Dr. Ariane Würbach

Forschungsdatenzentrum, Methodenentwicklung | Methoden der Survey-Statistik

Vita

05/2020 – Heute
Arbeitsbereichsleitung Methoden der Survey-Statistik, inkl. Leitung der Arbeitseinheit Stichprobenziehung, Gewichtung und Imputation am LIfBi
04/2019– 04/2020
Koordination des Projektes Stichprobenziehung, Gewichtung und Imputation (kommissarisch) am LIfBi
04/2016– 03/2018
Lehraufträge für Übungen Methoden der Statistik III, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Lehrstuhl Statistik und Ökonometrie
01/2014– 04/2020
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Arbeitsbereich Methoden der Survey-Statistik am LIfBi
01/2012– 03/2016
Lehrdeputat für Übungen Methoden der Statistik I und II, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Lehrstuhl Statistik und Ökonometrie
09/2011– 09/2016
Promotion an der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Lehrstuhl Statistik und Ökonometrie (Titel „Modeling and estimating income data in the presence of distinctive zero and heaped responses“)
05/2011– 12/2013
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, NEPS, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Methodengruppe
12/2009– 03/2011
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, REPKA, TU Kaiserslautern, Lehrgebiet Stadtsoziologie

Mitwirkung an Datensätzen

Mitwirkung an der Entstehung des Datenangebots des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) mit Releasedaten ab 2017 gemäß der Listung unter https://www.lifbi.de/de-de/Start/Daten-Services/Daten-und-Dokumentation/SUF-Übersicht

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Publikationen

2026

Aßmann, C., Dumpert, F., Würbach, A., & Lange, K. (2026). Reflections on (Auto-)E&I in Official Statistics. In F. Frantella, S. Arima, M. F. Marino, & C. Mollica (Eds.), Statistical Science: From Theory to Applied Research I : SIS-FENStatS 2026, Short Papers, Plenary, Specialized, FENStatS, and Solicited Sessions (1, pp. 70–75). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-30873-3_12

2024

Aßmann, C., Gnambs, T., Konrad, A., & Würbach, A. (2024). Estimation of Corona effects on mathematical competencies in grade 9 using NEPS data: Methodological companion (LIfBi Working Paper No. 113). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories. https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:WP113:1.0

2023

Würbach, A., & Aßmann, C. (2023). The composite weight of CILS4NEPS: Joint weighting of the German CILS4EU sample and the sample of Starting Cohort 4 of the German National Educational Panel Study (wave 1) (NEPS Research Data Paper). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/CILS4NEPS:SUF:1.0

2022

Aßmann, C., Landrock, U., & Würbach, A. (2022). Ein Blick aus vielen Perspektiven: Was längsschnittliche Studien wie das Nationale Bildungspanel (NEPS) bei der Analyse von Übergängen leisten. SchulVerwaltung spezial, (5), 202 - 205.

2021

Würbach, A., Landrock, U., Schnapp, T., Ziesmer, J., & Bergrab, M. (2021). NEPS Technical Report for weighting – the additional Corona survey of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS Survey Paper No. 89). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP89:1.0

2020

Zinn, S., Würbach, A., Steinhauer, H. W., & Hammon, A. (2020). Attrition and selectivity of the NEPS Starting Cohorts: An overview of the past 8 years. AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, 14(2), 163-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11943-020-00268-7

2019

Aßmann, C., Steinhauer, H. W., Würbach, A., Zinn, S., Hammon, A., Kiesl, H., Rohwer, G., Rässler, S., & Blossfeld, H.-P. (2019). Sampling designs of the National Educational Panel Study: Setup and panel development. In H.-P. Blossfeld, & H.-G. Roßbach (Eds.), Education as a lifelong process (2nd ed., pp. 35–55). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23162-0_3

2018

Zinn, S., Würbach, A., Steinhauer, H. W., & Hammon, A. (2018). Attrition and selectivity of the NEPS Starting Cohorts: An overview of the past 8 years (NEPS Survey Paper No. 34). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP34:1.0
Zinn, S., Würbach, A., Steinhauer, H. W., & Kiesl, H. (2018). The composite grade 4 weight of the kindergarten cohort of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS Survey Paper No. 44). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP44:1.0

2017

Aßmann, C., Würbach, A., Goßmann, S., Geißler, F., & Bela, A. (2017). Nonparametric multiple imputation for questionnaires with individual skip patterns and constraints: The case of income imputation in the National Educational Panel Study. Sociological Methods & Research, 46(4), 864-897. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124115610346

