Dr. Florian Meinfelder (Academic Senior Councillor)

Room F21/00.79
Feldkirchenstraße 21
96045 Bamberg

Phone: 0951-863-2741

E-Mail

Mail for Master Survey Statistics: miss(at)uni-bamberg.de

Consultation hours: by appointment

Research Fields

• Data analysis with missing values
• Data fusion
• Empirical Bayes procedures
• Nearest-Neighbour-Algorithms

Brief Biography

Florian Meinfelder has been working at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics since 2010 as a lecturer for special tasks and coordinator for the Master's programme Survey Statistics. From 2002 to 2010, he worked in middle management at GfK SE in the Media Research division, where he headed the international Competence Center Data Integration. After studying social sciences at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and external research stays at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Florian Meinfelder completed his doctorate in statistics externally with Prof. Dr. Susanne Rässler at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg in 2009.

Florian Meinfelder is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Official Statistics. In his free time, he enjoys playing football and spending time in the mountains.

Selected Publications

• Meinfelder, F., & Kluge, R. (eds.) (2019): Bad Science: Die dunkle Seite der Statistik, Vahlen.
• Drechsler, J.; Kiesl, H.; Meinfelder, F.; Raghunathan, T.E.; Rubin, D.B.; Schenker, N.; Zell, E.R. (2019): In Memory of Professor Susanne Rässler, Journal of Official Statistics, 35 (1), pp. 285-286.
• Gaffert, P.; Meinfelder, F.; Bosch, V. (2018): Towards Multiple-Imputation-Proper Predictive Mean Matching, Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting 2018, Survey Research Methods Section.
• Kamgar, S.; Meinfelder, F.; Münnich, R.; Navvabpour, H. (2018): Estimation within the new integrated system of household surveys in Germany, Statistical Papers, pp. 1-27.
• Eckert, S.; Dittfeld, M.; Meinfelder, F. (2016): Necessary, Sufficient or Redundant? On the Role of Country-Specific Legal Institutions and Firm-Specific Intangible Assets for the Evaluation Impact of Corporate Multinationality, European Journal of Management, 16 (1), pp. 23-42.
• Fernandes, J.M.; Meinfelder F.; Moury, C. (2016): Wary Partners: Strategic Portfolio Allocation and Coalition Governance in Parliamentary Democracies, Comparative Political Studies.
• Meinfelder, F.; Raghunathan, T.E.; Rässler, S. (2015): Strategies for Multiply Imputing Missing Integer Values or Rounded Variables, submitted to Survey Methodology.
• Meinfelder, F., & Schnapp, T. (2015): BaBooN: Bayesian Bootstrap Predictive Mean Matching – Multiple and Single Imputation for Discrete Data, Version 0.2.0, cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BaBooN/index.html.
• Bahrami, S.; Aßmann, C.; Meinfelder, F.; Rässler, S. (2014): A Split Questionnaire Survey Design for Data with Block Structure Correlation Matrix. In: Improving survey methods lessons from recent research (eds. Engel, U.; Jann, B.; Lynn, P.; Scherpenzeel A.; Sturgis, P.), York, Routledge.
• Meinfelder, F. (2014): Multiple Imputation: An Attempt to Retell the Evolutionary Process, AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, 8 (4), pp. 249-267.
• Scheel, J.; Parthum, A.; Dimova, V.; Horn-Hoffmann, C.; Meinfelder, F.; Carbon, R.; Grießinger, N.; Sittl, R.; Lautenbacher, S. (2014): Psychologisches Prophylaxetraining zur Bewältigung postoperativer Schmerzen. Langfristige Effekte, Der Schmerz, 28 (5), pp. 513-519.
• Meinfelder, F. (2013): Datenfusion: Theoretische Implikationen und praktische Umsetzung. In: Weiterentwicklung der amtlichen Haushaltsstatistiken. (eds. Riede, T.; Ott, N.; Bechthold, S.), pp. 83-100, 1st ed., Berlin, GWI Wissenschaftspolitik Infrastrukturentwicklung.
• Eckert, S.; Dittfeld, M.; Meinfelder, F. (2012): Do Firm-Specific Intangible Assets Compensate Weak Legal Institutions? Empirical Evidence on the Relationship between Multinationality and Value from European Firms. In: Rethinking the roles of business, government and NGOs in global economy (eds. Feinberg, S.; & Kiyat, T.),AIB 2012 Proceedings, 54th AIB Annual Meeting.
• Koller-Meinfelder, F. (2009): Analysis of Incomplete Survey Data – Multiple Imputation via Bayesian Bootstrap Predictive Mean Matching, Dissertation, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
• Koller-Meinfelder, F. (2009): Fragebogensplitting – Reduzierung der Antwortbelastung durch Datenergänzung. In: Datenwelten – Datenerhebung und Datenbestände in der Politikwissenschaft (eds. Schnapp, K.-U.; Behnke, N.; Behnke, J.), pp. 152-173, Baden-Baden, Nomos-Verlag.
• Koller, F. (2006): Getting the most from auxiliary information in personal interviews, White Paper, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
• Rässler, S., Koller, F., Mäenpää, C. (2002): A Split Questionnaire Survey Design applied to German Media and Consumer Surveys, Proceedings of the International Conference on Improving Surveys, ICIS 2002, Copenhagen.