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Social Science Statistics 1 (SSS1)
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Multivariate Statistics 3

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R Primer by Christopher Green

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Conferences & Presentations



Conference/Workshop Organization

Local Area Committee and Scientific Programme Committee member, International Classification Conference, 11th - 15th July 2011, St. Andrews, Scotland.
Local Area organizer and Scientific Programme Committee member, Working Group on Model-Based Clustering Summer Session (18th - 22nd July) 2011, Glasgow, Scotland.


Upcoming Conference Talks & Presentations

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Previous Conference Talks & Presentations

28th September 2011, Seminar at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maynooth, Ireland. "Cluster Analysis in Educational Testing".
26th August 2011, Invited Talk in Session "Estimating and visualising high dimensional cluster structure" 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin, Ireland (August 21st to 26th 2011)."Comparing different clustering models on the unit hypercube".
15th July 2011, Invited Talk in Session "Robust clustering and discrimination session", International Classification Conference 2011, St. Andrews (July 11th to 15th 2011). " Variable selection for latent class analysis applied to HapMap SNP data".
4th August 2010, Contributed Talk in Session "Supervised and Semisupervised Statistical Modeling", JSM 2010 Vancouver (July 31st to August 5th 2010). "Empty K-Means Skill-Set Profile Clustering in Educational Testing ".
3rd August 2010, Invited Talk in Session "Assessing and Relaxing Model Assumptions", JSM 2010 Vancouver (July 31st to August 5th 2010). "Mixture Model Component Trees: A Visualization Tool for Merging Clusters".
21st June 2010, Invited (Short) Talk at the Working Group on Model-Based Clustering, INRIA, Grenoble, France. "Comparing Clustering Methods on the Unit Hypercube".
18th June 2010, Invited Talk at the Classifiation Society Meeting 2010 St. Louis (June 17th to 19th 2010). "Empty K-Means: A Flexible Skill Set Profile Clustering Method".
15th March 2009, Talk in Session "Mixture Analysis - Mixture Estimation and Model Selection", IFCS 2009 Dresden (March 13th to 18th 2009). "Variable Selection and Updating in Model-Based Discriminant Analysis".
20th February 2009, Seminar at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham. . "Mixture Model Component Cluster Trees".

13th February 2009, Seminar at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. "Mixture Model Component Cluster Trees".

11th February 2009, Seminar at the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London.

6th February 2009, Statistics Seminar at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. "Mixture Model Component Cluster Trees".

16th October 2008, Seminar at School of Mathematical Sciences in University College Dublin, Ireland. "Mixture Model Component Trees: Visualizing the Hierarchical Structure of Complex Groups".

6th October 2008, Seminar at School of Mathematics and Statistics in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. "Density-Based Linkage Methods for Visualizing Model-Based Clustering Results via Component Trees".

16th - 18th July 2008, Invited Talk in the guest session of the British Classification Society at the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society, Hamburg, Germany.
19th June 2008, Seminar at Mcill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Montreal, Canada.
5th - 7th June 2008, Invited Talk at the Classification Society of North America Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
17th September 2007, Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. "Variable Selection for the Mixture Model Clustering Framework" [Slides].
23rd August 2007, Contributed Talk at the 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. "Variable Selection for Latent Class Models".
16th July 2007, Invited (Long) Talk at the Working Group on Model-Based Clustering, Dublin, Ireland. "Variable Selection for Clustering"[Slides].

15th March 2007, Seminar at Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, England. "Variable Selection for Model-Based Clustering".




















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