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Researcher

Roselinde Kessels

  • Research Expertise:My research is situated within statistical methodology. An important area of expertise is the design and analysis of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to quantify people’s preferences. Besides that, I work on the development and application of econometric and data science methods in health. Results of DCEs that I have conducted in collaboration with practitioners have not only appeared in international publications, but have also easily found their way into the popular and professional press, with policy-relevant articles in Economisch Statistische Berichten, De Standaard and Le Soir, among others.
  • Keywords:DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, STATISTICAL MODELLING, ECONOMETRICS, Economics and applied economics
  • Disciplines:Applied economics, Business administration and accounting, Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Management, Marketing, Mathematical and quantitative methods, Microeconomics, Tourism, Other economics and business, Economic geography, Human geography, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography, Product development, Other social sciences, Other medical and health sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Research techniques:My specialties lie in discrete choice experiments, experimental design, choice modeling, data science, time series and health econometrics. I often make use of JMP statistical software from SAS Institute because it is fun to work with (note that the University of Antwerp has a license for JMP), and of the free programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics R.
  • Users of research expertise:Researchers in various fields, both in the public and private sector. Quoting John Tukey: "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard."