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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枚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

Katarina Ulfsdotter Gunnarsson, Martin Henriksson, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) BMJ Public Health, Vol. 4, Article e003503 (Article in journal)
Elizabeth S. Collier, Marie Lof, Preben Bendtsen, Joel Crawford, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) BMC Research Notes, Vol. 19, Article 279 (Article in journal)
Anne H. Berman, Claes Andersson, Marcus Bendtsen, Petra Lindfors, Nooshin Talebizadeh, Naira Topooco, Olof Molander (2026) International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Vol. 35, Article e70080 (Article in journal)
Joel Crawford, Katarina 脜sberg, Jenny Blomqvist, Oskar Lundgren, Hanna Henriksson, Pontus Henriksson, Preben Bendtsen, Marie L枚f, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, Vol. 28, Article e88881 (Article in journal)
Ann Catrine Eldh, Marcus Bendtsen (2026) Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, Vol. 32, Article e70423 (Article in journal)

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