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Research Interests
- Survey Statistics
- Survey sampling, variance estimation, and data quality in complex surveys
- Computational statistics and Monte-Carlo methods
- Small area estimation
- Indices and indicators
- Microsimulation methods and applications
- Numerical algrorithms in survey statistics
Scientific Career
| 2005 | Habilitation, University of Tübingen. Venia legendi: Statistics and Operations Research. Title of the habilitation thesis: Datenqualität in komplexen Stichprobenerhebungen (Data quality in komplex surveys) |
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| 1996 | Dr. rer. pol., University of Tübingen. Title of the dissertation: Gebundene Hochrechnung bei Stichprobenerhebungen mit Hilfe von Splines (Regression estimation in survey sampling using splines) |
| 1987-1991 | Study of mathematics and economics, University of Tübingen |
| 1984-1987 | Study of mathematics and economics, University of Heidelberg |
Academic Positions
| since 2011 | Full Professor (W3), Professor for Economic and Social Statistics |
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| 2006-2011 | Full Professor (W2), Professor for Economic and Social Statistics |
| 2005-2006 | Substitute Professor (W2), Chair of Economic and Social Statistics |
| 1997- 2005 | Akademischer Rat (Assistant professor with tenure), University of Tübingen, Chair of Statistics, Economics and Operations Research |
| 1991-1997 | Research and teaching assistant, University of Tübingen, Chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Operations Research |
Professional Recognition
| since 16/09/2020 | Chairman of the German Statistical Association |
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| 2013-2017 | Council Member of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) |
| since 2013 | Representative of the German Statistical Association in the Statistics Board of Germany |
| 2012 | Job appointment to Stockholm University |
| 2011 | Elected Member of the International Statistical institute |
| 2011 | Job appointment to TU Dortmund University and Bielefeld University |
| 2011-2012 | Dean of Faculty IV (Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Informatics), Trier University |
| since 2009 | Board member in the German Statistical Association |
| 2009-2014 | Head of the Section of Survey Methods in the German Statistical Association |
| since 2008 | Representative of Germany in the International Association of Survey Statisticans (IASS) |
| 2006-2009 | Director of the International Graduate Centre, Trier University |
Editorial Boards
| 2011-2016 | Editor in chief, AStA: Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv |
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| 2007-2011 | Associate Editor of AStA: Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv |
| since 2010 | Associate Editor of IJSMS: International Journal of Statistics and Management System |
| 2009-2013 | Associate Editor of AStA: Advances in Statistical Analysis |
| since 2007 | Associate Editor of Survey Research Methods |
Selected Projects
| since 2018 | DFG-Forschergruppe FOR2559: Sektorenübergreifendes kleinräumiges Mikrosimulationsmodell (MikroSim) |
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| since 2016 | Research Training Group ALOP |
| 2014-2019 | Statistisches Bundesamt: Research Initiative for Official and Survey Statistics (RIFOSS) |
| 2010-2013 | FP7-SSH-2009-6-BLUE-ETS: BLUE-Enterprises and Trade Statistics (BLUE-ETS) |
| 2009-2011 | Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Bundesamt für Statistik: Simulation der Strukturerhebung und Kleingebiet-Schätzungen zur Schweizerischen Volkszählung 2010 (Schweizer Zensus) |
| 2008-2011 | FP7-SSH-2007-1-217322-AMELI: Advanced Methodology for European Laeken Indicators (AMELI) |
| 2008-2011 | Bundesministerium des Inneren / Statistisches Bundesamt: Der registergestützte Zensus 2011: Methoden und Stichproben. Forschungsprojekt zusammen mit der GESIS Mannheim (PD Dr. Siegfried Gabler) (Zensus 2011) |
Further informations to the recent and current research projects are available here.
Recent Publications
Wagner, Julian; Münnich, Ralf; Hill, Joachim; Stoffels, Johannes; Udelhoven, Thomas: Nonparametric Small Area Models using Shape-Constrained Penalized B-Splines. In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A (2017). Accepted.
Münnich, Ralf; Wagner, Julian; Hill, Joachim; Stoffels, Johannes; Buddenbaum,Henning; Udelhoven, Thomas: Estimation of timber reserves using remote sensing data. In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv (2016), 1-18. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11943-016-0186-0)
Gattone, Stefano A.; Mohamed, Esha; Dryver, Arthur L.; Münnich, Ralf T.: Adaptive cluster sampling for negatively correlated data. In: Environmetrics 27 (2016), No. 2, E103-E113. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/env.2381)
Dostal, Lucie; Gabler, Siegfried; Ganninger, Matthias; Münnich, Ralf T.: Frame Correction Modeling with Applications to the German Register-assisted Census 2011. In: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 43 (2016), No. 3, 904-920. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12220)
Schmid, Timo; Tzavidis, Nikos; Münnich, Ralf T.; Chambers, Ray: Outlier robust small area estimation under spatial correlation. In: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 43 (2016), No. 3, 806-826. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12205)
Münnich, Ralf T. ; Burgard, Jan P. ; Gabler, Siegfried ; Ganninger, Matthias ; Kolb, Jan-Philipp: Small area estimation in the German Census 2011. In: Statistics in Transition and Survey Methodology 17 (2016), No. 1, 25-40. (http://stat.gov.pl/en/sit-en/joint-issue-part-ii-early-view/)
A complete list of publications can be found here (as of August 12, 2016).