Sunday 3 February 2019
Cape Peninsula Excursion
09:00 Bus departs from Bosman Street, Stellenbosch (next to van der Sterr building)
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
Houtbay
Cape Point National Park
Monday 4 February 2019
08:00 ‒ 09:00
REGISTRATION
09:00 ‒ 09:30
OPENING
09:30 ‒ 10:15
PLENARY
Angela Montanari,
Laura Anderlucci and Roberta Falcone
Chair: Renette Blignaut
Matrix sketching as a tool for big data multivariate analysis
10:15 ‒ 10:45
TEA
10:45 ‒ 12:05
BIG DATA
Tom Wilderjans,
Jeffrey Durieux and Serge Rombouts
Hélène Niewoudt
Bruce Watson
Fionn Murtagh
Chair: Mark de Rooij
Clustering multi-subject big brain data with clusterwise independent component analysis.
Modelling the sensory space of varietal wines: mining of large, unstructured text data and visualisation of style patterns
Lattices for exploring data science
The new science of big data analytics, based on the factor space geometry and the ultrametric topology of complex systems
12:10 ‒ 13:10
GENERAL
Pieter Schoonees
and Niël le Roux
Brigitte le Roux
Durand Jean-Luc
Chair: Vartan Choulakian
Computing and validating neural reliability measures derived from EEG recordings
Permutation testing in geometric data analysis
Factorial linkage analysis: a new method to analyse relationships between variables
13:10
LUNCH
15:15 ‒ 16:00
PLENARY
Peter Filzmoser
Chair: Sugnet Lubbe
Potentials of compositional data analysis in practical applications
16:30 ‒ 17:50
COMPOSITIONAL DATA ANALYSIS
Sean van der Merwe
Michael Greenacre
Cal Spracklen
Wallina Oosthuizen
and DJ de Waal
Chair: Michael von Maltitz
Why I don't use isometric logratios in compositional data analysis
Compositional observations and their role in regression
Is the Mahalanobis distance appropriate for modelling compositional data with the Dirichlet distribution?
16:00 ‒ 16:30
TEA
18:00 ‒ 19:00
GUIDED WALK THROUGH HISTORIC STELLENBOSCH TOWN CENTRE
19:00
WELCOME RECEPTION: STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY BOTANICAL GARDENS
Tuesday 5 February 2019
09:00 ‒ 09:45
PLENARY
Riaan de Jongh
Chair: Niël le Roux
Statistical paradises in finance
09:50 ‒ 10:50
CARME in Finance
Carel van der Merwe
Helgard Raubenheimer,
Werner Reynecke and Dawie de Jongh
Adriaan Rowen
and Sugnet Lubbe
Chair: Jörg Breitung
K-nearest neighbour triplot classification with polybags
Operational risk dependence optimization with factor copulas
Unravelling black box machine learning technique predictions using biplots
10:50 ‒ 11:15
TEA
11:15 ‒ 12:15
MULTIVARIATE APPLICATIONS
Thereza Balliester Reis
Jörg Breitung
and Matei Demetrescu
Zerrin AÅŸan Greenacre
and Saed Jama Abdi
Chair: Patrick Groenen
Measuring financial inclusion: a multiple correspondence analysis approach
Identification and estimation of dynamic factor models
Kansei Engineering and its application to the development of a university website
12:20 ‒ 13:05
PLENARY
Frederic Lebaron
and Pierre Blavier
Chair: Jörg Blasius
Exploring the European social space: A multidimensional and multilevel perspective
13:05 ‒ 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 ‒ 15:00
CARME IN THE SOCIAL SPACE I
Ashley Haru
Pablo Lillo-Cea
and Emil Bertilson
Mikael Börjesson, Donald Broady,
Ida Lidegran, Mikael Palme and Brigitte le Roux
Chair: Mikael Palme
Unravelling structural patterns between credit and degree mobility in Europe using simple correspondence analysis
Elite pathways in the meritocratic sub-system of Chilean higher education
