswithinaBayesianframework. When?rstcirculatingtheideaofaFestschriftforthecelebrationofLudwig s 65thbirthday, allpotentialcontributorswereextremelypositive, manyimmediately agreeingtocontribute. ThesereactionsatesttoLudwig shighpersonalandp- fessionalappreciationinthestatisticalcommunity. Thefarreachingandvarietyof subjectscoveredwithinthesecontributionsalsorepresentsLudwig sbroadinterest andimpactinmanybranchesofmodernStatistics. BotheditorsofthisFestschriftwereluckyenoughtoworkwithLudwigatseveral occasionsandinparticularearlyintheircareersasPhDstudentsandPostDocs. His personalandprofessionalmentorshipandhisstrongcommitmentmadehimaperfect supervisorandhispatient, con?dentandencouragingworkingstylewillalwaysbe rememberedbyallofhisstudentsandcolleagues. Ludwigalwaysprovidedafriendly workingenvironmentthatmadeitapleasureandanhonortobeapartofhisworking group. WeareproudtobeabletosaythatLudwigismuchmorethanacolleague butturnedintoafriendforbothofus. OldenburgandMunich, January2010 ThomasKneib, GerhardTutz Acknowledgements Theeditorswouldliketoexpresstheirgratitudeto allauthorsofthisvolumefortheiragreementtocontributeandtheireasyco- erationatseveralstagesofputtingtogetherthe?nalversionoftheFestschrift. JohannaBrandt, JanGertheiss, AndreasGroll, FelixHeinzl, SebastianPetry, Jan UlbrichtandStephanieRubenbauerfortheirinvaluablecontributionsinproof- A readingandcorrectionofthepapers, aswellasinsolvingseveralLTX-related E problems. theSpringerVerlagforagreeingtopublishthisFestschriftandinparticularNils-
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