Symposium in Memory of Fritz Leisch - Program

Day 1 (Thu April 24^th)

10:00 - 10:30 Registration 

10:30 - 12:30 BOKU Collaborations

• Verena Scherfranz:
  Using a perception matrix to elicit farmer's perceptions towards stakeholders in the context of biodiversity-friendly farming
• Gerald Striedner:
  Statistics in bioprocess modeling
• Karolina Taczanowska:
  Outdoor recreation research - advices from Friedrich Leisch
• Rafaela Schinegger:
  Mentoring and contributions of Fritz Leisch in the fields of aquatic ecosystem and conservation sciences
• Reinhard Hössinger with  Simona Jokubauskaite:
  A discrete-continuous model for the joint estimation of time use, expenditure allocation, and travel mode choice

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:15 External Collaborations

• Harald Aschauer:
  Mind and Genes
• Göran Kauermann:
  Mixture Models revisited for Quantifying Uncertainty in Machine Learning
• Helmut Küchenhoff:
  Clusteranalysis in practice- EU energy pathways and tourism behaviour
• Sara Dolnicar:
  Friedrich Leisch’s contributions to market segmentation analysis
• Di Cook:
  Interactively Visualizing Multivariate Market Segmentation Using the R Package Lionfish

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:15 Cluster Analysis

• Lukas Sablica, Kurt Hornik:
  circlus: An R Package for Circular and Spherical Clustering using PKBD and Spherical Cauchy Distributions
• Bettina Grün:
  Ordinal Clustering with the flex-Scheme
• Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter:
  With a smile - Dealing with identifiability problems in finite mixture models
• Christian Hennig:
  The role of data visualisation in cluster analysis

18:00 Conference Dinner, Meierei Diglas

Day 2 (Fri April 25^th)

09:00 - 10:30 Computational Statistics

• Matthias Templ:
  Open Research Data and Reproducibility through Data Synthesis: Problems and Opportunities
• Peter Filzmoser:
  Cell-wise robustness for sparse PCA
• In memory of Fritz Leisch
• Fritz Leisch Award 

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Statistical Computing & Reproducibility

• Robert Gentleman: 
  Contributions of Fritz Leisch to Vignettes and Reproducible Research
• Torsten Hothorn: 
  Did We Practice What We Preached?
• Achim Zeileis: 
  Examining Exams Using Rasch Models and Assessment of Measurement Invariance
• Carolin Strobl: 
  Against the “one method fits all data sets” philosophy for comparison studies in methodological research

12:30 Closing and Lunch
 

Poster Contributions

• Gertraud Malsiner-Walli (WU Wien): Capturing Correlated Clusters Using Mixtures of Latent Class Models
• Fabian Pelzmann (BOKU University): Wohnstandortpräferenzen nach dem Studium
• Anita Metzinger (BOKU University): Analysis of Uremic Gastropathy in Captive Non-Domestic Felids with Chronic Kidney Disease: Highlighting Wildlife Management Challenges
• Caroline Ehrendorfer (BOKU University): Estimation of extreme flood discharge values with synthetic weather data in the Austrian Alps
• Rebecca Rau (BOKU University): Timing of Fledging and Post-Fledging Survival Probability in Barn Owls (Tyto alba)
• Pia Reschberger-Kummer (BOKU University): Blütenbesucher in den Staudenbeeten der Großstadt Wien
• Farhana Sweeta Fitriana (BOKU University): Non-stationary low-flow frequency analysis with Mixture Weibull distribution – Copula based framework
• Fatemeh Firoozi (BOKU University): Low flow frequency analyses: A new approach integrating seasonality and multivariate characteristics of drought