Frauke Kreuter is a German sociologist and

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. She is a professor of the

Joint Program in Survey Methodology The Joint Program in Survey Methodology was established at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993, a collaboration between that University, the University of Michigan, and Westat. Today JPSM offers coursework on-site and online, offering ...

(JPSM) of the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

and a professor in

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and

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at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, Germany. Her research in

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includes work on

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and

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Biography

Kreuter earned a

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sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

from the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

in 1996. She received her doctorate (Dr. rer. soc.) in 2001 from the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

under the supervision of . After postdoctoral research and an adjunct position at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, she moved to Maryland in 2004 and joined JPSM as an assistant professor. From 2010 to 2014 she was University Professor of Statistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, while maintaining her position at Maryland as an associate professor. She also became head of the Statistical Methods Research Department at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

, Germany in 2010. In 2014 she was promoted to full professor at Maryland and moved her German position to the University of Mannheim. From 2016 to 2020, she was director of JPSM in Maryland.

Publications

She is the author or co-author of several books, including ''Data Analysis Using Stata'' (3rd ed., Stata Press, 2012, with U. Kohler) and ''Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples'' (Springer, 2013, with Richard Valliant and Jill Dever).

Awards and honors

Kreuter was the 2013 winner of the Gertrude Cox Award, given jointly by the Washington Statistical Society and RTI International. In 2014 she was elected as a

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of the

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"for outstanding contributions to research in the field of survey methodology; for excellence in mentoring of junior researchers in social statistics and survey methodology; and for extensive international research collaborations.". She was awarded the Warren Mitofsky Innovators Award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in 2020.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kreuter, Frauke Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German statisticians Women statisticians German sociologists German women sociologists University of Mannheim alumni University of Konstanz alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Fellows of the American Statistical Association