Contact to research partners in Germany and abroad

Riccardo Borgoni

Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Research interests: Analysis of environmental and spatial data; Methods for handling non-response; Graphical and chain graph models for longitudinal data

Jan van den Brakel

Maastricht University (Netherlands)
Research interests: Sampling; Weighting; Variance estimation; Design and analysis of experiments embedded in probability samples; Small area estimation; Time series modelling of series observed through repeated surveys

Ray Chambers

University of Wollongong (Australia)
Research interests: Sample survey design and analysis; Robust statistical methods; Graphical methods in statistics; Computer intensive statistical methods; Statistical modelling and inference; Analysis of computer-linked data

Ralf Münnich

Universit?t Trier (Germany)
Research interests: Survey statistics; Sampling; Variance estimation; Data quality in complex surveys; Computational statistics and Monte-Carlo methods; Microsimulation

Ulrich Rendtel

Freie Universit?t Berlin (Germany)
Research interests: Survey statistics; Calibration; Panel surveys; Non-response; Panel attrition

Natalia Rojas-Perilla

Freie Universit?t Berlin (Germany)
Research interests: Survey statistics; Small area estimation; Poverty mapping; Spatial statistics; Quality control charts; Linear mixed models

Nicola Salvati

Universita di Pisa (Italy)
Research interests: Survey sampling; Model-assisted and design-based inference; Robust regression; Multilevel models; Geographically weighted regression; Spatial statistics

Paul Smith

University of Southampton (UK)
Research interests: Estimating and adjusting for coverage errors in censuses; Estimation of discontinuities in statistical series; Sampling; Weighting; Estimation methods for business and social surveys

Rebecca Steorts

Duke University (US)
Research interests: Record linkage; Clustering; Bayesian methodology and applications; Machine learning; Locality sensitive hashing; Privacy-preserving record linkage

Matthias Templ

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
Research interests: Computational Statistics; Compositional data analysis; Robust statistics; Imputation; Visualization; Statistical disclosure control

Nikos Tzavidis

University of Southampton (UK)
Research interests: Small area estimation; M-quantile and quantile regression; Robust estimation for random effects models; Analysis of multilevel and longitudinal data

Li-Chun Zhang

University of Southampton (UK)
Research interests: Data integration; Statistical uses of administrative sources; Graph sampling; Treatment of non-sampling error; Small area estimation; Statistical data editing; Statistical learning