Thom Benjamin Volker

I am a PhD candidate at the Methodology and Statistics department of Utrecht University. My main research interests are privacy-preserving statistics (including synthetic data) and Bayesian methods for data analysis. I developed an R-package densityratio for density ratio estimation, and contribute to the open source software packages mice and JASP. Besides, I teach statistics and data science courses to Bachelor and Master students.

For an extensive overview of my education and work experience, please see my cv.

Education

2022 MSc. Methodology and Statistics cum laude
2022 MSc. Sociology and Social Research cum laude
2019 Liberal Arts & Sciences

Selected publications

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Klugkist, I., & Volker, T. B. (2023). Bayesian evidence synthesis for informative hypotheses: An introduction. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. (link)
Volker, T. B., de Wolf, P. P., & van Kesteren, E. J. (2024). A density ratio framework for evaluating the utility of synthetic data. arXiv:2408.13167. (link)
Volker, T. B., & Vink, G. (2021). Anonymiced shareable data: Using mice to create and analyze multiply imputed synthetic datasets. Psych, 3(4), 703-716. (*link)