The Master thesis competition for EMOS graduates was organised for the first time to highlight official statistics as a research topic and put forward young talents with innovative contributions. The EMOS Board had the difficult task to select five authors to feature their thesis in the New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) Conference with travel and accommodation covered by Eurostat.
The winning theses of the first edition are:
- University of Trier: Julia Manecke
Regional analysis of business survey: methods and applications in the context of Small Area Statistics
- University of Rome "La Sapienza": Giovanna Tagliaferri
VAT Tax gap prediction: a 2-steps gradient boosting approach
- KU Leuven (University of Leuven): Nhu Tho Ngyen
Estimation of measurement errors in social survey
- University of Rennes: Noémie Morenillas
Modelling enterprises responses to the ICT (Information Communication Technology) survey
- Free University Berlin: Kerstin Erfurth
Application and quality assessment of simulated geo-coordinates for regional analysis of the parliamentary elections to the Bundestag 2017