Statistical Week 2026 at UDE
How Reliable Are Our Numbers?
- 03.09.2026
Statistical data inform many decisions that affect our everyday lives. But how reliable are they – and how can uncertainty be communicated in an understandable way? Around 500 experts will discuss these questions at Statistical Week 2026, held from 8 to 11 September on the Essen campus of the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Whether it is the labour market, rents, the impacts of climate change or elections, statistical data help us assess developments and make decisions. However, results are rarely as clear-cut as a single number might suggest. How can uncertainty be measured, where does it arise, and how can data be communicated in a way that allows their significance to be assessed correctly? Statistical uncertainty and how to deal with it is one of the main topics of the conference.
Another main topic is “Identification”, which looks at how data can be used to draw robust conclusions about cause and effect. A third focuses on “Statistics and Renewable Energy”. The programme also covers a broad range of subjects, including Causal Machine Learning, Computational Statistics and Data Science, rents and rent indices, Statistics in Finance, Labour Markets and Social Security, and Regional Statistics.
Statistical Week brings together experts from academia and practice, including specialists in economics and data science as well as experts from public authorities and local government. The annual meeting of the German Statistical Society is also part of the programme.
Statistical Week is organised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Hanck, Chair of Econometrics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Further information:
https://statistische-woche.de/en/conference-schedule
https://dstatg.de/en/statistical-week