Course on compositional data and their analysis

07/12/2023

 

The course aims to provide attendees with the theoretical and computational elements necessary to develop applications involving compositional data. Compositional data appear frequently in a multitude of applied scientific fields. These fields include biology in all its branches, from microbiology and genetics to biomedicine and ecology; geology, geochemistry, and Earth Sciences in general; Tourism, sociology, psychology, and all branches of engineering. That is, compositional analysis is useful for many applications. Course attendees are expected to present their own problems with compositional data analysis. 

 

  • Date: 5/02/2024 to 8/02/2024
  • Instructors: Juan Jose Egozcue (Professor Emeritus, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn (Professor Emeritus, University of Girona, Spain Department of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics)
  • Registration: until 01/02/2024
  • Place: INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE CASTELO BRANCO (Portugal)

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