Peter Hackl

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What role has statistics to play in fighting Covid-19?

Everybody in our society is eager to know the latest news about the Covid-19 pandemic, the numbers of newly infected persons, death rates and other epidemiological facts. The alarming economic...

13 April 2020 6,988 29 View

How can official statistics survive in times of smart statistics"?

The notion “smart statistics” is a by-product of the exponentially growing amount of data in our world: A large part of this growing amount of data is attributed to changes in styles of...

29 July 2019 9,375 12 View

Given a certain class of income distributions (eg. non-negative, skewed), can lower and upper limits be derived for the risk of poverty rate?

Within the EU, a person is considered at risk of poverty (RoP) if the person's income is less than 60% of the median income of the population the person is living in. The risk of poverty is...

19 February 2019 8,758 2 View

Are the right data available for measuring Human Development?

Human Development Reports have been annually published by the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990; see hdr.undp.org/en. The discussion...

01 January 1970 3,529 0 View