The availability of well-educated researchers is necessary for the fruitful analysis of social and economic data. The increased data offer made possible by the creation of the Research Data Centers has resulted in an increased demand for PhD students at the master’s or Diplom levels. Especially in economics, where we find intense competition among the various individual subjects within the course of ...
Anhand eines persönlichen Rückblicks auf die Fortschritte in den Bereichen Rechnerentwicklung, Datenzugang und Entwicklung von Statistik-Software werden Trends für die zukünftige Entwicklung der Statistik im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaft hergeleitet. Insbesondere werden die Rolle von R, neue Möglichkeiten des Datenzugangs, das Verhältnis zur Amtlichen Statistik und die Einführung ...
A bootstrap strategy for detecting non-ignorable panel attrition is proposed. The strategy is based on the diflerence of the original estimate and an estimate that is obtained by reducing the original sample by a second attrition experiment. The attrition propensities are estimated from previous wave information and field work information of the current panel wave. The routine may be used to estimate ...