Andreas Alfons

Dr. Andreas Alfons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Econometrics at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on robust statistical methods, machine learning, psychometrics, and software development for high-dimensional data. He leads the NWO Vidi project on robust analysis of rating-scale data and contributes to the interdisciplinary project on digital decision support. He is an editor for the Journal of Statistical Software and Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization.

His research interests include robust statistical learning, high-dimensional data analysis, and open science practices. Key contributions include R packages like robmed, robustHD, and simFrame. Recent work addresses careless responding in surveys and robust mediation analysis.

Publications span journals such as Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Econometrics and Statistics, and Journal of Statistical Software. His work emphasizes reproducibility and software tools for statistical analysis.