The statistical quality of credit default forecasts can be measured and compared in different ways. This article surveys the various approaches that have been suggested in the literature and discusses their respective properties. For the particular case of credit scoring in the retail business,...

The paper argues that statistical education in Germany is biased towards mathematical stochastics, which does not mirror the requirements in practice. In empirical applied statistical work it is important to know about index numbers, sampling problems and measurement issues in general. These...

Dieser Beitrag dokumentiert eine Tendenz totalitärer Gesellschaftssysteme, die Statistik und insbesondere Daten der Amtsstatistik als Stütze von Ideologien zu missbrauchen. Dieser Missbrauch wird oft durch westliche Medien unterstützt, die allzu blauäugig auf dergleichen Lügen hereinfallen....