The Institute of Statistics is organizing a Symposium in honor of our late head of Institute, supervisor, colleague and friend Friedrich "Fritz" Leisch who passed away in April 2024 after a serious illness.

We invite colleagues and fellow researchers to share scientific research contributions on topics in statistics and computing Fritz has contributed to such as for example clustering and mixture models or literate programming and reproducible research.

During the symposium we will present the first Fritz Leisch Award winner.

Thursday 24th to Friday 25th of April 2025

BOKU University, Türkenschanze,
Peter-Jordan-Str. 82, Ilse Wallentin Building,
Seminar Room EG-01/02

If you want to be notified about updates on the event please sign up here: https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/b/21aad45bb3d25e9a15049d8ffa7f429a-385156 

Program:

Day 1 (Thu April 24th)

10:00 - 10:30 Registration 

10:30 - 12:30 BOKU Collaborations

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 External Collaborations

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00 Cluster Analysis

18:00 Conference Dinner, Meierei Diglas

Day 2 (Fri April 25th)

09:00 - 10:30 Computational Statistics

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