Prof. Dr. Christian Kleiber
Professor (Ökonometrie und Statistik)
Büro
WWZ / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik
Peter Merian-Weg 6
4002
Basel
Schweiz
Christian Kleiber is Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Basel.
His research interests are statistical distributions, size distributions in economics and related fields (distributions of income and wealth, actuarial losses, firm sizes, city sizes, ...), income distribution and inequality measurement, stochastic orders and their applications, statistical foundations of data science, count data, especially regression models, time series analysis, econometric and statistical computing, reproducible empirical and computational research, and the history of statistics and econometrics.
Statistical terminology in popular culture:
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu, 1926.
Selected Publications
I am a coauthor of the following R packages (Licensed by CC-BY-SA 4.0):
- A new project: package "countreg" aims at providing tools for count data regression. This is still under development, hence not yet available via CRAN. The package contains, among other things, the fitting functions for hurdle and zero-inflation models that have been available via the "pscl" package before. Current (installable!) versions are available from the R-Forge development server at R-Forge.R-project.org/projects/countreg/.
- "AER: Applied Econometrics with R" Functions, data sets, examples and vignettes for the book Applied Econometrics with R, Springer 2008 (with Achim Zeileis).
Available at CRAN.R-project.org/package=AER (first release: 2008-05-28). - "strucchange: An R package for testing, dating and monitoring of structural change in linear regression relationships" (with Achim Zeileis, Friedrich Leisch, Kurt Hornik).
Available at CRAN.R-project.org/package=strucchange (first release: 2001-05-17).