Cultural capital in the elite subfield of Swedish higher education
15:05 ‒ 16:05
CARME IN THE SOCIAL SPACE II
Mikael Palme
and Pablo Lillo Cea
Ida Lidegran,
Mikael Börjesson, Donal Broady, Ylva Bergström
Naoki Iso
Chair: Brigitte le Roux
National and international capital in Swedish elite upper secondary education
High-octane educational capital: the space of study orientation of upper secondary school pupils in Uppsala
Constructing a social space in contemporary Japan
16:05 ‒ 16:30
TEA
16:30 ‒ 17:30
CARME IN THE SOCIAL SPACE III
Kazuo Fujimoto
Felix Leβke
Jan Thorhauge Frederiksen
Chair: Ashley Haru
Landscape of CA in Japan and educational perspective
The location of refugees in social space ‒ an example from Germany
University drop-outs and drop-out narratives – as a case of geometrical mixed-method analysis
17:35 ‒ 18:15
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Alfonso Iodice D'Enza,
Angelos Markos and Francesco Palumbo
Jörg Blasius
Chair: Fionn Murtagh
Incremental PCA with missing values
Detecting fabricated survey data using categorical principal component analysis
Wednesday 6 February 2019
09:00 ‒ 09:45
PLENARY
Cajo ter Braak
Chair: Johané Nienkemper-Swanepoel
L-shaped data: from GLM to fourth corner correlation and double constrained correspondence analysis
09:50 ‒ 10:50
CARME IN ECOLOGY
Natasha Karenyi,
Lara Atkinson, Ronel Nel and Kerry Sink
Mzabalazo Ngwenya,
Natasha Karenyi and Kirsten Packer
Victoria Goodall,
LP Fatti, N Owen-Smith and B van Niekerk
Chair: Stephan van der Westhuizen
Exploring marine invertebrate community patterns through multivariate analyses: the South African west coast as a case study
Multivariate methods in ecology: trends and directions
The influence of the turning angle?
10:50 ‒ 11:15
TEA
11:15 ‒ 12:15
CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS
Koen Plevoets
Se-Kang Kim
and Eric Beh
Johané Nienkemper-Swanepoel,
Niël le Roux and Sugnet Lubbe
Chair: Raeesa Ganey
Correspondence regression: the analysis of multicategory outcome variables
Studying gender differences in age interacted with physical and psychiatric symptom indicators: correspondence analysis of matched matrices
To impute or not to impute categorical data: application of multiple correspondence analysis
12:20 ‒ 13:20
CLASSIFICATION
Vartan Choulakian
Patrick Groenen
and Tom van den Berg
Giuseppe Lamberti,
Alexandra Simon Villar and Josep Rialp Criado
Chair: Angelos Markos
Uncovering the structure of rank data by its coherent groups
A fast MM algorithm for Clusterpath
Investigating customer satisfaction and loyalty of visitors to a Spanish football stadium taking into account the visitor's background information
13:20 ‒ 14:10
LUNCH
14:10 ‒ 15:10
CLASSIFICATION
Mark de Rooij
Angelos Markos,
Alfonso Iodice D'Enza and Michel van de Velden
Ndeye Niang,
Mounir Bendali-Braham and Sylvie Tihiria
Chair: Alfonso Iodice D'Enza
A single peaked multivariate logistic distance model
Stability of joint dimension reduction and clustering
Feature group clustering
15:10 ‒ 15:30
TEA
15:30 ‒ 16:30
BIPLOTS AND BILINEAR MODELS
Mwanabute Ngoy
and Niël le Roux
Raeesa Ganey
and Sugnet Lubbe
Brian Francis
and Elouise Davies
Chair: Tom Wilderjans
What can be learned from representing student performance at the Copperbelt University in Zambia in a biplot?
Applications of the principal surface biplot
Bilinear models for scaling and score building ‒ when should they be used?
16:35 ‒ 17:20
PLENARY
John Gower
Chair: Michael Greenacre
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