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Marcus Bendtsen

Senior Associate Professor

Digital interventions can help individuals change their behaviours - my research is focused on quantitative estimation of the effects of interventions, including for whom the interventions are most beneficial and how they effect society.

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I am a senior associate professor in biostatistics in public health. My focus is on the estimation of effects of interventions and its methodological challenges.

My research is centred on digital lifestyle interventions, for instance mobile phone-based interventions that aim to help individuals reduce their alcohol consumption. I primarily aim to investigate the effects of lifestyle interventions through quantitative means: the total effect on a population, the effect on specific individuals, identification of subgroups for whom the interventions have the greatest/least effect, and how interventions effect different mediating psychosocial factors.

Bayesian statistics offer an alternative to the point estimating and dichotomising tradition that is prevalent today. I actively seek to spread knowledge about this alternative through publications and seminars, and through the use of Bayesian statistics in my own research.

I teach at both the medical and technical faculties at Link繹ping University. At the medical faculty, I am involved in e-health-related courses for master's students and epidemiology for Ph.D. and medical students. At the technical faculty, I am the examiner and course leader for the IT engineers' project course, and I am also part of the planning committee for the IT engineers.

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Publications

2026

Anna Seiterö, Pontus Henriksson, Kristin Thomas, Marie Lof, Marcus Bendtsen, Ulrika Müssener (2026) JMIR mhealth and uhealth, Vol. 14, Article e88054 (Article in journal)
Kanya Anindya, Marcus Bendtsen, Tomas Jernberg, Susanna Calling, Lars Lind, Lars Weinehall, Nawi Ng, Maria Rosvall (2026) Scientific Reports, Vol. 16, Article 8255 (Article in journal)
Katarina Åsberg, Oskar Lundgren, Hanna Olsson, Pontus Henriksson, Ann Catrine Eldh, Preben Bendtsen, Marie Löf, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol. 28, Article e88884 (Article in journal)
Joel Crawford, Jenny Blomqvist, Katarina Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson, Preben Bendtsen, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) JMIR mhealth and uhealth, Vol. 14, Article e63578 (Article in journal)
Jordi Alonso, Maria V. Petukhova, Sue Lee, Nancy A. Sampson, Yasmin A. Altwaijri, Ahmad N. AlHadi, Nouf K. Al-Saud, Claes Andersson, Randy P. Auerbach, Laura Ballester, Jason Bantjes, Marcus Bendtsen, Corina Benjet, Anne H. Berman, Paula Carrasco, Silver C. N. Chan, Irina Cohut, Marcelo A. Crockett, Pim Cuijpers, Oana A. David, Dong Dong, Jorge Gaete, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Carlos Garcia Forero, Margalida Gili, Raul A. Gutierrez-Garcia, Josep Maria Haro, Xanthe Hunt, Alvaro I. Langer, Irene Leniz, Yan Liu, Scarlett Mac-Ginty, Vania Martinez, Andre Mason, Andrea Miranda-Mendizabal, Daniel Nunez, Claudiu C. Papasteri, Jose A. Piqueras, Codruta A. Popescu, Charlene Rapsey, Tiscar Rodriguez-Jimenez, Wylene Saal, Oi-Ling Siu, Dan J. Stein, Sascha Y. Struijs, Cristina T. Tomoiaga, Samuel Y. S. Wong, Gemma Vilagut, Ronald C. Kessler (2026) Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol. 397, Article 120847 (Article in journal)

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