Erich Neuwirth

Erich Neuwirth ( born October 17, 1948 in Schleinbach ) is Associate Professor Emeritus of Statistics and computer science at the University of Vienna.

Life

Neuwirth studied at the Vienna University of Mathematics and Statistics, 1974 saw his promotion. He has taught since 1969 at the University of Vienna and was habilitated in 1987. Neuwirth exercised his activity not only at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Support this university, but also on the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the Faculty of this University.

The filmmaker Manfred Neuwirth is the brother of Erich Neuwirth

Research

Core areas of research are voters flow analysis, combinatorics, mathematics and music, and the use of spreadsheets in the classroom. Another area of ​​research is the PISA study. In the evaluation of the study in 2003, he pointed to significant errors. His corrections were taken subsequently.

He publishes regularly in his statistical and educational blog posts about Education, Statistics and politics.

Others

Erich Neuwirth has developed in collaboration with Thomas Baier statconn the server and RExcel. The statconn server offers the possibility of R and Scilab with MS Excel to combine OpenOffice and various programming languages. RExcel is an add -in for Microsoft Excel to use R from within Excel.

Awards

Neuwirth received the European Academic Software Award 1996 VOTE.

  • Erich Neuwirth: Musical moods, Springer, Vienna ( January 1998), ISBN 3211830006
  • Erich Neuwirth, Ivo Ponocny and Wilfried Grossmann: PISA 2000 and PISA 2003: In-depth analysis and contributions to methodology, Leykam ( Paperback - June 2006 ), ISBN 3701175691
  • Erich Neuwirth, Deane Arganbright: The Active Modeler: Mathematical Modeling with Microsoft Excel, Duxbury, ISBN 0534420850
  • Erich Neuwirth, Richard M. Heiberger: R Through Excel: A Spreadsheet Interface for Statistics, Data Analysis, and Graphics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-0051-7
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