Projects
Scheduled Evaluations
- Development of a guideline for the evaluation of business development schemes (Investitionsbank Berlin/ Gewiplan Frankfurt)
- Participation in the development of methods for university evaluation (University of Bonn, ZEM)
- Concepts for the evaluation of measures taken for the safety to traffic (Bundesanstalt für Straßenbau, the Federal Highway Research Institute)
Market and Opinion Research
- Analysis of media use patterns and creation of user profiles (infas)
- Research on drifting of listeners (infas)
- Data fusion, planning, conducting and evaluating of representative surveys, cost-benefit analyses, analyses of purchasing behaviour and forecast models.
- Market forecasts in the area of new economics (intraOffice)
- Data mining, web mining
Telecommunication Research
- Service interfaces
- Security in communication technology
- Video conferences
- Estimations of the consequences of technologies
- Telematics in health care
Medicine
- Drug monitoring (Schering AG)
- Financial controlling of market studies (Johnson & Johnson)
- Effectiveness research, development of methods for testing diagnostic instruments, function indices
Traffic
- Risk and security
- Driving under influence of alcohol
- Roads lined with trees in Eastern Germany
- Young and old traffic participants
- Traffic and mobility, telematics in traffic
Method Development
- Computer-intensive methods in statistics
- Methods for the analysis of small and selective samples
- Newer approaches to data fusion
- Analysis of contingency tables
- Robust statistics
- Adaptive testing
- Cost-benefit-analyses
- Application of bootstrapping methods and development of appropriate sampling strategies
Panel and Longitudinal Research
- Bonn Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Inter-Disciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Age
- Cross-European Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Knowledge Transfer
- Statistical trainings (BVM)
- Statistical trainings, data management, data presentation (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Federal Institute for Vocational Training)
Clients
European Union
Federal institutes
Press and Information Office of the Federal Government
BVM German Association of Market and Social Science Researchers
Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz Foundation (Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung)
IBM
infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences GmbH
IP Deutschland GmbH
Investitionsbank Berlin
Focus
Mundipharma GmbH
Philip Morris GmbH
Schering AG
T-Mobile International
T-Mobile Germany
Federal ministries
Grundig AG
Deutsche Post World Net
Janssen-Cilag GmbH
Grünenthal
German Business Institute
AVM