Professor Harry Haupt

Professor Harry Haupt has held the Chair of Statistics at the University of Passau since 2012 and, since 2014, the post of Vice President for Research, Advancement of Early Career Researchers and Internationalisation. Prior to that, he held the Chair of Econometrics and Statistics of the University of Bielefeld from 2007 to 2012. He has been a member of the board of the German Statistical Society since 2012, where he heads the Statistical Theory and Methods Section.

'We are observing the rapid growth of available complex data sets and structures that cannot be satisfactorily reconciled with the rigid and restrictive assumptions of traditional methods in statistics and Data Science. This is due to the existence of unstable, non-linear and complex interdependencies between groups and individuals and their heterogeneity. We develop statistical methods to describe and model these phenomena in the language of statistics. Subsequently, we use these as a basis to develop suitable prediction models and to evaluate their reliability.'

Related research

Professor Haupt's research is focused on the development of semi- and nonparametric regression and prediction models. In addition to theoretical research on the statistical properties of the developed methods, empirical work is being carried out on a wide range of applications and projects in economics, business and other disciplines.

Behm S., Haupt H. and A. Schmid [2018] Spatial detrending revisited: Modelling local trend patterns in NO2-concentration in Belgium and Germany, Spatial statistics, article in press.
Haupt H., Schnurbus J. and W. Semmler [2018], Estimation of grouped, time-varying convergence in economic growth, Econometrics and Statistics 8, 141–158.
Scholz M., Schnurbus J., Haupt H., Dorner V., Landherr A. and F. Probst [2018] Dynamic Effects of User- and Marketer-Generated Content on Consumer Purchase Behavior: Modeling the Hierarchical Structure of Social Media Websites, Decision Support Systems 113, 43–55.
Schnurbus J., Haupt H. and V. Meier [2017] Economic transition and growth – A replication, Journal of Applied Econometrics 32, 1039–1042.
Fritsch M., Haupt H. and P.T. Ng [2016] Urban house price surfaces near a World Heritage Site: modeling conditional price and spatial heterogeneity, Regional Science and Urban Economics 60, 260–275.
Oberhofer, W. & Haupt, H. 2016. Asymptotic theory for nonlinear quantile regression under weak dependence. Econometric Theory, 32: 686–713.

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