About

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schoch is a professor of applied statistics and empirical research in economics at the School of Business FHNW. Together with Matthias Templ, I run the competence center Data Quality and Anonymization at FHNW. In addition, I am a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich, where I teach survey sampling.

FHNW:	tobias.schoch@fhnw.ch
ETH:	tobias.schoch@math.ethz.ch

Expertise in research and consulting

Survey sampling, Robust survey estimation, Small area estimation, R software for survey statistics, Nonresponse and weighting, Microsimulation, Health-care and policy statistics

Editorial service, scientific committees, and juries

2026	Member of the scientific committee of the Schweizer Statistiktage 2026
2025 –	Chair of the jury of the Johann Heinrich Lambert Award of the Swiss Statistical Society
2022 –	Member of the board "Education and Research" of the Swiss Statistical Society
2021 –	Associate editor of AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv

Peer review activities

The R Journal, Journal of Open Source Software, Journal of Statistical Software, Journal of Official Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, International Statistical Review, Austrian Journal of Statistics, Statistics and Probability Letters, Statistical Papers, AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, Survey Methodology

Memberships in professional societies

Swiss Statistical Society, International Statistical Institute (ISI), International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Contact

Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW (University of Applied Sciences)
Hochschule für Wirtschaft (School of Business)
Institute ICC

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schoch
Riggenbachstrasse 16
CH-4600 Olten
Schweiz / Switzerland

Verified external profiles

GitHub:	tobiasschoch
Codeberg:	tobiasschoch
ORCID:	0000-0002-1640-3395