2016

Würbach, A. (2016). Modeling and estimating income data in the presence of distinctive zero and heaped responses.
Zinn, S., & Würbach, A. (2016). A statistical approach to address the problem of heaping in self-reported income data. Journal of Applied Statistics, 43(4), 682–703. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2015.1077372

2015

Würbach, A., & Zinn, S. (2015). Estimation of a general heaping model via random-walk Metropolis algorithms. In H. Friedl, & H. Wagner (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Linz, Austria, 6-10 July 2015. Johannes Kepler University Linz. http://www.statmod.org/workshops_archive_proceedings_2015.htm

2014

Aßmann, C., Würbach, A., Goßmann, S., Geißler, F., & Biedermann, A. (2014). A nonparametic multiple imputation approach for multilevel filtered questionnaires (NEPS Working Paper No. 36). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories. https://www.lifbi.de/Portals/2/Working%20Papers/WP_XXXVI.pdf
Zinn, S., & Würbach, A. (2014). A statistical approach to account for heaping patterns: An application to self-reported income data (NEPS Working Paper No. 40). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories. https://www.lifbi.de/Portals/2/Working%20Papers/WP_XXXX.pdf

Ausgewählte Präsentationen und Vorträge

2026

Würbach, A., & Aßmann, C. (2026, June 24 - 26). Handling item-nonresponse under restrictions [Paper presentation]. SurvConf 2026, Nuremberg, Germany.

2025

Würbach, A., Aßmann, C., Bürk, K.-V., & Dumpert, F. (2025, September 2 - 5). Handling constraints in automated statistical data editing via full conditional distributions [Paper presentation]. Statistics Week 2025, Wiesbaden, Germany. https://statistische-woche.de/en/startseite-en

2023

Würbach, A. (2023, July 17 - 21). Proof of the cooperation continuum - Longitudinal response behavior in the NEPS Starting Cohort Adults [Paper presentation]. 10th European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference - Survey research in times of crisis: Challenges, opportunities, and new directions, Milan, Italy. https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/milan-2023/

2022

Würbach, A. (12. April 2022). Die Verwendung von Surveygewichten im NEPS [Vortrag]. 91. NEPS Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, Deutschland.
Würbach, A. (2022, October 28). Use of survey weights in the NEPS [Paper presentation]. 95. NEPS user training, Bamberg, Germany.

2021

Würbach, A. (9. - 11. Juni 2021). Sampling strategy for regular schools - stratified two-stage sampling in NEPS Starting Cohort 4 [Vortrag]. Advanced training school: Methods of data collection, Tallinn, Estonia.

2019

Würbach, A. (1. Februar 2019). Paradaten zur Vorhersage von Panelattrition am Beispiel der NEPS SC1 [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der SurvConf19, Vierte Konferenz der Survey‐Statistiker des deutschsprachigen Raumes, Bamberg, Deutschland.
Würbach, A. (1. Juli 2019). Using paradata for longitudinal prediction of participation status: An example of the NEPS newborn cohort [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, Croatia.

2018

Würbach, A. (1. April 2018). Application of multiple-block MCMC to a mixture distribution with multi-modal likelihood [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Computational Mathematics, Computational Geometry & Statistics (CMCGS), Singapore, Singapore.

2017

Würbach, A. (1. Juli 2017). Heaping in self-reported income data: A kind of weak satisficing [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal.

2016

Würbach, A. (2016, July 8). Modeling and estimating income data in the presence of distinctive zero and heaped responses [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the statistical econometrical advanced seminar at the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Würbach, A. (2016, June 30). Modeling and estimating income data in the presence of distinctive zero and heaped responses [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the research seminar "Quantitativ Ökonomisches Colloquium" of the Institute for Statistics and Econometrics at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

2015

Würbach, A. (14. April 2015). Einführung in die Imputationsdaten der Startkohorte 6 (Erwachsene) [Vortrag]. 35. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, Deutschland.
Würbach, A., & Zinn, S. (2015, August 24 - 28). Bayesian estimation of a general heaping model via different (adaptive) random-walk Metropolis specifications [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 4th Baltic-Nordic Conference on Survey Statistics, Helsinki, Finland.
Würbach, A., & Zinn, S. (2015, July 6 - 10). A general heaping model: Estimation via random-walk Metropolis algorithms [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 30th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Linz, Austria.

2014

Würbach, A. (4. Juli 2014). Einführung in die Imputationsdaten der Startkohorte 6 (Erwachsene) [Vortrag]. 29. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, de.
Würbach, A., & Zinn, S. (2014, January 13). A general approach to account for heaping patterns [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 8th workshop on "Panel Surveys in Germany", Bielefeld, de.