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Dr. Heinz Leitgöb

Dr. Heinz Leitgöb

Stand-In Professor

Sociology
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 4105
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-35691
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Abstract

Heinz Leitgöb is interim professor of Sociology and Methodology at Leipzig University.

His research focuses on quantitative methods, in particular statistical modelling, survey methodology, comparative research, digital social research, and computational social science. His substantive research interests cover deviant behavior and crime.

Leitgöb received his doctorate from JKU Linz (Austria) in 2016 and worked at the Universities of Linz, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Eichstätt-Ingolstadt before joining Leipzig University.

Leitgöb chairs the section "Methods of Empirical Social Research" of the German Sociological Association, represents the section in the Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik, coordinates the "European Working Group on Quantitative Methods in Criminology" of the European Society of Criminology, and is editor of the "European Association of Methodology Book Series" at Routledge.

  • Leitgöb, H.; Prandner, D.; Wolbring, T.
    Big data and machine learning in sociology
    Frontiers in Sociology. 2023. p. 1173155.
    DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1173155
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  • Leitgöb, H.; Seddig, D.; Asparouhov, T.; Behr, D.; Davidov, E.; De Roover, K.; Jak, S.; Meitinger, K.; Menold, N.; Muthen, B.; Rudnev, M.; Schmidt, P. J.; van de Schoot, R.
    Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives
    Social Science Research. 2023. p. 102805.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102805
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  • Friedrich, S.; Antes, G.; Behr, S.; Binder, H.; Brannath, W.; Dumpert, F.; Ickstadt, K.; Kestler, H. A.; Lederer, J.; Leitgöb, H.; Pauly, M.; Steland, A.; Wilhelm, A.; Friede, T.
    Is there a role for statistics in artificial intelligence?
    Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. 2022. 16 (4). pp. 823–846.
    DOI: 10.1007/s11634-021-00455-6
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  • Hirtenlehner, H.; Bacher, J.; Leitgöb, H.; Schartmüller, D.
    Do morality and self-control protect from criminogenic peer influence? Testing multidimensional person-environment interactions
    Justice Quarterly. 2021. 39 (1). pp. 78–112.
    DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2021.1903069
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  • Leitgöb, H.
    Analysis of rare events
    In: Atkinson, P. A.; Delamont, S.; Cernat, A.; Sakshaug, J.; Williams, R. (Eds.)
    SAGE Research Methods Foundations. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. 2021. p. 161.
    DOI: 10.4135/9781526421036863804
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