Christian Kleiber

Christian Kleiber is a Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Basel (Faculty of Business and Economics) since 2006. Trained as a statistician in Germany and the UK, he obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Dortmund.

• Research Interests: Heavy-tailed phenomena, income distribution, inequality measurement, statistical distributions, stochastic orders, data science foundations, count data regression, time series analysis, econometric computing, and the history of statistics.
• Methodological Focus: Specializes in statistical modeling of economic data, reproducibility in research, and computational methods.

Recent Publications span count data regression, structural change detection, reproducible research frameworks, and statistical distribution theory. Key contributions include software packages like countreg, strucchange, and plm for R programming.