Frank Hampel     
Professor emeritus, Seminar für Statistik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Research Interests

• Philosophical foundations of Statistics
• Data analysis
• Robust Statistics

Selected Publications

• Frank Hampel (2011). Are Randomized Double-blind Experiments Everything? Contributed paper, ISI conference in Dublin, Aug. 2012
  
• Frank Hampel (2011). Potential Surprises Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. Thomas Augustin, Frank P. A. Coolen, Serafin Moral, and Matthias C. M. Troffaes, eds.
• Frank Hampel, Christian Hennig, Elvezio Ronchetti (2011). A smoothing principle for the Huber and other location M-estimators. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 55, 324-337   --   PDF version of the paper
• Frank Hampel (2009). How can we get new knowledge? Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. Thomas Augustin and Frank P. A. Coolen and Serafin Moral and Matthias C. M. Troffaes, eds. - Durham University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham, U.K.   --   PDF version of the paper
• Frank Hampel (2008). Discussion of Laurie Davies (2008): Approximating Data. Journal of the Korean Statistical Society 37, 213-215.
• Frank Hampel (2009). Nonadditive Probabilities in Statistics. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice 3, 11-23.
• Frank Hampel (2007). Upper and lower probabilities in real life. ISI Lisboa, Contributed Paper, and Research Report 145, Seminar f. Statistik, ETH Zurich.
• Frank Hampel (2006).The proper fiducial argument. Information Transfer and Combinatorics, LNCS 4123, pp. 512-526 R. Ahlswede et al., eds.
  Research Report 114, Seminar f. Statistik, ETH Zurich.
  
• Frank Hampel (2005).The proper fiducial argument. Extended Abstract. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 21, 297-300.
• Frank Hampel (2005). Discussion of   P. Laurie Davies and Ursula Gather: Breakdown and groups. Ann. Statist. 33, 993-997.
• Frank Hampel (2002). Robust Inference. In: Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, pp. 1865--1885 Abdel H. El-Shaarawi and Walter W. Piegorsch, eds., Wiley, Chichester
• Frank Hampel (2002). Some thoughts about classification. In: Classification, Clustering, and Data Analysis. Recent Advances and Applications. K. Jajuga and A. Soko{\l}owski and H.-H.Bock, eds. -- Invited keynote lecture, 8th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies.
  Research Report 102, Seminar f. Statistik, ETH Zurich.
• Frank Hampel (2001). An outline of a unifying statistical theory. Proc. of the 2nd Internat. Symp. on Imprecise Probabilities and their Applications, ISIPTA'01, Cornell University, 26-29 June 2001, pp. 205--212.  Gert de Cooman, Terrence L. Fine and Teddy Seidenfeld, eds., Shaker Publishing, Maastricht
  Research Report 95, Seminar f. Statistik, ETH Zurich.
• Frank Hampel (1998). Is statistics too difficult? Canad. J. Statist. 26, 497-513
• Frank Hampel (1998). On the foundations of statistics: A frequentist approach. In: Estatistica: a diversidade na unidade, Manuela Souto de Miranda and Isabel Pereira, eds., pp. 77-97 Edicoes Salamandra, Lda., Lisboa, Portugal.
  Research Report 85, Seminar f. Statistik, ETH Zurich.
• Frank Hampel (1987). Design, modelling, and analysis of some biological data sets In: Design, Data, and Analysis, by some friends of Cuthbert Daniel. Mallows, C. L., ed. - Wiley, NY, pp. 93-128

Addresses

• Email: hampel@stat.math.ethz.ch
• Phone: ++41 44 720 0230
  
• FAX: ++41 44 632 1228
• Surface Mail:
  Prof. Dr. F. Hampel, Hofwiesenstr. 24, 8136 Gattikon, Switzerland